Posted on November 30, 2006 by obi4240
I knew it. After trying to knit for the first time in oh, 35 years or so, I’m convinced that not only is this not really for me, unless I want to make simple knitted scarves forever, but that the art of knitting itself is nothing less than Alien technology. Who invented this art of [...]
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Posted on November 29, 2006 by obi4240
I’m BACK! It started innocently enough – some static on the phone lines. A little slow on the internet, and the Blogger screen sitting quietly without moving on my monitor. Frustration led to my hitting the “end task” button more times than I can count. I gave up entirely and swore I was ditching Blogger [...]
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Posted on November 20, 2006 by obi4240
Our local paper yesterday had a front page story that finally got my attention (most other times, not so much).
A fisher (member of the martin family) has been discovered and photographed in Stokes State Forest – parts of which are right across the road. The area in which the fisher was photographed is a few [...]
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Posted on November 16, 2006 by obi4240
Long time, no blog. I’ve been spending time writing other things – working on my NaNoWriMo project (which of course, I’ll never finish by Nov. 30, but I’m having fun anyway and finding out I really can write fiction) and with my Mom, who will be 90 years old in February, and who just underwent [...]
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Posted on November 11, 2006 by obi4240
I think I have nothing interesting to write about this morning. Blogger was wonky again yesterday, when I was trying to post and now, whatever inspiration I had then is long gone. I spent some time yesterday taking the 100s of pictures I had stored on this computer, and saving them to CDs. Not that [...]
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Posted on November 8, 2006 by obi4240
This is Rob’s photo that will be shown on the big screen at Times Square on November 17. It’s very simple – just his wife holding a bouquet of daisies, but apparently the people at Kodak liked it well enough.
I like it too, but I can’t say it’s my favorite of the ones he [...]
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Posted on November 5, 2006 by obi4240
Just got an email from my son Rob. He just received word from an editor at Kodak that one of two photographs he submitted to them was chosen to be the Picture of the Day for Nov. 17, and will appear on the big screen in Times Square in NYC every few mintues throughout the [...]
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