tie-dye

Tie-dye is cool! Lime knows this. That's why she wears so much of it, that sorting clothes in the Lime residence is: colors, darks, whites, and tie-dye.

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My Pennsylvania friend was kind enough to make one for me, and shipped it way back around Easter time. I have worn it plenty of times since receiving it, but wanted to post a self portrait as a thank-you. So this is me, trying very hard to look casual, and not be so stinkin' self-conscious. It only took 73 tries to get this natural.

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Most of the time, I don't do just a tee shirt. For casual, I like a collared shirt on top, but to make it casual, I leave the top shirt unbuttoned. It's a modest grunge kind of thing. (I am wearing a white tee shirt under the tie-dye.)

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But I've wanted a tie-dye shirt for a while now, and I finally have one, thanks to Lime! This shirt is sa-WEET!! A special word of appreciation should also go to my youngest son, who helped me with the self-portrait. The poor guy tried to be patient. He really did, saying (72 times), "Yeah, Dad; that one's good enough. Are we done now?"

sitsmoo

I had hoped to post something about a cow today. These are not cows, and I'll bet you figured that out already, because you are oh-so-clever. Well, they are not cows, but they are chocolate and vanilla... just like the calves that Leeloo showed on her project 365. And calves, of course are... baby cows. Lime's word verification was "sitsmoo." The prefix "sits" is what you do on top of this chocolate and vanilla pair, after they're trained and saddled.

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So there we go! I've covered sits and moo with a recent pic. This one was from that day a few weeks ago when I took my son up to Wisconsin for a photo safari of sorts. I've been wanting to show you, but I got carried away with my eagerness with birds. Please be patient; I'll have more bird pics soon enough.

hint of lime

It is hard to take low-light shots without a tripod, but my wife was at the wheel, and I redeemed the time by taking this shot of a commuter train to show movement. I like these moving shots, and plan to do more... with and without a tripod.

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This may not be the smoothest segue, but I'm going from the photo of something green, which is not exactly lime green, to something lime, which is not exactly lime green. Did you catch that? Anyhoo, the following is an interview from my friend, who is called... Lime.

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1. Since I am a fan of Mike Rowe's Dirty Jobs, what is the dirtiest job you've ever done?

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I've never had a dirty occupation per se, but there have been many disgusting tasks I've performed. Back at the Craver house, the dirtiest jobs all go to me... cleaning gutters, rodding sewage, cleaning gross spills, heinous baby and pet discharges, etc., but the worst was probably the one time in my young teens, when I was playing Spin-the-bottle and I kissed a girl right on the mouth. Sure, it's a dirty job, but somebody's gotta do it!

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2. What skill do you wish you had and why?

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Human flight-- like superman. C'mon, is an explanation really necessary here? That would be so cool!!! But if that's too "lofty," I have a backup answer...

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"You know, like nunchuku skills, bow hunting skills, computer hacking skills... Girls only want boyfriends who have great skills." (From Napoleon Dynamite.) .

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3. I was just elected President and I am expanding the federal government by creating new departments. What new cabinet position shall I create for you?

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I should like to chair the department of simultaneously shrinking the federal government, by dissolving any programs I deem useless, wasteful or just plain wrong. I could do our country a lot of good, by addressing programs one at a time, armed with a big rubber stamp that says, "You are the weakest link. Bye-bye."

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4. You can have one meal every day for the rest of your life. What is it?

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PB&J. I think I could seriously do that. Of course, I would not have regular milk, since I'm lactose intolerant. I would need to wash my meals down with that lactose free stuff. What a great invention!

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5. An evil mastermind is going to destroy the world unless you can stop him. You are armed with a spoon, a rubber chicken, a can of aquanet, and a bucket of peanuts. What is your plan?

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Oh, that's too easy!!! Since evil masterminds can't resist monologues, I wait until he begins, then I cause a distraction by flipping the bird (the chicken of course!) and while everyone is momentarily taken aback, I use the spoon to flick peanuts to wipe out his minions, making sure I aim carefully, as I intend to eat whatever's left, then spray the aquanet in his face, emptying the entire contents. Overturning the empty peanut bucket on his head, I bang away with the empty aquanet canister until he concedes his defeat.

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I hope I get to keep the chicken when I'm done.

another latte, please

Waiter, there's a hamster in my coffee...

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A less informed individual might think that I did not take today's post seriously. But in a world where Beverly Hills Chihuahua is the #1 movie in America (according to today's Chicago Tribune), anything is possible!

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I really don't have anything against movies that star little lap dogs, but is this the best we can do?

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Why am I calling this post "another latte?" Well, there's a hamster in my cup; I don't want this one; please get me another. Get it? Lime used that word today (latte), and I had to wrestle with whether or not I should change the title. Bottom line: I just couldn't think of anything else. Maybe I have the same thing that's going around in Hollywood.