Photos of the Day - 1/12, 1/14

Photo of the Day: 1/12
This is early in the morning, at our office parking lot. Although most telecommuters work from home, Jim and I have rented office space not too far from the house and go there every day. We're almost always the first ones there. Our car looks very lonely in the lot.





Photo of the Day: 1/14

In my office I have a bookcase that holds only a few books. On the top shelf is my new Mr. Coffee Iced Tea maker, my dictionary and my thesaurus. I have been a coke/diet coke drinker for many years and recently decided to switch to iced tea. On the second shelf is a collection of cups and napkins, paper plates for cake day, a couple of diet cokes (I didn't give them up), and a bottle of olive oil. Bottom shelf is loaded with phone books and the last of my binders from my 30-year career. I haven't looked at the contents of most of my binders for at least a year, so they're getting the heave-ho!

Photos of the Day - 1/5 - 1/7

Photo of the day: 1/5/09

This is Sassy. She's about 13 or so years old. We inherited her, reluctantly, from Jim's mother, when she died in 2000. Prior to that, no one liked Sassy because Sassy liked no one. Except for Jim's mom. We tried to figure out how to get rid of her after June died, but realized that we'd never do a good sales job on anyone - we'd long called her the cat from hell, so we knew we'd never find anyone to take her. So, we kept her. And have come to love her very much. She's a typical Siamese, with gorgeous slanted blue eyes and that really annoying Siamese cry. She sleeps with us every night; in the winter, she slinks down under the covers between us; in the summer, she sleeps on top of the covers, but still between us. We have another cat, Del, and some day it will be his turn to be featured on Photo of the Day.

Photo of the day: 1/6/09

These are Cheryl's bags. I think the flowery one is her handbag; the other one holds her yarn. The blue is the cuffs of her jeans, a little tender ankle showing above the leather of her clog. Cheryl is in one of my knitting groups and is a fellow writer.

Photo of the day: 1/7/09

This is my knitting bag, with a pink project I have going. Both of these items are on my desk at work. Yes, I knit at work. Sometimes. I spend a lot of time in meetings on the phone. If I'm not running the meeting, and I just need to listen, I knit. It is very soothing. It keeps me from stressing out about my work.

Bonus photo of the day:

This is my skeleton, riding a lamp on my desk at work. That is a penguin-topped pencil jutting thru the skeleton's rib cage. Those are maps in the background - a map of the US and a map of the world, in case you can't quite tell.

I love to pose this skeleton in various ways on my desk thru the year. I used to just put him out at Halloween time, then I kept him out thru Christmas, when I would put a jaunty scarf on him. And now, he's too much fun to ever put away. He's held this pose for quite awhile, so it's probably time to find a new position for him.

Happy new year

I decided to take a photo a day and post it here as a way to write regularly in the blog. Here it is, Jan 4th, and while I have taken at least one photo a day, I haven't started posting until now. Ha! Could have predicted it, I guess. Anyway, my first photo of the year is the bucket in our bathroom. GA has been in a drought for quite awhile - started before we got here and it's still going on. We thought about ways we could save water and in addition to things we already were doing - particularly, not letting the water run while brushing teeth or doing the dishes - we decided to catch the water that runs in the shower prior to the water getting hot enough. And we catch it in this bucket. In our master bathroom, we have a shower stall and what is called a garden tub. I don't know whose idea this tub was, but I can't imagine anyone larger than a second grader taking a comfortable bath in it. So, we pretty much use the tub as a place for our water bucket to rest! We use the collected water to flush the toilet, by the way.

You might also be interested to know that we save water in the showering process by turning off the water between rinses. Water on, get wet. Water off, soap up. Water on, rinse off. Water off, lather hair. Etc.

Photo # 2, for 1/2/09, is of Jim from a perspective I rarely have - the back seat of the car. While he would tell you I am quite the back seat driver, I'm usually doing it from the front passenger seat. At this time, we were on our way to Guitar Center for Jim to spend a couple of gift certificates, and Ehren was riding with us. I suggested they sit in the front seat together to make it easier to talk. I was in the back seat knitting, listening to the radio on my MP3 player. :-)

For Jan 3, I caught this oil slick in the parking lot at the Borders bookstore in Snellville. I got a couple of Borders gift cards for Christmas (yay!) so I went to spend them. Never hard for me to do. I had just left my writers' group meeting with some suggestions for novels with characters who were not easy to like. Hmmmm. Anyway, I like this oil on the pavement.

I took two photos for 1/4. My friend Norita gave us these two lawn ornaments and they are right next to the front steps up to the porch. They glow softly in the dark.

This second photo is a view of our neighborhood from our front walk. We're on a bit of a hill and this cul de sac is a little downhill from us. The subdivision is about 3 or 4 years old; the maples in our front yard are still pretty small. The sky has been sort of bleak for the last few weeks - fairly unusual for this area. The temps have been mild, and while it's certainly better than being in the 20s with wind chill, it doesn't seem right to have 50s and 60s in January. Shhhhh. Don't tell anyone I said that.