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Oh. Yeah…Hello There, Friend!

Again, it’s been far too long since we’ve last talked.  But I told you, we’re going to do this more often.  And starting right now.  So, what I’m about to hit you over the head with are a bunch of beautiful supersamplesnaps that have been taken over the past few…well…months.  Yeah.  we have some catch-up to do.  As my third grade teacher Ms. Greene used to say, we’re going to have a ‘ketchup & mustard day.’

Now, I just liked that sound of that because it made me think of hamburgers & hotdogs, both a delicious part of life.  At the time, I didn’t realize that this meant that we had fallen behind in her lesson plan, and we needed to cover some serious ground before we graduated into the fourth grade.  Now, that really has nothing to do with much of anything, other than it was just what popped into my head at this given moment, and any true citizen of blogville will know that most of the words that go up on these digital pages are just what randomly pops into my head.  Well, now that we’ve had that detour into my brain, back to the business at hand.

So, catch-up we will do.  There have been many many people that have passed through the doors of the FunCenter over the last couple of months, and we would like to give them all a huge digital-hug, and a big ol’ mess of MuchLove for giving us some of their sweet and precious time!  Without you, we truly are nothing at all!  Really.  I would be exposed as the dripski that I truly am without each & every one of you backing me up saying, ‘we know you’re a drip, but we still like you!’  So for that, I’m eternally grateful.

So, without any further delay, I invite you to sit back, relax, and get ready to see some visual goodness that is pretty much guaranteed to knock your socks off – again, not because of anything that we’ve done, it’s because each & every one of the good peeps featured in these coming blogs are all so beautiful!  And you, the faithful of blog that have stuck with us through thick and thin – Enjoy!

Seriously…Where The Flip Have We Been?

I’m just going to ask this question myself, because I know it’s what a fairly large percentage of the Good People of Blog (GPOB’s, if you will) have been thinking.  Well, I don’t really have any sort of an answer, other than to say that we’ve been busy.  Now, I know that if you were to judge how busy we’ve been by the number of new blog posts that have gone up in the past month or so, you would most likely think that I’m living in some sort of an imaginary world where everything is opposite.  Where ‘busy’ actually means that we’ve been sitting on the big read comfy couch in the basement, watching the paint dry, the wallpaper peel, and the banana’s go brown.

But rest assured, my dear dear citizens of blogville, this has been far from the case.  And, as proof of this statement, I’m going to start whacking you over the head with about a gajillion new blog posts over the coming hours/days/etc.  I have no idea how long it’s going to take for us to get truly caught up on this thing called blog, but I promise you that we are going to do just that.

What’s that you’re saying?!  Is that a collective ‘I’ll believe it when I see it’ that I hear?!  I don’t blame you.  Nope, not one bit.  But I want to prove you wrong.  Normally that would be a bad thing, but in this instance, it’s gonna be a good thing.  So, for all of you that have been waiting patiently [ed. I don't even think that patiently is a term to use for it.  There really is no term.  They've just been sitting their waiting.  Heck, I think that some of these seniors are just about to graduate from College.  But whatevs - go back to your rambling.] the time has come.

Now, I invite all of you to sit back, relax, grab some food & drink, put on some comfy clothes, clear about an hour from your schedule and be witness to a whole, whole, whole, whole lotta pictographic love – in absolutely no particular order.  We’re back, my babies, and we’re rocking.  Straight up.  Oh, and by the way – Enjoy!

We Haven’t Gone Into Hibernation (WHGIH.)

Yes yes yes.  I know what you’re thinking.  You’re thinking that we’ve shut it down for the winter.  That we’ve gone into a cave somewhere and are to be woken come spring.  Well, the only cave we’ve been dwelling in is the cave known as the super-top-secret basement lair at the Otis & James FunCenter.  And I assure you, as much as we would like to, there has been no hibernation occurring.  That will have to wait until after the New Year.  Because until then, we’re going to be rocking AND rolling.  24/7, 365.  I ain’t jive talking you either.  I’m giving you the straight dope.

What’s that?  You don’t believe me?  Well, how ’bout I hit you up over the head with a bajillion new bloggers for you to feast your eyes upon.  Will you believe me then?  Because it’s been mad crazy around this here FunCenter, and we gots the pics to back up these claims.

