Jobs that Trump could handle… part 3…

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Yes, I know, Trump would be a horrible, spoiled, obnoxious little bully of a kid… but he does like to build walls…

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Jobs that Trump could handle… part 2…

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Unfortunately, he lost this job when he was caught trying to inseminate cows “the old fashioned way”… whatever that means… I don’t want to know…

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Jobs that Trump could handle… uh, I only thought of this one, so far, you may need to help me…

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I know, it seems like a lot for him to deal with, but remember, the animals are all fake, the boat runs on a track so he doesn’t have to steer it for real, and the gun is loaded with blanks.

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Dogs and ducks…

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That isn’t actually a dog or a duck… those are my two daughters… just so you know. These are the last photos of our family get-together up at my wife’s aunt and uncle’s house, where we celebrated both my daughters turning one year older. One of the best things about uncle Bert and aunt Sharon are the gifts they give… in this case, those two incredible masks.

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The really good news is that my older daughter… Jessica… the duck head… is much too busy planning her upcoming wedding and working to have time to play with a duck mask. Now, if you have been here a while, you know that I carry funny puppets with me in my car. When I get stuck in traffic or at a long stop light, I use them to amuse kids in the cars around me… my ostrich puppet it a real favorite. I like to make anybody who gets a ride with me put it on and stick it out the window… (you can type: ‘ostrich’ into my search bar if you want to see what I do with it)… anyway, I am now the proud owner of a duck mask. My plan is that when I am stopped at lights, I will duck down… (pun intended)… and put the mask on. I would drive around with it on, because that would be funny… but it would also be unsafe.

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The title of this post is actually more clever than it might at first seem… because, before I even knew about the masks, I was walking around taking pictures to share with you, and I took some pictures of the dogs… that is Riley, Sharon and Bert’s dog on the left, and Shiloh, our dog, on the right. They were practicing their cute faces.

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I also, by pure coincidence, took some photos of these ducks, down in the pond near the house.

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So I had pictures of ducks…

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And I had pictures of dogs…

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Because I like animals, and ducks and dogs are animals, as far as I know…

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And when I looked at all my photos to get them ready to post for you…

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I saw a theme developing in the pictures I hadn’t posted yet…

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There is Jessica wearing Mollie’s dog mask… with her fiancé, Jason, beside her. I really need to borrow the dog mask from Mollie, and put it on for just a few miles on the freeway, no matter how unsafe it is… just to see the looks on the other divers’ faces…

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I might need some furry white gloves too…

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I can hardly wait to start playing with those masks…

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Let’s just hope I don’t cause an accident… I mean, there is a reason… lots of reasons… why I have been banned for life from doing practical jokes… (oh, you should probably type: ‘practical jokes’ into the search bar too… I did a series of posts about why I am no longer allowed to do them… you could also look up my ‘driving miss crazy’ series… that would also explain it)…

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some pictures… of some stuff…

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So, we went up to my wife’s aunt and uncle’s place in Fallbrook, just north of San Diego.

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See, I feel like by now you should now who Uncle Bert and Aunt Sharon are… they have a dog, Riley, who is best friends with our dog, and I post about that… we go camping with them, and I post about it… we go to their house a lot, and I post about it…

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They also have a lot of weird, cool stuff…

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Like this train set in their big garage/barn…

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Bert put all this together, and printed up all the little signs, and made a bunch of funny stuff to go in it… there is even a plastic bubble that you can crawl under the table and stick your head up through…

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I noticed, when I was sizing these pictures, that I must have still had the macro setting on my camera set, which explains why some background stuff is blurry, but you get the idea. At their old house, which is about a mile from this house, Bert had a train that ran on a track set on a shelf than ran along all the walls of their upper story… and that is the house that my wife and I got married at…

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They also had an antique barber chair at that house… and they still have this antique self-propelled wheel chair…

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Which all the kids love, but the reason I mentioned my wife and I getting married at their old house, is because my daughter, Jessica, and her new… (well, he isn’t new, but the fiancé status is new)… fiancé were there this weekend, visiting from Arizona, and they are going to get married at this house…

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There is Jessica, with Jason helping to pace off how much room they have for tables and chairs and parking and whatnot…

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But this time, we were mostly there because my daughters are each turning a year older.

