Bonfire & Mr. Tester Man...

When it rains, it pours... Today when I went in to work I was afraid I wouldn't have enough to do, but shortly after getting to work I knew this probably wouldn't be an issue.  After our straight-line wind disaster early Monday morning, today I was handed the task of testing equipment that was pulled from the wreckage.  Out of all the thin clients, mice, keyboards, monitors, etc. I have only found one thin client and a few keyboards that were ruined.  There was no doubt the one thin client was ruined; it had rust on the metal and the capacitors inside were leaking...certifiably muerto ("dead" in Spanish).  I still have more testing to do tomorrow that I didn't get done today.  It seems like it's been a never ending battle!  It seems as though since I've taken on some of the IT duties there has been major disasters!  First thing was our second lightning hit to the building this year (major issues!) and now the damage from the straight-line winds.  Hopefully this wind thing is the third and final thing of the "bad things that come in threes" problem!

Yesterday evening I went up to Mom and Dad's since they were keeping my cousin's daughter, Camme.  I went down to the pond for a bit while her and Dad were fishing.  After they came back from fishing, we had a small wienie roast.  After this wienie roast I now know from experience not to buy the "campfire marshmallows".  Those things make a HORRIBLE MESS!  As careful as I was trying to be, I still managed to have marshmallow all over my hands, arms and face.  The dumb things start falling off of the sticks before they are hardly browned on the outside...I think from now on I will stick with the typical roasting marshmallows!  I wish I would have taken a picture of Camme, because she was even more covered in marshmallow than I was!  

Even though I didn't get a picture of Camme in all of her major stickiness, I did take some other pictures...

(Algae or something growing on the pond.)

(Stupid...not just a description, also a name!)

(Old barn)

I was wanting to take pictures of the hummingbirds at the feeder, so I took a practice shot to see what I needed to adjust...well, the practice shot was the only thing I was able to get a picture of.  For the longest time they wouldn't come around the feeder; when they finally did they were on the wrong side of the feeder or there and gone before I could get a picture.