#methuen — Public Fediverse posts

ICYMI: "When Donna Kershaw, 80, of Atkinson, N.H. took on a volunteering role at MSPCA Nevins Farm after the loss of her husband, she didn’t expect a routine assignment caring for a litter of #cats to change her life. But Douglas, blind and recovering from severe health issues, captured her heart."

https://sponsored.bostonglobe.com/studiob/the-power-of-pets/

#cat #pet #pets #rescuepet #rescuepets #catsofmastodon #pet #pets #massachusetts #methuen #newhampshire

Mabel and Mona would like everyone to know that we have #bunnies available for adoption in #Methuen and #Boston!

Considering a #pet #rabbit, but have some questions? Maybe our #Avian & Exotics team can help! Check out this video for some info on rabbit care: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfWHopVxQJo

#massachusetts #bunny #rabbits #pets #rescuepet #rescuepets

Our fee-waived adoptathon for all #dogs aged 1 and up is happening now at 10 shelters across #Massachusetts! Check out this #Boston 25 story for details: https://www.boston25news.com/news/local/animal-shelters-team-up-waive-adoption-fees-dogs-address-slowdown/YMGDOEXGWJE6BDL7OQVMXOVPGY/

#dog #pet #pets #rescuepet #rescuepets #springfield #brockton #worcester #capecod #methuen #salem #hopkinton #dogsofmastodon

Open hours:

🐢 #Boston: Tuesday – Sunday, noon – 3:00 p.m.
🐰 #Methuen: Tuesday – Sunday, noon – 4:30 p.m.
🐱 #CapeCod: Tuesday – Sunday, 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
🐶 #Salem: Monday – Wednesday, 11:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m., Thursday – Sunday, 11:30 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.

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#massachusetts #cats #cat #dogs #dogs #rescuepet #rescuepets #pet #pets #animal #animals

ICYMI: Learn more about how to adopt #animals of all kinds from any of our four shelters (#Boston, #Methuen, #Salem, and Centerville on #CapeCod) here, via @nbc10boston: https://www.nbcboston.com/video/on-air/as-seen-on/heres-an-inside-look-at-the-mspca-angell-center-in-jamaica-plain/3782443/ #ClearTheShelters #massachusetts #rescuepet #rescuepets #animal #animals #pet #pets

Things to do this weekend:

✔️Adopt a #dog
✔️ Play with that dog
✔️ Snuggle that dog
✔️ Tell others to adopt #dogs

If you agree that this sounds like the perfect weekend, visit http://www.mspca.org/dogs for info about our fee-waived adoptathon! It runs through Sunday at 9 shelters in #Massachusetts 🐶❤️

#boston #springfield #worcester #capecod #methuen #salem #brockton #dogsofmastodon #pet #pets #rescuepet #rescuepets

Morning Photos

Finally! The sky was clear at sunrise on a weekend. I took four, count ’em four, cameras out with me. My digital, Nikon Z5, my two 35mm, Dad’s Pentax K1000 and my Nikon FG-20, and my new/ebay medium format experiment, Lomo Lubitel 166 Universal.

The 35mm cameras each had a roll already started. My goal was to finish them off. The Lubitel… what the hell, Robert. I’ve had the camera for months and had not completed even a single test roll. I had already messed up the first roll by over advancing it once and blowing a shot, and then flashing the film when the camera back popped open on its own once. My goal was to finish that roll and then put a second roll through and hope that something worked on one of them enough to let me know if the camera actually works or not. Besides all of that film fun, I just wanted to take a bunch of pics with my Z5 because it’s super fun.

I completed all of those goals. I now have four rolls of film to develop. I’ll place an order today and ship them out tomorrow. The two 120 rolls were fucked up even more than I already knew. I didn’t have any trouble with the second one… or so I thought. The camera can be setup to shoot in 6×6 format or in 4.5×6. I was using the 4.5×6 numbers for advancing the film after each (well… most… there are going to be a bunch of double exposures because I am too stupid to operate a manual camera, I guess) but upon further review, the camera is clearly set up to shoot a square format… so every single shot is going to overlap. Moron.

Anyway… here are a bunch of digital pics.

