Pictures from the parking lot of Home Depot

It was such a pretty day and I was at Home Depot picking up some dirt so I have to go to the end of their parking lot which is on a hill and capture these pictures. I love the flag blowing in the wind.

Fixed and old Picture

I was trying to find some old pictures for my new found cousin Tobey on the Garlick side and came across the picture of my Grandpa with all his siblings. As far as I can tell of all the pictures, this is the only one of all 4 of them. I guess you could say this is about the only time they all got along, but then again if you look at the picture they don't look very happy having their picture taken. I guess not being happy about having your picture taken was a trait I inherited for sure!!!



From Left to Right
Arden - 10 years
Don - 3 years
Vivian - 4 years
Barney - 12 years

Picture taken in 1926

The Big Rock

The Story of the Big Rock that traveled 105 miles from Riverside to Los Angles to become an art piece. The streets of Long Beach will be used to transport a 340-ton, 21-and-a-half-foot-high rock from a quarry in Riverside to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. "A lot of planning went into this move to ensure safety and prevent any damage," Mayor Bob Foster said. "We're also planning on having some fun with the rock while it's parked in Long Beach on Wednesday, March 7." A custom-built transporter with 196 wheels will be used to prevent road damage, and travel will only occur at night with a maximum speed of 8 mph. The safest route was selected to include bridges and roadways that were built to higher strength standards and have higher overhead clearances for bridges and wires. No public monies will be used for the transport. Events include an "I Want to Rock With You" party from noon to 4 pm with a DJ playing songs that feature "rock" in the title, food, live artists, the Knolls Ranger, river rock decorating, photo ops with the rock, and more.

All of this for a art piece called "levitated Mass"...like I really want to walk under this big rock in Southern California when an earthquake could happen at any time!!! Will see how it turns out so stay tune for pictures. I guess I was way more impressed with the trailer that they built to move the thing.

Mars and Venus

These two planets are closer to Earth right now. Its pretty cool to look up in the sky and see these two bright lights. I didn't get the bigger camera out and this picture is actually taken through the sunroof of my truck with my cell phone. Not too bad. I guess this isn't going to happen again till at least 2016 and I can't remember if they said it was going to be this close.

The brighter dot is Mars and the not so bright one is Venus.

Random Pictures

So I was looking at pictures I have downloaded and haven't done anything with so I decided to post a few random pictures from last year that I never did a post about.



This is smoke from one of the wild fires back in September, yes totally using a zoom lens, never too close to them, occasionally we will get ash from the fires.



Not bad taken from the truck while I was driving!!! Yes, I know I'm talented...but honestly I was at a traffic light. Perfect position and timing.



My little Desmond learning how to be a cat instead of a Dog. He saw the others playing in the box and had to try it out as well. He's finally found his cat voice instead of his dog growl.



and better late then never, picture of my 42 birthday cake made by Michael and no NO smoke alarms went off with the lighting of the candles!!!!

Update on Yesterday's Post

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Fighter jets were scrambled over Los Angeles to intercept a small plane violating a flight restriction Thursday afternoon.

The Cessna was in violation of a temporary flight restriction over the city.

The two fighter jets followed the Cessna until it landed at Long Beach Airport at approximately 12:30 p.m., according to the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD). The plane was met by local law enforcement.

The Secret Service confirmed that a plane flew in restricted airspace of Marine One, the helicopter carrying President Barack Obama, at 11:40 a.m. near Los Angeles International Airport.

The pilot was interviewed at Long Beach Airport after landing, and authorities concluded the incursion was not intentional, according to the Secret Service.

The Secret Service confirmed that narcotics were found on the plane. The type of narcotics was not released.

A source told Eyewitness News the narcotics recovered was marijuana.

Yep it was 30 - 40 pounds of marijuana. How stupid is that guy and how the heck was he able to get a pilots license being that stupid.

President flying over my house AGAIN!!!

So Obama is in town again!! Why is it that every time a President comes to town it has to be in the middle of rush hour? Now I don't have to be out there anymore but really common sense tells anyone that hey why don't I make my schedule a little less taxing on the people of LA and fly in at night when the freeways aren't already congested to the MAX....but NO let me fly in right in the middle of evening traffic and make it so much worse for everyone but ME!!!

Anyway for the whole point of this post, I didn't grab my phone or my camera but this flew over my backyard this morning.



It was accompanied by two other helicopters, headed to LAX...which I'm glad I wasn't having to drop off or pick up Michael from at that time. So a couple of minutes after they flew over the house, I could her the Jets starting to take off, not really a huge deal, kinda weird that it was a Thursday and not the weekend but all of sudden it wasn't just one or two that took off it was four back to back that took off.



Well one of these JET fighters decided to accelerate at a pretty low level flying off the short runway straight over the house. Learned a lesson thanks to that jet fighter, never try to hold a cat when a JET is flying low over the house.

Thanks Mr Jet fighter I really do appreciate the sound of freedom flying over my house but give a girl a warning, I'll be wearing these cat scratches for awhile. Poor cats are still traumatized JET planes and the trash truck all in one day!!