Front Porch lighting

I took these earlier this month, when I was playing with my newly-rediscovered manual lens off the Nikon 35mm camera I’ve had since high school.   For the first one I had the lights on in the office.

For the second one I turned off all the lights in the house, the only light came from the street lamp right on my property line.

And for this last one I turned on the green light in the ceiling fan on the porch.

On nice warm summer nights I love to sit on the porch with all the lights off and watch the cars drive by, wondering where they are going and why they are in such a hurry.

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Cats can climb ladders?

I added a porch to the back of my house, it’s roof is a small deck that I use to access and work on the swamp cooler.  The only way up and down from there is a ladder I built on the side of the porch.

Gata, my last cat, never went up there.  At the time I thought the ladder was just too daunting for her to maneuver, but in retrospect I think it’s more that she just never had the desire.

Because the two I have now seem to have figured it out and ventured forward.

I was hanging up some curtains I washed out on the clothesline last night when I heard a cat clawing at the side of the porch.  I went over there to find Alan up on top, posed like a King surveying his domain.  Of course I ran in to get the camera and caught him in the pose again.

A couple of minutes later he decided to come down.

And I found his method of descending kind of amusing, straddling the outside beams and sliding down behind the actual steps.

Denny took this opportunity to attack, and a fight on the middle rungs of the ladder ensued.

Finally, peace was achieved and tranquility was returned to catdom.

Did someone say “Car Show”?

I got this text message from Mrs. Gearhead this morning;

Just an fyi, there is a car show at granite high today :) let me know if you need directions.

My response was “thanks, smartass”, since I taught at that school for three years until they closed it down just a couple years ago. (If I need directions).

So, of course I went, and even ran into a group of ex-students that I taught there.

One of them had entered his old Desoto in the show.

On either side of his Desoto were his parent’s his-n-hers 65 Ford LTD convertibles.

I got there in time to see this 71 LTD convertible drive off, and drool a little bit.

Of course there were cars other than LTDs, like this Mercury Comet with matching target finders on each fender.

The mayor of South Salt Lake (or I should say her 6 year old son) chose this Dodge Super-Bee for the “Mayor’s Choice” award.

I stuck around for a while and the ex-students and I reminisced over old times.  They had been in my class when I taught at the Junior High close by, and then joined me again when they came to the High School, so we had a lot of good times to go over.   These five windows on the main floor were my classroom windows.

Well, you know I never miss a good car show, or even a bad one, that I don’t absolutely have to miss.  It was a fun day, looking at cars and catching up on what some now grown up (well, 18 yrs old) ex students are up to.

Dylan

Another great sunrise and kicking some pyramid butt…

Tuesday was the kickoff assembly for the big PTSA fundraiser at the school.  I was invited to pick three of my students and join in a competition to get the energy going.

We ended up tying, the opposing team winning two out of the three student competitions.  The final competition had the two teacher-team-captains building a pyramid out of plastic cups.  We won the final challenge, ending the games in a tie.

This morning I got to school earlier than usual, which was a good thing considering the sunrise.  Fortunately I had my wider-angle manual lens with me and got these pictures:

All in all a good week.