Who doesn’t love forms? The kind with the tear off edges for to printer’s feed wheels –
Initialize here, sign and date there, fingerprints go there, and a pint of blood in this. Great, now, could you throw this away. Please? No, but I’ll be happy to recycle it for you. Thanks.
Forms. Classic.
As the bird flies, 2 miles from our house, is an International Airport. Not very big, doesn’t even have a paved runway. In fact, there is no runway. When the pilots call in for clearance to land, they’re not just interested in wind speeds and weather. They also ask about the waves. Kenmore Air operates a satellite hub out of the very Northern tip of Lake Washington. For floatplanes. Or seaplanes. Whatever.
So I thought I’d stop over after work to see if there was anything cool to take pictures of and, lo and behold, there she was –
I think the paint was still drying! Someone went to a lot of time and trouble to replicate a very cool idea that was wedged in the deep nooks and crannies of their brain and or heart. To that, Sir or Madam, I say “WELL DONE!”.
She’s a 1956 de Havilland Beaver, originally delivered to the US Army in June of 1956. She bounced around a bit after service life, was crashed in January of 1981, and brought back to life not long after. She’s now a resident of my local, International Airport.
Rocky & Bullwinkle, were clearly jealous of the attention being paid to the old Army plane –
They shouldn’t be. Anyone that can takeoff and land in water is pretty cool.
Chickens. They don’t stay still. The cats, hey, they sleep half the day. Flowers, trees, stuff like that, is all rooted down and not going anywhere. Even dogs know how to relax, sit still and take a photo. Chickens? They NEVER stop moving. Darting back and forth. Pecking at imaginary food specks. All quick, short, bursts of movement that make it hard to photograph them.
Sometimes you get –
Or –
Sometimes it works out and you get this –
Or this –
Silly animals.
We had the City of Lake Forest park out watching the window and door installs today. What a bunch of donkeys turtles –
They watched and waited for me to fall afoul of the rules, but alas, I didn’t even know the rules. Nor how to break them.
Good turtles, now back to work…..
First full day of Summer, and we get a healthy dose of this –
You won’t hear me complaining though. Bonus, it should make the gardening work (weeding) tomorrow, that much easier.
I’m cool. He can make his house and hang out by the pond all day if that’s what he wants. He ventures inside, and he’s gonna get eaten by Hopps, or squished by Nike. So long as he’s outside while eating his dinner –
About the size of a jawbreaker –
He’s the first of the year. Hopefully he’ll encourage all the others to come out soon. Then maybe they’ll all grow up nice and big. So we can make them into apple-butter.
That’s how Snoopy started all of his writings. I imagine it looked like this –
Well, maybe without the rainbow, and thunder and lightning stuff instead?
Yes, it’s still raining around here. No, it’s not going to stop this week. Summer will get here when it’s good and ready. We’ll have to be patient. And make do with the rainbows.
Could they be more different? I doubt it. Subject 1 (Felix) hasn’t a care in the world –
Why should he? He’s a cat, taking his 5:30 nap. Other than food, what more could he want?
Subject 2 (Lily, aka NutJob, aka Psycho……) Is hiding in plain sight in a closet because I have that stupid camera thing out and am trying to take her photo –
Doesn’t she just look THRILLED? I think I saw her lips mouth out the words, ‘I’m gonna poop in your sneaker for this.’
Silly cats.
The neighbors are off to Italy, and the chickens were not happy about getting cooped up for the night. This one in particular was being a bit difficult –
We outsmarted her though. Humans 1, chickens 0
Updated tally to come…..
