Surprise!

Okay, I have an idea. This is a contest! The first person who posts a picture of a spring flower blooming in their yard gets a surprise. If I am to late and you already have a flower blooming I guess the contest is off but I'm kinda thinking the nobody does yet. Okay everybody, lets get out there and hunt them flowers!

Ghirardelli Pumpkin Spice Caramel......Wow!

Sarah, where did you find this stuff? It is amazing! Thank you so much, and.......got any more? Lol

Hey, I can comment now! I downloaded a new mobile browser on my phone and it works now so ...... Mwahahaha......nobody is safe now

Minnie gets a bath

Ya Mom, it does look like something is about to fall off doesn't it. Sorry if that bothers you but my canister set is just an empty basket so that wouldn't do much damage but it has never moved a hair. The bottom shelf is just my coffee filters. You can rest easy, not a problem. Next time ill straighten my shelves before I take a picture. Don't want Mommie hyperventilating! :-) now, if you looked in my cabinet by the door...... I have all my glasses and mugs there and I think it tilts slightly toward the floor cause every time someone slams the door, I have to push all my glasses and mugs back away from the edge again. If it wernt for the door, they would probably fall out......

It's not that I am ignoring you guys, I so want to comment on your blogs but this crazy phone won't let me. It won't let me get past the crazy word part for some reason. Anyway, Sharon, I want to say that I loved the picture of the red barn, white snow, and blue sky. That's a calendar picture for sure. I wanted to say welcome to Sarah, glad to have you aboard. I wanted to say I sorry, Mommy, when things don't go your way, I know its frustrating. I wanted to say, Wow, to Jeanie, that's a lot of snow! Glad it was at your house and nitrate mine! I wanted to say Hey to Wheeling Grammy, I know you can send pics from your phone to the blog so lets see some of those far away places you go to! I wanted to say to Lois, sorry you are having trouble posting, I will fix that soon and when I do you better go wild. And now I've had my say so I will shut up for a while!

I love the way the sun streams into my kitchen in the afternoons! maybe if I would wash the window I would get more sun?

This is something you don't see very often at my house, but it will be happening more often from now on!

Cell phone cams can give you a weird perspective sometimes.

This is for Timmy

Go fishing

Fishing can be an enjoyable hobby. It requires skill, knowledge and patience. But when the fish aren't biting, you get to relax as well.

Unfortunately, getting out to fish isn't always easy. You might not live near a fishing lake or creek. Or maybe your kids want to fish, but you don't like baiting hooks.

Pay a visit to Thrill of the Catch by Discovery Education. You can go fishing in various lake locations. And you get to choose your own bait.

Caught fish can be kept or thrown back. And you can view a gallery of the big ones. You will need to register to keep fish, but it's free.

The site isn't all about catching fish. Kids can also learn about keeping lakes clean. And you can even create and feed new fish. These show up in the game for you or others to catch.

http://discoverylake.discoveryeducation.com/

Our family is growing! No, not me, not that! Check out the new name added to the list of blogs along the side here. See anything new? Click on it and see if you can figure out who it is.

Finally got my christmas tree down, it sure opens up the bay window and lets some pretty light in. And I do believe that I have vacumed the living room floor every day this week, that's a record!

This is the way Minnie goes for a walk with us!

We had a beautiful visitor on our windowsill this morning!

Sarah Beth's contribution, beautiful!

Awwww......

Homemade chicken, bacon, ranch pizza for Sunday lunch, made by my sweet little Sarah B.

she is 16, she plays her music too loud, she wears her hair down over her eyes, she talks on her phone and texts waaay too much. But I wouldn't change her for anything! I love her just the way she is!

Ya, she is smaller then a potato chip bag!

Beautiful! Cold but beautiful. At least from this side of the glass.

They only grow in Leavenworth, down by the Ohio river, I'm selling seeds.

So with a birthday like the big
FIVE OH coming up, it sets ya to thinking
about life an stuff...... I could get
all sad an upset about it an cry for a
week or I could look at it a different
way. Say you were getting on up in age,
maybe 75 or so and somebody offered you
a gift. The gift was to be able to turn
back your age by 25 years and be 50 again.
How many of us would accept that gift?
Jump at it? Grab it and enjoy it to the
best of our ability? I know I probably
would and that is how I am going to look
at 50, as a gift to be cherished, enjoyed,
and lived to the fullest! After all, 50
is still young, to some of you guys anyway. Lol

So what is a person to do all night when you sit up beside someone's bed in a dark room for 10 hours! Well, I am listening to some good music in my ear, I've had a snack, I listened to The Daily Audio Bible, I caught up on Facebook and the blogs, I got out my book to read but couldn't get into it, I texted Lois since she is the only one up too this time of night, I tried to grab a nap but that's not easy to do sitting in a wooden rocking chair, hmmm... Any ideas?

