Thanks to those who favored my photo of "Nightmare egg" Its one of my first photo's that I really tried at being artistic with.


I have a defective knee apparently. It's been killing me since about August. So I haven't felt like going out and taking awesome photos. I'm missing autumn leaves, spiders, and worst of all I'm missing the cool Halloween stuff. But I do seem to be on the mend, I think I'll be OK in time for the ice storms.

Who still favored my photo of "Nightmare egg" Its one of my first photo's that I really tried at being artistic. Though I didn't decorate the egg, the photo was a challenge because it was taken inside, with my first digicam that had no settings and no flash.

I have a defective knee apparently. It's been killing me since about August. So I haven't felt like going out and taking awesome photos. I'm missing autumn leaves, spiders, and worst of all I'm missing the cool Halloween stuff. But I do seem to be on the mend, I think I'll be OK in time for the ice storms.

Shingles are fine. The aluminum trim work--not so much. The contractor is trying to make it right though, but he sent the sane guy out to fix it that did it wrong in the first place twice already. It will soon be 3 times. We heard of those roofers when some old guy was going door to door trying to drum up business for the contractor. I have learned my lesson about people going door to door.

When it rains it pours. As if there isn't enough shit going on around here, its the 20th birthday of our 20 year old roof. We waited what a couple of months for the roofers to actually start on our new roof, and now our back yard is full of soggy equipment and our closet full of water.

Day one. They showed up here on Monday when the sun was shining at about 9:00, unloaded there trailer with stuff and proceeded to put it all over the yard. They climbed on the roof and immediately started making a big racket (it really freaked out the cats). The hubub lasted about 2 hours, then they left. I found out that they left because found they needed to fetch more decking, and we had 2 drops of rain (they can't work in the rain you know), so they said they would return the next day.

Day 2 They did return the next day as promised, bright and early. The sky looked really threatening, but they set out with their banging anyway. A bit later it started pouring down rain, they were still banging away, and continued through out the storm. Later the gang told me that they were working under a tarp. Hum... I asked if the roof was all water tight since they were only half done and rain was expected. They assured me it was and left at about 4:00. That night it once again rained cats and dogs and in the morning I noticed that inside of our closet was wet.


Day 3 We called the guy about the closet, and they sent out 2 guys to fix it. They fixed the leak, but the whole crew was not going to work, cause it was too wet. It never did rain.

Day 4 Total washout

Day 5 Total washout

Day 6 Hasn't happened yet. But it may rain again. but they will likely have to either get some decking or wait till it dries out, and that will take awhile, since it has been lying on the soggy ground, uncovered, in the rain for 4 days.

Well, Monday its supposed to be sunny.

Spent the weekend in my home town that I call Lonesometown, because there is nothing to do there except visit my family which consists of my mother and sister. Dragged husband there this time, it helped. We went to a antiques show and sale at the fairgrounds there. That was pretty interesting--I guess. I got a few nice pics too.