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“Hi, I’m Charlie. I am the welcome coordinator for the elves arriving here at the North Pole. What is your name?”
“I’m Maurice. I came to work in...”
“...Santa’s workshop. I know. You join all the others who have arrived already. Did you bring your ticket?”
“Do I need a ticket here, too? I thought I only needed a ticket for my bus and train rides.”
“You need your ticket to get into the sleeping quarters. If you don’t have one, then you’ll sleep with the reindeer.”
“Then I guess I’ll have to sleep with those reindeer.”
“Ha! Gotcha! I was pulling your leg! I kept this joke short as you have short legs!”
Grmbl.
“No, you don’t need a ticket. Just head on over to Santa’s office and they’ll take care of you.”
“What about my luggage? That polar bear is holding it and I can’t possibly reach it.”
15/52
I wish this was a beach picture, I really do. Really bad news, I'm so sad :(
But in the process of waiting up for Candice, the waves were slowly getting bigger. Around 4:30 pm. I stayed there with Chuppy and my dad for 4 hours. Candice was late because of traffic. I blame the traffic.
When she did arrive, I went down near the rocks to see her, but while doing so, a wave came and knocked me down with Chuppy. Both my camera and cellphone...water damaged and non functional.
My camera and cellphone are in rice right now, the rice soaks up the humidity. I'm so sad, I don't know what to do anymore. If it doesn't work, I'll have to repair it and who knows how much that costs. I don't want my parents to spend money either, these are the hard times.
Going on flickr really makes me sad, I'll try to comment and all, but it just brings me down because I can't take pictures to add on to it. I really do hope it works, oh please.
Sorry everyone. When I comment, I do put happy faces, I like to put happy comments, but it's so hard now. Just not feeling the happy feeling I should.
I don't know what to do for 52 weeks, for this week, I was planning on using a beach picture, but my memory card...just don't have a memory card reader. Maybe use my mom's p&s? not a chance, it's not the same. We'll see though.
I might be gone from Flickr for some time. Until my camera works again. 52 weeks, I'll think of something. I don't know right now, I just really don't. I can't think straight and I sound like a drama queen but I'm just so bummed.
Oh, I would ask you to keep my camera in your thoughts, in my opinion, don't. Others need it more, and don't waste it on an electronic. For those who need it. :)
Well, I guess the bright side on my camera being dead...nothing really, but my model is getting a break from the limelight online and cameras pointing at him. Thinking positive thoughts now.
&if you don't want to read it all, you get the main point from the bold.
Atlantis successfully took off today marking the last mission of the US space shuttle program. I'm sorry I never got to see a live launch. I always took it for granted that at some point I'd get around to it. We tried to catch Discovery last fall but there were numerous delays. Yesterday NASA announced that due to unfavorable weather conditions Atlantis might be delayed a day. It was good news for me because it would give us a chance to drive up after work tonight and if all worked out we would get to watch the last shuttle go up. Sadly it didn't work out that way.
Another life lesson to stop putting things on hold. Stop assumimg that such things will always be around - waiting for me to show up when I'm ready : )
HCS - cute kid with dreams of space adventures and alien encounters
On my trek out west to track down Ron, I drove around by Crane Hollow and stopped at his home. He wasn't there or at work and I always wondered what the abandoned barn out west of his place looked like close up. I headed out from Ron's place to do a survey of the area. Before I got very far, I captured this old railway box car that was used around the area to store agricultural tools and supplies. Farmer Broley added an attached shed for extra protection; pretty spiffaroony. This is a common sight across the prairies. This is not far from the rail line to Lyons. The walk on the roof pegs this as over 50 years old but it's construction takes it far further back. It has double formed metal end plates and wood sided construction. This car's construction involved assembling a lot of parts. Crews were discouraged from even using the attached ladders to climb to the roof and avoid sure accidents. The bottom corners sport poling pockets that were removed from cars after a raft of accidents. Poles of wood allowed crews to relocate cars by a simple push from engines but the pole often split and injured yardmen. The drawbar (coupler) assembly was cut from the car ends; I suppose that was for recycling.
I'd better get a move on from the look of the sky. The temps were back up as was the humditty. We'll, OK I would have turned in the distance at Golden Ponds anyway! There are plenty of gravel pond beyond here anyway.
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The gravel companies buy up the rights to recover the gravel but I am not sure they bought the rights to lay the land barren and strip it otherwise of any future production. People in India remind us that we are unlikely to get any milk from the recently slaughtered cow. I wonder what the price of gravel might be if the cost of the price of returning the ground back to production after removing the gravel were included. Willie Shakespeare's "pound of flesh" perhaps. I expect that the meandering ditch at my feet waters little but pastures any more.
Before heading to the car I couldn't resist this going shot. This really shows the grade leveling off right before the Golf Road bridge!
It's past time to take it off the map. This little pod of ice and snow has been labeled on maps as Schoolroom Glacier since topographic maps were first created for this area. While it still serves as a good example of many components of a glacier, it no longer has the mass and depth to meet the definition of a glacier. Many snow patches like this exist on our maps, labeled as "permanent snowfields." We could probably get a first edition, maybe two, of new maps with this designation. After that, we'll most likely have to remove the word, "permanent." But maybe not! A five-year cold snap could turn things around and start a new trend of cooling. My guess is that it's unlikely the human race will witness the next ice age.
I took this snapshot yesterday while descending the highest peak in the range.
Sometimes having super heroes at BAM HQ doesn't always run smoothly, especially when one of them is Logan!!
"Back off Bub!, I don't care what your the god of!"
A combat controller team from the 720th Special Tactics Group exits a C-130 Hercules during a high-altitude, high-opening jump during Joint Exercise Flintlock Feb. 28, 2014, over northeastern Niger. Flintlock is an annual, African-led, military exercise focused on security, counter-terrorism and military humanitarian support to outlying areas hosted each year by a different government in western Africa. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Tech. Sgt. Eugene Crist/Released)
I felt so happy in this moment—hair down, makeup soft but glam, and this off-shoulder top that always makes me feel pretty
This butterfly hunched it's abdomen just prior to taking off. It looks like it could be Edith's Copper (Lycaena editha) like this one on bugguide: bugguide.net/node/view/63718/bgimage
Corrections appreciated.
Donta Autry takes the hand off from Javon Carter during the South View Tiger's 23-17 double overtime win against the Terry Sanford Bulldogs on November 1, 2019 at Randy Ledford Field at South View High School in Hope Mills, North Carolina.
Tony lives in a beached boat beside the River Esk. No electricity, no gas and no water,
A very happy man!
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Here the female Stonechat has just taken off and is striking a shapely pose, caught with the Canon R5 and the 400mm with a 1.4x multiplier.
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