Adventure, Observations, Photos, Venture

Before I was born, suffice it to say a long time ago, my parents acquired a Coke a Cola promotional Santa, yes that is a bottle of Coke in Santa’s right hand. This Santa graced our family Christmas tree until my folks needed to consolidate their ’stuff’ when they moved into their retirement apartment. The Santa came to live with us in Seattle and was resettled to our lake house a few years back.

My dad decided this fall that Santa wasn’t having a very good time in Washington State and that he should move back to California. Spending time separated from family at the holidays is always challenging. Instead of the traditional holiday phone call, I took a series of photos and sent them to my dad in a series of emails over the holiday. If I had my blogging act together i would have just put them here. The complete set, with the original email captions are available at: Santa Stories

My trusty Nikon D50 has been suffering from occasional freeze ups, with Err flashing in the display window. I searched on the web for hints and found a number of reports of this problem, all with the solution “take it in for service”. In my case the err appears when using auto focus, the camera freezes and Err flashes in the display window on the top of the camera. I had the camera cleaned and tuned up by Photo-Tronics link in Seattle The error has returned twice since servicing. The first time it went away on it’s own.

Yesterday it occurred again. While playing around with the camera, trying to get the error to clear, my friend Michael took a photo in Manual mode. Magic error gone. Data Set of 1 is not a conclusive solution, but it did work once.

Reports are filtering in from a far that the postage .58 a-fixed to our holiday cards is insufficient, at least some of the time. The amount by which it is insufficient, has not been consistently reported, varying between .22 and .39. Got to love the elves at the P.O.

First off, if you had to make a special trip to the post office and pay to retrieve our card, WE APOLOGIZE. Apparently a risk of starting the holiday project early in October is our fine friends at the post office changed the rates along the way.

Being able to display the higher resolutions versions of our photos motivated me to upgrade our web site to a Wordpress Blog, a side benefit is the ability to apologize to anyone who received a postage due present along with our card. I am sure you came here to view the photos. They are under the Images Tab above. All the best

so if you are looking for the Lake Wenatchee Web Cam, it will be back once i finish configuring this new version of the site. For now to check out all the new snow, go over to www.lakewenatcheeinfo.com it is available there under the Lake Web Cam link below picture of the day…