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Inspired by the always brilliant Callissa, I am officially starting an Alphabet series for the month of April. This is me and my boys (<3) being fools...in April...on April Fool's Day! :)
So yeah...I haven't been able to get out in the morning and do any powder coating, so I decided to do it this afternoon. Man, that was a bad idea. I'm too old and fat and stupid for the heat in that tent when it's already 90 degrees (32C) outside. Inside that tent with the oven going it probably adds another 15 degrees (10C).
I dropped one of those big enclosures on the ground TWICE! Rubbed powder off it at least three more times trying to get it onto the tray. I mean, I still haven't actually got any work done.
Anyway, I did decide that the safest way to get the big enclosures onto the tray was with a taller pedestal. I normally use these junction boxes, but here you can see how I've added a pair of ghetto "feet" to one of them and glued it all together with JB Weld.
Improvisation, yo! Waiting for it to dry right now. I took some hurricane waste out to the front yard for pickup while I waited, but just now noticed I was covered in fire ants. So I just took a break while I cleaned as many of them off my body as possible.
This day has kind of blown goats.
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Not sure if that's the same recipe my wife used, but I'd wager all fools are made the same way.
And it's delicious.
I am a fool sometimes. I had planned to get out early this morning but couldn't decide where I wanted to go, tides weren't all that great for coastal stuff and I was under orders not to burn up too much petrol so a local shoot it would have to be. Awaking nice and early I started to get myself sorted but found myself being cajoled into entertaining my youngest (normally you can't get them up early on a schoolday). I'd already looked out of the window to see a huge bank of thick cloud to the east, not much chance of a decent sunrise I thought. Eventually at just after 7am i hit the road to witness the sun literally burning a hole through that bank of cloud but was there a decent vantage point to capture it, was there heck.
I just caught the tail end of the sunrise when I arrived at Plessey Woods so, with my 10-20 in place and an ND grad on the front I took a couple of shots then I hoisted the tripod and camera onto my shoulder and headed to the river a ten minute walk away. What I should have done was put myself into nature mode, i.e. swap to a longer lens and set the controls for a faster shutter speed cos you never know what you might spot. What i did spot was three roe deer crossing the track ahead of me and could I get a shot, could I heck. Worse still I keep telling myself to carry the Dynax with the 70-300 on just for such instances.
I did swap lenses to my 18-105 (the longest I have for the Nikon) but, despite two more fleeting glances of the deer I never got a decent shot, too many trees in the way.
I did spot this golden winter morning light though so a quick handheld shot was taken.