saturday hunt - wind

I'm pretty sure that wind contributes to the height of waves in inland bodies of water. Not sure about the ocean, but I think so. (There's a wave there.)


An hourglass is one type of timekeeping device that you don't have to wind. "Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives."


Alien next up!

The Door is a Jar

As the cars used to say. And Billy's taking advantage of it. He doesn't want to get sunburned.

Start

The start of a new plant.

Saturday Hunt - Cars

Some tire rims of the cars around my house. Can you tell which is mine?

Saturday Hunt - Quest

Elmo is so proud that he has succeeded in his quest to find the perfect tie. (someone needs to teach him how to tie it though...)

Saturday Hunt - Concoction

My concoction is a motley assemblage of things, persons or ideas.

Here's the shoes I bought after returning the really pointy ones. I've never gone completely round, and they're comfortable (Hush Puppies), and a good color, so I'm trying them. I even almost threw away the box, and then just couldn't. But I'll keep them.


Here's the filter that needs replacing in my vacuum cleaner that currently does not suck.


Here's my first ever tile job, without the grout yet. I am very proud. It took me 2.5-3 hours for not a very big space.

Saturday Hunt - Weenie

Well, I must admit, I had several ideas in mind already when I chose the word, instead of picking the word out of the blue. I haven't looked yet to see how others interpreted it, but here's mine.

Teenie weenie drops of water on grass.


Yesterday was a Hallo - weenie sort of day. Here's my pumpkin that the squirrels have helped carve.


Finally, one of the DJ's on WFMU plays a song called Corn Weenie. Mmmm delicious, right?


I have to see the list of who's playing anymore... But I will choose Tara for next week.

Saturday Hunt - Honored

I went apple picking today here:

Amazing, eh?


These were granny smith. There weren't very many and difficult to find even on a good day. But I was really there to get another variety (Stayman) and got a 1/2 bushel from their bins. ($10)

Well, it was the same place I had gone strawberry picking back in May. I felt very honored that the guy who made my caramel apple for me (actually #2) remembered me. (He made me a second because I said I didn't think the first was the apple variety I wanted. I said no repeatedly but he made it and gave it to me and who was I to refuse? So I helped them - took money, handed out cider - while I ate it.) And no! Yet again, this is just a nice guy. I met his wife in the strawberry fields. (OK, that sounds faintly dirty...but again, not meant that way).

[you know, this was the toughest word ever for me!]

Saturday Hunt - Keep

Whenever I buy shoes, I never ever know if I'm really going to keep them. These are my most recent purchase, and I still haven't decided if I should keep them. They are nice, but the toe is very very pointed, and I'm a not so pointed toe person. (But not a rounded end person for sure.) I need the color though (dark brown) and there's nothing else out there (ok in at least the one store chain I go to).

How to have a great TIME

How do you have a good TIME on a weekend? Well, if you are me:

Start with some outdoor exercise fun:
(make it easy by climbing a horizontal climb - no that's not me)

Then have some outdoor beer-drinking boat-riding non-exercise fun:


And in between, visit mom and her (spoiled much?) cat:

Sorry

I've been anxious since Friday about my interview tomorrow, so not really almost able to breathe. I did manage to climb some today. And yesterday got to drive my friend's BMW with a great sound system - blasting an old Kings of Leon album which was great.

Hope?

I thought of hope today as I watched all the birds. One in particular was standing still in the water, waiting for a fish to go by. Hoping for a fish to go by. I had forgotten my camera, so here's a photo of the bird. Ok, just realized it's a bunch of photos together from here:



I will write Monday night...and comment then too.

Saturday Hunt - Jersey

New Jersey: Climber Smurf wants to see my homeland, New Jersey. He thinks he can transport himself by standing on the WFMU sticker, clicking his heels together, and chanting "I wish I were home."


Old Jersey: Since he thinks he's going on a trip, he's putting on a jersey to keep him warm


Oh, I choose Laura to choose.

Saturday Hunt - Yarn

As the sun set, Climber Smurf rappels down. Someone realized how light he is and that he could rap down on yarn, so lowered some yarn to him. Despite his trials and tribulations, he is smiling. And I am sure he will climb again.

Saturday Hunt - Epic

Remember way back when, when Climbersmurf was getting ready to climb the wall despite all indications that he shouldn't? Well, he did so anyway. And now he's stuck halfway up with no rope. It has become an epic. We'll see how long it takes him to get down.

Saturday Hunt - Wave

Oh boy. I'm going to stretch the limits of the word and have about 3 degrees of separation from it. When I heard wave, I thought of the coke saying - Catch the Wave - Coke (or is it Diet Coke?). In any event, I could use a Coke right now. I finished the damn shed! Cheating a bit because I ran out of the stain so I used some white spray paint I had. And I didn't listen to any of you and chose blue for the door. I like it a lot actually.



Tonight I'm going to see It Might Get Loud (stories from Jimmy Page, The Edge and the guy from White Stripes. Tomorrow I might go to a lake and relax and swim. After all, it's a long weekend. And I'm not climbing (and trying to not be depressed about it). OK, gotta go shower and get all this shit off of me. Happy Day!

Saturday Hunt - Shades

Well, these are my new shades that I'm trying to install. I thought it would be so easy, but of course with a house, nothing is easy. Before installing, I have to paint the existing window frame. Which technically should be easy. But they are metal, there is some rust, some pieces of the wall outside the frame are falling apart, and the screws for the old blinds/etc. leave holes which need to be filled. I'm workin' on it.


What I'm replacing. Nasty evil dirty blinds.


And not sure if you know this band/song, but it was what I thought of immediately. Timbuck 3 - The Future's so bright, I gotta wear shades. I chose to use the official video, so no embedding.

Saturday Hunt - Yello!

Oh, I mean yellow.

I really don't know why my cucumbers ended up being yellow and bloated. Jaundice? Actually, they've been attacked by bugs. I've only gotten three total odd cucumbers. Sigh.


This is a photo of my lunch today, before cooking. What's it?

Saturday Hunt - Xanadu

An idyllic, beautiful place. This place for me is Maine, on the lake I've gone for decades. My brother took this photo last year.

Saturday Hunt - Winter

A reminder of winter. That alas, I broke.

Saturday Hunt-Summer

I don't normally do typical summer things, but this weekend I went to the beach. Nothing says summer like the beach.

One of these set of feet is mine...

Jaws is alive and not well - he's caged.

Still life with jellyfish.