Desperate Plea

Just cruising down the information highway

Looking for the remote possibility

that by chance this snow will stop some time soon

Notice the two red arrows in the picture. That is the top of the railing on my deck. I took that picture yesterday. Today we've had a mixture of light snow and a misty type rain. You know the kind that puts a nice crusty layer on top of all the snow. Just enough to ice things up a bit and make all that snow that much heavier. The best part of it all is that we are under another lake effect warning until Saturday morning. It's saying that up to another foot is possible. Would somebody PLEASE send me some sunshine.

Since you asked

A couple of you asked what kind of camera I got so thank you for giving me a subject for today's post. From what I've heard, the two top choices would be canon or nikon. But, I didn't go with that. Not that I thought the one I ended up with was better, it was more a matter of the money. The one I got was of course on sale so that was a key factor. Since I have never used a DSLR before, I didn't want to go too high because, well, because I doubt myself too much. By that I mean that I had to wonder if I my bad photography is due to camera or person taking the pictures. Anyway this is what I got.

I took a picture of the box....lol I'm still working on learning all the settings on it so I have taken LOTS of bad pictures but then I did that with my other camera too. I think that's half the fun though.

Here's a picture I took the other night when I was playing around

And here is one out my back door. This darn snow STILL hasn't stopped. We have snow in the forecast for the entire week.

Well the camera came with one lens ( 1855 DT 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 lens), it's 10.2 megapixel, it has a tiltable LCD monitor on it, which I thought was pretty cool. Also, I did research this camera before I bought it and I hadn't read any bad reviews on it.

Now I'm just working on trying to figure out where everything is on it and how to use it all. I have been taking pictures in the manual mode though rather than just using the auto setting.

I'm off to go play some more. Have a great night everyone.

Snow day

It has done nothing but snow non stop since yesterday. I've been watching it pile up all day long hoping that we would see an end but no such luck. We've been out shoveling 3 times already today. On top of the snow there is that howling wind that just makes it all seem that much worse.

I thought that maybe today could be a Duke post, but no such luck. He's settled in with his pops on the couch and I don't think he's budging

I guess instead I'll just bore you with some ramblings.
I never did tell you what I got for Christmas. I can cross two things off my wish list thanks to my husband and daughter.
Wade bought me this

And Amanda got me this

If you can't see from the picture this is a Scor-pal. It's used for scoring paper for more precise folds. The kaleidoscope program I have has several video tutorials for making different things and they use this and I just thought it was the coolest thing.

Pay no attention to the strange woman with bad hair holding my gifts. I have no idea where she came from.

And one last thing, although I don't have a picture of it and it wasn't actually a gift. Every year I get a bonus at work. Every year I put it in the bank and it gets used for bills or other household expenses. This year I spent the whole thing on ME. You may have heard me before talking about wanting a DSLR camera. I've been drooling over them forever. Well, that's what I used my bonus on. We walked out of the store and I actually felt sick to my stomach for spending that much money on myself and was tempted to turn around and take it back. This of course, was hysterically funny to Wade. I can't help it, I just felt terribly irrisponsible for doing it. Once I got it home and started playing around with it I fell in love. The first picture I posted today was taken with the new camera. I can not believe the difference in the quality. I still feel a little queasy about buying it though.

What to do

The holidays are over, the snow is flying, and things can get back to normal. That is, of course, if there is such a thing as normal.

I spent a little time yesterday laying on the couch watching TV which is NOT a normal thing for me to do.

 The Christmas decorations are down and packed back up. Now I just have to get around to taking it all to the basement and putting it in the crawl space. Maybe tomorrow. I don't want to over do things.

I fed my fascination with paper folding by trying out a tutorial I found for making paper folded German stars. It took me several tries before I finally paid close enough attention to the video to get it right. This one isn't perfect but at least I have it figured out. I did this one with newspaper strips. If you're interested you can find the tutorial at With a grateful prayer and a thankful heart.

Now I think I'll go steal my blanket back from Duke and curl up on the couch and stay warm for the rest of the night