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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pretzel" data-source="post: 153772" data-attributes="member: 12257">Good Lord, but what a week.  Then, to de-stress, I spent the first 2 days of a 3 day weekend workin' my tail off!  Mowed our yard, mowed mom's yard, sought out flowers and planters to complete the new front container garden, pulled the sink and toilet in the bathroom to lay new vinyl tile, found a cracked flange under the toilet and fixed that, put it all back in, cleaned and organized the front half of the garage, and...  Then, my daughter and her fella, my mom and the three of us at the Castle De La Pretzel all settled in for a hearty dinner grilled by you know who!  I don't count grilling on the back porch as work though, as it was a lovely day, I had some tunes goin', and I really don't mind grilling at all.Yeah.  UGH.  That about sums it up.  Dabbled in photography just a bit with some flower pics (in the flower thread), but here's a couple of "that's how it went" photos.1st, the now finished front flower bed/container garden.  Can you guess as to what my wife's favorite color might be?  I did have some yellow blooms on the flower in the bright orange pot, but somehow they got "washed off" when the wife was watering a couple of nights ago.  My suspicion is that they were intentionally butchered because they weren't RED!  Then I've got my monkey grass in a blue pot, and the wife DID plant her lemon balm in a bright yellow pot at least.  (Plus, she surprised me by getting a green watering can, although she said she had to fight the urge to get a red one...)  I was tired, so the DOF is a bit skewed, but I was just getting a snapshot near dusk.  I'll go for the "official" photo when everything is in bloom.[ATTACH]38407[/ATTACH]Then, one of my additions (yet to bloom) in a "before" stage.  I present the Denver Daisy.  (Blue pot (as seen in the above pic), soon to be yellow blooms, to offset some of that red!)[ATTACH]38408[/ATTACH]Then, playing with a ball I found in the street in front of our house, I messed with trying to get some stop action skills.  I was messing in manual mode and set the shutter speed to 640, which didn't prove to be anywhere near fast enough.  It was dusk, so I didn't get to mess around after checking the pics on the computer, so I'll try again tomorrow.  Seems everything was in focus except for the flying ball...  Gonna try again tomorrow in shutter priority and see what happens at different settings.[ATTACH]38410[/ATTACH]Tomorrow is MY day.  I'm takin' the wife, we're hoppin' on the ol' Nomad 1600, and we're riding to random destinations.  I commonly refer to that as "wind therapy".  Perhaps I'll find some interesting pics along the way!</blockquote>

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