Terry's workshop

OK ... well, you get another post today ... who knows, maybe even another later. Terry has told me numerous times "Don't you have some scanning or something to do?". I don't think he enjoys my 'help'!
Things are coming along!
Since my last post about the house we have gotten a few more things done actually. The living room is COMPLETE! The painting is done, the baseboards are new and painted and put in. The dining room is almost finished. We have the chair rail to finish and the window frame to put up (it is just waiting for drying time after I stained and polyurethaned it).
The oak stair railings are stained and waiting for the dry time so I can poly them. The oak ledges are now ready for me to stain and poly.
The weather is gorgeous today (around 60 or so). We sure could use some rain though. It is very very dry and we are under high fire danger.

WOOHOO!!!

I am DONE scanning my 35mm negatives! (Notice I said 35mm - as I have disc and 110 that I need to try to figure out if my scanner can do - but at least I am done so I can work on Chad's photos for graduation) I ended up with almost 3300 jpegs. I elected to just scan everything rather than go thru and only scan the ones that I wanted - I became rather methodical this way and probably much faster in the long run. Here are a few pictures from the earlier years. I don't think the boys know about my blog, or if they do I doubt they ever look at it. I'm sure they'd kill me for some of these pictures.

Pictures

Scanning all these negatives just makes me laugh at what I thought was 'photographic'! Based upon the number of pictures I took of the following, I must've thought I'd never ever again see these ...
- deer
- elk
- ducks and geese - you can't believe the number of pictures I took of these animals!
- groves of golden aspen
And to think of the cost of the film and the developing! LOL
Not like I don't take pictures of these animals now - but it's simply the click of a delete button.
And speaking of pictures of animals ... I have almost as many pictures of the cats as I do the boys! (OK, maybe not quite)

Same 'ole, same 'ole

Well ... it's a week later and not much has changed. I am still scanning and we're still working on the living room. No surprises there! LOL
We are about done with the living room though! I just spackled some nail holes in the baseboards and will paint them shortly after they dry for a bit. Then I think we'll mostly be done! YEH!!! I'll post a current picture later tonight. Terry redid the electronics so things come on when they should and go off when they should with the push of just one button. I'm so glad he understands that stuff ... cuz I sure don't! So now it is turning the corner to the dining room to finish the wainscoting (which we started several years ago) and then give it a coat of paint.
On the scanning front ... welllll ... I thought I only had about 85 rolls of negatives. I was nearing completion the other night and was thinking 'hmmm, I don't recall seeing our vacation from 1998 in the stack'. Lo and behold ... I found another 75 or so rolls! So ... I'll be at this scanning business for just a tad bit longer than originally anticipated. I will have to post some of these pictures ... they are just too funny. I can hardly believe that my babies used to be that little!
Well ... I've got painting to do ... so I'd better get to it!

OK ... picture uploaded as promised. Looks nice, eh??