My NW Indiana and More: October 2024

Saturday, October 19, 2024

University of Chicago Open House - Crown Point

I really cannot say enough about the The University of Chicago. They basically saved my life during COVID when the other local hospitals pretty much refused to help me. Since my first visit to The University of Chicago, I have had nothing but great outcomes and experiences.

I visit many of their locations, depending upon where I may want to end up for the day, to avoid traffic, or to avoid tolls. Sometimes a location may be the one the doctor wants me to go to. My primary doctor is at their River East location, downtown Chicago. The other locations I have been to so far are DCAM in Hyde Park, Flossmoor, Homewood, Orland Park, and their new location in Crown Point.

So, on this day their Crown Point location had their open house, to invite families to learn more about The University of Chicago, and for their children to enjoy the fun and games. Me, this was my first photoshoot with my new camera, and editing with new software and computer. That in itself is a story why I needed a new camera, software, and computer. Here are some photographs of the event and from the new setup.

So, both of the computers in this next photograph do the same thing. (Yes, there are two computers, small one is on top.) The small one is my Bride's, the other mine. We both needed new computers because our old ones were running Windows 10, and cannot not be updated to Windows 11 because of our processors. I have had my older computer about 20 years now. Still better than anything I had at work because I bought it for gaming on the Internet, using the latest and greatest hardware at the time. The new computer has the same parameters. Since Christi does not game, she does not need all that fancier hardware or cooling space. Still, something to see side-by-side for doing the same thing, or in this case one on top of the other. (Microsoft will no longer provide security to their Windows 10 software at the end of 2025. Hence why we bit the bullet. We will still use our older computers, just that they will not be connected to the Internet for security sake.)

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Friday, October 18, 2024

Hammond Market 10-18-24

The last market for the new, shot with a new camera, and edited in new software that I am not familiar with.

See You Next Year!

Hammond's 2nd Friday Celebration

489 Fayette St.

Hammond, Indiana 46329-1841

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Monday, October 7, 2024

Wes' Excellent Adventure XIV 10/7

Needed to get away. Lots of emotions now that my little buddy Gallifrey Wicket Bushby - aka Bubba passed.

One place that he and I liked to travel to was the Morton Arboretum in Lisle, Illinois. Lots of smells for a dog. Of course I could only take him when they had their dog days. We went to one of those earlier in the year.

Here are some photographs.

My new "used" car, after someone rear ended my new car a few months back. I have always enjoyed the Soul, very versatile. I would fold the back seats down and allow Bubba to run around in the back and hang out the windows as we drove around.

One icon that Bubba and I enjoyed was going to this cut down tree, turned into a chair. Earlier this year we went there and Christi took our photograph. Bubba is never interested in having is photograph taken, which was okay. We (I) still captured the memory.

I stopped and took to a path. Having a bad foot keeps me from a lot of activity I used to enjoy. I needed the stretch and went down this path and photographed.

Though I had been back to Morton a few times, I basically just drove around and photographed. This time I walked behind the facility. I was surprised of the changes. A really nice place to bring a book and read near the running water. One of the pleasures my mom would have enjoyed, so I think I will do the same next year.

On the way back home I drove down IL-53. I do that a lot, just so I can pass through Joliet. My dad went to high school there. Since I was that far down I kept going, so that I could see him at the Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery. He wanted to be buried there, and rightfully so. Both he and I were born in February. Me, on February 12th, sharing the same birthday as Abraham Lincoln. My dad served in the end of WWII as a flight engineer on a B-17 and a PBY Catalina. My dad has a fancy for seaplanes after that.

Next stop, the Polk-A-Dot Drive In located in Braidwood, IL. part of the old Rt. 66. This is a cool place with good burgers. Well worth a single trip to eat at.

I took the long way back, paralleling the Kankakee River. There was a truck ahead of me pulling a very wide load. That had to stop oncoming traffic and pull them over to the side to allow the load to pass. So, I chose to make some stops to photograph the river. The first couple photos you can see a couple guy wading and fly fishing (I think that is what they were doing).