what would a blog be without cat pictures? well, yes, i do know the answer to that. however, this is a catpicture kinda blog, so, here we have:
and since i have already been 'out-side' once today, well, i may not get out too much more. luckily i have a goodlooking cat.
*yawn* i'm beat.
standard sunday stuff: sitting here at the computer, with kid playing crash bandicoot. he's quite good, he's completed two levels and is now facing the monster at the end. in the beginning of this battle, a penguin comes waddling around the battle arena. penguins are so adorable. the monster is pretty fierce though:
i stayed while they hooked up the trailer, mainly following my dad around and asking pointy questions about if you took the cost of buying an RV every five years or so (he said, you don't have to do that and i said, but you do) and add the maintenance and gas, you could stay in five star hotels and have room service, and never have to disconnect sewage lines and do all this work! and he said, it's not work, as he got down on the ground and scooted under to unhook something damp. it's not work -- i had my answer.
here, i got a rather nice shot of him hooking up the trailer fifth wheeler. i remember my mom having to back him up over and over with the old style hitch. this is a do-it-yourself thing:
note: the 11am pic has just been taken and will be up momentarily. whee, this is a fun ride.
this morning i got right up (highly unusual) because my parents were leaving this morning, and i needed to go say bye. we don't see each other enough. the RV park by the beach is always damp, of course (lovely 65 degree morning weather there when i was there, and foggy. lovely fog), and there were:
you would think i'd staged this, but no. it's just an ordinary average shelf in my house, infact, it's in my living room. that stuff ... sits there. i like it there.
and i was holding the camera straight, really, i always do -- it's the world that's crooked, ok?
i felt like a peeping tom taking this one -- even though it was my own front yard i crept out into, to stand quietly with flash off, and take this picture. the camera peeps when it takes a picture, and the window is open, so i did scurry a little faster on the way back inside.
well, not a thrilling sunset, so, i sepiatoned it. first picture i've put up that's been messed with in any way -- i tend to resize and optimize only -- no futzing with color balance, no cropping. am i a sort of digicam purist, or just lazy? eh.
for this i went as far as the backyard. please note that this is not my fountain or my -- that's mary right? my mary. they came with the house, courtesy of chris's mom who used to live here, and she used to insist the fountain be kept running. which is just silly -- waste of water and place for buggies to breed. so it stands, on the stump, empty:
so chris took us out to get wendy's burgers and we stopped on the way back for cigs, me sitting in the pasenger seat thinking, wow these stickers have been here forever! you can't see in this photo, but they say 'kurwood mandi'. we had a sheet of alphabet stickers, and my daughter put her little brother's name on in stickers, but she couldn't find enough a's to make her name, so she went with her childhood nickname. that was when the car was new to us, approximately a year ago.
so, it was almost time for daddy to come home, and i thought it would be best if we were dressed, also i had to do those dishes, anyway, i told the kid to go get himself dressed. and he did. and he did a darned good job of it! however when i tried to take his picture with the camera sideways to get a full body shot, he thought that was funny and turned his head like the camera.
it's hard to take a picture of a kid twisting gleefully from side to side.
oh my, how the time goes by. i've been busily making up templates for the blogathon for the eff page, attending to the kid, and of course taking pictures, optimizing them, and uploading them on the hour. do i have time to get out of the house? no. lucky me, a sinkfull of dishes makes for an interesting composition:
so, i haven't done enough with macro mode to be screwing with it now. apparently, the focus capabilities are ... not good enough to get up right in a rose's face and get some definition on the petals. so i'll just say this one's an artsy-type flower picture, k?
and, guess what? going to have to go harvest some less-dead batteries now. shoulda thought of this beforehand, you know?
my son decided to hang up his pokemon backpack on the wall and shoot rubberbands at Ash (it was important to him not to hit pikachu,he loves pikachu). i think he feels very competetive towards Ash Ketcham, who is a fierce pokemon trainer.
i refuse to admit i'm running out of material and may have to leave the house again. and this one is not the most wonderful photo. my camera is old and not feature-rich, and this is beyond its limitations, i fear. it is, however, a very very strange thing:
