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...of putting the house back together.
Things are moving along slowly at the house, but they are moving.
EVERYTHING has been removed from the house to be cleaned, except for a few oversized pieces of bedroom furniture that would have had to go out a window and be lowered, in order to remove them from the house (the way they came in years ago.....we have very narrow butterfly steps...only small pieces of furniture can be carried up the stairs.)
Those pieces were cleaned on site. The inside of the house has now been "de-sooted"! .
Larry has a meeting on Monday with the carpenter, plumber and electrician and hopefully he'll find out when they can start the priming and painting .
I want these people to start doing their thing!!!
Meanwhile, Larry has decided there's no reason he can't put in the new kitchen ceiling.
This is one project I'm glad to get done.
If you remember, Larry replaced the ceiling not too long ago.
He put in the drop ceiling tile system.
You can choose from a large variety of tile patterns.
The first time around I saw a pattern that looked and was described as beadboard.
I thought it was exactly what I wanted for my farmhouse kitchen ceiling.
Unfortunately, sometimes things look different in person.
After Larry installed it, we were rather disappointed.
It didn't look AT ALL as I had imagined it would look. Instead of beadboard, it looked like the inside of a corrugated shipping container.
Larry even volunteered to just scrap the tiles and order new ones if I wanted.
In the end I decided to just live with it for awhile.
Time's up!
I'm liking my choice this time 100%!
It's not even done yet, but I am liking this ceiling 100% better!!
Just the first of about 100 projects Larry will probably be tackling these next couple of months.!
Members of the 23rd Component Maintenance Squadron Propulsion Flight perform maintenance on a TF-34 engine July 27, 2015, at Moody Air Force Base, Ga. The 23rd CMS supplies the 74th and 75th Fighter Squadrons with TF-34s in support of Moody AFB’s A-10C Thunderbolt IIs. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman Greg Nash)
Morning sunshine pours through the kitchen windows and on to the bench. "Dadda...tits" (as embarrassing as this is when in public, I know she means toast)...the process begins.
Bread lowers into the toaster, the sound of heating elements drowned out by her pleading to be lifted up on the bench. This is her bench. It’s kept clear for cooking as much as there’s room for her.
Flicking through the "Secret to good macaroons", also known as 'bibbies (bickys/biscuit) book' in as much a morning ritual for her as coffee is to her parents.
Watching her read/babble to herself while turning page to page, I soak in every detail. Her once loose sleep suit, now well filled and the way her toes curl when she turns each page. Her tongue flicks her teeth, battling with words but it's her hair that holds my attention.
Curls at the back and straight on top, a combination not often seen. A fountain pony, a whimsical alternative, not by choice but determined by the length of her fringe. Her hair is not yet done, but to her father, it's already perfect...oh to have such complete freedom with your appearance.
The sound of toast popping cannot be described but her reaction can be. It’s pure excitement. The book, previous tenderly held is thrown aside like yesterdays news as cries of "Tits, tits" compete with clapping hands. Breakfast almost ready .A humble piece of toast carried across the kitchen to the two-year-old equivalent of trumpet fanfare.
Butter applied then Vegemite, a classic combination. Breakfast has arrived.
A morning performance, each player essential in their roles. Her smile tells me this process come ritual is no longer business but everyday play.
ODC: PAIR, PLAY, IN THE KITCHEN, THE EVERYDAY, WHIMSICAL, BREAKFAST, AND GLASS
Image created using particles obeying certain "gravitational" laws, leaving trails as they move. Some variation on "accelerate toward/away from some particle unless some condition is met, in which case move toward/away from some other particle".
Made with processing (processing.org).
I've been playing with some different post-processing techniques, trying some combinations of things I don't normally do. That's the best way I learn, to experiment and play and see what comes out. I went back to some photos I took a few months ago at Antietam Battlefield and used this as a starting point.
This was a shot where I personally liked the composition but the colors and details in the original weren't all that interesting. I originally took bracketed shots (which I normally do for sunrises/sunsets), so I combined the bracketed shots but kept the compression and processing in the middle of the road. Next added a graduated filter, a bit of saturation (a tad more sat added just in the shadows) and boost of vibrance. I re-leveled the exposure then added a touch of "glow" to soften the shot w/o ruining the sharpness and finished it up with a slight vignette.
A bit more work than I usually put in on a shot and it certainly has flaws, but like I said, it's sometimes fun and educational to try things and see where you end up. You never know when you'll discover a new combination of processes that work well and it'll become something you might reuse later.
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