Today I voted, tomorrow I go to the Domes

Well, for me it's over. I voted! I'm so glad all of this will finally come to an end. So, now that I know Mickey Mouse won't be president even though I wrote him in (just kidding), I can move on to tomorrow's activities.

I've been wanting to go to the Domes for a while and now there is an excellent opportunity. You see they have been closed for a few months for renovation and are re-opening tomorrow evening. You can get the details at http://www.county.milwaukee.gov/FloralShowampEventSc10360/GrandReopening.htm - officially Mitchell Park Horticultural Conservatory "The Domes"

This should be a great opportunity for Michael to use his macro lens and for both of us to get some great pictures.

Princess

Tonight when I got home I decided I needed to relax and play with some more pictures. I really don't like Mondays, so needed a way to unwind. My daughter, Jen, got Princess from the humane society after they rescued hundreds of dogs from a breeder. Even though she is about seven years old, she is just a cutie. I have her and Jen's other dog, Dillon, for a few days. Combined with my dog, it's a bit much for me as they are all small dogs.

Photo Ferris Wheel Project

Today I set out to put pictures in my little photo ferris wheel home decor thingy. Over the last few months we've been working on painting the inside of our house and Heather found this hidden away in the depths of her room. Here's a picture of it before I started.



Me being me, I had to go through all my digital archives and find some that wouldn't make me or everyone else cry, and probably choose some recent ones. A couple of nights ago I took it apart and measured the size of the photos that I needed to print. Hence, the top one is missing in the picture.

Here's what the parts look like that are missing.


Work in progress:


And, finally, here is the finished version:

125-gallon fish tank that Michael built

Okay, it's time I actually start posting. Michael has been busy the last couple of months putting together a fish tank. This all started as buying a used tank he found on Craig's list. We got a good deal on the tank, base unit, and filters. It came with lights and we just needed to add a heater. Well, so much for that idea. I wish I would have taken pictures throughout the process, but hindsight doesn't mean much now does it? Anyway, turns out that the base unit was rather warped. We didn't notice this right away, but the closer we looked, the more we could tell that there was simply too much water damage. Since the tank uses a filtration system that sits in the base unit (rather than the under gravel kind), when he rebuilt the base he needed to account for those holes at the top of the base unit. I don't know all the technical mumbo jumo, but suffice it to say it was a rebuilt for one reason or another. But, the final result looks nice....assuming he ever adds doors.



We added plants last weekend and a few small fish. Half of them died and the plants don't look too good. He added three more larger fish last night and looks like one is sick already.

Online slideshow maker

I was doing some catching up on one of my favorite scrap booking sites and stumbled upon this neat little slideshow maker. It takes photos you have online like at flicker, photobucket, myspace, etc. or pictures you upload and gives you all sorts of options for creating a slideshow. It spits out some code you can use to put it in a blog or you can just link directly to it. You can associate a song with it too if you want.

I have a few different collections over at flickr, but created this one with all my photos just to see how it came out.