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This is what I made for dinner tonight - Potticotti. It may sound slightly familar because it's just a variation of manicotti. Instead of the usual filling inside the manicotti noodles, I make a filling out of potted meat, spices, grated parmesan cheese and an egg. Then I make your typical pasta sauce, pour over it and bake it until the shredded mozzarella cheese on top comes out golden brown. I invented this recipe because I alway thought potted meat got a bad rep a long time ago, while it could be jazzed up and become something for more "upscale" palates. Although it's only one noodle, this is actually bigger than it looks. The plate is larger than normal size and the manicotti noodle really expanded after I had prepared it. Taken on December 20th, 2024, with my Sony Alpha SLT-a77V DSLR.

Mary Tyler Moore screenshot. Taken on August 2nd, 2011, with my tiny Shift 3 digital keychain camera. It takes .1 megapixel pictures.

I saw this cherry looking 1969 Oldsmobile Cutlass station wagon sitting at an automotive repair shop. I guess it's owner had sent it in for some minor repairs. I think it's the same color as the 1969 Oldsmobile 98 LS I used to have. Taken on October 1st, 2024, with my Sony Alpha SLT-a77V DSLR.

These are the homemade rolls I made for Thanksgiving. They're actually the kind of rolls you would get in a steak house, but I really like them at home for just about any occasion, so that's what I go with. They're called Texas Roadhouse Rolls.

This is what I fixed for Thanksgiving dinner this year. Turkey, mashed potatoes, homemade gravy, green beans, stuffing, homemade rolls, cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie. I made everything on Thanksgiving Day except for the pumpkin pies, which I always make the night before Thanksgiving.

My turkey this Thanksgiving didn't have any legs or wings on it when I unwrapped it, so I got out a freezer bag of turkey meat, which had two legs and two wings in it, thawed them, and attached them to the body of the bird with corn dog sticks. That's why I called it "Frankenturkey."

Some members of my church and I travelled over to nearby Evansville, Indiana yesterday so that we could make up boxes of food to give away. The place had two big, long assembly lines and as the boxes moved along it, each person would put their item into the box. Each family got things like green beans, corn, yams, stuffing mix, potatoes, celery and a whole turkey. The event, which was called "Gobbler Gathering," gave out 140,000 pounds of food for the less fortunate so that they could have a good Thanksgiving dinner. Taken on November 26th, 2024, with my Sony Cyber-Shot DSC-W710 digital point and shoot camera.

Children's drawings featured on a stamp from Bulgaria.

A modern blimp on a stamp. And I use Fuji Film, too.

Somewhere I do have the fourth stamp in this set of four commemorating the Boston Tea Party.

Another shot on film of the Fall tree picture I take every Autumn. Camera: Minolta X-7A No. 4 Lens: Minolta MD 50mm, f/1.7 Film: Kodak Gold 200 (expired on 8/22) Shooting Program: Manual Aperture: f/8 Shutter Speed: 1/60 of a second Date: October 25th, 2024, 11.05 a.m. Location: Norris City, Illinois, U.S.A. Developing Chemicals: Unicolor C-41 Water pre-soak: 1 minute at 102 degrees Developer: 3 mins. and 30 secs. at 102 degrees Water rinse: 2 minutes (to keep chemicals clean) Blix: 6 ½ minutes at 102 degrees Water rinse: 2 minutes at approx. 100 degrees Stabilizer: 1 minute at room temperature Water rinse: 2 minutes Kodak Photo-Flo 200: 1 minute Minolta X-7A-4 Gold 200 Fall Tree 2024 12kf

Some Kodak Gold 200 film. This image was taken on Kodak Gold 200, and is a fine example of what this film looks like when used. Camera: Minolta X-7A No. 4 Lens: Minolta MD Zoom 28-70mm, f/3.5 (shot @ 70mm and 1:4 macro) Film: Kodak Gold 200 (expired on 8/22) Shooting Program: Manual Aperture: f/22 Shutter Speed: “B” (bulb) 20 seconds Date: November 2nd, 2024, 9.39 a.m. Location: Norris City, Illinois, U.S.A. Developing Chemicals: Unicolor C-41 Water pre-soak: 1 minute at 102 degrees Developer: 3 mins. and 30 secs. at 102 degrees Water rinse: 2 minutes (to keep chemicals clean) Blix: 6 ½ minutes at 102 degrees Water rinse: 2 minutes at approx. 100 degrees Stabilizer: 1 minute at room temperature Water rinse: 2 minutes Kodak Photo-Flo 200: 1 minute Minolta X-7A-4 Gold 200 Fall Tree 2024 33if

I made these Irish Mist Brownies for a funeral dinner held at my church yesterday. A member had died and their family requested the dinner for after the funeral, which my church does all the time. Taken on November 24th, 2024, with my little Samsung L100 digital point and shoot camera.

This is a Hot Wheels, one of their rare castings that isn't an automobile. It's the Goodyear Blimp.

This is a local Bigfoot statue. There are a few statues around my area and this one is located in the Shawnee National Forest area. Taken on October 23rd, 2015, with my Sony Alpha SLT-a77V DSLR.

I stitched together two images to achieve this panoramic shot of a little Baptist church in Opdyke, Illinois. They were holding Vacation Bible School at the time. Notice the Romans onstage. Taken with my Kodak Easy Share M1073 IS digital point and shoot camera on July 21st, 2013.

Found at a Build-A-Bear store. Taken with my Kodak Easy Share M1073 IS digital point and shoot camera on August 10th, 2013.