I had some time Wednesday night to work on photos. Once that work was done, I uploaded them to Photobucket and then started writing a blog entry. I'd say I was about 98% finished with it when I hit the magic combination of keys. I think it was Alt-Cmd-Shift-Z+ Enter. Whatever it was, it was enough to go back to the previous page.
When I hit the forward key again, I discovered that all my dubious creativity had disappeared for a different dimension in a parallel universe.
The Twilight Zone, for short. Let's just say that I was not pleased. As I said at the time, "Grrrrrr."
The most recent photos I worked up were from the big snowstorm early last week. The April Fool's Day storm. It started on Monday afternoon, and really got going after dark that night. When I looked out the back door window on Tuesday morning, the back porch looked not at all like it had the day before, when most of the snow was gone ...
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The snow shovel was still in position, but now it wore a cloak of white. The railings were burdened with snow. And the wind was throwing around more snowflakes from the roof of the neighboring building. It looked a lot like January.
That was before I shoveled the front walk, caught a glimpse of Plowman, moved my car, and spent the morning at work. By the time I went back for lunch, here's what it looked like--with the addition of my footprints on the porch ...
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The wind had stopped, and while the snow was still pretty deep on the porch, the sun was starting to work on it. Later that afternoon, my wife put the shovel to work. On Wednesday, the sun was out for most of the day, temperatures got to close to 40, and the snow melted a little more. For the next two days, temperatures kept climbing ... into the 50s on Thursday and Friday and well into the 60s on Saturday. Much too warm to wear our jackets when we went to Iron Mountain to visit my mom--although we were glad we brought them along when the sun started setting. By the time we got back home, we were back down around 40.
With all the warm weather, the snow has taken a severe pounding--but they are warning that some snow may come back here on Tuesday night. It was snowing in Minnesota and the Dakotas on Sunday morning.
OK, now for the long-promised pictures of Charlie. She has been a busy little cat lately.
A week or so back, it was late at night, my wife was in bed, and I was at the computer when Charlie came to visit. This time, she climbed from my lap up onto the desk and lay down among the cables, papers, magazines and pens that normally reside there. Charlie doesn't mind a cluttered desk ...
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Then she reached down and started fishing around in the desk drawer. Something had caught her eye. What was she after? ...
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Look! I think she's got a bite! Slowly, carefully, she pulled out her catch of the day: the earbuds from my iPod ...
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But Charlie! Kitties don't listen to iPods! And they aren't made the right size for kitties! You can try it if you want, but ...
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Do you know what this shot reminds me of? The famous picture of that little white dog who seems to listen intently to the sound coming from a gramophone. Is this a 21st century version of "[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nipper"]His master's voice[/URL]"?
A few days later, I was watching something on TV while my wife was working at her sewing machine, sewing some scraps of fabric together for a quilt top. Seated nearby, enjoying a box seat view of the action, was Charlie ...
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Her kitty mattress was the box where my wife keeps some of her fabric scraps. I got a little closer and discovered that Charlie was watching closely as my wife ran the sewing machine. Except when I distracted her ...
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My wife said that the whirr of the sewing machine at first bothered Charlie, but she's clearly gotten over that. Here, she tries to steady my wife's hand as she guides the fabric to the needle ...
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Now how's that for a helpful kitty? When I got a little closer, she wriggled towards me to get her head scratched ...
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Of course, there's one thing that cats can do better than any human: relax and hang loose. Here, Charlie shows us how it's done, in her own style ...
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And it looks like my wife has taken a lesson from Charlie, simply by sitting next to her. Sweet dreams ...
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The big thing coming up for us this week is pretty darn big, all right. We are going to that huge quilting show in Chicago, near O'Hare Field. We plan to leave next Friday morning (stopping in to visit S and her husband on the way south), spend Saturday at the show and drive back home on Sunday.
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