AC at the REDdy

Back on Tuesday, Sue required an avant-garde model for her 365 photo of the day. The prompt also included the concept of odd. While my dear blog readers would be forgiven to think that oddness is sufficient reason for choosing AC as a subject, that was not precisely Sue's reasoning.

No indeedy, what Sue thought was that if AC were to wear three red items while posing as an intrepid photographer he would satisfy both conditions — avant-garde and odd.

We headed to the nearest park — the one around the corner — with the odd, avant-garde AC strutting in his red hat, red coat, and red shoes.

AC posed as directed, beginning with several shots around the pond. Although Sue always takes scads of photos, let's leave it at this solitary shot for this part of the session.

She moved me to the little foot bridge for phase two.

I asked her to take a shot of me seeming to blow on my hot camera, as if to cool it off after much shooting.

I will take some credit for the next location which was by the tree in the background of the photo of me crouching over the rail. She actually didn't wish to make me walk over there through the mud with my new shoes. I persisted, and they did get a bit muddy, but only on the bottom — thank goodness.

With chest inflated with pride, I also claim to be the one who chose the setup for this nonchalant pose for the first photo by the tree. I guess Sue liked it to because she used it in the composite that she ended up posting.

I cropped this one. While she needed to include the shoes for her prompt, I am not thus constricted.

Those were my choices from the probably three dozen photos that she took.

This ↓ is what Sue presented to her group. Her Photoshop Express app does multitudes of composites easily, so she uses this technique a lot. I hadn't seen this particular layout before, but I like it, including the red borders that Sue added.

It as a fun shoot in fairly nice, early-spring weather. The next day we were walloped by the awful ice storm that I posted about yesterday.

Good Thursday

I had never heard of this, but there is a case to be made that Jesus died on Thursday, not Friday. I came across this while reading a blog post by Biblical scholar, James Tabor: Jesus Died on a Thursday not a Friday.

One must assume two things:

1. The biblical account is accurate.
2. The year of crucifixion was 30CE.

In 30CE, the Passover meal would have occurred on the Thursday after sundown. In that case, both Friday and Saturday could be considered Sabbath days, so that would fit with the biblical account of Jesus being buried before the Sabbath. It's just that it would have been the Passover Sabbath (Friday) and not the weekly, Saturday Sabbath.

This would also explain how Jesus could have spent three nights in the tomb, which we can't square with the usual Good Friday account. He would have spent only two nights in the tomb in that case.

Tabor writes a lot more in his blog post, and if you also want to do a quick search, you can find other articles on the subject.

I don't want to do that kind of research but thought that it is a novel piece of information for me that I would also pass it on to you. Whether the day be Thursday or Friday, I don't think it changes any of the core elements of the narrative or jeopardizes anyone's basic beliefs. It's just something of interest to me and perhaps to you..

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What a day it was yesterday. We had wind, freezing rain, and even thunder and lightning — in April! in Canada! Trees were down all over. School was cancelled, and our garbage collection was suspended until today. It then remained outside, frozen in place overnight. Danica went to work for less than an hour at 4pm, before the store closed before 5. There were power failures in town, but we were spared this time.

A certainly wasn't roaming the streets for pictures, and I don't think may were, but, of course, some appeared on soc media. The second photo is by the same property where Sue and I take our sign photos.

Progress

I hadn't planned to do another snow-level post just yet, for it should be even better in a few more days, but we were already out shooting yesterday, so I asked Sue to take some shots.

First, this is where we were recently. The dates are shown on the photo. You may also recall that I had mentioned that we couldn't see the 6 about one week earlier than March 18.

Yesterday, April 04.

From the front, March 28 and April 04.

We still haven't had any very warm weather, but the sun strengthens and is doing its job. If I do one more update early next week, we should see a vast difference.

It's different out back where there has been no snow plow to pile snow all winter. Half of the lawn there is bare. I won't post a picture because it's still dark out at 5:50AM, and I am just going to hit Publish now.

They Are Watching

Not long ago, I showed you our new boots and my new red shoes. Then I saw this ↓ on one of my sports sites.

The upper right and lower left boots are the exact ones that we purchased  The running shoe (actually more of a walking shoe) at the top left is from the same page as the red shoes that I purchased.

I have since seen similar ads on various pages.

It must be the tracking chips that they put in those C-jabs. 

Just in case someone might take me seriously, that last point was sarcasm.

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Airy Car Lunch

No foolin: April the Onth was a very nice day. March had both come in and gone out like a lion, but April 01 was different. It was not that super nice, almost unnatural, really warm spring day, but it was good enough — the best spring day yet this year.

