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30 Days and Counting
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Category Archives: Home Stuffs
Ridiculously Big Ugly Spider
Daisy sounded the alert on this one .. I think this pole is about 6 inches wide.
Seriously .. this one freaked me out .. bad.
Night Launch
As seen from our backyard.
The break in the trail is when I actually stopped the exposure to see if I could catch more. I thought the shuttle was already out of the frame 
So I put the 2 exposures together. [see it large] [see it huge!]
If you have to get out of bed at the crack of dawn
to take your dogs out 2 hours earlier then they usually get up. I hope you get to see something like this ..
Some strange reason Daisy decided she had to pee at 6:30 am this morning. I finally gave in when she kept crying after 10 minutes of ssssshhhhhing. But I’m glad she did, because I got to see this full moon out over our back yard. Of course the photo doesn’t do it justice, but at least I have something to recall it.
Time Flies
Its been raining for days around here, today was the first day all week that the afternoon sunshine could actually dry up the grass. The dogs are very thankful for that. Last night the frogs were louder then they had been in months (even louder then [this night]), I ended up sleeping in the guest room, convinced the sliding glass door was letting more frog noise in. I think having the TV on in the guest room is what helped me tune out the frog song. We also have a ton of baby dragonflies around our backyard. Our grass grows so fast right now, there are a ton of little perches for the guys to hang out on.
So .. what’s new here? Well .. yesterday I signed up for Image X. A photography workshop in New Orleans this October. I’m sooooo excited you have no idea. I’ve signed up for sessions with 2 photographers I know I have alot to learn from. I can’t wait. As for the photo business in general. I’m getting alot of emails and phone calls from interested people, I have a few sessions scheduled coming up, things seem to be growing. Its tough to know how things would really be in a good economy, since portraits are considered a luxury item.
And for a little health update .. its now been 4 months since my swollen glands first really started bothering me. 3 months since one Dr. diagnosed me with a ‘throat infection’ and gave me antibiotics that did nothing. 6 weeks since I switched my allergy medicine and was tested for various auto immune diseases. Yesterday I got those results back, and everything came back fine, so that’s good. That Dr. said that she still believes my problem is allergy related, but because I’ve tried 2 different oral meds and nose spray, and nothing has helped, she suggested I see an ENT just to be sure. So I called my ENT who was going to do my surgery last year and they happened to have an opening this morning. After checking out all my head openings and feeling all the glands and nodes in my throat, he decides I should have a CAT scan on my throat. He said my glands or nodes on the left side of my throat were larger then the right, and there aren’t any signs of infection (which I swear my ears were infected, they’ve been hurting for days). So after that exam, I had blood drawn because they’ll inject me with dye for the scan next week, and they want to make sure I wont have a problem with that. Sounds like a blast huh? He didn’t say what he’s looking for .. I’m pretty sure he’s just covering all the bases. Anyways, I should get the results from the CAT on the 30th.
Cooking and Cleaning
Well I haven’t gotten to the cleaning part, but in less than an hour and half I’ve marinated 3 steaks (Sesame-Soy Sirloin from Fix, Freeze, Feast), put ingredients for cinnamon rolls in my breadmaker, and that’s working away and made a pizza which is now baking in the oven (dough from Publix bakery & fresh mozzarella). Still to come, Tortilla Chicken Soup and Best Big, Fat, Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies to flash freeze. I can’t wait!
I read an article in the paper today (and by reading the paper, I mean checking out the RSS feed from Florida Today, technology rocks!) that its time to start planning your fall gardens. I’ve had my garden planned since last fall! So hopefully I can start marking out my plan in the grass and start planning what I want to grow in the fall!
Happy Birthday Nana!
My Nana has a pig collection .. when I spotted this card in the store .. it was just too perfect!
YAY!!!
Just got word that the next tenant for our condo has been approved and is all set to get her keys on Friday!!
We’ve been going through some annoying BS with the condo board .. the condo has been empty since Jan. We were supposed to have a tenant move in back around May 1st .. his application came through in March and it took the board 3 weeks to call him for an interview .. then he backed out the last few days in April because of the way he was interviewed (even-though he was approved, the board apparently said some inappropriate things)
This new tenant wanted to move in June 1st, the board got her application on May 8th and as of last Friday .. before a holiday weekend and a week before when she wanted to move in, they hadn’t even given her a call to set up an interview. Yes, I called that Friday and complained. Luckily it looks like it will all work out.
No news is good news ..
and as I wrote that title, a helicopter flew so close to our house I thought it was landing in our backyard. I followed it out front and apparently there’s a flare up south of us. But again, its downwind from us (thankfully)
But there’s nothing else to report on the fires around here. The fires west of us (Lowry) were the biggest fires burning at 11am so they were getting tons of attention. That seems to have worked. I dont see any ‘plumes’ just that the sky west of us looks gray. So no pictures .. there’s really nothing to see.
I did finally call the fire information line, out of curiosity. I expected it to have directions on how to report a fire, however, it was a recording reporting what fires they were currently battling. As of 1:45 the last update was at 11am (and it wasn’t much different from the 9am update). That number is 321-637-5550.
Another hour .. another update
Yes I’m sick of this, as I’m sure all my neighbors are .. and I can’t imagine the frustration of the brave firefighters trying to save homes and get these fires under control.
Right now I’m watching 2 fires from the backyard. I’m pretty sure the fire to the north of us is less then 2 miles away. Probably close to one mile.
And this is the latest shot of the fire west of us .. now .. the wind is blowing this away from us .. at least the smoke is blowing away from us.
Here’s a closer shot, you can see definition in the smoke plumes.
I turned our sprinklers on .. our grass has been dead for weeks .. I dont think it would help at all .. but at least it wont hurt. I haven’t seen any low flying helicopters for either of these fires .. though I have heard a couple ‘copters, but I think they’re news crews.
Little update on the dogs .. Big Pup has a stomach bug, or nerves .. he’s not acting nervous .. but his stomach is a wreck .. I really dont know what to do for him, as I dont think there’s such a thing as puppy pepto. If he’s still having problems this afternoon I’ll call the vet, but as she’s in Grant, on US1, she’s been really close to a few fires and I dont want to bother her.