Blaze

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I found out last week that my 14 year old dog, Blaze, has bone cancer in her left front leg.  Of course, we are all heartbroken.  She's on good pain meds, and we've seen her get quite perky these past few days. For the first time in a while, she's shown real interest in food, greeted me at the door, begged for treats, hung out in the kitchn waiting for food to fall, and even barked and jumped at a stray cat out the window. We'll keep her comfortable on the pain meds as long as we can...  Meanwhile, of course I am taking some extra pictures of her with and without the boys.  She cannot stand, well HATES, my camera.  I guess she's afraid of it.  She does a tad better with my iPhone.  I took these pics of her yesterday afternoon, and she was definitely giving me the look RE my camera...sigh. Still, I'm happy for the shots and the eye contact.

I didn't want to use a flash, and she stood up in this one, so it's blurry, but I liked the less tense face.

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Here's the stray kitty.  I labeled him/her gray panther kitty.  I guess we'll refer to him/her as Panther. Gotta love those intense eyes.  Even though I put food out for him/her, he runs off immediately if any of us goes outside.  Sometimes he/she runs off even if he just spots us looking out of the window at him.  Oh well.  Our Kitty has seen him/her a few times and is not pleased with the interloper.  I wish I knew if this cat was 'fixed' or not.  I may have to try to catch him/her and get that done.  While he/she is welcome to hang out in the yard, we don't want to create homeless kittens.

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Vases

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Playing catch-up with my daily posts.  I missed yesterday.

I stopped into Kroger, a grocery store, this AM looking for a specific item on their organic foods isle.  I didn't find it.  Ordered it from Amazon.  As I was leaving, I found these vases lit up nicely in the floral department and took several pics with my iPhone.  I might would have taken out the real camera, but I was right smack dab in the middle of the front of the store and a clerk came over to ask if he could help.  "Thanks, but no.  I'm a photographer, and the pretty lit on those vases caught my eye so I stopped to take a few pics."  "Oh, OK, that's cool."

Yesterday, Joey and Johnny were out of school due to ice.  Well, we didn't have much ice at our house, but there was enough ice north of us in our county to cause the buses to be parked.  As it turned out, he did 2.5 hours on Khan Academy using JavaScrip to learn programming.  I felt he almost got in a full school day.

In the afternoon, Johnny went with me to run errands and get groceries.  We saw these Americn chicks at Tractor Supply.  I thought it was a tad early.  Guess not.

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At the thrift store, Johnny found this cool John Deere hat to match the shirt he had on.  He's so cute and handsome!

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Harlem Globetrotters Bull Bullard #33

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Donnie, the boys, and I went to see the Harlem Globetrotters yesterday at PNC Arena in Raleigh.  I'm pretty sure my dad took me to see them back in the 70s at Madison Square Garden.  Donnie and the boys had never been.

Pictured here is Bull Bullard #33.  He did a little skit up on the goal.  Lucky for me, he was nearly directly in front of our seats (row L section 103 seats 1-4).  I didn't take a ton of pics, but I did take a few, and I was glad we were seated pretty close and that I had my zoom lens.

Here is a Picture of Too Tall, always Too Small.

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It was a very entertaining family show.  It ran nearly 2.5 hours plus a 30 minute autograph session at the end that we didn't stay for.

G

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A swirly G on the side of a candle holder.  I prepared both a B&W and color version.  Also could be a small e is mirrored or shot differently. I stuffed some fabric inside the holder because I didn't want to see through to the other side.

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