First, I have a funny update to my earlier post about our local post office. When I got mail out of the box this morning, I noticed several envelopes with a rubber-band around them. Attached to the bundle was a yellow sticky note that said, “3/10 mailbox full.”
That means they mashed that package in my mailbox, and then took the actual mail back to their USPS office to deliver 5 days later. Funny, right? 😏
Captivating and unique Indiana skies…
The skies overhead in the Hoosier state are amazing. Changing weather patterns lead to dramatic cloud formations no matter the time of year.
Add to that how Indiana landscapes change with the 4 seasons, and you’re sure to catch nature’s beauty with a variety of backdrops without traveling anywhere.
I know. I know. I’m ate up with looking at and taking photos of the horizon from the barndo. You would be too if you went 10 years looking at privacy fences. The skies in Indiana have unique characteristics and I can’t tell you how happy it makes me to be able to enjoy the view.
From afternoon to evening…
While I took the above photo yesterday afternoon, the photo below that I took at sunset last night was just as lovely.
Now you know: Up to 20 percent of salmons raised in fish farms are depressed or suicidal. They have been measured to have similar serotonin levels as depressed mammals and will refuse to swim around or eat until they starve to death.
I have an acquaintance (she was a friend of my deceased sister-in-law, Sheri) who is a author among other impressive things. Not gonna’ lie… she’s way out there different and would likely be happy to know I said that about her. She recently had a birthday, and at her celebration they started a new tradition.
A symphony of life.
Everyone at the celebration was to choose a word to describe her and SING their word of choice at the same time as the others sang their word choice. All together it “created of symphony” of her life. Perry barely got an off-key version of “Happy Birthday” and was darned lucky to get that. His cake had 5 purple candles to symbolize 50… and 2 pink to make 52.
We embraced the same old traditions…
Like… not getting ONE group photo without someone being stupid.
The pesky neighbors didn’t get the memo. They look the same in every photo. 🙂
It only went downhill from that point…
I went to bed without even cleaning up the mess.
When I crawled in bed last night, the trash can needed emptying and there were 400 forks and spoons in the sink. It was all worth it though — Perry said he had a great birthday. ❤️
Now you know: New York City is owed over $1 billion in unpaid parking tickets and speeding fines.
For the first time in history, US national dept tops $34,000,000,000,000.00. If you’re like me, you had to count back the clusters of 3 zeros to arrive at $34 TRILLION dollars. The fact that your country owes its creditors that much money — and the fact that it remains on the same unsustainable path — should be alarming.
Typing this early, it hasn’t started snowing yet but it is forecasted and I’m already getting excited. It might be for no good reason, we all know how reliable forecasts are. Frigid temps without snow are like cereal without milk. Pretty darned bland.
UPDATE:
Is this the best Mother Nature’s got?
Now you know: Jennifer Pan, under intense pressure to succeed, deceived her parents for over a decade, leading them to believe she was a successful pharmacist, despite not graduating high school. When her lies unraveled, she arranged for her parents’ murder.
Over the past couple days I’ve been working on updating websites — personal and business. Primarily this consists of checking and sometimes updating the copyright year, and making certain everything is current. I updated a few photos on the main page of shelleyerwin.com and that was the reason I fell into the Photoshop rabbit hole.
Over the years, I’ve accumulated a bajillion photos.
It’s always fun to scroll through the many photos from years past, isn’t it? What’s even more fun is opening up a photo and simply playing around with it. For example… when Perry brought in the most awesome ham ever, I wanted a photo. At the second I clicked, Mom stuck her head down to smell the smoked creation.
This is what was captured…
I snickered when I saw it on my computer’s photo stash. I figured it might be fun to change the background scene.
Show us what ya’ got AI!
I selected the subjects, and then did a reverse selection so the background was open to be generated by whatever text I typed in. I tried ‘Oregon Trail’ and ‘Santa’ and even ‘New Year.’ I gave it up for something simple… ‘Central Park.’
This is the AI generated photo:
Next I laughed and laughed and sent it to those pesky neighbors by text. The reply?
“Looks like someone dropped their false teeth in bushes.” 🤣
Now you know: Sarah Knauss, who was the oldest American to ever live (born 1880), saw three centuries in her lifetime. She died on December 30th, 1999, at the age of 119.
Our little family gathered for LOTS of good food — but more importantly, we had a photoshoot with two photographers in charge…
We started outside. I thought I took a BUNCH of photos but ended up with 2…
Ben complained about being cold and so did Mom. He also let me know that I didn’t know what I was doing and he could do a MUCH better job and have the photos done in 3 minutes flat.
We moved inside and Ben took charge.
After getting a box just the perfect size, he directed us where to stand. I had my camera on the side to capture this photo… so I could learn from the expert. 🙄
After accidentally flipping the camera to the back view, he had 82 photos of a Sam’s Club box (not even joking — it was on burst). We got back in our places for round 2. Of course, Ben made a face in one — and Coco in the other. 🙂
And I got just one of me and my Momma…
Hope your Thanksgiving was amazing and you had a photographer on hand to capture the moments.
Now you know: The Guinness World Records discontinued the “Heaviest Pets” category in 1998 to deter people from over-feeding their pets just to appear in the book.
