I liked the angle of this...
I liked the bits of shadow...
Boy, this camera is good! If you look reeeal close, you
I liked the slight depth of this one...
Every little bit helps, even if it's only 1 or 2 pounds. I usually use them while watching TV but I've been lazy lately, and they've just been laying around, collecting dust.
*sigh* It's a losing battle. This is less than two weeks worth of catalogs. Doesn't matter that we're on every mail preference/suppress list out there. Doesn't matter if I tell them NOT to put my name on their mailing lists. All it takes is using a credit card, contributing to charity, or placing an order somewhere and boom! we get inundated with a whole new series of unwanted catalogs/email.
The rhododendron in my front yard are fearlessly getting ready to do their thing in spite of the fickle and contrary weather we've been having.
This crime scene is all that's left of the Dunkin' Donut shop where we get our goodies. Last week, an armed man attempted to rob a liquor store located in the same strip mall. For unknown reasons, he started a fire, which totally destroyed the entire mall - along with about eight businesses. The lone fatality, the charred body of the gunman, was located the next day.
Got this in the mail yesterday and now I think we're done with red stuff for the kitchen. Maybe a red dish drainer, but that's about it. We're starting to get more than I planned, and I don't want to grow weary of it too soon.
It was critter prevention day today at my house so we had our regularly-scheduled visit from the exterminator. Call me silly, but I have this thing about unwanted "guests" and like to keep the creepy crawlies and unloved four-legged furry beasts down to the barest minimum, preferably far away altogether. Living in a rural area, we get more than our fair share - spiders, crickets, ants, earwigs (they used to enjoy coming in to watch the 11 pm news,) mice, squirrels & birds (who liked to nest in our chimney,) moles, groundhogs, skunks, snakes - you name it, we've probably seen it hanging around, chewing on the shed, or dropping in to pay a visit at one time or another.
I was struck by the sun bouncing off the gold rim of these glasses this morning and tried to capture the moment. I failed miserably but it's still an interesting picture.
We're on a roll replacing stuff in the kitchen. Having grown real tired of the grungy, dirty-looking-but-clean plastic storage containers we've been using for at least a bazillion years, we bought some new ones.
They came with a convenient holder that keeps everything in one place, thus giving us the added bennie of freeing up shelf space in two cabinets, as well as a drawer that held all the lids.
My collection of red stuff is growing. After I can't even remember how many years, we decided to retire the glass canisters and replace them with these cool red enamel ones Lew found at Wal-Mart. Slowly but surely, my red/white/bisque kitchen is evolving.
So we did the wise thing and pitched the questionable peanut butter. However, the man must have his peanut butter and Ritz, so that meant getting a new jar, along with a few other items we needed - and one we didn't. So much for cutting back on calories - that apple pie sure is good! ;)
I got lazy and cheated - today's photo is doing double duty. I'm using it here and also on my regular blog for tomorrow's Photo Hunt theme, which is "antique." The ring was my mother's, who would be 92 if she were alive. The watch belonged to my father-in-law, who passed away 2-1/2 years ago, a few months shy of his 92nd birthday.
Oh dear, we've eaten a good 2/3 of our "contaminated" jar with no ill-effects. Not sure what that means, but we probably shouldn't tempt fate and should just get rid of the rest of it. These foodborne disease outbreaks are occurring a lit-tle too frequently for my tastes... pardon the pun.
Diagnosed with GERD (Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease) aka Acid Reflux, a year or so ago, I take this handy-dandy little miracle drug to keep it under control. Worth its weight in gold, it works wonders and allows me to once again enjoy the foods I love.
...aww, the man brought me some sunshine!
I live with a snorer. Love the man to pieces but there have been times when suffocating him with his own pillow would have been easy. Soooo, wanting to keep him around for a bit longer, I broke down and tried these last night. (more of the story on my regular blog.)
I must get back to basics. I used to thoroughly enjoy spending my Sunday mornings reading the entire Sunday paper. I'd begin with the news, then sports, Metro, Style, and Parade, and saving the best for last, end up with the comics. Now I get most of my news from the TV or computer, and occasionaly skim the paper. I can't remember the last time I sat down and read the whole thing. And I like to read!
A little of this, a little of that...
and you end up with some good stuff!
This little guy 'sits' guard in our guest bedroom, keeping it safe and ready for the next guest. ;)
So, going about my mundane day, and unable to come up with anything other than mundane, I decided to totally steal Southern Girl's idea (thanks!) and tried to come up with something to make y'all ponder instead. Had fun playing on the macro setting too. I'll post what it is tomorrow (or tell you if someone guesses.) :)
Well, this didn't turn out quite the way I intended, but it was colder than cold and I wasn't about to stand out there putzing around for better shots... it is what it is.
Holy ice cubes, Batman!! It's flippin' frigid out there! Like much of the rest of the country, we're experiencing some of the coldest temps we've had in over a decade. Our thermometer read 9 (!) degrees last night, which is pretty darn cold for this area, and it's well on its way for more of the same tonight.
I wrote about this purse on my blog today. It's soooo old, but, but, but... there's nothing wrong with it! Ah, well, it' really time for me to break down and spring for a new one. I deserve it.
Today was soup day - it's a staple 'round our house but somehow I let us run out of my favorite - oh no! Since we just can't have a freezer without taco soup in it, I remedied the sitchee-a-shun. Soooo good on a cold winter day.
After posting today's picture for Stuff Portrait Friday on my regular blog, I remembered that I had more buttons in my scrapping supplies. Soooo, not being terribly creative today, decided to use them as the subject for my daily photo also. A little reflection gone awry there, but what the hey, it kinda adds a little interest, right? lol
My beastie babies checking out a flock of big ol' noisy blackbirds, who were caw-cawing and rummaging around the grass for fallen acorns and any creepy crawlies that survived the cold.
