Sounds from the basement.

About 2 weeks ago I heard this banging around in the basement.  Freaked me out a little bit, since I didn’t expect anyone or anything to be down there.  After some sleuthing I found one of my cats down there, which really baffled me since I had no idea how he could have gotten down there.

It didn’t even occur to me there was a hole in the wall behind the dryer, where the vent used to go.

So I rescued him and figured he’d know better and that would be the end of it.  Yeah, I’ve had cats all my life, I should have known better.

Today I heard noises in the basement again.  It freaked me out once more, but I quickly realized Alan must have gotten down there again.  I rescued him again, but this time I fixed it so he can’t (?) get down there again.

Nice, eh?

Thematic Photographic–Liquidity.

GoPro captures liquidity as I drive through a puddle.

Liquidity is fleeting in the desert.  Saturday: Liquidity so bad I couldn’t get the Jeep out of the hole.

The very next day.  Sunday: So dry the Jeep came right out with no help.

Reflections on the Great Salt Lake.  Can you tell which one is the right way and which one was rotated 180 degrees?

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Put some new options on the Jeep today.

 

Thematic Photographic: Aged

I have no idea how old the sign is, but the Ritz Classic Bowling Lanes opened for business in 1958.  Unfortunately it closed down about a year ago.

This is what’s left of an old pier out on the Great Salt Lake. 

Strewn across the western landscape are these huge concrete arrows.   They are remnants from the early days of air mail delivery.  Before the advent of GPS and other directional technology, the pilots flying the U.S. Mail would use these arrows to direct them on their routes.  They would fly in a straight line, until they came to the next arrow, about every 20 miles, where it would indicate which direction they need to change to.

And finally, this guy.  I have no idea how aged he is, but he sure doesn’t look like a spring chicken.

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Latest change.

Plasti-Dip is great stuff. It's a spray on plastic paint that can be peeled off without any damage to the paint underneath. It's not good for the long run, but it worked perfect for seeing if I wanted to paint my tire rims white. Painted one, saw that I really liked it and then had to peel it off so I could paint all 5 rims with real paint.

I thought about painting the center cap black, like in the picture of the spare tire, but as soon as I put the back tires on I thought "VW Beetle". Not the right look for my Jeep. So I went back to all white. Looks great. I don't know if you can see the difference that well in the pictures, but the first one is original and the last one is with the white rims. That was my day today.

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