The Photography Bandit

So check this out, we found these photos on Mom's phone from back in December, right after Christmas, but we couldn't tell who had taken them. Apparently a thief had stolen Mom's phone and we needed some clues

First, there was this, something about working really hard... maybe it was my teacher, Miss Darlene!

Then some up close shots of the Christmas season... could it have been Nana? She just looooooves Christmas.

Or maybe it was Nonie who had taken them? I wondered when I saw this one of her husband Russ from his high school hoops days.

I got really anxious when a photo of me on my puke boat popped up. Was it the puke boat photography pirate? Who was in my house taking these photos?

Then there was this, and I started to feel like I was getting a couple clues that were going to come in handy...

And then these shots of her some of our furry friends started to give it away...

Particularly when they appeared to be a jail cell....

And at long last we found out who the photographer was when she implicated herself!

Mae has gone on a photography shooting spree, just snatched up the camera and did her thing. She is now teaching photography class at the University of Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 6-10pm, if you're interested in taking a class.

Down & Out

HEY FINLEY, WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?!!

Well, young fella, let me tell you. Below is a picture of Mae and me laying on our air mattresses. Well, those air mattresses transform into what we call our "puke boats." See, when we get the stomach flu, we get our puke boats out, blow them up and hang out on them til we're better (hence the pots next to them).

So where have I been? Well, let's see. Dad got influenza A a few days before Christmas, Mae got a virus after Christmas, which morphed into an ear infection. Then I got the stomach flu right after the New Year, then Mae got it and then Dad and Mom got it. In the meantime, Dad never got better and now has a nice cough. In the mean-meantime, Mae went from the stomach flu into a really bad cough which was diagnosed the other day as a double ear infection. Then last night, after steering clear of all the fever, cough and flu sicknesses in our house, I went back to school and picked something up and now I've got a fever, runny nose and a cough.

So where have I been? Down and out, dude, down and out.