It's nice when you can come home from the salon and everybody is happy!

Nice and warm in here!

Click link to see video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUuFwhHThzg&feature=youtube_gdata_player

I bet you I could spill all kinds a family secrets here and nobody would even notice. I don't think this is a very popular place anymore. Where did everybody go?

How many dogs laying by the fire?

Hmmmm....wow!

October 28, 2010, 2:18 PM

A Love Letter to a Camera

Dear Canon S95,

I don't often write love letters to gadgets. But you, you're something special.

Truth is, I've been searching for someone like you for years.

The Canon S95 has a sensor with 88 percent more area than most pocket cameras' sensors.

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See, I love the huge light sensor that's inside an SLR. It can take sharp low-light shots without the flash. It can blur the background the way professionals do.

I just don't like how an SLR is big and heavy and obtrusive.

What I've always wanted is a little camera with a big sensor. Is that so hard?

Apparently, yes. The problem is covering a rectangular sensor chip with a circle of light from the lens. Bigger sensor? You need a bigger camera. Those are the simple bylaws of physics.

But you, oh, cute little Canon PowerShot S95! I love that you're a pocket camera, only 3.9 by 2.3 by 1.2 inches. I love your big, bright, three-inch screen, your built-in flash, your H.D.M.I. output for hi-def TV sets. I love that you turn on directly into Playback mode, without having to extend the lens.

I love the unique control ring around the dial, which I can quickly program to adjust whatever feature I want: focus, zoom, exposure, light sensitivity (ISO), aperture, even degree of color saturation (all the way to black-and-white).

I've had fun with your special modes, like the tilt-shift-lens simulator and fake fisheye.

I love the wink-driven self-timer. Yes, I set up the camera, walk into the scene, and then wink—the picture is taken two seconds later. Beats hunting around for a remote control. (Or I can ask you to wait two seconds after a new person—that would be me, joining the group—enters the frame.)

But above all, I love your enormous sensor. It's 0.59 inches diagonally—88 percent more area than most pocket cameras' sensors. And I love that you have an f/2.0 lens, a rarity among pocket cameras, meaning that you let in a lot more light.

And all of this means that you, little S95, can take amazing, sharp pictures in low light without the flash. Your designers have shrewdly dropped the ludicrous quest for more megapixels—you have 10 megapixels, just right—in favor of something that really matters, like better photos.

So many times I've used you for pictures at night, indoors, in shadow. Cathedrals, restaurants, parties. No, the results aren't as good as an SLR's—you still manage to blur a shot, especially in very dark situations when the subject is moving—but they're light-years better than any other pocket camera can do. I love to show off your photo samples.

You're even better than my last love, your predecessor, the S90. Because you're slimmer. And now you take hi-def videos—with stereo sound. You have a high-dynamic-range mode, where you combine three tripod shots at different exposures into a single photo with a really great range of darks and lights. Your controls are refined in size and placement.

Look, S95—I know you're not perfect. Your battery takes only 200 shots on a charge, which is very low. You won't let me use the optical zoom while I'm shooting video; in fact, you can't refocus while shooting video, either. (Your arch-rival, the Panasonic LX5, can zoom during video. Then again, it's porkier and requires fussing with a detached lens cap.)

And, of course, you cost twice what most pocket cams cost. You're $400.

But you are the best pocket camera on the market. I have carried you for many weeks, in many situations, and I have been thrilled by the sharpness, color, control and photographic success rate that you give me.

Yes, Canon S95, I think you and I have a long, happy future ahead of us. Heck, you may remain state-of-the-art for several months at least!

Love,

David

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My favorite guy

Still waiting for my dream home !

Check out our signs hanging on the wall at Stephensons store in Leavenworth, IN

Have a lot to get done today!

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Why is it that I like this photo effect so well?

Silly cow!

I just love Small Town, America where a short walk on the mornings takes you by the General Store and cafe for a cup of coffee and breakfast, the post office to pick up your mail, the bank to check on your millions and the library to read a good book. And everybody you meet along the way has a cherry 'Good morning'. Believe me, it does still exist. I was there this morning. Love it!

I need to know who this little one is and about what year it is

Stormy

Original

Weary

Autumn

he finally weighs a whole pound now!

I just witnessed a random act of kindness. This couple from Oklahoma at a table next to ours picked up an old man's bill and paid it for and they didn't know each other. I just love that I wish that I could do that.

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So pretty! I did not know they came like that, its like a yellow star burst. Yellow centers with white around the edges.

Busy day on the ohio river.

Ha ha it's so cute he, the squirrel picks up a hickory nut then he'll walk 5 feet stop and bury it.

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There's a groundhog and a squirrel out here in the yard eating acorns less than 10 feet apart!

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Just checking to see if this works

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Toto pup

Toto

Text message from Textfree on iPhone/iPod Touch

Just checking