We recently held an auction at the Computer Mine. The one thing in the auction that I really coveted was a blue Canon A4000 IS. I’m not a Canon guy at all. However, I’ve been sans point and shoot for a couple years now and there are times (like mission… Read More »New Toy
Actually, not coming soon. They are already there. Recently my sister Teresa came across a collection of theater seats at the Funky Rooster. She was able to negotiate a sweet deal and after borrowing a truck from the Petersons and getting Derrick to help load them and Willy to help… Read More »Coming Soon…
Pretty good participation this week. I have no complaints. The submissions for GREEN: Angie DeWaard Michelle Haupt Monica Kewer Monica Kewer Monica Kewer Mike Vest Christopher D. Bennett It is time to reveal this week’s theme… WILD ANIMALS! Time for a definition… A wild animal is defined as an animal… Read More »Weekly Photo Challenge Week 4 – GREEN
I’ve always said that my favorite pictures of people are when they are being real and not the posed holiday card variety. Perhaps this is why I have so few portrait accounts. Also perhaps why I don’t have a Christmas card. In between painting my house and going out for… Read More »You Lookin’ at Me?
While I prefer the kind of party where a bunch of people show up at my house and do a bunch of work to my house, other people prefer parties where cake is served and people have polite conversation. Back in August we had such a party for my Grandma’s… Read More »Party of Another Kind
It has been almost a week since I posted a flower picture and I’m sure that Russell was probably getting a little antsy, so I’ll post one of my favorite pictures that I took at the Iowa State Fair. I might even finish the week out back to back to… Read More »Oinge
Here are more painting pictures. YEAH!!! These are from my other sister Carla: Jesse, trying to break my window. Jeff watches on. Anders, painting away! Anders and Ian painting away! Melissa and Scottie D. painting the east side of the house. Anna painting! Teresa cutting some plastic as Willy and… Read More »Painting Vol. III
Participation took a slight uptick this week. Perhaps a promising sign. Here are this week’s submissions for CAMERA: Becky Perkovich Mike Vest Michelle Haupt Christopher D. Bennett So it is time to reveal next week’s amazing theme: GREEN! green – adjective1. of the color between blue and yellow in the… Read More »Weekly Photo Challenge – Week 3 – CAMERA
A little return to my trip to the Iowa State Fair. Windmill This windmill is actually located in the same place as all the flowers. PARTICULARS CAMERA: SONLY SLT-A65V FOCAL LENGTH: 60mm (90mm – 35mm Equivalency) ISO: 100 APERTURE: f/4 EXPOSURE: 1/160 LATITUDE: 41° 35′ 41.9″ LONGITUDE: 93° 33′ 5.3″… Read More »Back to the Fair
What lies below are a few pictures my sister Teresa took of the painting. Yep. That is Jesse trying to break my front window. More Jesse trying to break my window. Another angle of Jesse trying to break my window. There may be more action packed painting pictures coming your… Read More »Painting Vol. II
The great national nightmare, or maybe it was just my nightmare, is finally, virtually over. The 2 day house painting party this weekend is over and my house is painted! Just a couple splashes of paint here and there, and hanging a few things up and it is over. So… Read More »Painting!
Saw this spot of purple in my backyard so I figured I better photograph it. After all, somebody once said that “if you don’t notice a spot of purple in nature, it pisses God off.” Okay, that isn’t the exact quote, but I’m not feeling the motivation to look it… Read More »Weed
Apparently signs didn’t trip the trigger of many people. Hopefully this week’s category prompts more participation. This week’s submissions: Angie DeWaard Becky Perkovich Becky Perkovich Christopher D. Bennett Time to reveal next week’s exciting new theme! Camera Camera… hmmm…. interesting. CAMERA – noun – a device for recording visual images… Read More »Weekly Photo Challenge Week 2 – SIGNS
I thought I would conclude the work week with another flower from the Iowa State Fair. Painting this weekend. You’re still welcome to come over and throw some paint on to my house. With a paintbrush or roller. I’m hoping after this weekend I will have the creative time to… Read More »Yello
Another flower from the Iowa State Fair. More just dinking around with Photoshop. Photoshop Original PARTICULARS CAMERA: SONY SLT-A65V FOCAL LENGTH: 60mm (35mm equivalency – 90mm) ISO: 1250 APERTURE: f/4 EXPOSURE: 1/160 DATE: 08/22/15 – 18:15 LATITUDE: 41° 35′ 41.8″ LONGITUDE: 93° 33′ 5.9″ ALTITUDE: 203.84 meters
Looks like the new kid on the block Faust dominated the action this week. This week’s standings: 1. CAF: 23-6 2. CDB: 20-9 3. JLB: 19-10 4. RMK: 16-13 5. DRE: 15-14 OVERALL STANDINGS 1. CAF (1) 1. JLB (1) 1. RMK (1) 4. CDB (0) 4. DRE (0) THURSDAY… Read More »The Experts – Week 4 Results
This week’s games for prognostication. If you want in, email me your picks for 5 PM Thursday. A little analysis wouldn’t hurt either. TIEBREAKER CHIEFS AT PACKERS – MONDAY 7:30 PM (ESPN) THURSDAY GAME RACISTS (1-1) AT GIANTS (0-2) – 7:25 PM (CBS/NFL) CINCINNATI (2-1) AT MEMPHIS (3-0) – 6:30… Read More »The Experts – Week 4 Games
Sunday was my church’s annual block party to kickoff Sunday School. Once again, I manned the PET Obstacle course. Only this year it was more like a PET Area, with a couple of chairs thrown out there. There were way more people there this year, so it was more than… Read More »PET
This was an awesome week of participation! Hopefully this continues. A quick note because I forgot to mention this last week. The photo needs to be taken the week of the challenge. This isn’t a I have this photo I took 3 years ago that fits the category challenge. This… Read More »Weekly Photo Challenge – Week 1: Night
I didn’t get a short story done last week. So hopefully I will get two done this week or the next or the week after. Parrot A short story By Christopher D. Bennett (This story is autobiographical, but exaggerated for feeling, rather than being 100% factual. Or look at it… Read More »Parrot