THE 31st DAY OF THE 8th MONTH OF THE YEAR OF THE CAMELLIA

EARL'S GOTTA DIE!

THE 26th DAY OF THE 8th MONTH OF THE YEAR OF THE CAMELLIA

A GREY DAY

Ever have one of those?  Sure you have.  Sky is grey.  Temperatures are about fifteen degrees below what they have been for the past few weeks. 

And everybody seems to be going through life in slow mo!
So why can't I?

I had one of those yesterday an, but ended up airing out the office and working on the "Puter" most of the day.

Really did get a great deal of computer clutter stuff cleaned up.

   Did reorganize some of the stores, so check them out.  You know the links on the right.  The stuff where I am supposed to get paid for stuff and so forth.

Today looks like the same grey out there as well----so!
Got to reorganize this desk.

Still seems like a like of work yet to do!

THEN IT DAWNED ON ME!

Is is "Clutter" or "Litter"?

Maybe I'll just put together a bunch of "Marshmallow Shooters" for my next show.

The 25th day of the 8th month of the year of the Camellia

WHEN I THINK OF OUR COUNTRY

I THINK OF THIS!

UNFORTUNATELY, THE POLITICIANS ARE GIVING US THIS

THE 24th DAY OF THE 8th MONTH OF THE YEAR OF THE CAMELLIA

Nostalgia over a piece of seafood!

Weird huh?

Yup!  But we had dinner a night or two ago at on of the "Seafood" chains that always seem to serve day old fish a day late and a dollar short.  You know, crab legs which were harvested  in the "Previous" year of that "Catchy" television show which has become so popular.

I have lived on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay off and on for fifty some years ------ I know Seafood-------and that twern't seafood!

Tough when you've grown up taking it for granted.  When you wanted it, you just waded into the water or jumped into the boat and fetched it up.

Crabbing on the Chesapeake is major industry...or used to be.  The water men leave port in the dark just to be back at the dock by mid afternoon to meet the buyers.  All fresh stuff.

 

But you put one of these things between the boat and the table and "Not so much!"

They have to get it to market somehow and if the vehicle has to stop for some added artwork, then the seafood suffers again.

Oh well, just sayin.

I 'm waiting for a return trip to the bay just to find some of the famous blue crabs.  In the mean time, I guess I'll just have to do with the photographs and salivate.

Bon Appetit!

THE 22ND DAY OF THE 8TH MONTH OF THE YEAR OF THE CAMELLIA

WEB WORK!

OK, now I get to freak out a lot of people.

Whilst at the super market last night I made some observations.  Why is it that most of the people you see in those little electric carts are always obese and not handicapped in the usual sense of the word?  I bet their just glad to be in there collecting their standard four hundred pounds of groceries.  You know out of the house, away from the kids, on a vehicle into which they have to put no energy!

And then I overheard some younger woman complaining about how she had to work on Saturday night, when over 10% of her friends had no work at all.  I guess we just take for granted what we have, while lusting after that which we don't have.

Think about it!  What if you had to work this hard just to get a meal.  And do all that work in one night and get paid with a dead fly!

Told you I would freak you out!

  A pretty intrigued night's work.

  At least this guy doesn't have to worry about more government restrictions and taxes to reduce his ability to do his web work.

Sometimes being under the radar is better.  At least until some over paid, over protected, tunnel visioned bureaucrat comes by with a can of "Raid!"

"RAID!"

The 19th day in the 8th month of the year of the Camellia

THANKS TO THE BIG GUY!

Wednesday night the sky looked and acted like a waterfall.  Throw in some mega bomb bursts of thunder and some incredibely close lightning and thats where I was.

In a the new old car (called Goldy)  driving around from lightning bolt to lightning bolt calling our lost dog.  She was lost because she had no idea where she was nor did I. 

If I had lost her on my watch-----well it would have been bad!  Found her after a two hour downpour absolutely soaked to the skin and really tired.  So tired in fact that she had to make a trip to the vet Wednesday just to make sure everything was still in place.  All is ok with that....Thank you Lord!

Yesterday, the weather was totally serene.

Then I had a tooth pulled and the storm and dogs were back in my head for about 12 hours.

Sometimes, I think it is easier to do portraits than all the rest of this stuff. 

Oh Lord!

What am I saying?

The 19th day of the 8th month of the year of the Camellia

SHE'S IN THE DOGHOUSE NOW!

Last night I spent two wonderful hours riding around in one of the most vicious lightning and rain storms I have seen in a while.  No time for photos as I was looking for Missy, one of our pets.  She had taken off after thunder!  It was raining cats.....no dogs to be found.

Here she is in better times!

This photo has actually published!

CHA-----CHING!

When I last saw her, last night, this was not the end I was looking at.  She has a habit of barking and chasing lightning and thunder.  Once her mind is set she's gone and dove out the front door in about a six inch space.  Headed west at about thirty mph.  Last I saw of her for two hours.  And in a metropolitan area.

Thanks to all the neighbors, the Cayce Neighborhood Association, the police, Animal Control, Aubrey, and Dave for all their efforts.  I found her, finally, soaked to the skin and almost totally exhausted from her jaunt.

She knew she was in the dog house when I got her home!

If the dog had been a "He" by the time I got him home, he would have been an "It"! 

But she's not even a "She". 

Just glad she's home!

And thanks to all who helped.