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Ugh! Monday again

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Seriously going to miss my 3 day weekends, this weekend went way too fast and didn't get a whole lot done. I did manage to whip up a batch of homemade oatmeal cookies: Serious yummage. Going to have to make more soon. Went to the drag show on Saturday night. Hubby was designated river and we took a friend. Had a nice time, the acts were great. Tried out my new camera on several different setting (sports and party). Definitely need more practice taking photos indoors, esp with the people are moving a lot. Had one pic that didn't come out very well, so I decided to play with Gimp to see what I could do with it. The pic was at extreme zoom and rather dark. I played with the brightness and contrast and then ran it thru several different filters. Tried it first with the cubism filter, didn't quite care for it, then tried the oil painting filter. Came out pretty cool (at least I think so): Dinner last night was roasted chicken. I split the chicken in half, seasone

Fun with Gimp

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Snapped some pics of a Praying Mantis yesterday and ran one of them thru Gimp to punch the color: Looks like an alien who is visiting Earth :D

It got a tad bit dusty yesterday

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Winds kicked in to overdrive yesterday and I think they blew half of Washington state our way. After work we hit a spot above Moscow I like to go to to get pictures. Here is a view of Moscow: Yes, the town is down there. Here is a zoom view: Looking towards Moscow Mountain: Trust me, the mountain is out there somewhere. Great view to the west with the sun: The winds licked up a fire over in Whitman County, haven't heard if there were any in Latah County. Thankfully the winds have pretty much gone away and the weather is a bit cooler, so with luck they can get a handle on all the fires in the Inland Northwest that started.

WHEW!

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School is back in session and it has been a busy week at work, not too mention back to my regular workday schedule. Going to seriously miss my 3 day weekends, but now is time to save up my annual leave again so I can take them again next summer. In the meantime I'll have to squeeze all the stuff I haven't done yet into two day weekends and hope the weather holds long enough to get things like finishing painting the trailer, shed and Da Odder Boat: Need to pick up more paint. I don't have enough to finish the first coat and will need more for a 2nd. Then I need to finally decided what pattern to paint and get that color. Haven't been doing too much cooking this week, usually tossing something together for dinner out of whatever I can find in the deep freeze. Need to do a serious inventory of the freezers and the pantry so I can see what I can plan a head of time for a change. The Tigger project is ticking along. For the most part he only comes in if we are

Seriously loving my new camera

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Been trying out all the different scenic modes it has and playing with all the various exposure and ISO settings. Got some really cool pics over the weekend. Last night I tried out the night landscape setting: Saturday night I used the food mode: It has an "OMG I NEED TO SNAP A PIC IN REGULAR MODE AND I DON'T HAVE TIME TO FUTZ WITH THE SETTINGS!" button that is an Intelligent Auto mode: Friday I set it for Film Grain B&W with the ISO set for 1600: And Thursday on the way home I went for straight black and white: There is still more fun settings to play with.

What's new from Purple Ducky Designs

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I'm venturing into back and white photography, thanks to my new camera: Sentinal by JeanC_PurpleDucky Design note cards with zazzle.com Substation by JeanC_PurpleDucky Browse more Electric Mousepads

SQUEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!

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The hubby surprised me after work today: I've been needing a new point and shoot camera, my poor old Nikon Coolpix is ailing. We'd gotten a coupon book from Costco the other day and they had the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FH20 on sale. We'd planned on looking at it then next time we went to Costco, but in the meantime we'd looked it up on the web and found favorable reviews. So my sneaky hubby went an bought me one. I am so loving it. It has lots of great features and will a good replacement for my Coolpix and I can save up for the DSLR camera I would like to eventually upgrade to (once I figure out which one. SO many cameras, so little money LOL!). One of the fun features is being able to shoot in black and white: Managed to get some nice pics of Phoebe, who is a very hard kitty to get pictures of (unlike Rum Tum): I can't wait to try all the other features and settings and see what I can do with it.

