I'm back ! .... with more drivel.... I knew you were waiting for this. 😄
Once again, the photos may or may not have anything to do with what I am saying between them.
I have times (like now) where I don't post much. Mostly it's because I am not doing anything exciting or important and it feels like I have nothing to say.
Yesterday after I logged off of my work computer, I went to Walgreens. I went to get poison. .er.. uh... .candy... same thing... right ? On the way home, on the horizon, the sky was on fire. I know these photos are never as wondrous as they look to your eyes, but I also understand why everyone tries to capture it anyway. It was SO amazing that I turned off from my normal route home, so I could stop and try a click or two anyway. Really, it was amazing.
Do you have a doodad box and does it stay in a kitchen drawer? This is mine. I sometimes call it a doodad box and other times I call it my Pa box referring to my Grandfather who was a mechanic as a hobby. In his basement, where all the tools-of-the-trade were kept, he had a old tall can that was full of this and that, random screws, nuts, bolts and various other doodads. If you looked in it, you would have no idea what all was there, but if something was needed, HE knew if one was in there or not. I keep leftover screws, nuts, small nails and also random things, mostly left over from projects and items I bought that had to be put together, where the companies sent a little extra, just in case. One year there was a Christmas tin that had been in and out and not used, so I adopted it to become the doodad box. It makes me think of Pa, every time I take it out to see if it has an item I need in it.
I visited my mailbox yesterday... ha ha .... it is across the street from my house since I am in the county and not the city. Stinks, but that's the way it is. The road I live on is randomly busy or not, since it runs from our closest little city, to the far reaches of the county. The next road closet to me has a junior high and high school on it, so you might can imagine. Of course like many rural or almost rural roads, people tend to fly up and down them, so it can be clear as far as the eye can see, but two steps into the road, some hellboy is rounding the curve ! 😲 😂 Bad too is that when I am at the mailbox, I am only a couple of feet from the road and the people whizzing past don't have a tendency to slow down at all, so to me, it is a hazard just to retrieve my mail. See... what a whine, right ??... .and I told that to say that in the pile of mostly junk mail I retrieved, my W2 was in there, so this morning, I went online and filed my taxes. North Carolina has state taxes too, so I filed them both. BRUSHES OFF HANDS.... so that is done and I can check it off the invisible list.
Birds on a wire ! I was in a drive through line at Popeye's last Sunday on the way to Moms. While waiting I noticed a lot of birds sitting on the electrical lines. I don't know why I thought I needed to take a photo of them up there. I knew I was too far away for any kind of decent photo, but I couldn't stop myself from taking one anyway. At the base of the photo is the top an overpass on the super highway. There are many fast food restaurants on either side of it. I had time to wonder if they were just waiting for someone to drop a french fry !
I didn't show my new Christmas decor thingy in the Christmas posts before. You thought all of that was over with... didn't you? Well.... I still haven't put away all my Christmas things, something I do intend to work on today if I ever quit wasting time at my computer....LOL !! It actually was a Christmas present, so I didn't have it till Christmas Eve. It was a little costly, so my Mom put the funds from my Christmas present and my birthday present together and paid for most of it. It's two pieces as you can see, Santa with an icing decorating bag in his hands, some sparkly sugar on his clothes and gingerbread men and holly on his apron. Beside him is the table with the gingerbread house that he is working on and that house lights up. It's adorable !... and I thingadore it.
Here's another photo when the room was a little darker. What's not to like ???
Going back to the mail, I can't believe all the junk I get. In the last few months, like I told before, I have been bombarded with an avalanche of mail from companies that sell Medicare replacement or Medicare suppliments. It's awful the trees that had to die for this crap. It's nothing but garbage. Sure, at some point, do some folks need and want supplements and the such? Sure ! ... but how many people decide that by these unending mailings? What a sad waste.
That brings me to Spectrum, who is my internet provider. They send me things trying to get me to buy more of their products, which is somewhat understandable, but they also send duplicates with names on it from the folks that lived here last... AND the folks that lived here BEFORE them !! Did I tell this before?? Sorry if I did, but I did call them and try to get them to stop sending in the name of folks that have not been here for 5 or 20 years, but even when a supervisor was included, no, they have another company marketing for them and they have no control over it. What ??? Yeah.. .one more company that is too big for it's britches that has farmed out parts of the work, causing them to not be able to control stuff that is done in their name. I hope they are paying out the waazoo for all the extra that company is sending out for them. Pumping the numbers.... pumping the numbers, killing the trees.... and causing more garbage.... .which is a total nother rant... right?? Good heavens !!!
My kitchen window, snow and stained glass. I love colored glass hanging in windows.
Do you ever take photos of your storage area? You don't ? Oh.... My bad. 🙃 😉
A very starry night with shooting stars?? Ummm... no.... my vintage Evergleam aluminum Chirstmas tree, taken with no lights on. It still finds a way to sparkle ! Such a fun shiny thing. I have taken it down.... but I didn't want too.
Sometimes the universe gives you the finger ! I had used this glove for taking glass out of a frame. It came with my stainless mandolin slicer to help you keep from slicing the ends of your fingers off. After I used it, I laid it down and days later when I went to put it away, it was giving me the finger. I swear I was not doing that when I took it off.
I don't know what I did to deserve that, but I'm sure it wasn't good. LOL !!
I'm thinking this is the drivel limit for this post. ha ha
Hope you are all doing well and that your hearts are happy.
