We were hit with severe thunderstorms last night and the rain continues today, so we didn't do much.  I piddled around on the computer while a NASCAR Truck race was on TV -- it was SUPPOSED to be the Talledega Busch race, but they obviously encountered another one of those undefined "technical problems."  Gotta love that magnificent, time-delayed, not-always-as-advertised entertainment provided by the American Forces Network (a.k.a. birth control for television).

I experimented a little using Adobe Photoshop CS to touch up a couple of photos that had minor technical issues.  I think that it would be easier to demonstrate instead of explaining it:  I used a recent photograph of Hina and one of her friends - the untimely "before" shot catches them while they were blinking, but I was able to correct it with Photoshop in the "after" photo!  Pretty good work, don't you think?

As for the tree stump, I found it in an empty lot where Huis Ten Bosch (http://english.huistenbosch.co.jp)  dumps stuff when they don't need it anymore.  I'm not sure what I'm going to do with it yet, but I brought it home anyway.  I'll either leave it as is and put it out in the yard or carve and finish it for display inside.