Star Trails and Dead Spiders

 Enough politics!!  I'm swearing off CNN FOREVER!!!  Whatever happened to the honest Walter Cronkites of the news media?  The name calling needs to stop.  I'm now a Natzi, a piece of garbage and responsible for sending every hispanic in the U.S. back to Mexico ... and you want me to vote for you?

There is light at the end of the tunnel however.  During several interviews, it has been admitted that they went way too far left.  Hopefully there will be a change in that in the future.  Also hopefully, new much FASTER, vetted entry into the U.S. will be set up so all those hard working folks can stay.  Let's just kick out the bad guys.

Back to my everyday boring life, except for Bingo.  Bingo is NOT BORING!!

Here's the results of the SECOND star trails photo.  It's cool, yet rather disappointing when you take over an hour to GET the photos, then another hour to PROCESS the photos and you end up with one, and ONLY one image.  It's actually 70 images stacked on top of each other to produce the trails.  

See the lines on the right side?  Those are airplanes.  You are supposed to take those out, but it just got WAY too complicated.  I also needed 90 images instead of 70.  Otherwise, for just being in my back yard, it's not too bad.

In an effort to get something MORE, I'll be heading out towards Nevada at the end of November with a few photographers.  Hopefully they can help me fine tune everything.  Or not, since none of them have the same camera I shoot.  

On another note, though I have sworn off decorating, I finally took down the Christmas Wreath from LAST year and put up some Thanksgiving color.  Yes, I'm a little behind in that department.  And oops, it's upside down.  I'll fix that!

On the other hand, I took down the red, white and blue spider's home, after hand to hand combat to dislodge him from his enormous web that encompassed me every time I opened the door.  It went in the trash.  

SO ... I'm EARLY with the Christmas door decorations. 

Lunch was leftovers ... the last of my favorite Sheepherder bread.

My plan was to hit up Costco, but a bad case of lazy came over me.  Not wanting to brave the always packed to the brim Walmart, I went online and placed a grocery order.  I have to admit, I get fresher produce from them than from anyone.

All went well when I pulled up.  The guy knocked on my window scaring me to death because I was still checking in on my phone.  Wow ... that's service!

At the bottom of the basket, there was this toolbox.  Ummmm I didn't order that.  The kid with a half inch thick nose ring, three bottom lip rings, ear lobes down to his shoulders and something hanging off his left eyebrow, not to mention the bangs down to his chin, didn't know what to do.  

His only suggestion was to go inside and return it.  Hey ... I don't WANT to go inside ... that's why I made this on-line order.  And so it came home with me.  Any ideas what to do with it?  I have FOUR toolboxes (including a good sized one in the back of the van), and this one for $6.97 is WAY too small for actual TOOLS.  If I throw away the divider tray inside, maybe I can use it for Cooper's meds and toys in the rig?  Anyone have any other ideas?  It's truly not worth the time and fuel to return it.  

Company arrived shortly after.  I wasn't very good company because I had a Lodge meeting.  Twice a month our dinners honor a different group of people.  On this night, it was our Veterans.  Three huge TV's displayed pictures of our members when they were 18-25 years old.  Most of them cannot be recognized, but we all have fun trying.

I donated two quilts to the obligatory raffle we also have twice a month.  This time they decided to have a silent auction.  Wasn't I shocked when my quilts (one a duck special with hunting images on it) went for $500 and the other for $400!  In all, on this night, we made $3,100 to go towards our Veterans for whatever they need.  We're pretty proud of that ... and Monday we will feed any Veteran and his guest for free.  We expect about 400 folks.

Dinner on this night was another New York Steak, grilled to rare perfection.  Cooper will be a happy camper come lunch time, but I swear I'm going to bribe someone into cooking me half a chicken next time.  

I get a day of rest today before working the infernal machine at the Elks Vendor Fair early tomorrow morning, followed by Veterans Day Cooking.  It's beginning to get a little crazy around here!!!