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Working My Way Down

At the rate I’m going I’m going to have just five or six blog posts a year. On the bright side, I’ve written over 135 blog posts on the Central Illinois Photoblog this year – so my energy is still there – it’s the focus and direction that are out of balance.

And what’s worse – I suppose – is that I’m just going to post two crappy cell phone pictures here today because it’s indicitive of the focus and direction of my life. Back on the second Sunday of August (around the time I last blogged here. Gulp!), we had some of the theatre kids out for our annual Tech Camp. The canoe made an appearance in the lake that day and we left it sitting on the dock when we were all done. We usually leave it flipped over to avoid gathering rainwater but we did not. My folks were in for a visit a couple days ago and dad remarked that the canoe was swamped and somewhat sinking (along with part of the dock). I went down there on Wednesday and it was bad (in fact worse then this picture). I went back down this morning to bail it out – we’ve had four inches of rain since Wednesday – and the added rain seems to have been enough to sink it more and actually spill some of the water out. I’m sure it had something to do with bizarre geometric angles and the Orionid Meteor showers but… instead of bailing this morning I was finally able to just flip it over (the other day it was so full of water there was no way I could flip it).

So – the before and after – via the Blackberry:

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yay!

The lake is stunningly high again today. You could hear the water pouring out of the dam all the way over at our place this morning so it must be cooking.

And the photo on top. Somewhere around midnight last Saturday night over in Tremont and the Grain Co-Op. Harvest is WAY behind this year because of all the wetness (more the moisture content of the corn then the mud in the fields) and what corn has come in is running through the dryers 24×7 – making for some nice nighttime images.

See y’all in December?