Aren’t we all just funny? Jeff was certainly enjoying himself up there… I love singing this song, it’s just a fun little ditty.
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Having a photographer daughter means doing things that you’re not always comfortable with, but finding out that she’s really good at what she is doing and in the end, you are so pleased with the results.
Yes, I had to go and be shot.
She needed a photography model and the little twerp picked her mom. ME!!! Oh my gosh… a photo model in a college with a bunch of beautiful young people? Oh, let me tell you, kinda a challenge to one with some self esteem issues at times… (don’t we all?) But it was really nice of her to ask and I think she did a really nice job. (Considering her subject model! HAHAHA)
We arrived on Tuesday afternoon and after a bit while the class set up three different studio areas in the big room, I was pleased that I was not the ONLY model! I was a little afraid that I would be the test guinea pig for the whole class! Yikes! As it was, I was just Jessy and her team’s model, so that was a little better. She had a couple fellow students that were her assistants for the shoot, helping with all the fancy lighting and posing me and helping to meter the light and all that stuff. The instructor is a very nice gentleman and his easy going demeanor helped to make me feel a little more at ease. It’s cool how much she’s learning and all. She’s got it, there is no doubt in my mind that she has picked something that can be a lifetime of enjoyment, employment and contentment!
My first, ready to go pose. There is a title for this pose, but I forgot.
Another slightly serious, but still a little smiley….
This is my bluegrass empress pose, you know looking down on the little people, in a HAHA I’m the queen sort of pose! Hardly me, if ya knew me, but well, you do what the photographer and her team tell you to do!
Being shot from above is a little intimidating, but I think she did a nice job! The lighting is nice.
This one, I think is really cool. They had me playing with some props and such, and I can’t believe she caught the my camera bouncing it’s meter off her camera!! Pretty cool!
Here’s my moody brooding tortured bluegrass musician pose. Can’t you feel the angst in my soul? HAHA…
Ah, another looking down shot. Hmmm…. I would have been kinda worried about these poses in the past, but she’s done a nice job of making it comfortable and nice. I think…
Here’s my new MySpace and Facebook shot! HAHAHA! You know, the goofy one with hands and half a face or whatever that people seem to favor. Actually, I kinda like this one, it’s fun. And you get to see my pretty ring that I love. I bought it shortly after my divorce because I felt very uncomfortable without a ring. So it’s been with me through some tough times and means a lot to me. Plus it’s celtic and silver and pretty.
And after an hour of studio shooting, and the burned in flash of powerful lights in my retinas, I was getting ready to be done! I can see how models need to be paid good money, this is harder work than you think. Move here, stand there, do this, chin up, back straight, twist slightly, tilt here, do that, hold that, hold still, don’t move, come here, go there! HAHAHA…. it was tough work! But in the end, it was a hoot and I’m glad to have some nice shots that I can use in my business and social life that I’m not ashamed of. She did a very nice job and I can’t wait to see what she’s shooting next! I believe it’s product photography! So cool…. what fun!
Came home from the Opry on Thursday night to find that we had no water. Our pipes had frozen. Durn.
This happened last year about this time as well. It just gets so so cold that there is one little vulnerable place in our plumbing under the Moby belly that just freezes up. It’s where the main line comes in from the crock, underneath. Since the water level adjusts and fluctuates, you can’t heat tape wrap it too far down. You can usually keep it open for most of the winter, but when the winds start to blow hard against that southern side of the Moby, and the temps dip down to zero and below, it just doesn’t have a chance.
I’m thinking about trying to build a little insulated house to go around the whole crock. Something that Tim can help with for sure. I’m picturing a little cage, movable, but like a little cage frame with insulation in it, that will make a little cocoon for the area. He said he’d be able to come out and we’ll cook something up.
In the meanwhile, we stockpiled some gallons of water at the store, went and got 10 gallons to start out with. In our park, we have numerous times when the water has been shut off for a few hours, even up to 24 hours. There is a bad main line into the park and they have been working to replace it for the last couple months, but the cold weather is not helping. And when someone’s moby busts pipes around us, the water gets turned off as they fix it.
That happened to our neighbor in front just last week. And he had a real mess, had to have a plumber out for TWO DAYS!!! Wow. That had to be expensive.
But we’re good and calm Moby girls… we knew just what was up. Maggie got a little space heater under there to warm up the area that we knew was frozen. And we waited and we watched, to make sure nothing caught on fire. We kept turns going out and checking on it and turned on a faucet so that we would know when it loosened up. It took about 6 hours to warm up that area. But finally we got our water running again. The girls learned how to make a toliet flush, by pouring water into the tank and they learned not to panic.
Last year, we paniced… this year we were calm. And soon, hopefully Tim can help and we won’t have this problem ever again!!! We’ll brainstorm and figure out something that will help. I love how he listens to my ideas and doesn’t treat them as stupid or anything. And he has great ideas as well, and with a little discussion we can usually come to a good middle ground that makes sense and solves the problem. Goooooood stuff!
I’ll try and brave the weather to document what we’re going to attempt. Because I know that frozen pipes and mobile homes are a very very common problem and if I can help out in any way, that’s good neighborly advice.
In the meanwhile? I do believe I’m going to make a habit of the next couple weeks of picking up an extra gallon or two of spring water to stash in our little pantry floor. With people, pets and potties, I believe you need about 5 gallons a day, to live comfortably. You could probably get away with 3 if you were careful. It’s the toilet that is the worse, really. It needs about 2 gallons to flush properly. Even if you waited and no one flushed until it was really necessary, you’ll need at least one flush a day and then add some for cooking, drinking, washing… I’m thinking 5 gallons a day would be a good idea. So, for a week of water, we will need about 30-35 gallons of water stored. I do want to get a rainbarrel for outside, and that would easily supply some water for the toilet if we had that established. I might get a few of the larger water containers as well, but for the most part, I think the 1 gallon jugs are perfect. You can throw a bunch in the car and go and fill them at a friends house or some other water source in an emergency. The are pretty easy to handle. And easy to store here and there in a small place.
It’s funny how just a little thing like a piece of 2 inch pipe frozen will make you understand just how vulnerable you are in this world. How it take just one snapped power line in an icy winter storm to send you into darkness and cold for days on end. Without water, food and power, we’re pretty helpless! I hate that feeling and would like to think that we are taking a few steps to be a little more self sufficient rather than helpless in those often occurring situations!
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