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From the “Until We Meet Again” Dept:
Five years. Yeah, it came faster than I’d have ever imagined and it’s why I’ve been a bit unsettled this past week or so. Five years. After all, that was supposed to be the length of the original voyages of the USS Enterprise on “Star Trek” for Pete’s sake! Five years. That’s how long “Babylon 5” ran on TV in the 1990s to complete one of the most epic planned story arcs in a series…
From the “Stupidity So Impressive That You Can’t Help But Stand in Awe of It!” Dept:
Some days, you really ought to just stay in bed! Seriously. Perhaps it’s the lingering after-effects of the recent full moon which tends to bring out the crazies but today was full of completely mad buggers thinking that driving should be equivalent to “take out my Traverse in the most spectacular ways possible”. I should have known that driving was going to royally suck when the approach to Enloe on a lane that is normally…
From the “Never Forget Our Strength Is In Our Unity” Dept:
Only madmen could contain the thought, execute the act, fly the planes. The sane world will always be vulnerable to madmen, because we cannot go where they go to conceive of such things. We could not see it coming. We could not be here before it happened. We could not stop it. But we are here now. You cannot see us for the dust, but we are here. You cannot hear us for the cries,…
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From the “It’s About Damned Time” Dept:
Today’s fun activity was to finally get off my duff and try my hand at a dish I’d never attempted without Aunt Judy being right there in her kitchen…her potato salad. This concoction of hers was pretty much universally well-received, so much so that even Uncle Walter’s family in south Georgia would insist she make it whenever they’d head south for a family reunion. When *SOUTHERNERS* who know something about potato salad won’t touch anything…
Tempest Tossed at Ocean Isle Beach
Today is a quick trip to Ocean Isle Beach to retrieve Katie and Alex who start their new school year at Enloe High School tomorrow morning. It was certainly a stormy day from the end of I-140 near Winnabow and a couple of downpours in Shallotte and on Ocean Isle Beach itself. At least returning home was relatively calm in VFR conditions! 🙂
From the “Sometimes You Feel Like a Nut” Dept:
Everyone has “squirrel moments”, right? In this case, it was a real life “Mr Nutterbutter” who thought they could evade the reach of the camera lens on the iPhone to nick a nut. Oh, you silly squirrel! 🙂 There’s hardly a place on Earth where you won’t find at least one camera lens pointed at you and escaping detection of the crime is well nigh impossible! 🙂 The only thing this little critter needs is…
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From the “More Doing, More Swearing” Dept:
One of these days I’m going to learn how to ignore the siren calls of hubris (excessive pride, often leading to tears in the end!) when it comes to being handy at mending things round the house. It seems the universe takes a particular pleasure in making tasks that should seem utterly simple turn out to be the worst voyages of the damned I could possibly imagine. I do have a theory that this syndrome…
From the “He Don’t Know Us Very Well Do He?” Dept:
An open letter to Tom Dundon, owner of the Carolina Hurricanes hockey club. It’s taken me a while to pen this little missive whilst I’ve come to grips with the decision to sign free agent defenceman Tony DeAngelo to a one year contract for the 2021-2022 season. I’m sure you’ve seen all of the hot takes over the past 24 hours since the free agency window opened and it’s safe to say they’ve trended fairly…
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From the “This Is Why You Pack a Macro Lens!” Dept:
After getting a few pictures of Mistletoe with the sunflowers at Dix Park, it was time to unleash the D850 with the 105mm f/2.8 Micro-NIKKOR lens and get up close and personal with the sunflowers and the bees that were busily pollinating them! This is the combination I wanted to be packing when we came out here a few days earlier for Julia’s birthday because the detail the lens is capable of capturing is nothing…
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From the “If You’re Going to Play With Sunbeams” Dept:
Julia’s birthday included an impromptu trip to the large field of sunflowers currently inhabiting Dix Park just south of downtown Raleigh. She was interested in getting some pictures of the kids with the sunflowers as a backdrop and taking advantage of the lovely lighting from the setting sun. As we were between various shots/posing/occasional grumpiness/more posing/SHOOT!, I decided to have a bit of fun with the iPhone’s camera and get some nice shots of the…
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