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Flowers… for you…

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We had some more family birthdays to celebrate…

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We went somewhere, which I will get to later…

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I was playing around with the macro setting on my camera…

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Which is weird, because I don’t actually have a macro lens…

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Anyway, it does let you take nice close-ups, while making the backgrounds get all blurry…

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Sometimes, if you aren’t the right distance away, it makes the foreground blurry too…

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Well, that one I just used a regular setting, because those flowers were far away, but they did add a nice burst of color to that hillside…

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I took all these just walking around the outside of my wife’s aunt and uncle’s house, not far from where we live, in San Diego…

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Once again, I should probably apologize to all of you who live where there is five feet of snow on the ground…

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Look, a bee! They aren’t extinct yet!

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Okay, technically, those aren’t flowers at all…

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But I always love taking pictures of flowers. My dad used to take lovely pictures of flowers.

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But I really want to get a macro lens… then I could take like photos of individual water drops dripping off a leaf… super close-up… that would be sweet…

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Until then, these will have to do.

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The me tiki… part 7…

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Oh heck yeah… the tiki is really starting to look like me… I used a black marker to color in the shades, and a thin Sharpie marker to make the mustache, goatee and eyebrows look more real. Don’t get me wrong. I am nowhere near done. I just wanted to see what this would look like, because I might try to paint it to look realistic when I do finish…

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But I have to say, it is coming along nicely.

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I don’t know how I got into that tree, but I know I gotta let me out!

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I Like You… part 4…

Okay, I have been promising that I would type up and post the text for my new book for children that I am working on the illustrations for. Don’t get too excited. In the first place, most people despise poetry. In the second place, this is for little kids. It is highly repetitive and, at best, sort of adorable, especially when I add my illustrations to each line.

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I Like You

I like you, I really really do, I like everything that you do

I like you, yes I like you, even more than my comfy old shoe

I like you, yes I certainly do, more than all the animals in the zoo

I like you, I positively do, even more than the morning dew

I like you, yes I like you, you are even better than a mountain view

I like you, I really really do, much more than a ghost when he says boo

I like you, I am sure that I do, I like you more than the cows that moo

I like you, oh yeah, I like you, you are more fun than the number 2

I like you, yup, I like you, you are even cuter than a baby gnu

I like you, I sure like you, more than a ballerina in a pink tutu

I like you, I really really do, even more than I like eating stew

I like you, oh I like you, more than baby doves when they say “coo”

I like you, yes I like you, more than as owl when it says “whoooo”

I like you, I positively do, more than all the birds who ever flew

I like you, I really really do, you mean more to me than the letter ‘Q’

I like you, friend, I like you, I want to stick with you like I’m made of glue

I like you, I certainly do, I like you more than going to Kalamazoo

I like you, oh yes, I like you, more than traveling to Timbuktu

I like you, yes, I like you, more than all the flowers that ever grew

I like you, you know that I do, even more than the color blue

I like you, yup, I like you, more than a penny, shiny and new

I like you, I really really do, more than cooking on a barbeque

I like you, I absolutely do, more than all the pictures that I ever drew

I like you, oh yes, I do, more than making music on a new kazoo

I like you, it’s true, I like you, more than all the bubbles that I ever blew

I like you, oh how much I like you, more than all the candies that I can chew

I like you, yes I like you, if I like anyone, it’s you, that’s who

I like you, indeed I do, but I bet that is something you already knew

I like you, yes, yes, I do, and I think you know it’s true

I like you, I really really do, and I hope you like me too!

 

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Does my face look funny to you?

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Because it feels funny today for some reason…

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The me tiki… part 6…

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Oh yeah… I am finding myself… in that log…

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