Hampton Beach, NH at sunrise!

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/54511514041/in/album-72177720326030447

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/54511704974/in/album-72177720326030447/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/54511705149/in/album-72177720326030447/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/54511871920/in/album-72177720326030447/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/54511514956/in/album-72177720326030447/

These are from a spot in North Hampton, NH, just a little north of Hampton Beach.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/54510648997/in/album-72177720326030447/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/54511706029/in/album-72177720326030447/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/54510649457/in/album-72177720326030447/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/54510649492/in/album-72177720326030447/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/54511872655/in/album-72177720326030447/

These are from a little spot on route 1A just south of Hampton Beach. I don’t know if it is in Seabrook or in the town of Hampton Beach, but you can see the Seabrook nuclear power plant from here so… kaboom.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/54511872890/in/album-72177720326030447/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/54511778403/in/album-72177720326030447/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/54511873030/in/album-72177720326030447/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/54511516321/in/album-72177720326030447/

After that spot I drove home, but didn’t go home. I went to the Spicket Falls Dam in downtown Methuen. We’ve had massive rains over the last week so the river was roaring.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/54511779063/in/album-72177720326030447/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/54510650717/in/album-72177720326030447/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/54510650887/in/album-72177720326030447/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/54511708124/in/album-72177720326030447/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/54511708319/in/album-72177720326030447/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/54510651887/in/album-72177720326030447/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/54511708629/in/album-72177720326030447/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/54511780758/in/album-72177720326030447/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/54511709204/in/album-72177720326030447/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/54511875585/in/album-72177720326030447/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/54511781263/in/album-72177720326030447/

At this point I still had a few shots left in two of the film cameras so I went over to Greycourt Park where I got my brand new sneakers soaking wet by walking around in the grass. It was nice.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/54510652987/in/album-72177720326030447/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/54511781873/in/album-72177720326030447/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/54510653547/in/album-72177720326030447/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/54511782503/in/album-72177720326030447/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/54511782883/in/album-72177720326030447/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/54511783023/in/album-72177720326030447/

What is that baseball doing there? Who left that behind?

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/54511877420/in/album-72177720326030447/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/54511877455/in/album-72177720326030447/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/54511877960/in/album-72177720326030447/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/54511520951/in/album-72177720326030447/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/54511878915/in/album-72177720326030447/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/54511879445/in/album-72177720326030447/

And there you have it. Finally, a photography kinda morning. You would think this would hold me over for a little while at least, but nope. I want to go out again right now. Right Freakin’ Now.

#AtlanticOcean #hamptonBeach #marina #Massachusetts #methuen #newHampshire #Nikon #nikonZ5 #Ocean #photography #photowalk #Sunrise #z5

Nutz

Today has been insane. I took the morning off so that I could take Miss Robin Sparkles the cat to her vet appointment. I dropped her off, ran some errands, went home, re-watched most of last night’s three episodes of Andor, went back to the vet’s office to pick her up, came home, ran another errand, ate lunch, and punched into work at 1:00pm.

That’s when it hit. I had meetings scheduled from 1:00-5:00. Bam. All of them. One after the other. At the same time I was getting hit with all sorts of customer issues and questions and hectic stress and wow… It’s 5:31pm now. I can punch out. I need a nap!

Here’s a picture of the clock downtown. It’s not a good picture, and don’t let anyone try to tell you that I thought it was a good picture… because it’s not a good picture. Whatevs, I’m going to go cook dinner for the love of my life and then go to sleep.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/54503455759/in/datetaken/

#Busy #crazyBusy #hectic #iphoneography #lotsOfMeetings #Massachusetts #meetings #methuen #photography #Stress #stressful #teleconference #work

All right, red head. It’s time to get off your ass and shoot some film. Enough procrastinating. Enough saying you’re going to do stuff and then don’t. Damn it!

I have four rolls of film ready to develop. Most of it is from our Disney trip back in May/June. There are a couple of shots that are actually from Fathers Day and they are likely the last pictures I will ever have of my dad. It’s time to get the friggin’ things developed.

