The Worst Night of Your Life

Inspired by Inconstant Moon and taking what I learned yesterday, this was the one in my head, especially after the Blood Moon the other night.

Sharing New Space Art, The Supernova

Man!  It took me 4 days to get through this free photoshop tutorial!  2 days to figure out that a radial blur has to be in a circle or it all goes to the right because I don't read carefully.  I'm in a hurry and I skim and I'm in such a hurry that I lost 2 days for not paying attention.  Just, you know, share that with your friends, right?  LOL
But check out tutorials if you have photoshop and you really learn new things.  It makes you better.  Here is my latest space art, a super nova! 

A Spastic View of Fosters Kittens and Feathers!

Still No Ringworm

No one else seems to be showing signs of ringworm but I still have the 3 in quarantine. 
Yeah, I know they can still catch it from my clothes and the furs that escape out the door, but what else can I do? 
His brother has no spots and he's been at his side since the day they were brought in for adoption.
But he is SO playful that I'd love to give him free reign of the house and play with my other furballs!  I feel bad keeping him in the bathroom.  Worse, he's going back to a cage on Saturday.  Poor unwanted street urchins.  I hope they get adopted soon!

Where Are the Kittens?

We have Mittens back in the house.  This time we're trying to get her back on speaking terms with her brothers.  After we fostered her and her sick eye, the sibs couldn't be in the same cage anymore.  "You smell different!  I don't know you!"  Then she got depressed because she was in a cage all alone.
Cats.
Plus they all needed a cage break so they're all here in one bathroom!  Looks like they got the hissing out of their system yesterday.  No snuggling though.

But what's this on her brother?  A circular small bald spot the size of a pencil eraser.

"Um, Jo...does this look like ringworm to you?"  She came over to check and the black light says no but she said there WAS a cat with ringworm last week but they removed it and it was on a different level cage than these cats but she's suspicious and brought me the ringworm cream.  Oh these street urchins!  It's never a good day for them until they're in their forever homes, poor things.  So much stress all the time.
And so we asked Jo where all the kittens are and she said that even the local shelter mentioned that it's a slow start to kitten season this year.  They think it's because the TNR and free spay/neuter days are working. 

Blood Moon, Lunar Eclipse, April 2014

Ok, who stayed up too late last night?

Let me start with, the regular moon was SO BRIGHT!  The moonlight was casting shadows, it was so bright.

Here's a long exposure, a few seconds really:

but it's the moon, see the stars?

So then I started playing and took some long exposures, then turned up the light

Here's The Big Dipper, which is all you can normally see, but hey, look at all those stars!

Looking west, toward Canopus

airplane

And I've seen a lot of blood moons.  The best was out on the balcony, listening to Dio singing, "Rainbow in the Dark."  And for the record, it was in this same location that I did, ONCE, see a genuine rainbow in the dark.  To be fair, it wasn't full dark, the sun was setting, but it WAS dark in that part of the sky.  So yeah, it was crazy looking and Ronnie James Dio was totally singing the truth.

 So there it is, the Blood Moon that I told myself I wasn't going to stay up and watch.  If you missed it, don't worry, this in no once-in-a-lifetime event.  You'll get another chance to see a lunar eclipse real soon now, actually.  We have 4 within the next 18 months; Oct. 8, 2014, April 4, 2015, and Sept. 28, 2015!

Car Show Muscle

You never know what you'll see at a car show.  Today was all Chevy Nova day and I was ecstatic!  Now, I'm all about the 3rd generation body style, it has always been my favorite car but I can appreciate a good Chevy II or a 2nd gen--and they were ALL out today!

 Here's a beauty of a Nova.  It's at all the car shows which is fine because sometimes he's the only Nova there.  These aggressive front ends, like a shark.   Novas look like they're moving when they're standing still.

1963, 2nd generation.  You can tell from the grill work how the Gen 3, the Chevelle, and the Camaro will eventually evolve.

 White Nova, 2nd gen body.  Flawless interior!

 And this beauty of a Chevy II converted into a race car

Super Sport Chevy Nova

They had other cars out there, of course.  Here's a little something from the stables.  All the pony cars were grouped together this time

YEAH!  This is a thing of beauty!  The living embodiment of all my Matchbox Cars as a kid!

Every skull is different

 Art on wheels

Interior of an AMX.  Back in the day, car manufacturers made spaceships.

A story about microfiber towels.  

I have a big bag of microfiber towels that I bought at Costco.  Ok, they're gross.  They stick to the skin of your hands and it's just...gross.  I hate them.

A few weeks ago, I wrote about what to buy a car enthusiast and The Junkman recommended some microfiber towels.  As in everything, he was 100% correct!

 

This is just me doing laundry, I had to take a picture of this.  See how plush these edgeless towels are?   And yes, you CAN wash these towels.  Hot water wash, no softener in the wash or the dryer.  

So what do I do with the other icky towels?  Well, microfiber, they must be a dust magnet and you can really dust off your furniture, right?  Not so much.  But they are awesome at cleaning windows!  Yeah, I wash my windows once a year in the spring and there was one room where the windows were REALLY grody because I didn't wash them when we moved in--it was still the filth from the original owners.  And THAT was a major clean-up effort, but I digress.  You know how when you wash a window and you have the spray cleaner and you have to use maybe 4 or 5 paper towels for 1 window to get it right?  One Costco microfiber tower cleaned  4 windows.  No paper towels, no streaks.  So those cheap microfiber towels are great for windows and house chores but I'm using these new plush towels from The Rag Company solely for car washing.