Out of kilter

Does anyone use the expression 'Out of kilter' any more? I remember my parents saying that quite regularly many years ago during conversations. I think that describes how I feel at the moment. Last week's terrible heatwave meant that each day was spent just finding ways to survive the heat and everything else got put on hold. It was too hot to cook sourdough, too hot to put the dehydrator on, too hot to cook a meal in our Western facing kitchen and so on.

Now that it has cooled down dramatically I find that I am now out of kilter and totally unmotivated to get done what needs to be done. Have you ever felt that way. If you look closely at the above photo you can see that that cockatoo is also out of kilter. Ha ha! As I mentioned in my last post one of The Home Maker Forum members had introduced us to the greatest time waster you could imagine...even a bigger time waster than Pinterest and that is the Deep Dream Generator which turns ordinary photos into sometimes impressive works of art and other time quite weird ones like in the cockatoo photo.

 Of course I had to experiment to see what I could come up with and this is a photo of my granddaughter taken years ago with peacocks around her to the right. I like this one.

Another photo taken in the same photo shoot by a young girl who was doing some prac for her photography subject. The girls were actually looking out onto a lake so it is interesting how the program inserts buildings etc. You never quite know how a photo is going to turn out. 

 Then there is a Mount Isa sunset...

...an orange rose in my daughter's garden...

...the beautiful gardens in Queens Park Toowoomba taken during the Carnival of Flowers a few years back. By the way don't forget the Carnival is being held from the 21-30 September this year if you plan to visit during that time. 

 The sunflowers in Queens Park I showed you in the post A Very Sunny Queens Park. 

I know this type of program is not for everyone but I find it fascinating and try not to waste too much time with it. Well maybe a little. As I said it has really cooled down so there are curtains waiting to sew, sourdough to make, dead bananas to be rescued in banana bread...perhaps sourdough banana bread, floors to vacuum (if I can remove the menfolk from the premises for 1/2 hour), exercise to do in the lounge room with Leslie Sansone plus a visit to the Cobb and Co Museum to see the Da Vinci Machines. 

I can't blame the heat anymore for not getting motivated. I hope the heat is over for all my Aussie readers. We have had enough of summer here in Australia I think and those in the Northern Hemisphere need some nice warm weather to thaw out so it is their turn to 'enjoy' the heat. 

So no more time wasting. Well perhaps just one more peek at the Deep Dream Generator before I cook some sourdough. LOL!