But…

I have a roll in my Nikon that is nearly finished. I should shoot the rest of that first and then get five rolls developed, right? I also have a roll in my Pentax. I should shoot through that and then get all six developed, right? Right?

Damn it! I am procrastinating around my procrastination! Get off your faux-photographer ass, red head!

Sunrise at the ocean tomorrow is 6:47am and the forecast calls for mostly clear skies. That does it. I’m going pitcher shootin’ tomorrow. Go to the ocean, bang out the roll in the Nikon, take some digitals, come down the coast to the usual places like the Plum Island light house and bang through the roll in the Pentax along with some more digitals. Then if I still have film left, hit a few places in my town and work through the rest of it.

I am working in the office on Monday so I won’t be able to get to the post office. Tuesday I am working at home though, so by Tuesday morning we’ll have an order placed at some photo lab and I’ll drop everything off for shipping before work.

I have spoken. Make it so. This is the way.

In closing, here’s a shot of the Spicket Falls Damn in Methuen that I shot on Kentmere 100 film with my Nikon FG-20. Just because film is cool in a nerdy retro faux artistic bullshit way.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/52606233443/in/album-72177720301032107

https://robertjames1971.blog/2024/10/05/film-6/

#fg20 #filmPhotography #kentmere100 #methuen #Nikon #nikonFg20 #photography #photographyPlans #plans #thingsToDo #toDoList

All right, red head. It’s time to get off your ass and shoot some film. Enough procrastinating. Enough saying you’re going to do stuff and then don’t. Damn it!

I have four rolls of film ready to develop. Most of it is from our Disney trip back in May/June. There are a couple of shots that are actually from Fathers Day and they are likely the last pictures I will ever have of my dad. It’s time to get the friggin’ things developed.

But…

I have a roll in my Nikon that is nearly finished. I should shoot the rest of that first and then get five rolls developed, right? I also have a roll in my Pentax. I should shoot through that and then get all six developed, right? Right?

Damn it! I am procrastinating around my procrastination! Get off your faux-photographer ass, red head!

Sunrise at the ocean tomorrow is 6:47am and the forecast calls for mostly clear skies. That does it. I’m going pitcher shootin’ tomorrow. Go to the ocean, bang out the roll in the Nikon, take some digitals, come down the coast to the usual places like the Plum Island light house and bang through the roll in the Pentax along with some more digitals. Then if I still have film left, hit a few places in my town and work through the rest of it.

I am working in the office on Monday so I won’t be able to get to the post office. Tuesday I am working at home though, so by Tuesday morning we’ll have an order placed at some photo lab and I’ll drop everything off for shipping before work.

I have spoken. Make it so. This is the way.

In closing, here’s a shot of the Spicket Falls Damn in Methuen that I shot on Kentmere 100 film with my Nikon FG-20. Just because film is cool in a nerdy retro faux artistic bullshit way.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/52606233443/in/album-72177720301032107

https://robertjames1971.blog/2024/10/05/film-6/

#fg20 #filmPhotography #kentmere100 #methuen #Nikon #nikonFg20 #photography #photographyPlans #plans #thingsToDo #toDoList

All right, red head. It’s time to get off your ass and shoot some film. Enough procrastinating. Enough saying you’re going to do stuff and then don’t. Damn it!

I have four rolls of film ready to develop. Most of it is from our Disney trip back in May/June. There are a couple of shots that are actually from Fathers Day and they are likely the last pictures I will ever have of my dad. It’s time to get the friggin’ things developed.

But…

I have a roll in my Nikon that is nearly finished. I should shoot the rest of that first and then get five rolls developed, right? I also have a roll in my Pentax. I should shoot through that and then get all six developed, right? Right?

Damn it! I am procrastinating around my procrastination! Get off your faux-photographer ass, red head!

Sunrise at the ocean tomorrow is 6:47am and the forecast calls for mostly clear skies. That does it. I’m going pitcher shootin’ tomorrow. Go to the ocean, bang out the roll in the Nikon, take some digitals, come down the coast to the usual places like the Plum Island light house and bang through the roll in the Pentax along with some more digitals. Then if I still have film left, hit a few places in my town and work through the rest of it.

