September 27

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I like taking pictures for a lot of reasons, and one of the big ones is that the camera records the date every pic was taken.  (Assuming I've correctly told the camera what day/time it is.....)

Another thing to like about digital photography -- taking pics of things records the "when" as well as the "what."

Here's another example of random curiosity.  We recycle everything we can recycle.  Including boxboard.  The soap we use when we run out of hand-made soap comes in boxes.  Toilet-paper rolls sort of, almost, kind of fit into the soap box.

I became curious if one soap box would hold all of the toilet-paper rolls that are emptied (in the bathroom where the shower where we use the soap) during the time we'd use the soap that came in that box.  Here's the beginning of the observation.  Soap opened on Sept 26, toilet-paper roll emptied on the 27th.

I walked earlier than I usually do, because a house I've walked by MANY times is for sale and was having an open house in the early afternoon.  It's a nice little house, and I'm glad to have seen the inside.  The rooms are tiny.  Really small.  The pics they put up online are soooooo deceptive............ 

I chatted a bit with the real estate person.  I lamented the lack of floor plans on real estate listings.  She said there was one for that house.  Not with the pics, but with ... other media, or something like that?  I can't remember exactly what she said, and I did look to see if I could find the floor plans, to no avail........ 

But -- fyi -- supposedly there are (or may be) floor plans with online real-estate listings, if you know where to look.........



Yet another of the beautiful days of 2015!

Walking home.  This tree is a black walnut.  Bare of leaves, as you see.  What caught my eyes were the walnuts, hanging like golden-green ornaments in the afternoon sun.  Unfortunately, they don't show up in the image.  Another example of what a difference it makes when we (unlike cameras) are paying attention to one part of a scene...........  We might find the nuts striking, in the sunlight, while the camera doesn't.

Luckily, we can zoom in and get some idea.  There were still a lot of nuts on the tree.........

Even though there were a lot of nuts on the ground!

Rats are starting to appear at the Rat House..........  Last year there were cat skeletons, which, oddly, had ears.  This year there are rat skeletons, with ears, and a strange amount of "flesh" on their tails.

A lot of houses have changed hands in our neighborhood this year.  Many of them are undergoing significant expansion/renovation.  (Plenty of houses that did not change hands are also having work done....)

Nails waiting for a nail gun to apply them.

Lots of repeating patterns..............

As I got closer to home, I discovered another open house.  This house has beautiful floors and lots of windows.  The living room was a really nice big space, and the rest of the house was smaller rooms.  The house does have three full baths, including a really big one in the basement, and a pink-tiled one on the ground floor.....

I like to look at houses....................



Maple leaves.

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