tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35012255390552251162009-12-06T01:24:42.052-08:00(Comments Optional)The Invisible Mohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03107206868621716874noreply@blogger.comBlogger108125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3501225539055225116.post-9992613737313458312009-11-30T12:24:00.001-08:002009-11-30T13:42:26.479-08:00

I grew up in the military and we lived in base housing, which was nice, but never really ours. I was fifteen when my parents bought the house across the street from where I live now, and we moved for the first time into a home that was all ours. At the time my current house was occupied by an old man named Sylvan A. Wright. He was 75. Sometime after we moved in he had a household sale. He was

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Here you have the Gilded Fish. When I wrote that up there in the title bar it sounded like a good title for a novel. Maybe I can build a novel around these and do NaNoWriMo next year. LOL.I think this proves the fact that I am too sentimental for my own good. I was all set to just toss these to Goodwill or some other thrift store. They came in a bin of stuff from someone's house. I don't know the

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I'm not having any luck today uploading photos for my blog.I will try tomorrow.This counts as a post, though.So here it is.A post.For NaBloPoMo.Here's to you!I tried again. It said bad request.Oh well.You will have to wait another day to see the gilded fish.

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I decided to replace my planned blog with this blog due to the fact that I spent the night at the hospital with my sister because she broke her wrist in a fall at her job. I didn't get to bed until 8am and didn't want to do a blog where I really had to think and compose. So here is a nice little visit to the emergency room. I found some neat things to photograph while waiting around. So without

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I promised pictures of fish today. Gilded fish. The day got away from me. I had to take care of farms and a cafe. I had to do some word twists. I had to do a lot of nothing. I'm tired. I have to work later. So you get this. Nothing.Really.You'll survive.It counts as a post. I did one after midnight.But I wasn't counting it.So this is it. I will take pictures tomorrow. I have the day off tomorrow

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This is not really a post as concerns NaBloPoMo. This post is informational.Recently I have gotten some unsettling comments on an old post. (Surprise Guest, Sept.) I have deleted them, only to find they came back. They are not even really comments, just links to a bunch of adult sites. I don't understand people. And why on that blog? Who knows? The weird part is that they are not even in English,

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My name is Sheila O. I am a Craigslist addict. Please help.Yes. I admit it. There's just something about the free ads that I can't resist. I have gotten a lot of nice stuff by perusing those ads. I have also had to, at times, take stuff to get stuff. This could be dangerous, because I am already enough of a pack-rat without any help WHAT.SO.EVER.One day I wanted a few cookbooks. I had to take

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Here are a few of the reference books in my collection. Most of these are early 20th century, although "The Big Toast Book" is mid-century and the college handbook is from my college days which started in the 70's and ended in the 90's.I found these two books together in a thrift store. They are very small, less than five inches high and jam packed with information. Pitfalls in English is very

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I am working on a blog. Actually, I'm beginning to see it will have to be several related blogs. I'm going to check in my archives because maybe I already did one on one item that I'm planning on featuring. I planned on having the one ready today, but didn't think it out enough and should have taken the pictures for it in the daylight hours to avoid the glare that occurs when taking it under

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And I haven't written my blog, yet. How about another picture blog. How about this cookbook? Well, it probably doesn't really classify as a cookbook because it doesn't really have any recipes in it. Hmmm...Well, it does have recipes in it, but they were all added to it. They didn't come printed in it. I thought it was a pretty clever idea. I can't even remember where in the heck I got it. It

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It's not raining right now. I wish it was raining because at least when it's raining it's not so cold. Cold wouldn't normally be that much of a problem, but I don't have central heat anymore. I have those little oil filled radiators and one convection version. This is ok, but because it was warm I had them all on low. We came home to a house less than toasty. We cranked them all up and now it's

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Another blog brought to you by bullets. I seriously need coffee. I also seriously hate this keyboard that somehow forces me to post my blog with only a title. A.N.N.O.Y.I.N.G. I don't want to make coffee because I want my coffee in the morning to be fresh and not warmed up. I don't want to go to McDonald's for coffee because it is too cold outside. (don't laugh at me all you Canadians who live

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I almost forgot that I hadn't written my blog today. It was a little bit of a weird day. I'm sure my day will make everyone else's boring days seem interesting. I spent most of mine in the car going after an extra-long twin mattress for Jeren. I'm going to bullet list the key points because the long version was getting too long. Got up way early like always to take boys to work.  (About an hour

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Here are some of my favorite, however-not-that-great photos.I have a lot of these. We seem to like the choke hold for getting children to hold still for photos in our family.Here you have Jeren holding Isaac.Isaac is a fast learner and immediately tries this technique on his cousin, Mikaila.Rhyan using the technique on Mikaila the previous year.Mikaila using a modified version on Trenton.David

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I have to write a blog. I have no ideas for a blog that don't take time and effort. Blah. How about this? This was a hotel room I stayed in at Ocean Shores once, while at a conference, when I worked at the alternative school. It has a television in the kitchen/dining/sitting room:a television in the bedroom (you can kind of see it over on the left):And...a television in the throne room.(so you

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I took these photos of my daughter's family last year and decided I wanted to take the background out of them. I tried a couple of different features on my photo program. The first one was to "erase" the background. Here is the original:Here is my "erased" copy. Obviously, I need a lot more work and finesse to use this feature. Or maybe less things to erase. I'm not steady enough, I think.The

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I don't know why but this amused me. I think it was that they called it a colander instead of a strainer, even though those terms are interchangeable. Either way, I just had to have it, although I haven't used it yet, because I use very little canned food. I have used tuna since I got it, but it seemed easier to use the can lid and then I don't have to clean the tuna out of all those tiny little

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I really can't think of anything today that is interesting, earth-shaking or funny. I'm really looking forward to my 8 days off coming up starting next week. I'm hoping it will rejuvenate my brain a little, not to mention give me lots of time to get some things done. I could go a lot faster on projects if I could just quit changing my mind. Anyway, today's offering is some of my flower (weed)

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I'm a spectator in the lives of some friends who have recently lost a major strand of thread in the beautiful fabric of their lives. This wasn't a little thread in the seam or a little snag under the arm or a barely noticeable thread that broke in the hem. This was the big strand of thread that ran right down the middle of a beautiful design. The beautiful design is what made the fabric and

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Becky doesn't like it when I post late so I thought maybe I better get it written nearly on time today. I'm only an hour late this time. Of course, I have no idea what I want to write today. Let me go look at my photos.Brb.HaHa...that brb took forever. It's now almost six hours later.Still dry in the brain. Let me go look again. I promise it won't be another 6 hours. I have to post by

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I don't have much today. It's been a pretty busy day. I had a lot to do from being kind of tired and feeling lazy all week. My house looks like a tornado went through it. I seldom let it look like this for very long but sometimes I have to think a long time before I decide what I'm going to do with things and while I'm thinking about it, I just can't bring myself to do anything because I don't

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Today's presentation is an old reading primer that was well-used and actually has pages missing, but my favorite part about this book is that "Sally loves Ike."Here we see that the book belongs to (or is being used by) Sally S.And, if Sally were old enough to vote, she would be voting for Ike.I'm sure Sally's little sibling must have donated this "drawing" on the page.Sally clearly seems to enjoy

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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

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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

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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

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