So our cats that we all know and love get a thrill out of hanging out in odd places. Since we moved almost everything out of our house the oddness of their hang outs has become more apparent. The following photos have all been taken today and they are not setup or anything in any way. These are simply places that I have found a cat today.

Now other than the usual places that you would expect to find a cat there are a few that I understand.

The Closet
Here we have Darwin hanging out in the clothes in the closet. This is a favorite hang out of Darwin’s and by proxy a hang out for Luna as well.

Then there are the ones that I don’t understand.

The Kitchen Island

Usually the focal point of activity in most houses, the cats both enjoy the island as a meeting place. I think that they plan their mischievousness for the day there.

Now when you add a warm fuzzy hoodie to the kitchen island you have a meeting place & a nap place.

Sometimes those naps can get well… out of hand.

And let us not forget the stools. Anyone who has been to our place knows that she loves the stools. I actually get her a stool and set her on it when I am doing a photo shoot in studio ’cause she stays put.

The Door
Now our kittens are very much like puppies in that they hang out at the door waiting for us to get home. Today is no exception – I come home and walk in to find Luna waiting for me. But she couldn’t wait for me on the cold hard floor, no no we find Luna on my camera bag the only thing around.

The Window
We also have a long window ledge that they can look out the window on and run along and such.

The Office

Now the other place that Luna likes to hang out is under my desk on my footstool.

Darwin also likes to hang in the office but he enjoys a much loftier perch to call his own. He jumps up to the top of the wall and like the king he is sits and looks down on the world.

Now when Luna is in the office with me chances are she isn’t sitting on my lap or on the monitor – she is sitting on me, my mouse, keyboard. You know… in the way.

She is far too lazy to chase this mouse.

She would much rather nap on my hand while I rest it down.

Lets not forget Luna’s favorite place to hang out in the house. Anywhere that I am! If I am at my desk or in bed or at the island you can be sure that Luna will be there with me.

Today I was sitting around waiting for some clients to come and grab some orders, when I look at my phone and it says that it is 3:20pm or something around that time. I look at my computer and it most definitely is 5ish. I open my phone to see that it is black in side and none of the buttons are responsive…. I try to power it off … Nothing I pull the battery and then put it back on ….. nothing I again pull the battery and wait a few moments before putting it back on… Bingo I have a phone again and 50 billion msgs from people that where trying to get a hold of me. Odd to say the least

Camera: Canon 1D Mark II
Aperture: 3.2
Shutter: 1/2000
Lens: 24-70mm @ 24mm
ISO: 100
Date Taken: June 24 2005

Ahhh Another Wedding done.

We just got home from shooting yet another wedding at yet another golf course :) Any way I am tired and ready for bed!

Camera: Canon 1D Mark II
Aperture: 2.8
Shutter: 1/60
Lens: 24-70mm @ 24mm
ISO: 50
Date Taken: July.02.2005

Again shinny lollipop for the first comment that knows where this is!

We are in the middle of a wedding today but we have some time so I thought I would blog a photo

Camera: Canon 1D Mark II
Aperture: 3.5
Shutter: 1/50
Lens: 28-105mm @ 28mm
ISO: 400
Date Taken: Nov.05.2004

Hurray the beetle has heat again :) Well it always had heat but I think the cables that command the heat got disconnected when the transmission was done and then didn’t get reconnected, that or the came disco’ed on there own. Also a possibility. So on a crappy wet morning like today when heat is sometimes a help I got to crawl under the car and reconnect them. :) No biggy it is fun to get soaking wet first thing in the morning.
Just waiting for the coffee to finish brewing and I am back at it for another fun filled day of post processing hell :) Don’t get me wrong I enjoy this more then anything but with the weather looking like winter is moving on in long before his possession date, I kinda feel like I missed summer.
Any way this was taken back when it still looked like summer. I will give a shinny, lollipop to any one that can tell me where this was taken.

Camera: Canon 1D Mark II
Aperture: 2.8
Shutter: 1/1600
Lens: 24-70mm @ 24mm
ISO: 50
Date Taken: July 10 2005

Today was spent again in front of my computer in which I consumed 17 billion gallons of coffee. Its like a scene in that movie that Bob & Doug McKenzie made years ago, the one where he gets stuck in the vat of beer and drinks his way out. I feel like that today.

Camera: Canon 1D Mark II
Aperture: 2.8
Shutter: 1/640
Lens: 24-70mm @ 24mm
ISO: 50
Date Taken: July 07 2005

If this is a TWO HANDED Game, what is this perverts other hand doing?

Camera: Canon 1D Mark II
Aperture: 2.8
Shutter: 1/60
Lens: 24-70mm @ 48mm
ISO: 125
Date Taken: August.11.2005

Camera: Canon 1D Mark II
Aperture: 2.8
Shutter: 1/200
Lens: 24-70mm @ 24mm
ISO: 125
Date Taken: August.11.2005

It really cool when you go down to ruckus pickup your consigned photos and instead of handing you your photo they hand you cheques. because they sold. Yup.  That is good times.

Camera: Canon 1D Mark II
Aperture: 3.5
Shutter: 1/125
Lens: 24-70mm @ 45mm
ISO: 200
Date Taken: July 09 2005

I am waiting for my flight back to Edmonchuck so I though that would blog something about my week like all good stories the best place to start is at the beginning.