Sniff!

My last 4 day week, then back to a full schedule. I am going to seriously try and enjoy my last 3 day weekend for a while. No big plans tho. Still need to get started on painting the new boat. We sold the old boat last weekend, so no more tiger striped boat. It is going to a good home tho. I am still planning on trying for a snow leopard pattern for the new one. At the very least I want to get the primer coat on it. My tallest corn plant (a whole 2.5 feet) has tasseled. The rest of the plants, which got no taller then a foot or so have also started to tassel. Not sure if I will be getting anything off any of them. We'll see. Talked it over with the person who gave me the seedlings and we are thinking they might not have liked the transplant. I'd layered in some compost at the beginning of the growing season, but it doesn't appear to have helped. I think next year I will see about starting my own seedlings AND try direct seeding to see which will work better. Also goin

VJ's BBQ is now CD's Smoke Pit!

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and oh so yummy!!!!! Was a bit sad when they closed for the remodel. I always love driving by when the smoker was going, the smell was heavenly. But they are open again under a new name with a new look. Got a nice glass of sweet tea: The only proper way to drink sweet tea LOL! Menu: Hubby got the 1/4 lb pulled chicken sandwich: And I got the 1/4 lb pulled pork sandwich: The amount of sauce that came on the sandwich was perfect for hubby, it was just spicy enough to tickle his taste buds without hurting him. The have nice big squeeze bottles of BBQ sauce on the tables, so I dosed mine up pretty good. Seriously happy taste buds and deliriously happy tummy was to be had hehehehehe.

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Mmmmmmmmmm! Birthday cake!

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Had a nice relaxing birthday today, simple nibbly dinner and then chocolate fudge cake: MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!

Patty's Mexican Kitchen

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Had a wonderful lunch at Patty's Mexican Kitchen here in Moscow. They have real Coke: After ordering they brought chips and salsa to the table: I ordered the Taquito meal: Hubby had the 12 inch super burrito. It was HUGE! It is a great space: We'll be eating here more often.

Seriously cute kitty Tuesday

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Scrapper being totally adorable:

Monday again

Did NOT get any painting done this weekend. Didn't get a whole heck of a lot done, but it was a good weekend. Weather wasn't too bad, lots cooler then the previous week. We did get the AC installed into hubby's office, so he is now good to go for staying cool. I did manage to get the carpet in the front hallway ripped out. Pretty groddy underneath as the water leakage from years past did a number on the carpet underneath and the pad, not to mention rotting out the wooden tack strips. So that is all gone. I'll be taking out the rest of the carpet in the living room in chunks as time goes on. Eventually I want to put down hardwood flooring or possibly bamboo (leaning heavily towards the bamboo). Had to stop leaving food out for Tigger at night. Neighbors had a momma and baby raccoon on their porch the other night and the last thing I need to be doing is feeding raccoons. I love raccoons, but they tend to make a mess of things and are a bit of a threat to the kitties.

Speaking of Tigger

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Here is a new pic of him. Had to chase him to get it, he suddenly got camera shy. He was looking so cute under the bench, but took off when I went to snap his pic this morning.

YIKES! August already?!?!?!?!?!?!

Crap, summer is almost over and I still have lots I want to do. Not to mention only a couple more of my Fridays off, 3 to be exact. Operation Tigger is back on track. He'd disappeared for several days. I hoped he was just not coming around when we were up and about so kept putting out food and water for him. He showed up in the kitchen the other night completely emaciated again. We are thinking he got locked into a shed or an empty trailer for several days and finally got out. Needless to say, we are making sure he gets food whenever he asks. He's been spending a lot of time in the house. One night he slept curled up on a pillow on the bedroom floor and last night looks like he camped out in the bathroom. He'll follow me around the house and I make sure he gets lots of pets and scritches. When we left this morning he was out on the front lawn under the bench looking like a kitty meatloaf. So with luck we will have him fattened up enough in the next couple of months to