NO - NOT THE KNIFE

I picked up a new book called "Licensing Photography" and was trying to stay awake while reading it but when I woke up I did come away with a few tidbits of information. MAN, did I screw myself during the filming of Public Enemies.

Here I am sitting on the very first photos IN THE WORLD of Johnny Depp filming a new movie on location and the biggest Japanese Movie Magazine contacts me and asked if they could purchase some photos for $25. DAAAA!!! Here I am writing a blog with 10,000 people on that day reading and sucking up my photos and I'm so caught up in the moment tell them to DOUBLE it and we have a deal. I get $50 and three magazines?

sigh! stupid stupid stupid

One last thing about photography. I had Christmas last night as I received a big box of canvas prints. I think I'll have to charge people more as I did not account for the time it takes to open the box. Seriously - from the time I started to when I finally got the last print out it was ONE HOUR! I had bubble wrap all over and freaking packing peanuts everywhere (Blake does not like the taste of packing peanuts, they are nothing at all like marshmellows

DJ made me sign a release form so I could use the knife (no running, no flipping it, no trying to stick it in the floor) but I don't think she knew I would be slashing with it for an hour. It did fall on the floor once, IT WAS AN ACCIDENT! No one was permanently injured.

Anyway - I was amazed that they actually look better in real life then they do on the computer. Canvas ROCKS!!!
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Sixty-nine years ago today was the largest storm ever to hit Wisconsin. My mom told me the story of this.

She was in country school, way up north in Wisconsin in 1940. The day started out in the mid 60's and sunny. Many of the children wore short sleeves and she had a dress on and it was almost like a party atmosphere the weather was so wonderful.

It was about noon when a farmer enter the one room school house and told the teacher to send the students home. The teacher refused but then the farmer showed his rifle and said "SEND THE CHILDREN HOME, NOW!"

So my mom was walking home in no special hurry but it did seem like it was getting colder and a little more windy. But she only had to walk like three miles so . . . .

The wind was getting stronger and it was getting colder, very cold and she had reached the woods and had decided to stop for a little while as it was getting REAL windy and she huddled near a clump of trees in shelter waiting for the storm to pass but it was getting real bad and she was frightened.

In the distance she her her brother Wayne "Evelyn. . . . Evelyne" and she yelled out. They made it home just as the snow started to come down.

In a matter of 8 hours the temperature went from the mid 60's to 20 degrees and was still dropping. There were 20 inches of snow and 80 mph winds that night. 154 people lost their lives, mostly hunters who were in short sleeves along with thousands of cattle and millions of turkeys that could not survive the 20 foot drifts.

eight hours earlier it was 62 degrees

The storm was called the Great Armistice Day Storm. It was a pan handle hooker and the barometric pressure is the lowest ever recorded in Wisconsin (28.66).

The farmer in the above story was a weather watcher and had noticed his barometer was dropping faster then he had ever seen. It was when he realize it was not broken he decided to put things into his own hands.

Because of this storm NOAA decided they needed to be a little more accurate with weather forecasts. What they did was instead of one BIG office in Chicago they created many smaller offices around the region.
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In 1964 the Rolling Stones played in Milwaukee to 1,200 fans. As a reporter wrote in the Milwaukee Journal after the show.

"Screams from a thousand throats drowned out all but the most insistent electronic cacaphony and the two-fisted smashes of drummer Charlie Watts. Unless someone teaches guitar chords to chimpanzees, the visual ultimate has been reached in the Rolling Stones. With shoulder length hair and high heeled boots, they seemed more feminine than their fans. The Stones make the Beatles look like clean cut kids. You would think it must be some kind of parody - but the little girls in front paid $5.50 a seat."

HEY - my mom would not let me have a Beatles haircut.

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DJ had a pet peeve moment. She says she is always answering the phone at work and I guess yesterday someone called asking for a number of another agency. DJ then starts to give the number and halts, the woman on the other end can't find a pen to write the number down. sigh!
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We went to the new Hy-Vee store on the way home last night. Nice place, wide aisles a TOM of food, HUGE deli. Good liqure department with a nice wall of craft beer (not as good as Woodmans though).

HOWEVER - we went there looking for our #1 Favorite Pizza Bellatoria Pepperoni Thin Crust. It's is a GREAT Pizza and even my buddy Elweed thought it was the best he has ever had. BUT, they did not have it so I found the Manager and told them to get it. She was very friendly and wrote it down and they will call me when they get it.

SO - what's for supper? hmmmm We purchased a Rotisserie Chicken but I think I picked up a Rotisserie Cornish Game Hen by accident. I was making the potatoes (again - I got to use a knife) and DJ was working on the chicken and I said- that's it??? Only one side? No no - that is the whole thing honey. Really? What will YOU eat, at which point my knife privileges were taken away.

That's it for today - I'll tell the exciting story of the rolling Lovastatin under the stove for another day.

Rod