We stopped at Timmies for coffee, and turkey bacon club sandwich, and apple fritters, and of course, we took the food to the river.

It was warm enough to open the sun roof and roll down the windows.

It wasn't the day for a walk afterward, but it was good enough to sit and enjoy the sun and the breezes. For variation, I stuck the phone out the window for this photo.

Of course, as I write this on Sunday, April 02, it's pretty darn cold again. The temperature has gone up to -9 from -10, however, and the week forecast looks pretty decent, even though many nights will still dip below freezing.

I do this all the time; I wrote on Sunday about Saturday, and I post it on Monday for you to read whenever. Why do you put up with me?

Snow Over the Tulips

I do most of my blog commenting on my tablet from my chair in the monirng. So, I use the word, morning, sometimes in my comments. Yesterday, people were posting about April 01 and weather and spring and so on, and I felt obliged to inform them that it was looking pretty darn bleak out my window that morning.

You may recall that I recently posted that moring is one of the words that I consistently mistype. Well, I still do. I noticed that I typed it wrong three consecutive times yesterday before I got it right, and I think that I mistyped it differently on each of those times. I have also used the word four times this monring (er, five times now), and I have typed it incorrectly 2 (now 3) of those times. This wasn't done on purpose, but I admit that I wasn't being careful either and was just giving my fingers free reign. I left the typos deliberately this time, just for you dear folk.  

What is it that I have against the word? Maybe it's because mornings come so darn early in my life, often when it is still rightly night.

Yesterday morning was very grey and uninspiring, and I mentioned that in the comments that I made about what I was seeing from my easy chair. Rather that just talk about it, I got up to take pictures. Of course, you can't drop pictures in Comments, so here they are, one day late.

The plastic on the left pane is our rainbow-throwing prism plastic

As I sat at my chair, all I could see from that angle was snowy rooftops and grey grey skies, so I got up to take a fuller picture. It had snowed a little overnight, but the day would actually warm up to 12C/54F. But it is crazy-weather time of year, and the nighttime temperature plummeted to -10C/10F overnight. Sheesh!

I have also mentioned somewhere or other that we once had tulips blooming under the snow. Sue has no recollection of this. Was I right or wrong? Memory being highly untrustworthy, I began to doubt myself.

I found a post from April 04 2008, and sure enough, I wrote about clearing snow and finding plants growing underneath. But they were crocuses and not tulips, and they were from Sha's garden, and not ours.

I was fairly sure that I remembered digging snow from over our garden and finding tulips underneath, and I thought it was from that same year. Did I, or did I not, uncover tulips growing under our snow, or was it a false memory? I scrolled past the April 04 post, where I had found the above photo, all of the way to April 18 of the same year.

Yes, it was that warm here yesterday. Once summer arrives, it's shorts and tees for me. Do you see the tulip plants? Nikki Dee does. They were almost that tall under the snow two days ago. I know because I decapitated a few while trying to uncover them.

Here is the picture that I posted along with those words. I was holding Danica, and there was still a patch of snow that late in April. You can see the tulip plants in the garden.

That was the spring after we removed the sick tree in the previous year. We had another tree planted that summer, and I enlarged the garden around it somewhat. This newer tree isn't the healthiest either. We are close to bedrock, so maybe that is the reason.

I did find a photo of me digging out snow from over the lawn on April 03 2008. I would toss it on the pavement to get it melting, just to speed up the process. It was crazier that year than this year. We have quite a lot of snow again this year, but I am now 75 and not 60, so I won't commit to clearing much of it.

It looked bleak that April, and it will look bleak this April too, but this ↓ is what the garden looks like in late summer.

Caturday 48: The Petting Place

When Sha and the kids visit, Sha sits on the chair opposite the couch. Lacey is interested in Shauna and may hang about her feet for a bit. But she'll invariably visit the kids as they sit on the couch.

She will not visit Shauna in the chair across the way. Oh she may sniff Sha's feet, but she doesn't get on laps on that chair.

However, when Sha dropped by sans kidlets, she occupied the couch for a change. And that is all that it took for Lacey to have a nice, long snuggle..

It's the same with me. I sit diagonally to the couch. Le chat will not visit me there although she will visit Sue who sits beside me in her chair next to the couch.

But . . . I will get multiple visits per day in my own chair in my den. So many that it exasperates me sometimes. (You have seen this one ↓ before.)

She will also nab my chair for herself. I look over my shoulder from the computer, and there she is. She is there right now as a matter of fact, and here is the evidence.

Who can know the mind of a moggy?