So, I invite you to waste some time and take a look at all of these wonderful pics that are about to go up!  This isn’t all of them, but I didn’t want your eyeballs to explode with the goodness that is about to be transmitted through them.  Safety first, right?  OK.  With that in mind, we gotta give a huge huge HUGE MuchLove & ManyThanks to each & every person that has come through the doors of the FunCenter over the past…oh…however long it’s been since we’ve put any of these bloggers up.  And to you – my good peeps of Blog that have been waiting oh so patiently for new pics to go online – Enjoy!

We Hardcore. Straight Up.

for realz

And that’s how we’re rollin’ in o&j world tonight.

HOTYPBTIGGCRH v.5 || The Photo I Edition!

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Hold On To Your Pants, Because Things is Gonna Get Crazy ‘Round Here (HOTYPBTIGGCRH)!

You heard that title right.  You better just sit down and hold on to your pants, because things are about ready to go boom around this place.  You see, my dear dear fine people of blogville, I’m about to hit you over the head with another installment of, like, a billion blog posts.  Why spread them out and make it all easy for you when I can just make it explode in front of you with a gajillion totallysweet samplesnaps for your eyes to eat all up?!

That was one of them rhetorical questions, as I’m not really looking for an answer to it.  All I know is that if I don’t get all of these images up tonight, I’m going to have some serious explaining to do tomorrow, and I’m going to get the stink eye from a certain person whose name rhymes with the letter  K and the letter C.  I’m also gonna get a serious ‘what the french, toast?’ from somebody whose name rhymes with Jay and me.

So, as to avoid those things, I ask you now to make sure that you are in the seated position.  That your pants are on tight.  That you don’t have any sharp objects near you (safety first.)  But…before we do that…we need to give an absolutely huuuuuge MuchLove & ManyThanks to each and every person that we’re about to put up here on lovely Land of Blog!  All of you make us look so, so good – and there are no amount of digital hugs & love that would completely…I don’t even know where I’m going with that sentence, so I’m just going to tell you thank you!  Oh, and to you – my faithful Friends of Blog, be sure to – Enjoy!

Lexi

Lexi

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And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget
Falls drop by drop upon the heart,
And in our own despite, against our will,
Comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God

Studio Liveblogging Vol. 732

A scene from earlier today.

UmmmmmAnd that concludes a moment in the life of a local photographer.

MuchLove!

Good Morning. My Brain is Fried. Would You Like To See Some Pictosnaps (GMMBIFWYLTSSP)?

Brain Fried

And, I think the title & this self-portrait pretty much sums it all up.  I would love to go on all witty, and eloquent and what not, but instead I think it best to just put this simple title and statement out there in Land of Blog instead.  To each and every person that we have been lucky enough to meet – and whose pictographs we are now putting up – we give a huuuuuuuuuge MuchLove & ManyThanks for being so incredibly wonderful!

And to you – my good Peeps of Blog – we shall send you a giant digital hug in the form of these blog entries.  So, sit back, relax, and be sure to – Enjoy!

Yeah…About The Last Three Weeks (YATLTW.)

You may have noticed that there hasn’t been much going on in Land of Blog.  Yep.  Like a ghost town around this place.  But, my dear Friends of Blog, I assure you that life in the Otis & James FunCenter for Fun & Other Stuff That’s Fun has been anything close to quiet.  In fact, we’ve pretty much been at terminal velocity.

So much so that we’ve had to hang the gone fishin’ sign up in the blog.  But I’m here today, on this fine morning to tell you that the blog is open for business once again.  In fact, we’re about to beat you over the head with a bajillion number of blog posts.  So, enough of all these words.  Time now to sit back, relax, and take in the wondrous beauty that’s about to hit all y’all over the head.  To those that have stopped by the FunCenter over the past few weeks – we just need to offer up a huge amount of MuchLove & ManyThanks to one & all for giving us some of their sweet & precious time!  We love you all – especially you out there reading these words!  Oh, and don’t forget to – Enjoy!


Navigate, My Peeps!

O&J

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17 South Main Street

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