and the only reason i finally got out of bed is because i was lying there thinking about the INFINITE AMOUNT OF THINGS that need to be done around here.
well, also, the dogs had to be fed. although the dogs and the cat were thoroughly enjoying sleeping next to me in bed, and would have kept doing so for quite a while i’m sure.
because i have EVERYTHING IN THE WORLD to do, i thought the first thing would be to post a few photos.
in order to avoid all that other stuff.
here are a few photos kevin took while at the national shooting competition in virginia. this first one is their campsite. i wish he’d taken a few more camp photos, since there were 3,000 people there, but at least there’s this one. he did take a photo of some of the incredibly fancy and expensive motor homes that people came in.
but the 114th slept in tents.
luckily the tent kevin slept in didn’t leak. there was lots of leaking going on, apparently, in other tents. it rained a lot there, of course, since this is the spring of rain.
it looks like it’s going to rain right now, as a matter of fact. this means there are quite a few things i won’t be able to do this morning because they involve being outside. a good excuse to not move too fast.
this is my favorite photo. isn’t it amazing, all that smoke? pretty to look at, but i wonder if it’d make your throat burn.
kevin would know the answer to that, but he’s at a cowboy shooting competition right this very moment.
i like this photo, too. imagine how incredibly muddy it’d be. luckily kevin has some big rain boots. doesn’t it look like that guy in the yellow shirt on the left is talking on a cell phone? not very authentic.
they all had to wear those big tags on the backs of their hats or trousers to identify themselves, so random crazy people wouldn’t wander onto the range and try to start shooting. but wouldn’t people have quickly spotted an interloper? unless it was a cleverly disguised interloper.
in one of the team competitions kevin was farmed out to another team – of confederates. i didn’t think too highly of this, but i guess in this battle the union and confederates peacefully shot, without any actual shooting of each other. a refreshing change from the actual civil war. much more civilized.
kevin’s friend wayne said that if he was going to do one of these shoots, he’d want to be on the confederate side because that’s where his roots are.
“but they lost,” i pointed out. he didn’t seem to care.
ok, i’ve had a up of strong lapsang souchong tea and am hopefully able to face the day.
many things to do, but the first thing is to go to the farmer’s market which sounds lovely, and then to the library, also a great place. the only problem being that i have to change out of my jammies.
the jammy top looks like a t-shirt, it’s a MUTTS ensemble, but that combined with my mutts jammy bottoms looks too much like…jammies.
ok ok ok already,
saturday morning grace.
p.s. i think there are some good photos of the twinkly outdoor party lights in the camera, but after all this typing and photo work, i must take a computer break right now. more later. maybe. definitely some time later, but i can’t say when. not that you’re sitting around waiting for me to post something else.