Month: January 2018

Testing Macro

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Years ago, when we were more able bodied and had more discretionary funds, we were all quite into photography.  With changing technology, my husband acquired lenses for his smartphone camera.

The lenses are held in place by a magnet that holds it to a metal ring adhered around the phone camera lens. Last night, he placed a spare on my phone and this morning, I tested the macro lens.  This is one of the results.


I later tried to test the larger telephoto lens on the birds at our feed. Unfortunately, the weight of the lens was too much for the adhesive holding the ring in place, and it fell off before I could even zoom in to try for a photo.

I will have to figure something out for that, because I can see myself using at least two of the lenses, regularly.

I rather miss photography.  It would be good if we can get back into it, now that we’ve moved.  Our old equipment still works fine and is more than adequate.

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Abundance

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Sir Sour Alot got moved temporarily onto our oven recently.  I decided to leave it there after use and feeding, since it is a warmer spot.

What a difference a couple of degrees makes, as it overflowed in abundance.

As I write this, my younger daughter is making some sourdough cookies.  Later, I will transfer the starter out, wash the container, then return it.

And this is why I keep a bowl underneath. :-)

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The Typo Demon

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Okay, this one is an open thread for my fellow writers.

One of my pet peeves is writing a post, rereading it, editing it, reading it again, editing it again, several times over, hitting publish, reading the post again and…

Discovering more typos I missed.

More irritating than simply missing my own typos is when I write posts using my phone and discovering that my phone’s auto-correct had changed correctly spelled words into another word entirely.  Sometimes, I catch it before I hit post, but other times, I don’t catch it until much later.

Just today, one I caught before publishing, the word “care” was turned into “climate change.”  One I missed, “deceiver” was changed to “receiver.”

Moments ago, while rereading a post I’d just published, I found I’d missed “food” was instead “good”.

The Typo Demon had struck again, and I missed it, even though I’d read the post over at least 3 times before I hit publish.

So I’m turning this over to my fellow bloggers – or anyone, really – in the comments below.

How often do you do battle with the Typo Demon?

What are your worst/funniest typos?

Go!

Priorities

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On bringing the cats food and water this morning, it was clear where their priorities are. One of the food bowls still had lots of food, but when I gave them warm water, that’s where they crowded around.

In these cold temperatures, warm water is more important than food.

From left to right, Squishum, Nasty Crime Boy and Trülbus the Crime Eater.

Camera set up

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This is our new set up to take photos of our feeding area.

Unfortunately, when the deer came this morning, she could see me through the window, taking the lens cap off, etc, and took off.

Also, in case you are wondering, yes those are marker flags in the plant pot.  They, and the yarn, are there to protect the avocado plant from the cats. They decided that this pot was a perfect bed and broke one of the branches off before I could rescue it.

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Some updates

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So, in between unpacking and rearranging, cooking with sourdough, feeding the critters outside and taking pictures of our deer visitor, other things have been going on.

First update: I did get an email back about our claim to the moving company.

Actually, I got two.

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This Morning’s Critter Visitors

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We are going to have to rethink how our living room is laid out again.  A bit of adjusting to better suit my husband’s needs, and a bit more shifting around.  Our big picture window is currently blocked off completely, and I’d like to open it up again.

Then promptly block it again.  With a tripod. :-D

We had many chickadees, as usual, and a third squirrel has joined the two we usually see.  Then we got this crowd.

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I have been able to find our copy of A Field Guide to the Birds of North America, and was able to identify them as chipping sparrows. [correction: these are redpolls, which were not in my book at all.  We get chipping sparrows in the summer.]

Then our beautiful lady came to visit again.  We first saw her going through the spruce grove some distance away, but she came back for a quick feed.

What a beauty!

We have a pair of blue jays that regularly visit – likely a mated pair.  One of them hung out in the spruces for a while.

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I just love their colouring.  They’ve always been one of my favourite birds.

 

 

 

We Got Deer!

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It took a while – and perhaps it was found when we weren’t there to see – but today, a white tail deer finally showed up at the deer feed we’ve been leaving out.

What a beauty, too!

This is so exciting!!

(photo taken by P., using a Nikon D80 and a 70-300mm Nikkor lens)

 

When Small Goals Lead to Bigger Accomplishments

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The last couple of days, I neglected to meet my “one box a day” unpacking goal.  Saturday, other things happened and Sunday, I tried to make it a day of rest (but we still did baking).

Today more than made up for it.

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