Sunday
Jewish weddings are the shiznit. They really know how to party it up

Monday
Today is the day that we are to know when the Uhaul is ready. There stupid system is that they will call us and let us know when is the best time to get it. Today the best time was 11am. We go on down to the place and fill out the paper work etc and then we get to bring the gargantuan beast home and take up the entire front loading zone with its hugeness. The truck is a 5 ton with a 24 foot box on the back making it a grand total of at least 35 to 40 feet long. Once it is parked I just load away but with the power of a moving dolly I was able to get all in the truck in no time. Shouts out to rob who helped me up the ramp with the deep freeze. I was going to get on the road right after loading the last of our stuff from Laura & Chris’s, but by the time that was finished I was truly beat from moving and from the wedding the day before. So in stead we had diner, and went home to sleep.

Tuesday
At 4:30 in the morning guess who is awake and showering to get ready to beginning the trek west. Yup it was me :) by 5:00 am I am in the truck and away I am going out of town. I stopped to “top up” the tank at the petrocan on the way out of town to a scary surprise. The little under half a tank that I pumped in to the thing cost me 137 dollars. Yup you heard right . It was at this point that I got really scared. I did the pay at the pump gig with the visa and well I was at just over half a tank and the visa auto authenticates but it didn’t let me enter the amount. It turns out that the amount is actually 100 dollars cause I actually went over that & I had to authenticate twice. On the road I go and man of all the drives that I have done to Vancouver over the years (and they are starting to add up I tell ya) this was the most full of photo ops. Not 20 min out of Edmonton that misty fog in the low lying valleys was starting to form and then the Sun Started to come up in full force and the shit looked phenomenal. There was a ton of predatory Birds near Airdre. In fact there wasn’t a mile that is didn’t see at least one of them for a while. They were just sitting on the fence posts and random trees. And then the mountains looked there usual beauty complete with big white fluffy clouds that were bobbing over the tops like a river over rocks.

I could go on and on for ever about all the fantastic photo ops that I saw on the way. Now those that frequent my blog know that I am a man of few words most of the time and I usually just post photos to explain things. Now some of you may be noticing that I there are more words here & less photos. Well the answer to this and other burning questions can be found in a rented 24 foot truck that is a mere 3 feet narrower then the average lane. The thing was gargantuan, there was no way in hell that I could pull this thing safely over to the shoulder of most of the highways that I was on, In fact fitting in the lanes was iffy on some of them. And like all trips to Van the need to get there as soon as possible was looming over every thing. I think the next time I drive to Vancouver in October I will take a week at to do it. There is so much to see and so many photo ops that I may need a week to do it.

Its one thing to Drive to Van stopping only for gas but it is quite another to take ones time and see stuff along the way. I arrived in Burnaby around 9ish and retrieved the keys for our new digs and then drove to our new & very interesting neighborhood. I arrived and parked the truck illegally because that is really the only way that one can park a 30 odd foot monstrosity. The new digs are quite cool Photos to come! But that is a blog post of its own.

Wednesday
I wake up early and unload all the stuff and discover that we really need to install an air conditioner. Who knew that when you have 16ft of windows and then you take those windows and face them south you end up with a really hot place. It didn’t take me to long to move in surprisingly enough the whole adventure wasn’t that bad. After I was done I grabbed a beer with Darren at this wood fired pizza place down the street. We made the mistake of sitting on the patio on the corner. We were accosted by hobos left right and center. They are going to take a little getting used to. I mean I get asked for change all the time in Edmonton as well but they ask politely and I politely say that I don’t have any and that is that. We both politely continue along our ways. But in Van they aren’t content with that, they counter offer you. For example while we were out on the patio this one particular hobo came up and ask if we had any change. We said that we didn’t to which he replied, well give me some of your beer. We replied with a much less polite NO, to which he counter offered again, Well are you going to eat that, pointing to Darren’s food. We eventually had to tell him in a far from polite manner to bugger off. Now I am all for helping the needy but if you are asking for beer before you ask for food I am afraid that I have very little compassion. After the Grub we wondered about to see what we could see. We wandered to this park near our new house that Miranda & I have been eying up on Google Earth as a potential place to launch a kayak. Well we were there for a while dodging hobos and what not when a guy asked us for the time, which Darren gave and he says oh good I still have an hour till the fireworks. Fireworks??? Oh ya there is fire works tonight Darren says. It is the Festival of Fire or wheat ever it called. So after a quick stop at the loft to grab a tripod we buggered off to English bay for the fire works.

Thursday
Got up early and took the kayak over to D’s place because there is no way in hell that it was getting anywhere near fitting up to our house. So it is there for him to use as he desires After I dropped him off at work in the Monstrosity that is the Uhaul. I took it to the Uhaul place so I could be rid of it, all in all it cost about 650ish bux for fuel for that thing. came home and napped for I was so beat.

The View from our building
Caught a plane that eve and Bam I am then here in Edmonchuck. and well I am going to leave it at that cause I am tired and this needs to get up on line.

Today is Moving Day!!!!! Ya the enthusiasm is fake, but the excitement of going to Vancouver is high, but the realization that I have to unload a truck when I get there is disheartening, but the second realization that there is an elevator on both ends is spirit lifting. Any how I have to go & get my truck now
:)