Blue sky… That was a few days back. These roses are about 14 feet high. Yes the hedge needs some attention when the birds finally fledge. So how do I take a photo of high up roses. Being one half inch above average height rather limits my reaching capacity. Can’t use the ladders. They are loaned out to someone for a few days. That was just before a pesky pandemic broke out. So might see them again in 2021. So what to do.
I tried standing on a plastic garden chair. Even on my tippy toes, no where near high enough.
I then tried to rig up a DIY selfie stick. The long pole window washer makes a surprisingly fine temporary solution. And yes it did generate enough height. One Tinnie Winnie technical problem. Once the mobile phone is 14ft high, how do you press the record button. Get another pole! Yes I actually considered this for a few moments. Didn’t really think this one through.
I even dug out Son’s toy drone with its onboard camera. A brilliant solution let down by one thing. We both can’t fly it. I carefully positioned the drone below the rose. All I had to do was gently lift the drone off the ground. Get to the right height, hover it for a second while I pressed the camera button. That was the plan. Unfortunately my gentle liftoff was more akin to a NASA rocket launch. Within seconds the drone had screamed over the roof of the house and was heading towards the road. Thankfully when the drone did come down on the street it had not hit anyone. I bet the landing was as graceful as a Dodo jumping off a cliff.
So time for Plan X.
Thankfully the trampoline is kinda close by. So yes I’m not proud. I bounced and tried to take a photo on the way up. The photo above was the best one out of an understandably out of focus bad bunch. But given the effort, yes it was kinda worth it. Although I particularly liked this effort.
I can hear the cries. You only had one job, take a photo of the roses. Probably best not become a wedding photographer just yet.
Gee, why not just build a time machine and … That is a pretty ingenious train of thought. I suppose if you timed the clicking of the shutter precisely at the apogee of your jump, you might get a clear image. Shouldn’t take more than — I’d estimate — a thousand jumps to get the timing down. You might never succeed, but your thighs would be buff! LOL.
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Yes the thighs lost interest quickly.
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This was very entertaining to read and imagine. ๐ Hey, whatever works. Sometimes the best solutions are the ones that provide the most ingenuity, imagination and entertainment. Now, how do we bake that 20 foot cookie?
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You start baking at your side of the Atlantic and I start at this side and we try and meet the cookie up in the middle! Thatโs probably a bit over 20ft….๐
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๐ Yeah thatโs a bit over 20ft.
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Just a tad. Some calories in that cookie for sure.
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Ha ha ha ha.
They make blue tooth clickers if your phone has Bluetooth. They are rather inexpensive. But I like the fuzzy look. A soft world!!
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Very soft…
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Brilliant! I wanna come play at your house! You guys always find fun things to do!๐๐๐
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If only it was like this all the time. x
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I love all the antics you get up to. Still a kid at heart
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Lol … loved the story and the effort A+ ๐๐
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Thank you. Good luck with today. Crossing everything for you.
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Thank you so much โค๏ธ still nervous – it be ok – I am here… first part is effort
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Take care
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Haha!! You do provide entertainment for your boy, don’t you! ๐ I do like the picture!
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He just shakes his head.
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LOL!
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The second one is very artistic!
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Very out of focus….
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The backdrop is in sharp focus. Just not the roses.
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I only had one job…..
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And a difficult one.
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True
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Yeah, you haven’t trimmed your hedge yet. You just don’t want your neighbours watching you with their binoculars.
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Luckily itโs bungalows in our bit. So difficult to see.
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You’re great, good story! The rose is beautiful!
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Thank you so much.
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I give you an A for
Creative problem solving.
Effort.
Mood Lightening.
If I had you as my neighbour, I’d not get anything done for staying by the window watching the antics you get up to.
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Thankfully tall hedges and bungalows block the view.
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I love both pictures … at first glance, I thought the second one was late-stage dandelions. Very artistic, and you have proven that old adage, “Where there’s a will, there’s a way”!
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Or where thereโs no brain thereโs always a failed plan…..
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Now stop that right now! You have an excellent brain and equally important, a good heart. I will admit that baking might not be your strong suit, but we all have our Achilles heel!
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We do.
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I suppose that career opening as an elephant proctologist is non starter then. Love the constructive use of time – all that ‘learn a new skill during lockdown’. Alternative window cleaner, high wall chad model…
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Yes sadly thatโs a non starter…
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Love it… I’m having a giggle that you never fell and cracked your head… Now come on, right now, that would be it all and try explaining that at A and E.
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It would be funny. I did poke myself in the eye with the mobile when I was bouncing though….
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Hope you’ve not got a keeker.
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Thankfully not this time.
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The fates will have been smiling…
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Which is nice.
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Yeah they don’t do it often, do they!! And generally it is over something you wish they’d kept their damned smiles over !!!!
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That is so so true. Hope itโs a great weekend for you. x
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Actually been really busy this week. Glad of a quiet Saturday.
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So hope itโs good for you my friend. x
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Yep made a curry, opened wine …headed up under the eaves here to our second sitting room and listened to old vinyl. Not bad at all. Hope yours was good my friend. x
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That sounds like heaven. x
We watched some old Download metal concerts on TV. Great fun.
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Sounds good. Nothing like a good Sat nite.
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Exactly. x
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Great fun – full of excellent images. Er, do you have an upstairs window?
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Bungalow…….
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I feared as much. I won’t suggest you try the roof.
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That would be too dangerous
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Great effort! You tried! And hopefully had some fun in the process ๐
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It was great fun apart from the panic when the drone was launched over the house.
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You are definitely determined when you want to accomplish something!!
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Or slightly stubborn with no clear plan.
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ok then
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Would a chair help? LOL
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Probably…..
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ha! Take care Gary.
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I love your problem solving attempts and the fact that youโll give just about anything a try! Hope you enjoyed the bouncing
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It was fun.
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I bet. Youโve motivated me .. Iโm going to bounce on the trampoline today ๐
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I bet you will have so much fun. See what you can photograph. x
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Youโre on!
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