Chewy

I had to do some shopping tonight and I took this to show my husband that his favorite cookies were in the cart.  Looking at it now, I really like all the different holes and repetition, so I decided to blog it. 

Innovatively

When we picked up firewood last weekend, the guy who helped us said his 90-year-old grandfather still used this old tractor to power the saw blade at the other end of the belt.

Marbly

When your eyeball tries to impersonate a giant fancy marble. 

PSA - this is what can happen if you blow your nose too hard.  At least it doesn't hurt or anything.

Starkly

Twenty days ago, the house next door to my friend went up in flames.  It's an empty husk now; where you can oddly see the chimney through the attic window.

Edgy

Workhorsey

We drove out to Ellsworth, WI today to get some more firewood.  This guy helped us load and then went about his business.  I thought the old tractor looked cool.

Delicacy

My mother-in-law loves hamsters and recently bought two sisters.  This is Bobo and she loves dog biscuits.  I can't wait until she starts barking.

Putrilaginously

Almost 2 weeks ago, I blogged these pipe fittings while they were lying on the ground.  Every morning on my commute, I see the workmen out there laboring away and this week they put the pieces together.

It looks like they won't be buried after all, and I thought the contraption was cool looking, so I had to shoot them again.

However, they may look pretty and cool, but it smells like 20 poopy toilets overflowed at the same time.  Ugh!  It reeks so bad!  I found out from a sign they posted that they are re-routing wastewater above ground so that they can repair the underground wastewater tunnel. 

I realize that this might not be interesting to most people, but I enjoy watching big construction projects come together.  Especially ones in my general neighborhood.

Mickey

My husband was given this figurine by his aunt when he was a wee boy.  Mickey has suffered a lot of grief over the years, but he's still smiling.

Crispity-crunchity

This evening we got some crispity-crunchity goodness for my husband's birthday.

Seasonality

A little reminder of spring on a cold day.

Cataractously

I stopped at the dam on my evening commute the other day.  The bluffs above the dam always look pretty in winter with ice cascading down them.

Blindingly

Clive is so cute, I needed to do another.  If the sun looked like this, I would stare at it all day and go blind. 

Frenchy

"Excusez-Moi, do you have any Grey Poupon?" ~Clive

Dobby

Remedy

Time for another round of: "What is it?"

Greasy

My husband is a hard-working man. 

He had to put a new starter in his truck tonight after work.  Outside in the driveway.  Outdoor temp was 5°F and windchill was -3°F at the time.  He did wear his winter gear and he hooked up a portable heater, which kept his body warm.  But those hands!  No room for gloves while wrenching on one's truck.

When he was done, he came in to warm up and clean up, but I said I wanted to get a shot of those hands before the Goop went on. 

Shimmeringly

I know it's after Christmas, but many people still have their Christmas lights up and I think they look pretty. 

The past few years Christmas hasn't really felt like Christmas to me.  I think it's a combination of several things, but regardless, I'm glad I can still enjoy some Christmas scenery in my travels.

Stuffy

After the football game last month,  we decided to walk to our vehicle, since it was close enough.  Looking at how tightly the light rail was stuffed, I think we made the right choice.

Pipy

There's some construction on Godfrey Parkway in the area of Hiawatha Avenue.  These ginormous shiny blue pipe fittings caught my eye.  It almost seems a shame to bury them, as they would be a lovely addition to any playground - a kiddie Habitrail. 

Animatedly

I saw this cute snowman with a big heart last night and had to stop and take his picture.  He looks so happy.

This is the same house that does the Peeps bunny for Easter.

Coyly

One of my coworkers striking a pose at the holiday party this evening. 

Choppy

On the way home from work this evening, I noticed that the moon was big and crisp and round.  I thought I'd zip down to Lock & Dam #1, since it was on the way, and found this massive flow of ice chunks floating down the main channel of the Mississippi with an ice crust by the shore.

I decided to play around with the pano feature on my phone.  The moon ended up being a tiny dot, but I'm ok with that.  I can always get that another time with my "real" camera.

