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Saturday, April 28, 2012

30 Days of Photographs II - Day 28

Outlier

This is Shaboo. He is one of the six dogs we have.

Shaboo is very hard to photograph not only because he is all black but also that he won't sit still for two minutes when he sees me pointing a camera at him. After chasing him back and forth from room to room, I was only able to get one good shot.

He doesn't play with the other dogs. He sits off by himself, is very quiet and only barks when he thinks it's absolutely necessary.

All of our dogs have nicknames, some have more than one and all of them, except Shaboo, have the same nickname when that dog is in my way, doing something to piss me off or if I can't immediately remember his or her name.

Shaboo has only two nicknames: "Monkey boy" because he tries to talk to you when he wants attention and sounds like a chimpanzee; the other is "Ghost" because you can't see him in the dark and will appear out of nowhere. You can't even hear him coming (or going) because - believe this or not - he trims his own toenails!

In the group of dogs, he is considered to be the Beta male. But when our Alpha dog passes, I doubt that Shaboo will want to fill that position and I don't believe he will mind if our other eldest dog takes over.

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This is part of the 30 Days of Photographs II challenge, spawned by Ziva & BonyMike (a.k.a. MikeWJ). Please visit the others that are contributing to this lunacy:

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Friday, April 27, 2012

30 Days of Photographs II - Day 27

Nude

Awkward?

Well, it is nude.

It was either this or a bowl of raisin bran. And while raisin bran isn't technically "nude", the raisins looked like a bunch of rabbit turds.

I didn't want to spoil anyone's breakfast.

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This is part of the 30 Days of Photographs II challenge, spawned by Ziva & BonyMike (a.k.a. MikeWJ). Please visit the others that are contributing to this lunacy:

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Thursday, April 26, 2012

30 Days of Photographs II - Day 26

My Toothbrush

I know, I know. Even with such a simple theme, I'm late again. But in my own defense, I was having trouble uploading photos from my camera - I think my USB cable went on strike in protest of this idea.

So, there you have it.

In all its glory.

My toothbrush.

Ew.

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This is part of the 30 Days of Photographs II challenge, spawned by Ziva & BonyMike (a.k.a. MikeWJ). Please visit the others that are contributing to this lunacy:

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Wednesday, April 25, 2012

30 Days of Photographs II - Day 25

The Future

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This is part of the 30 Days of Photographs II challenge, spawned by Ziva & BonyMike (a.k.a. MikeWJ). Please visit the others that are contributing to this lunacy:

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Tuesday, April 24, 2012

30 Days of Photographs II - Day 24

Crowd

"Re: Apologizing In Advance..."

This is a visual representation of what I found in my Inbox this morning.

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(My apologies for not commenting on everyone's photos yesterday but I was sooooooo tired I hit the sack early. I didn't even get around to responding to the comments on my blog. I'll be catching up today.)

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This is part of the 30 Days of Photographs II challenge, spawned by Ziva & BonyMike (a.k.a. MikeWJ). Please visit the others that are contributing to this lunacy:

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Monday, April 23, 2012

30 Days of Photographs II - Day 23

Fish Tales

After a long day of not-so-successful angling, boisterous laughs flourish around a campfire in Algonquin Park. The fire starts to cast ominous shadows upon pitched tents while men share their best fishing stories on this Victoria Day Weekend, better known in beer imbibing circles as The May 2-4 Weekend, and being the year's first holiday weekend that breaks up the boredom of long and cold Canadian winters. This particular Monday is unique for it actually falls on Queen Victoria's birthday, May 24th and a good reason to take that extra
"2-4" along for the trip.

Not everyone went fishing, though. Some are at home making coleslaw, macaroni and potato salads, arranging the condiments and stacking the buns in preparation of the evening's fare for the requisite holiday weekend backyard barbeque. Others are enduring the holiday traffic, travelling far distances to open up the cottage and vacuum up the hibernating houseflies before their reanimation. Some wrap up the day by tossing a line into the nearby lake or river.

But knowing each other too well, none of the men sitting around the campfire are easily taken in by the others' tales of the "one that got away" since the fish in those same stories increase in size with each telling: the twelve ounce perch has gained a few pounds and the four pound pickerel is now the size of a sturgeon. By the end of the evening, one of the members of the group will have earned the nickname, "Ishmael".

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Note: This is an edited repost of an story I wrote for The Mag (formerly known as "Magpie Tales").

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This is part of the 30 Days of Photographs II challenge, spawned by Ziva & BonyMike (a.k.a. MikeWJ). Please visit the others that are contributing to this lunacy:

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Meleah

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