It is Friday once more and Friday’s are for fun. The weeks fly by so fast I can’t believe that just a year ago it was last year.
This is a real estate blog but on Friday’s almost anything goes. I have not written a post about my husband so now I will. His name is Jack and he is a great guy, I was going to say saint but then I thought about where he leaves his power tools after he gets done using them.
Jack has a sense of humor and a lot of patience and I push both to the limit. I can make a grown man cry but that is his side of the story and this is my blog so you won’t get to hear it.
I take a lot of pictures. Most of the pictures on this blog, including the lovely rocks, were taken by me for no apparent reason. Other bloggers ask where I find the time. I don’t find the time. I carry a camera in my bag and have a phone with a built in camera. I have a photo blog too. It has random pictures on it taken with my blackberry phone and posted to the internet via phone shortly after they are taken. The good pictures, which are few and far between sometimes end up on this blog.
So what does this have to do with Jack? When we walk the dog I take pictures and post them, or sometimes I have my camera with and use it to take pictures.
He gets irritated with me for stopping and has tried to take pictures of me sending messages, or posting photos with my blackberry while walking the dog. So far he has not been fast enough to get a good shot. I think he wants evidence so that he can prove to the world that I can’t walk the dog without internet access. Not true, can’t be proven.
I have explained it to him that if I don’t take a picture and send it to my blog it never happened. He isn’t buying it. Like the picture above of our neighbor dogs, and a couple of neighbors, and some legs too. Not my finest picture, but I posted it anyway because that is what I do.
Jack will deny this to the bitter end, but he raises his voice when I stop in the middle of the street or on a sidewalk and take a picture. He says I drive him nuts. I think he uses me as an excuse and that he just doesn’t want to seek professional help for being nuts.
What really gets on his nerves is when I shoot pictures out the car window while I am driving. Sometimes I pull over, but other times I block the street or take them while the car is moving. Jack does not approve of this behavior. His reasons make sense when he talks about car accidents, blocking traffic and inciting road rage. Yet I just can’t stop myself.
Maybe one day I will make it all up to him somehow, I could just leave the camera at home. Nah bad idea.
Have a great weekend – take pictures.
My husband wondered why I developed this obsession with keeping the front window of my car so clean. He was impressed how I was caring for the car. HA! I didn’t tell him about taking photos while moving.
As a neighbor, I have to say that Jack is one of my primary sources of news that matters to me. We talk neighborhood stuff while our dogs get their leashes hopelessly intertwined.
Now, as for the electronic devices on an otherwise lovely walk through the park … remember that we call it a “Type A” personality because if we called it “B” they’d pester us no end about what an insult it is. 🙂
Linda – I have taken pictures out the windshield but they mostly don’t turn out. I don’t clean my windshield. 🙂
Erik – I think that is why Jack is gone so long but the dog still needs exersize when she gets home. You guys need to run around the park. 🙂 Me a type A? Think Jack is a type Z.
Teresa – I think we are kindred spirits. I only have one available hand at any one time as my other hand always has the camera. My dad was a photographer so it is in my blood. My inlaws complain because I am never in the photos with the kids…well, if my father-in-law would quit cutting off our heads, maybe I would give him the camera. But I too just love shooting things…buildings and nature shots are my favorites.