This is close to my desk and it is Carolyn's way
of ascertaining my dieting willpower;
I placed the joker for this photo
I have been working most of the morning helping some new Megashot members with various things such as making and uploading an avatar, a banner, and how to find their photo's progress in the contest. I then answered a long over due email which ended up being rather enjoyable, and I got my stuff out of the closet, did a setup, and made a photo. I received several comments on some of my photos overnight and I responded to them. I have yet to check for new members and welcome any whom may have joined since last evening, and I am going to Flickr to see if I need to do anything there. Not many people comment on my Flickr postings although I do as much commenting there as I do on Megashot. The Nature contest has a week left, but I probably will not post any more entries until maybe the last day. There will be another contest in August, but I haven't checked to see what the theme will be.
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Carolyn worked for awhile this morning and it gave me some time for peace and quiet in the house. I love peace and quiet but those times have been few for the past several years. I also love my privacy but I haven't had much of that since JJ moved in eight years ago. Old folk seem to need and prefer a bit more alone time than do youngsters.
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It is very hot again today with temps close to 100F (37.7C) in another hour from now. It is 95F in the shade on my porch as I write this from inside and air-conditioned house.
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Yesterday, Carolyn made bread pudding for desert with left over biscuits; mighty fine. Chris and her boyfriend just got settled into their new apartment; this is her fourth new place this year. She moves more often than do my bowels.
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Well back to the grind I love so well; looking at great photos and commenting on a few. I may suck up my courage and get on Facebook for awhile for more photo commenting; Megashot has several pages there and as much as I abhor Facebook, it is drawing in many new members for the site. I can usually get in a page or two of "likes" and a few remarks about photos before I get the shakes and have to leave. I am also doing a few critiques on Megashot's Critique Corner, although I am not always comfortable doing so. If I like a photo, it is for some obscure reason to which I cannot put words and the same for ones I dislike. But I try to help; I don't care much for the technical stuff as it is too restrictive, but I do love a well balanced photo. A photo of a turd is a photo of a turd, but a photo of a turd with a fly sneaking up on it is a good, well balanced photo.
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Hope you are having a good Saturday!
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5 comments:
Today my house is noisy too. Asia's birthday party!
I'll get back later.
Have a wonderful Sunday.
xo
I left young people in our flat for some time and went to bookshop. There were different books in my hands, eventually I purchased the stories by John Updike. One of the stories is nicely titled: "Łzy mojego ojca"; in English, I think: "Tears of my Father" or "My Father's Tears". I’m reading Polish translation.
I hope my Friends that Updike also expresses the spirit of America.
As for the temperatures, it was also heat wave in Poland (35C) and I had black thoughts that eventually my poor heart wouldn't survive it. Now is much colder: 20C. In summer (July, August) average temperature of air is usually 22-25C. In this part of Europe it would be rather hard for us to accept higher temperatures. Our houses are not air-conditioned. Our summer is rather short; first of all we must be prepared for the severe winter. Fortunately we have own rich deposits of coal and we purchase cheap gas from Russia.
My friend … I guess you are busy. Have a nice new week. Pa!
Hope the Party went well.
John Updike died just last year and "My Father's Tears" is a very good short story. It appeared in 'New Yorker Magazine':
http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/02/27/060227fi_fiction
Updike makes everyday life interesting. If "The Walk with Elizanne" is in your book, it is very good.
It is supposed to cool down some by Tuesday, but not a lot. It is always hot here during Dog Days. Americans are spoiled by air conditioning. :-(
Thanks, Jola. :-)
John Steinbeck is also great.
The heat sucks.
Asheville's Thomas Wolfe was pretty good too along with Knoxville's James Agee.
THEY are saying 2007 was hotter than this year, but I doubt it.
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