Thursday, June 4, 2009

i learned the other day that i rolled over this year into getting 15 days vacation status! woo hoo! so i decided that, given there were no assignments on the board as of post-deadline wednesday, i'd just go ahead and take an impromptu vacation day today - weather supposed to be nice (still, not even 70 degrees! wha's up???), and i had some bare spots to fill in in the garden, and it would just be cool to have an unexpected day away...came home after work yesterday to find a note from the city - all water on my block would be shut off from 7 am to 4 or so pm...BOOOO!!!! okay, so, cleaning the fridge definitely out of the question - not that that's a fun way to spend a day off, but it was on the to-do list of possibilities - anyway, for being waterless the better part of the day, i think i got a lot accomplished - including moving the summer clothes out of the footlocker and cleaning the big winter sweaters and moving them, along with winter socks, etc, into the footlocker - always a big chore it seems, and one that i've been putting off for a while - partly out of necessity, since i've still been wearing them through the spring. then i returned all the pop bottles accumulating in my backseat, got all my filler planting done, cleaned the car, prepped some new pix to post over coffee this morning, and now, keeping up with the posting before i just relax for the remainder of the day and do some beading on a peyote stitch bracelet i started....all in all, not a bad day, and the water is back on without any problems, thank goodness - crazy how you just do things by rote - even though i knew it was gone, i found myself reaching for the faucet in the kitchen or bathroom time and again simply out of habit - thank god for the inventor of hand sanitizer!....anyway, all that pretty boring stuff being said, here are a few pix shot yesterday - one from my feature hunt, and the others from more lensBABY fun after watering the plants last evening.....sorry to be such a bore - this is a pretty stupid post - i mean, really, who cares about me switching over my seasonal clothing wear, returning plastic bottles and getting to flush my toilet, right?!?! if you actually made it this far in the reading of the post, let me just say you are officially a good sport!

i went on the old random drive through town and was on my way to hit a frozen custard stand out of default (i was striking out big time!) when, while waiting to make a left, i spyed these girls in the parking lot across the way...i pulled in and got out to see what they were doing - they'd just finished their last day as 8th graders and were taking goofy pix on cell phones of each other in the parking lot - maybe not the greatest pix, but kind of a cool, community-feel moment, so i went with it...it reminded me of how when you're 14 everything you do with your friends, no matter how small or silly, is fodder for a reason to giggle uncontrollably...why do we lose that as adults? 

and now, on to the lensBABY




i think i nearly blinded myself lying in the grass on my stomach trying to shoot from beneath this dandelion at sunset - my neighbors must think i'm such a wack-job!

so, hey, umm, yeah, thanx for looking!!!

1 comment:

Amanda LaRae Larkin said...

Hey Kim - It feels like forever since I last stopped by your i2eye! It's good to see you're back to posting again! I love the dandelion with the sun! It feels like magic.