Paint in progress….

Still in need of some touching up, but coming along nicely I’d say… One of many reasons I haven’t been updating my little space here… Dang, I need to do something about that!

Much better than the blue!

(see all those spots way up high? Yeah - 12′ and over the hearth - I can’t reach ‘em, even with the ladder…. Soon to be fixed - with longer ladder!)

The closet end… and yes, that’s an 8′ ladder, and yes, I had to climb up on that area to paint…

I hate, hate, hate removing switchplate and outlet covers! Can you believe all this was from one room??

Meanwhile, I have some touch up to do, some clean up to do, and my bedroom to put back together!

Orange?

Yeah, that’s a fun photo challenge…

Huh, well, since I haven’t taken a pic of anything orange, I’ll just Photoshop it!

OK, I admit, sloppy job since I’m in a hurry to get out the door today….

Everyday things… II

The Pitch - more playing with PhotoShop…

As if I haven’t bored everyone enough…

Honestly, this is fun for me, and the feedback helps me fine tune my playing since other eyes see things I don’t necessarily.

These are shots from our Thanksgiving trip to the lake - and I’ve really been searching for ways to make them workable - the sun was low, there was such a strong amount of backlight (great silhoutte shots!) but the kids were having fun, and so was Mom…

Typical male - The Boy had to find a variety of things to chuck in the water, and so…

That last is my favorite - so typical of my kid … And that’s the one I’ve played with… Variations on a theme:

The Work Files … What do you get when…

You take the mailroom clerk’s four-year-old son, add in the “grappling dummy” we have here for evaluation and pictures, the former cop/marine and martial arts editor guy, and add in the woman who knows that boys like to play rough?

Well… ummm… The pics are blurry because it’s awfully hard to get clear pictures of a flying child (especially when the photographer is laughing so hard)!

Ready? Let the wrestling begin!

Ha! I’ve got you now!

Oh, wait… maybe I don’t!

Take that!

I win! Ha!

Yeah, this is how we spent the half hour before lunch… The mailroom clerk’s wife brought the munchkin in, he was rambunctious and evil little me dragged out the virtually indestructible, designed to be manhandled dummy… It really got fun when one of our editor’s decided to get in on the action and help (he teaches kid’s martial arts classes as well…)

There were the parents all worried I had wound the moster up…

Then came reality - he ate lunch and went out cold for a nap!