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Lockdown Photos
May 23, 2021
Lockdown Photo #140
The spigot on a very large Tide container. I wonder if it's possible to get it clean enough inside to use it as a drink dispenser.
Lockdown Photo #139
I expect every home with wiring that hasn’t been updated for over 35 years (like our condo unit) is likely to have a few of these.
Lockdown Photo # 138
The corner of a cutting board that has a wide enough channel to hold the juices when I carve meat.
May 21, 2021
Lockdown Photo #135
A year ago February, before the pandemic panic, I bought this two-four of water. We haven’t gotten into it yet. I mostly use refillable bottles.
A 2-4 of water is an appropriate photo for the beginning of the May 2-4 weekend, aka Victoria Day in Canada.
(It’s often a big drinking weekend and cases of beer in Canada are sometimes referred to as 2-4s)
May 20, 2021
Lockdown Photo #133
The connector for the tube of my Platypus (a 3 litre water bag I have carried with me in a backpack on long hikes. The tube has a bite valve at the other end to make it easy to sip or drink while walking).
Lockdown Photo #132
The charger for the built-in batteries of my hearing aids (I'm a marginal case for needing them, but I love them!)
Lockdown Photo #130
Recommended reading for the upcoming long weekends
May 19, 2021
Lockdown Photo #128
A handy little thing to hold one-sheet recipes. It had been chipped in the store, so the proprietor lowered the price dramatically. It works especially well with recipes that can be removed from loose-leaf binders.
Previous Lockdown Photos can be seen here.
May 18, 2021
Lockdown Photo #127
The top of my bottle of Ledaig (slightly smoky scotch from the Tobermory Distillery on the Isle of Mull).
Lockdown Photo #125
The underside (or business end, as Grant H referred to it) of our electric pepper grinder.
May 17, 2021
Lockdown Photo #123
The side of my handheld Garmin GPS that I bought many years ago to use mostly for geocaching. It was wonderful at the time but I haven’t used it much in the past decade (as you can tell from the dust on it).
Lockdown Photo #122
Not the dryer vent hose/pipe.
It's the vent hose/pipe going up through the cupboard from the range hood.
May 16, 2021
Lockdown Photo #120
Looking through and into the clear plastic canister on the vacuum cleaner.
May 15, 2021
Lockdown Photo #117
They're called "pencil crayons" in most parts of Canada. Where I grew up, they were called "colored pencils".
May 14, 2021
Lockdown Photo #115
The back of my Apple Watch. No, it isn't broken; that's just the way the light it that one spot.
Previous Lockdown Photos can be seen here.
Lockdown Photo #114
My high school class ring: Muskegon (Michigan) High School class of 1961.
We have a 60th year class reunion scheduled for late August. I took this photo because I wonder if the border will be open by then.
As one of my classmates observed during our senior year, our class was the last one until the year 6009 whose grad year is the same when read upside down. I never could figure out which side of the ring had the 19 and which side had the 61.
Lockdown Photo #113
Googly eyes.
Last fall when we were allowed to have family members visit us, our granddaughter was looking for some hair ties for her children. She saw this mug on the shelf in the bathroom and thought we might have some in there because we sometimes have some around "just in case". A minute later, she came out laughing when she saw these inside the mug.
Lockdown Photo #112
Sidewalk chalk. Can't wait for the grands and great-grands to be able to visit again!
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