Feed Me!

Actually, "Feed MYSELF!" Yes, Little has mastered the art of picking up food AND (an important "and") opening up his little clenched fists to push it in.


This two-fisted eating thing is downright primeval. (I'm jealous).

Spot the Potential Lawsuit 6

I simply cannot be stopped. The Spot the Potential Lawsuit game is just too damn entertaining. Today, I offer you another in the category of vehicular-accidents-waiting-to-happen, also known as if-you-can-weld-it-you-can-drive-it.


What we have here is, well, almost inexplicable. There was once a motorcycle in there somewhere. It morphed into a three-wheel, rear-drive sedan chair with a lovely and practical over-arching canopy frame. And, of course, the previously examined make-do hitch, making possible the tow-along cart.

The whole rig is, indeed, the most ambitious of all the recycle men in the neighborhood. God forbid, a stray dog darts in front of him. It'll be a game of pick-up sticks.

Spot the Potential Lawsuit 5

Ok, so I have no restraint. It's been a Spot the Potential Lawsuit kind of week, and these are just the ones that I manage to get photos of. So many more of these lawsuits are zipping by on motorbikes and overloaded trucks, but my reaction time is a little dulled by the stroller.


Here, my handsome husband demonstrates a "Potential Lawsuit" that even he thought was funny. Two boards pounded into the sidewalk for no apparent reason. He missed the perfectly positioned "head banger" by about ten inches as we rounded the corner engrossed in conversation (with heads down pushing the stroller).

Spot the Potential Lawsuit 4

Remember, I'm exercising incredible restraint in the Spot the Potential Lawsuit game. But, the (new) mother in me just couldn't walk past this one.


I don't know what freaks me out more, the exposed rusty bolts or the jagged, rusty metal. Let's not even talk about the projecting steel pipes and sheet metal corners.


This is one of three public places that I've found for kids to play, and this is the GOOD one. (sigh)

Will This Do?

One loyal reader (one of two, I hasten to add) has pointed out that I'm so often behind the camera, that I'm never in front of it. And, so I offer you (both) this tidbit from yesterday.

(Thanks for missing me.)

Little, Bigger Every Day

Two new teeth coming in (the uppers), fascination with the index finger (rolls it over his thumb and stares at it with great interest - uses it to pick up tiny things), drinks from a cup (skipped over bottle and sippy cups - not terribly manly), and speaking Thai! ("ta" means "eye" and "grandfather" - "ma" means "come on" - and "ba" means "let's go!" too bad none of it means anything in English.) Still prefers serial rolling to crawling, but I'm in no hurry to be chasing around after him.

Flickr

Okay, maybe you're not as obsessed with Flickr as I am. I'm totally hooked. It all started just before Christmas. Nong tells me her friend has some photos on-line. We look. They're not too interesting, but the idea grabs me. I sign up. I start uploading baby photos. I invite family and friends to look. Nobody does. Whatever.

Then, Christmas hits me in the gut, and I'm feeling homesick for cinnamon and wrapping paper. When everyone is asleep, I find myself in front of the screen scrolling through thousands of photos of people decorating Christmas cookies. I feel connected. It helps a little.

You see, no matter what people are doing in the computer-savvy, camera-owning world, they are posting pictures of it daily. Thousands of them. As a former cultural historian type, I find it fascinating. As a girl half a world away from most of the things she loves, I find it comforting. Even though I don't have an oven, can't find truly fresh butter, and won't pay the equivalent of $7 for a bag of chocolate bits, I can plunk myself down and see people making cookies. People making cookies TODAY. In places where it's snowing and Christmas music is playing. It helps more than a little.

Christmas is over, and my attention has turned from food to knitting. Our little family is headed into the cold later this year, and I'm itching to finger some wool. Here we have only cheap acrylic and low grade cotton, so while I'm making the best of it, I'm getting a nightly fix of knitting WIP's (works in progress) and FO's (finished objects) by the thousands.

I even posted my low-grade cotton WIP to a knitting pool, and I GOT A COMMENT TODAY! Way cool. I'm not alone. Someone's actually looking! (891 someones as of this evening, actually.)

And, with my new camera in hand, I have given myself a project for 2007. Project 365. A photo a day for a year. A slide show glimpse of my year. A photo diary. Turns out it's not an original idea and a whole bunch of people who are doing the same thing are looking at my photos. Validation.

So, while I watch the odometer spin on my little photo page, I hope you'll take a look a Flickr too. No matter what you're interested in, there are thousands of people taking pictures of it and uploading every day.