Julie got me one more sticker since I was keeping my Jeep

These little black cat stickers are so cute!

I got this cool pic of Julie’s bamboo shrimp

She calls them fanboys since they always sit there “fanning” their filters feeding appendages. 

Julie’s fanboy (bamboo) shrimp are so fun and cool

It’s fun to watch them collect goodies out of the jet stream and then occasionally clean off their filter “feathers” as a little snack.

Stumbled across this on the internet

The design of this watch, fae and hands doesn’t appeal to me as much for some reason, but I do like the complications.  This is a mechanical Swiss watch that has the most complications I’ve seen crammed into one movement.  It has the same movement as the Omega Speedmaster, but they included the moon phase on this one. Crazy that you can have all this running on tiny gears, springs and jewels in there.  So if you ran the chronographs as a second time zone you would have GMT, day, date, month, moon, 24hr, and time.  What more could you “need”? Hahahaha.  

Random pics from Facebook…

Facebook offered me a post from a relative who’s name or picture I didn’t even recognize, but she was posting this pics of the five of us plus my grandma and grandpa Barton (bottom pic, couple on the left).  I think the couple on the right is Aunt Suzie and Uncle Chuck?

Foul weather friends

The dogs stay close when it thunders ALL day.  I don’t remember a July and especially an August with so much rain and so many storms before.  I guess it’s a needed contrast from last year’s drought…?

I imagine this being Andy’s garage one day…!

Woah, he flashed his rubies at me!

AND I was lucky enough to get a decent shot of it on my phone.

We got our murder back this summer

There’s normally six or seven, but this morning we only had one crow for a while.

Happiness is a warm pup in the lap…

And the pup is happy too!

Just some of the fun from my birthday week…

Not just one, but TWO free ice cream offers from Graeter’s!

Free birthday coffee at Starbucks

 I stopped in to grab a free light roast cup of blonde coffee for my birthday.  As I was browsing, I saw this Ohio themed mug.  They pretty well nailed some of our faves.  Football, lady bugs, the lighthouse, and even Skyline made the cut❣️

More watch stuff…

Being a mechanical engineer, I marvel at these kind of mechanical watches like all the ones I have from my grandfathers that can keep time as well as all the other complications like day, date, month, stop watch, 24 hour time, etc.!  Really cool to have, learn about, and reminisce of the previous owners❣️ 

Jeep tire carrier hack…?

I picked my bumper and tire carrier combo so that I could adjust it and let the spare tire just barely rest on the bumper.  Even though I have an HD tire carrier, this way there isn’t as much stress on the hinges or door when bouncing around back there.  It works pretty well and has stayed solid for a one time.  You can see there isn’t any clearance between my spare and the rear bumper when the tailgate is closed.

Getting ok pics of hummingbirds

I’ve been playing around with manual focus to help me “see through” the window screens.  It takes a bit longer to get set to take a pic, which’s makes it challenging to capture the hummingbirds that tend to only hang out for a few seconds at a time.  This was my first decent capture.  A male, ruby throated. They’re so impossibly small!