Shhhh...don't tell them it's November!

These little guys don't realize it's way past the time for them to bloom. I took these pictures today, November 9.
The first three are of a freesia that I stuck in a pot to keep it until I dig up the rest and divide them all. I love how it keeps blooming, one bloom at a time. These were taken with the macro setting.








Bachelor buttons are one of my most favorite flowers out of all my favorite flowers. This pot was planted late in spring, so the blooms have remained very tiny. The flower in these pictures is less than an inch across. All of these pictures are of the same flower. The rest all died with the light frost we had the other night. I think it looks very much like fairy wings. These were taken with the super-macro setting.














I didn't notice the visitor in this picture. I have no idea what it is because I wasn't wearing my glasses and the muted tones are giving it no color. It could be a bee or a flea or ????. Who knows.

Back to the books.

How can this be "Everybody's Complete Encyclopedia" ? It is approximately 5.5 inches by 7 inches and maybe 1.5 inches thick. Not very big to be a complete encyclopedia when you consider that most encyclopedias take up more than a whole bookshelf. I think even in 1937 and 1940 they had to have more information than this book could hold. So, of course, I had to buy it when I saw it. It's one of my favorite books just for the title alone.











The March of Events is a list in the front of the book that lists a few of the key things included in the book and shows the common abbreviations used. It's actually chock full of information that might have been useful at the time of printing. Of course, a lot of the information shown in this book is now obsolete. It is a great time capsule, though!





And now...I'm off to work. Going to pull a double shift today!

Fortune cookies.

I keep accidentally posting my blogs right after I put the title up. Stooopid computer.
I just can't seem to get used to the keyboard on this new laptop.

So, anyway...

I thought it was pretty cool when my friend, Chris, and I went to dinner at PF Chang's and got these two fortunes in our fortune cookies.



It's pretty good stuff when the fortune cookie gods give you stuff like this. Hundreds of fortune cookies to choose from and we got these! Yep. Good stuff!

That's all I have for today. Happy blogging!

It's a rainy, windy, sunny, rainy, windy day today.

Last night the wind blew so hard that it shook the house. I could hear stuff blowing about and hitting the house and roof but it was dark so I couldn't really see anything. The lights flickered a few times and I thought we were going to lose power, but this time we didn't. It did, however, blow over our lawn swing and the recycling containers, as you can see from the pictures below. They are a little blurry because I was in a hurry to go get David this morning.





Today started out rainy and windy, but then we got a little reprieve and I was able to go out and clear some of the debris in the dog's yard and make a path along the fence in preparation for the bulldozing I want to do back there.


I decided to work outside until the weather changed or Keri arrived with Logan, whichever came first. Keri arrived with Logan first, so I cleaned up my mess, put things away and came in the house. She left and I made myself some lunch, but before I could even finish it, the sky darkened and suddenly we had a downpour, as can be seen in the following two pictures.





I love wind and rain storms, but like them better when I don't have to go out in them. (sigh) It's my Monday.

It's Thursday.

I must write a blog today, but have no ideas running through my brain. I am too hot, too full, too tired, too bloated-feeling, too restless and way too brain-dead. I seriously thought about doing a Thursday Thirteen. They used to be nice no-brainers for Thursday, but apparently the old site no longer exists and the new site looked like way too much effort. In addition to which I would have to come up with thirteen of something.
It's a beautiful, rainy day here in Washington. My tiredness makes me want to curl up with a blanket and sleep, but my urge to get the living room painted and my floor down before the end of the month makes me want to get busy. So I've been being half busy and half lazy. The spaghetti I made last night was sooooo good and I think I ate too much for lunch. Usually on my days off I get so busy I forget to eat and get going on wired energy and get a lot done until I get the shakes. When I eat it's hard to stay motivated, even if I eat light. I just want to sleep. I'm sure it has nothing to do with my constant sleep deprivation.
So, let me ask you this. Do you think I'm crazy because I want to take pictures of the stars? Here are my latest attempts. Naturally I didn't bother with the tripod. They wouldn't be very interesting, anyway, if I had been able to hold the camera steady. I can't remember what the last one is. Maybe the neighbor's porch light? Hmmm...don't know. 18x zoom can catch the moon, but it can't catch the stars. I'm already looking for my next camera on my climb up to a digital SLR. In the meantime I am going to figure out what is the strength of the biggest zoom lens a person can buy and how many millions of dollars I will need to start saving in order to obtain it. (sigh)