Techie Corner
I've never had much interest in pano mode, but I'm finding it's fun.  I just wish the full-size image quality was better.  Even the new iPhone 11 Pro leaves a lot to be desired in that department.  Definitely an improvement over the 7/8 though.

Frisky

Along with the pig that my friend gave me the other night, she also gave me this interesting wooden cat ball.  It has 3 intricately carved and painted frisky kitties on it. 

While taking pics, I noticed a name and date painted on it, so I Googled it.  The artist had a whole line of these folk art wooden pull toys back in the 80s and 90s.  They all came with a wooden cart.  This one originally came with a cart with carved wooden balls of yarn for wheels.

Looking at the various carts online, it appears that the wheels on the cart might have rotated the ball so that you could see the carvings on the other side.  I'll have to see what I can come up with for appropriately displaying this.

Manufactory

Apparently, my mom wanted to show people the building where she worked, which was Horton Manufacturing at the time.

I know it wasn't to document the car, because their blue 1961 Olds Starfire convertible wasn't in the greatest shape in this pic.

2x2 neg scanned with Epson V600.  I love the bigger negatives!

Rambunctiously

I had fun hanging out with a friend this evening.  In addition to talking and laughing, we had fun playing with her melting snowman.  I had no idea such things existed! 

She also gave me this lovely pig as a present, so of course, I had to put the two together.  It looks like Mr. Snowman could be participating in a pig rodeo.  I think, from the look on his face, he just realized that he should have been holding on.

Nippy

I was browsing through some old slides from my father-in-law and came across this one.  I guess we could call this the bold northwest, as it was taken in Seattle.  Apparently, this guy doesn't care that Jack Frost might be nipping.

My father-in-law thinks this was either a University of Washington Climbing Club event or a mission for the Seattle Mountain Rescue Group.  He was a member of the club and also knew the person who started the rescue group and went along on several rescues with them.

He thinks both of these guys were world-famous climbers, but he doesn't remember their names.  They were part of both groups too.

As taken by my father-in-law in March of 1964. 

Horsey

Take a look at those school buses, running on 2 hp each!  I wonder how many MPC (miles per carrot) those babies get.

I thought back then that every school kid had to walk uphill for miles, both ways, to get to school. 

Techie Corner
There were some really large tears in this photo.  It took a while to clean up in Photoshop.

Juvenility

Digging in the archives tonight.  My cousin and I, hanging out at grandma's house.  I guess I've always had a camera in my hand.

Techie Corner
This was a scan of an old 110 negative.  Nasty film!  It took a lot of work to get it to look this good.

Experientially

I won tickets to the Vikings/Packers game on December 23rd.  It was my first time in US Bank Stadium and my first (and most likely, last) football game. 

I mainly wanted to go see the stadium, since I love architecture. Which turned out to be a good thing, because if I was interested in football, I would have been sorely disappointed. 

A new Vikings game record was made with 67,167 in attendance, but the stadium started bleeding purple as soon as it was obvious that the Vikings were going to lose.  I didn't mind, as it gave me a chance to start playing with the pano feature on my phone without a whole lot of people blocking my view. 

We stuck around after the Vikings were put out of their misery to avoid getting caught in the exiting throng.  I kept playing with the pano feature and today's image was my favorite shot: my wonderful husband with his fractured and disembodied pano hand, a sea of purple seats (not comfortable, I might add), and miscellaneous discarded flotsam and jetsam from fans.

Don't get me wrong, it was a very interesting experience and I enjoyed myself.  I just wish I had brought earplugs. 

Self-scrutiny

A new decade started today.  What will it bring?  

Good times and bad times and times that I sing.

A new decade started today.  What will I do?

Enjoy it and hate it and find a way through.

A new decade started today.  Who will I love?

Friends and family and my savior above.

A new decade started today.  What are my goals?

More caring and doing and feeding of souls.

~Elisabeth Howard 1/1/2020