I am working in the office on Monday so I won’t be able to get to the post office. Tuesday I am working at home though, so by Tuesday morning we’ll have an order placed at some photo lab and I’ll drop everything off for shipping before work.

I have spoken. Make it so. This is the way.

In closing, here’s a shot of the Spicket Falls Damn in Methuen that I shot on Kentmere 100 film with my Nikon FG-20. Just because film is cool in a nerdy retro faux artistic bullshit way.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/52606233443/in/album-72177720301032107

https://robertjames1971.blog/2024/10/05/film-6/

#fg20 #filmPhotography #kentmere100 #methuen #Nikon #nikonFg20 #photography #photographyPlans #plans #thingsToDo #toDoList

All right, red head. It’s time to get off your ass and shoot some film. Enough procrastinating. Enough saying you’re going to do stuff and then don’t. Damn it!

I have four rolls of film ready to develop. Most of it is from our Disney trip back in May/June. There are a couple of shots that are actually from Fathers Day and they are likely the last pictures I will ever have of my dad. It’s time to get the friggin’ things developed.

But…

I have a roll in my Nikon that is nearly finished. I should shoot the rest of that first and then get five rolls developed, right? I also have a roll in my Pentax. I should shoot through that and then get all six developed, right? Right?

Damn it! I am procrastinating around my procrastination! Get off your faux-photographer ass, red head!

Sunrise at the ocean tomorrow is 6:47am and the forecast calls for mostly clear skies. That does it. I’m going pitcher shootin’ tomorrow. Go to the ocean, bang out the roll in the Nikon, take some digitals, come down the coast to the usual places like the Plum Island light house and bang through the roll in the Pentax along with some more digitals. Then if I still have film left, hit a few places in my town and work through the rest of it.

I am working in the office on Monday so I won’t be able to get to the post office. Tuesday I am working at home though, so by Tuesday morning we’ll have an order placed at some photo lab and I’ll drop everything off for shipping before work.

I have spoken. Make it so. This is the way.

In closing, here’s a shot of the Spicket Falls Damn in Methuen that I shot on Kentmere 100 film with my Nikon FG-20. Just because film is cool in a nerdy retro faux artistic bullshit way.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/52606233443/in/album-72177720301032107

https://robertjames1971.blog/2024/10/05/film-6/

#fg20 #filmPhotography #kentmere100 #methuen #Nikon #nikonFg20 #photography #photographyPlans #plans #thingsToDo #toDoList

All right, red head. It’s time to get off your ass and shoot some film. Enough procrastinating. Enough saying you’re going to do stuff and then don’t. Damn it!

I have four rolls of film ready to develop. Most of it is from our Disney trip back in May/June. There are a couple of shots that are actually from Fathers Day and they are likely the last pictures I will ever have of my dad. It’s time to get the friggin’ things developed.

But…

I have a roll in my Nikon that is nearly finished. I should shoot the rest of that first and then get five rolls developed, right? I also have a roll in my Pentax. I should shoot through that and then get all six developed, right? Right?

Damn it! I am procrastinating around my procrastination! Get off your faux-photographer ass, red head!

Sunrise at the ocean tomorrow is 6:47am and the forecast calls for mostly clear skies. That does it. I’m going pitcher shootin’ tomorrow. Go to the ocean, bang out the roll in the Nikon, take some digitals, come down the coast to the usual places like the Plum Island light house and bang through the roll in the Pentax along with some more digitals. Then if I still have film left, hit a few places in my town and work through the rest of it.

I am working in the office on Monday so I won’t be able to get to the post office. Tuesday I am working at home though, so by Tuesday morning we’ll have an order placed at some photo lab and I’ll drop everything off for shipping before work.

I have spoken. Make it so. This is the way.

In closing, here’s a shot of the Spicket Falls Damn in Methuen that I shot on Kentmere 100 film with my Nikon FG-20. Just because film is cool in a nerdy retro faux artistic bullshit way.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/52606233443/in/album-72177720301032107

https://robertjames1971.blog/2024/10/05/film-6/

#fg20 #filmPhotography #kentmere100 #methuen #Nikon #nikonFg20 #photography #photographyPlans #plans #thingsToDo #toDoList