It's been months since I posted any photos and years since I updated any of the photo pages, and since I had some free time over the long holiday weekend, I decided to do something about that. Every page in the Photos > Pets section has been updated, though a few only got a new link in the nav bar, thanks to the new
Photos > Pets > Darwin page. Yes Darwin, Malaya's mom's scrappy little beagle mix has his own page with a dozen pictures. Some even include me, and one includes Malaya's mom, not that you'll get any more idea what she looks like than you have about Malaya.
Besides Darwin's new page, I added a bunch of recent (most of which have not been posted in blog updates) photos to the
Jinx,
Dusty, and
Jinx vs Dusty pages, and a few shots of my stepsister's cats to
Misc Pets, as well as a new shot of one of my
mom's cats. Speaking of animals, I even added a dozen or so shots to the
Flux Photos page, though simply looking at my own graven image for as long as it took to do so disturbed me deeply. (Pretending the grossly-misnomered Sexy Flux page simply doesn't exist is about all that gets me through most days. And no, the lack of a link in the previous sentence is not an oversight.)
On top of those, I've got a bunch of miscellaneous photos that don't fit on any of the photos pages, and you're about to see those right here; along with a few of the best shots from the aforementioned page updates.
Dusty looking particularly hapless as he struggles weakly to escape Darwin's jacket. The dog wears it much better, and doesn't flop over the minute you put it on him. Jinx had a quite different reaction, which you can read about in this shot's caption on the
Dusty page.
Yes, I'm cupping water in my hand for the dog to drink. Yes, Malaya thought it was the sweetest thing ever.
More Darwin here.
A very recent photo of me out on a trail with Malaya, shepherding her while she took a bunch of photos with her new camera. Her next project is to work on portraits, and I've been volunteered for that, tragically enough. In other words, you might be seeing more of me, like it or not.
A shot of part of the grove of elephant ear tropical plants in my dad's backyard in San Diego. I will waste no time planting a patch of these when we get our own home, though I doubt they'll grow as verdantly in the colder, cloudier NorCal weather.
Back in March, we had some interesting weather, including the fiercest burst of hail I've ever seen. (Though that's not saying much, with my last 25 years spent in moderate portions of California.) It never snows here, but it does get down into the high 20s at times in the winter. This hail came with spring well underway though, as the daffodils here demonstrate.
It's hard to judge the scale from this angle, but trust me, these were three frighteningly-large onion rings. Three was the whole order, for one thing, and each one was easily larger than a hockey puck or a McDonald's burger, though just about as greasy. When next you're dining at Claim Jumper and the waiter asks if you want the giant onion rings, kick your curiosity in the balls and just take the regular size.
I've blogged in the past about my basic disagreement with Japanese food, and this pretty well shows it off. I like most of the stuff in Japanese food, I just don't like it in the giant sizes they serve. And that includes shrimp, especially when 1) I'm not entirely sure it's dead, and 2) it's staring at me.
And finally, this is a shot of an object that's been perplexing Malaya, me, and all of our friends and relatives for as long as I can remember. We see these blue things beside a house almost every day, but have never been able to hazard a guess as to what they might be. They look like something you'd store a Rubik's Cube in, but you can see how large they are with the fence and garbage can beside them. They're easily chest-height, they've been sitting out in that driveway for at least 2 years, and while we've never gone up to lean the front one over and see if the second one has an identical square depression in the center, it seems like a safe bet.
What on earth could they be for? They couldn't be shipping containers, could they? They're blue, plastic, and way too large, and anyway, they're not well-padded to the top and bottom, only to the sides. Even if they were, what would you put in such a large, cube-shaped hole? The material makes them look like some sort of swimming pool cover, but you couldn't even cover a jacuzzi with something this size, and the thickness and the hole makes that a ridiculous idea.
If anyone has any idea what they are, or even an educated guess, do let us know. We've never been motivated to park, knock on the front door, and ask, but if the mystery goes on for too much longer we might just risk it.
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