So it’s not a new camera app, it’s just an old camera app repackaged with a new user interface. I like the change, but I like the old app too. Not sure which I prefer.
You might see a few of these over the next couple of days as I play with the mixing and matching of lenses and films.
Sorry, kids.
I cooked lunch for me and the Mrs on the grill today. A couple of burgers, a hot dog. simple enough. I threw it all on the grill, messed around with Oggl while it cooked. Checked on it after a few minutes and it was done. I threw some cheese on the love of my life’s burger, waited for it to melt, and then took everything in and ate it.
It wasn’t until lunch was over that I realized I never turned the gas on, or lit the grill!
Woah babie, it is HOT out there!
Hipstamatic might be trying to take on Instagram. I guess.
Welcome to my first picture taken using Oggl, Hipstamatic’s new sort of social thing. I haven’t played with it at all apart from importing my billion or so lenses and films from the old app into the new app. I took one pic to see if it would work and cross posted it to everywhere on the interwebs.
It worked.
Just saw Monsters University. We all approve.
The kids and I are cleaning a little today. Ms Patches the HipstaKitty waits patiently for things to quiet down.
It’s time for a bird feeder update.
Don’t give me that look. You know you are dying to know how they are doing.
Much to my eternal surprise, the little bird house balancing on the empty flower box outside of the dining room window is still there! I’m guessing the reason it hasn’t fallen over yet is that no animals have found it yet. That’s just a guess, but it’s almost certainly an accurate one. This is how it looked at about 7:40 this morning, just before I left for work.
The news regarding the back yard bird feeder is a little more interesting. The good news is, twice this morning I saw birds visiting it. First a little bird flew up to it, landed, heard a noise (probably a fat guy in the house knocking stuff over trying to get to a camera of some sort), and took off. A few minutes later I looked out and saw a larger bird flying away. Success! The birds have discovered their free meal!
The bad news is that the squirrels have discovered the free meal too. Yesterday my beloved wife Jennifer saw a squirrel hanging upside down from the hook the bird feeder is hanging on, just munching away. Jen yelled at the little rodent bitch and scared it away, but I doubt it stayed away for very long.
I just hope that putting a bird feeder in view of our bedroom window doesn’t drive the HipstaKitty to murderous, psychotic episodes of bird watching frustration.
I’m not a father. I’m a step father. My step kids were insistant that being a step father is close enough for fathers day. I went along with it on the sole condition that they promised me that their father came first. They both made me cards and got me a gift. One of the gifts is a little bird house. Now, from the minute we moved into this house I have wanted to encircle it completely with bird feeders. I don’t know why, but for some reason a bird feeder in the yard is like a symbol of territorial rights. That’s lame, but it’s something like that. If I hang a bird feeder, then it means I belong here. Right.
When we first moved in, my step son and I hung a great big bird feeder from a tree on the edge of the woods. Big mistake. The squirrels in the neighborhood were well fed, but the birds… not so much. I filled it twice that year and never again. Today, we went to a pet store and bought some seed. We’re trying again. I also bought a second small feeder. What the hell, we’re on a roll.
The one issue with the bird house the kids got is that it does not have any way to actually hang on anything. My temporary solution was to put the planter box back on the dining room window. I filled the little house with seeds and balanced it on the corner of the box. We’ll see how it goes.
The feeder I got for myself was nothing special. I took it out back and hung it from a tallish plant hanger that I found in the back yard when we first moved in. I’ll bet that the squirrels find a way to knock it over, but we’ll see how it goes.
Patches the HipstaKitty was all over the place today. Here’s a few examples…
I was trying to work, but Ms HipstaKitty sat there DEMANDING my attention. I pet her for a minute. She was satisfied… for a while.
It was a little chilly out today, but I took the opportunity to open a bunch of windows and let some fresh air into our climate controlled house. Ms Kitty enjoyed some relaxing time sitting on the back of the love seat, letting the breeze blow through her furry fur.
Later, Patches the HipstaKitty realized she could see new angles into the front yard by stalking the dining room window. There were a few moments when the birds were visiting that she seemed to really want to escape from the house and go out and eat slaughter murder devour play with the cute little birdies.
Just hanging out with The HipstaKitty.
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