In August I laid out plans for my blog.... then I stopped posting. Lesson learned. In that time since my last post I haven't done a lot worth writing about, and to be honest only doing this now to let you know I'm still around. This will be a shorter post but did remember I should write something.
So with nothing to write about this will be a bit of a flashback blog. Some pics I may have posted, some I never have.
This post is made possible by.... wait this sounds like an ad.... it isn't. I bought this hard drive last year and I put I think all of my files on it, and still have 2 TBs to fill it. I'm happy with that. Because all the files are in one spot I can start sorting and cleaning up files, and that's what I've been doing recently. I am currently cleaning up my photo collection, which is quite large but I have it unsorted and many duplicates. In fact this photo has 3 duplicates, I don't know why. So now I've been working on purging the dupes. Since I'm working on photos I figures I'd show a few others.
A rare one from my youth. I think I was in second grade at this time, and I searched for years for that shirt. Two seconds after showing my friend, he found one on ebay but was a blue version. Literally YEARS I spent looking and this shirt popped up on Ebay in August. Maybe one day I'll buy it, but not now. He also noted that in the 30 years since this photo was taken, that classroom looks the same albeit probably with different papers and posters scattered around.
A month or two ago I spotted a rainbow (maybe my friend told me about it). I don't rush out to take photos of nature like this but I had to get the mail, so eh why not. If the power line and pole wasn't in the way it would look much better.
In the early 80s the next town over got approval to build a new bridge to replace this narrow looking deathtrap (it was a scary bridge). This photo was taken in 1998 when the bridge to the right was finally built and this was replaced. Only took 15 years but at least it was replaced. I wish I had more pictures of this bridge.
A few cars. The top one was 1993 or 1994 and is Darrel Waltrip's and Al Hoffmann's Western Auto cars. I like that photo a lot and have another one like it. It was fun seeing those cars when I was around 10.
The bottom photo was 2018ish. It was outside of Kansas City at a hotel my mom, sister and I stayed at. The driver(s) were Blues Brothers lookalikes who went around and played the part well, and even had the car. The car even had a half a pack of cigarettes on the dash, and sunglasses. I wish I could have met the guys, but seen pics online of them, they were legit.
Lastly since Christmas is a month away and you never know when I'll post I have a couple more pics.
Maybe I'll listen to the few Christmas vinyl albums I have this year. Though I'm not in the Christmas spirit just yet. Give me another week or two. Also might have to break out my favorite Christmas puzzle. My mom and I have done it probably 4-5 times and I still love doing it. I've taken a break most the year on puzzles but might be starting to get back into it.
So for now I'm going to go, just wanted to say hey and maybe next time I'll have more substance. Who knows when that will be, but as always, thanks for reading and have a great week.
Great variety of items here. Something for everyone. I would take an edible version of the bottom photo any day.
ReplyDeleteThanks, yeah I wish I could bake cookies or else I would try my hand at a few of those.
DeleteA. Glad you're still around. I've cut back on writing too. Hoping to hammer out at least a post or two over the Thanksgiving Break though.
ReplyDeleteB. I just found a stack of childhood photos. I'm guessing it'd be pretty hard to track down some of the ugly plaid shirts I wore as a kid in the 70's. Hope you end up eventually getting that Garfield shirt. Maybe you can go back to that classroom and recreate the shot.
C. Ten years ago, Dan Ackroyd was promoting his vodka at a local BevMo and outside they had a Bluesmobile.
D. Good luck with that Christmas puzzle! Looks very challenging.
One of the things I do miss is seeing your posts and a few others. Its like a brotherhood but I love your flea market posts because they aren't just cards.
DeleteIf I ever got that shirt I think I could recreate that photo. That would be quite fun.
As a big Blues Brothers fan, my sister and I were so excited to randomly see it in the parking lot when we were getting ready to leave.
That puzzles is quite fun, its one of a few that have good replay value. However I have a few more Christmas ones I might have to do this year so we may not even get to it.