I've been pretty busy in the last few weeks.
Since my last post we'd been asked to record the memorial service for a friends wife that had passed away from cancer. The service was on May 16th and Stacy and I recorded it with two camcorders and I took some still photos also. I transferred all the video from both cameras onto DVD and then into my laptop and started to put it all together. Most all last week was editing, it was important that the entire service be on the final product as this was to be for all the family that couldn't travel and attend. Got it finished last Friday morning, a demo made and taken to Ernie. He liked it so over last weekend it was make the copies, labels, box them up to deliver to him today. So this morning I'm looking at random copies of the 16 made and I can't believe it, somehow from the smoothness of the first copy, and even with most made straight from the laptop, there are areas of some breakup or jumpiness in scenes on the sample disks. VERY disappointing! Since I'll be giving them all to him later today as he's leaving on a trip to visit other family back in California, I don't have the time to figure out what happened!
Stacy took a chance and after years of talking about it she got her hair cut short. When she first did it and I saw her it was still styled and was way different. Now that it's normal from about two weeks of living it actually looks good and I'm glad she finally did it.
Stacy finally got a Facebook account going for herself. I'm glad because several of the people we know had been wanting to communicate with her so I'd been asking her to start her own page. Now that she did she really seems to be enjoying it, daughter Laura likes to to many of those apps, the ones that all the security sites say you shouldn't be doing, like what kind of fish are you, things like that. And Stacy likes looking at all that Laura and others do of those and make her own comments.
Stacy will be going to an all day class tomorrow and then drive on down to Spokane, spend the night and leave very early Wednesday morning to fly to Boise for three days, be back Saturday. She was voted on as a member on a state board that decides things like Grants and such for Juvenile Justice programs in the state. So she'll be traveling to Boise every once in a while. She'll have to go again in July.
Back to Facebook for a minute, I was able to locate an old friend that I'd worked with as Animal Control Officers back in the late 1980's. I will admit that the ability to find someone works pretty nicely since so many people are on it. Another thing about it is all these new 'extended' family members that are popping up on it. Almost every time I take a look at the suggested friends part and am actually amazed at all these relatives, but are they really related or just have the same last name as those? Right now I'm just sticking with the ones I know or have heard of that want to be "Friends".
I started this with summer is here and it is. Last Thursday, Friday and over the weekend it was at or a little over 90 in the afternoons. Next few days are supposed to be near 'normal' and in the upper 70's, much nicer. Got new blades for the riding mower and was on it yesterday for about 2 hours with the lawn area in front and chopping down the weeds I could get near the house. It was a bit windy so I'm hoping next weekend it won't be at least in the morning so we can use one of the quads, mount the 15 gallon sprayer and spray and kill the weeds sprouting up all over the driveway etc. I'd wanted to already have the spraying all done but in my effort to keep this poison safe, I couldn't find it! Finally did though so we're good to go now. It is one of those ultra concentrate, expensive gallon containers and it does a real good job of killing everything, weeds, grass, everything. Because it does is why we have to have it as windless as possible so we don't inadvertently spray things we don't want killed like Stacy's flowers and such.
Since the last post, Sandy and Erik have moved to their new apartment. Sean and Brandy helped and Sandy said they couldn't have done it without them! Sandy and Erik are both recovering from minor injuries, Erik got a finger smashed in the move and Sandy sprained her ankle pretty badly a couple of days ago. She sent photos, looks like it could be broken to us!
I guess I could talk about topical stuff like Jon and Kate plus eight, just kidding. Actually I guess this will be enough for this update.
Happy Trails till next time! Tad
Since my last post we'd been asked to record the memorial service for a friends wife that had passed away from cancer. The service was on May 16th and Stacy and I recorded it with two camcorders and I took some still photos also. I transferred all the video from both cameras onto DVD and then into my laptop and started to put it all together. Most all last week was editing, it was important that the entire service be on the final product as this was to be for all the family that couldn't travel and attend. Got it finished last Friday morning, a demo made and taken to Ernie. He liked it so over last weekend it was make the copies, labels, box them up to deliver to him today. So this morning I'm looking at random copies of the 16 made and I can't believe it, somehow from the smoothness of the first copy, and even with most made straight from the laptop, there are areas of some breakup or jumpiness in scenes on the sample disks. VERY disappointing! Since I'll be giving them all to him later today as he's leaving on a trip to visit other family back in California, I don't have the time to figure out what happened!
Stacy took a chance and after years of talking about it she got her hair cut short. When she first did it and I saw her it was still styled and was way different. Now that it's normal from about two weeks of living it actually looks good and I'm glad she finally did it.
Stacy finally got a Facebook account going for herself. I'm glad because several of the people we know had been wanting to communicate with her so I'd been asking her to start her own page. Now that she did she really seems to be enjoying it, daughter Laura likes to to many of those apps, the ones that all the security sites say you shouldn't be doing, like what kind of fish are you, things like that. And Stacy likes looking at all that Laura and others do of those and make her own comments.
Stacy will be going to an all day class tomorrow and then drive on down to Spokane, spend the night and leave very early Wednesday morning to fly to Boise for three days, be back Saturday. She was voted on as a member on a state board that decides things like Grants and such for Juvenile Justice programs in the state. So she'll be traveling to Boise every once in a while. She'll have to go again in July.
Back to Facebook for a minute, I was able to locate an old friend that I'd worked with as Animal Control Officers back in the late 1980's. I will admit that the ability to find someone works pretty nicely since so many people are on it. Another thing about it is all these new 'extended' family members that are popping up on it. Almost every time I take a look at the suggested friends part and am actually amazed at all these relatives, but are they really related or just have the same last name as those? Right now I'm just sticking with the ones I know or have heard of that want to be "Friends".
I started this with summer is here and it is. Last Thursday, Friday and over the weekend it was at or a little over 90 in the afternoons. Next few days are supposed to be near 'normal' and in the upper 70's, much nicer. Got new blades for the riding mower and was on it yesterday for about 2 hours with the lawn area in front and chopping down the weeds I could get near the house. It was a bit windy so I'm hoping next weekend it won't be at least in the morning so we can use one of the quads, mount the 15 gallon sprayer and spray and kill the weeds sprouting up all over the driveway etc. I'd wanted to already have the spraying all done but in my effort to keep this poison safe, I couldn't find it! Finally did though so we're good to go now. It is one of those ultra concentrate, expensive gallon containers and it does a real good job of killing everything, weeds, grass, everything. Because it does is why we have to have it as windless as possible so we don't inadvertently spray things we don't want killed like Stacy's flowers and such.
Since the last post, Sandy and Erik have moved to their new apartment. Sean and Brandy helped and Sandy said they couldn't have done it without them! Sandy and Erik are both recovering from minor injuries, Erik got a finger smashed in the move and Sandy sprained her ankle pretty badly a couple of days ago. She sent photos, looks like it could be broken to us!
I guess I could talk about topical stuff like Jon and Kate plus eight, just kidding. Actually I guess this will be enough for this update.
Happy Trails till next time! Tad
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