Looks as if it's going to be an "old fashion" Yankee/Dodger series this year -- prove me wrong!
Where are you.Hello, hello! Where is everybody? Did everyone start National Beer Lovers Day a bit too early today? Flo, Francine, Mel, anybody?
I tend to work on the theory of the estimated time to the power of 5.Hi gang, it's 65*F, cloudy and calm in my little town ~10mi west of Baltimore. I went back and read thru all the posts going back to Wednesday. Saw lotsa fantastic pics, clicked the "like" button on them [man I just love that feature!] - I can't keep track of all the conversations over a 4-day period so I won't even try comment on every single one of them. Except maybe the following:
Sherrell - I sure hope that your neighborhood isn't in any danger from that wild fire! I saw how so many other parts of your state were devastated by the ones that happened last year. My Son-I-L's family also lives in Temecula so I'm concerned about them as well.
Chet - so sorry to hear news concerning Greg! I haven't seen any further posts from him, hope he's ok - will add him to my prayer list.
I'm also concerned about why Boris hasn't posted. I guess nobody here [not even Louis?] has any way of directly contacting him.
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On Tuesday I mentioned about reactivating my 35mm DSLR camera from its long hibernation; I've used it to snap a few panoramic photos of my steel mill peninsula. I need to do it that way so the 'signature' structures will have the optimum visual impact. I've been using two separate image editors to clean out the visual noise [garage door tracks, air conditioner, etc.] and also achieve special lighting effects. That takes huge amounts of time - especially since some parts of the photos have to be done pixel-by-pixel. But I actually enjoy the editing activity - AFTER I've finished the difficult-to-trace irregular-shaped objects [lol]!
So far I've captured three out of the four peninsula views I want. I was planning on getting the fourth one today - until my laptop started being unresponsive [File Explorer was hanging]. My natural reaction was to make sure I had a totally up-to-date system backup before I went any further; but the backup process only ran to 41% complete, then aborted. That's when the error message confirmed that the external backup HD itself was the culprit. It had taken too many dives to the livingroom floor whenever I'd forgotten it was plugged in via that micro-short 1-foot USB cable[], and this morning's plunge had finally done it in! So I wound up going out and buying a new external HD since I consider it critical to have my personal data backed-up. I laid several strips of double-sided tape on the laptop to hold the new HD in place - shoulda done this years ago with the first one, lesson learned.
Never did make it out to the trainroom to get that fourth photo...
Is that a small horse in the back of the green pickup?I noticed that the local policeman and sheriff's deputy were taking care of business across the street.
Large dog - quite common here in Texas where they are allowed to ride unbridled.Is that a small horse in the back of the green pickup?