The foster family just called and they are bringing Mitch to us tomorrow night (Friday) at 7 PM! Get ready for dog-picture overload. When the foster family called they said they were busy Saturday and suggested Sunday. Sheri convinced them to come tomorrow night.



We have been talking about what fun food we want for the extended Christmas weekend. (I am taking Friday and Tuesday off so I will have a full five days.) The first idea is a standing rib roast and Yorkshire pudding. I think we will do that late Sunday afternoon (Christmas Eve). That way we can have leftovers for a few days.

Then I had another fun idea. I have never done fondue. We also do not have a fondue pot. I did some looking on-line and I decided an electric pot would be better than the traditional liquid-fuel heated kind. With electric you can get really hot heat for hot oil fondue too.

I found a nice looking Rival one at Wal-Mart's site but it was on-line only. The price was great at $30. The other one I found a lot of on-line was a $50 one by Cuisinart. Hmmmm. An extra $20 for something I am not even sure I am going to use much. I did some more looking around and found that Linens-N-Things carries the Cuisinart one. We are holding on to a 20% off coupon from there. OK. I can live with $40, so we picked it up tonight.

I think I would like to do a traditional cheese fondue Friday night as kind of way to start the Christmas weekend off on a fun note. Get a nice crackling fire in the fire place. A nice treat for Mitch. A good movie playing on TV, and a nice not pot of fondue. Traditional Swiss fondue has dry white wine, Kirsch (cherry brandy), garlic essence, and two kinds of cheese. I have been thinking maybe gouda and Swiss, but I am not sure yet.

We might try a hot oil fondue where you cook bits of raw meat, seafood and vegetables right at the table. I was thinking some nice sirloin and fresh mushrooms for Sheri and some scallops and shrimp for me. There is no batter involved, and the oil is very hot, so there is almost no additional fat added from the cooking oil.

When I wake tomorrow there should be about 10 inches of snow from the winter storm we are expecting. I plan on getting out there at 6 AM to run the snow blower. Probably another 2 inches will fall after that before it stops.

A few weeks ago I read an article written by a famous (supposedly) landscape photographer on how to shoot snow scenes. If you use the camera's defaults the pure white snow will more than likely show up looking like 18% grey. His tip was to first get the "correct" exposure and then open it up about 1 to 1.5 stops. This will make the snow look white while still preserving the subtle texture details. If you open it up more than that the snow will loose all texture and just be blinding white. I am looking forward to trying that out on Saturday. Most likely there will be a Mitch in a lot of the shots too. (Don't say I didn't warn you.)

This is what I have in mind:



You can see some very subtle shading in the foreground from the waves of snow.

"Computers are incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid; humans are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant; together they are powerful beyond imagination."
--Albert Einstein

We got the idea to enlarge our photographs that turn out well, display them for a few months and then swap it out for the next one we like. We can change the picture to reflect the seasons. We got a nice picture frame on sale over the Thanksgiving holiday for this. Right now it is just sitting on the mantle. I have to decide if I want to drill a hole in the brick to hang it up or just find a stud behind drywall in a location we would see all the time. Here is the first picture in our series.

I ordered the 35 pound dog cage, two dog sweaters and a shedding brush the Monday night before Thanksgiving. Even though the cage was 35 pounds, if I took the seven day ground delivery service the shipping was only $10.99. This would be perfect. It would show up early to mid week after Thanksgiving but before Mitch arrives. I ordered Monday night so they would not start processing the order until Tuesday.

Well I was right, they didn't process it until the next business day, Tuesday, but it was sent overnight via FedEx and got here on Wednesday! That would normally be fine but we left for Toledo Wednesday morning and were not planning on returning until Saturday.

Fortunately I checked my e-mail before we left and received the FedEx tracking number with their delivery estimate. Sheri was able to find one of our neighbors still home Wednesday morning and got her to pick up the stuff from our porch.

The neighbor had plans of her own and was going to be gone this day and returning that day but would be able to pick it up for us. The box is obviously very large and I was worried during our visit that it would be sitting on our front porch for a day or so like a big sign to everyone driving by that we weren't home and to come on in and get comfortable. Help yourself to our stuff. Or at least someone would have some brand new free doggy stuff.

Fortunately she picked it up and everything worked out fine. On the one hand I am a little annoyed with them that they shipped it overnight and messed up my plans and gave me anxiety. On the other hand I am really impressed with their prices, service and shipping. We ordered it from Doctors Foster and Smith. I will obviously order from them again.

This is where we think we will keep the cage. It is in the front room right next to the door into the family room where we spend most of our time. If he just needs some alone time he can go in his cage but still keep an eye on us and the front door from that location. (Goliath used his cage for that purpose a lot. It was his safe place.) Plus it is pretty much out of our way, both underfoot and visually.

At 1 AM Sheri had a break for an hour and went to bed for an hour. I was wide awake when she went up and it took me an hour to wind down, brush my teeth, etc. to make it to bed. By the time I slipped under the covers at 2 AM she was waking up to get back to work.

I woke up at 7:30 AM and she was still at it. I went downstairs and made her some coffee and then just browsed the Internets for a while.

After a bit I was getting hungry and asked her if I could get her anything. "No." I asked a few times, and each time "No."

I knew she needed something to eat, but in her mind she didn't want anything. I made two over-medium eggs and slid those on top of a piece of buttered toast and sprinkled some cheddar cheese on top. (She doesn't get enough protein.) I casually carried into the family room like I was getting ready to eat it, but I quickly handed it to her and said "Just have a couple bites." and then left the room to use the restroom. I knew if she had it in front of her and couldn't hand it back to me she would at least have a few bites of the egg white with the cheese.

When I came back a few minutes later half of it was gone! That meant she was hungry. I told her to finish it up and she resisted. "No, I can't eat your breakfast. You made it." Etc. etc. She already ate half of it. So I just told no, you eat and walked back to the kitchen to make my own. She finished it before I could finish cooking my own.

Afterward she said she was glad I got her to eat. I think the last thing she had before that was the Buffalo chicken sandwich for lunch the previous day in Toledo.

She is only going on an hour of sleep and it looks like there will be a stopping point soon. It looks like she is a little slap-happy and wants to go out to do a little grocery shopping, stretch her legs and get some fresh air. After that she might have a little more to do at work and then she will take a nap. I don't know if I will lay down with her or clean the fish tank. I have been putting that off for weeks and weeks now.

It is 55 degrees here right now so getting out for some errands should be refreshing.

We just got back from having a nice Thanksgiving in


I took Wednesday off work and we left for Toledo first thing in the morning. This worked out great because we missed the very heavy Chicago traffic that you get the evening before Thanksgiving and Thanksgiving Day. We did not get any stop-and-go traffic the entire trip. Excellent.

We got to Toledo about 2 PM. We hung out at Mom and Dad's house for a few hours, talked and played with Shawn. When we got word that Tim and Lisa were leaving work we got in the car and met them for dinner at "2 Toots Whistlestop Grill". This is one of those kid restaurants where the food is delivered to your table on a model train that comes from the kitchen and circles the restaurant. Shawn was unbelievably excited to go. The burgers were surprisingly very good.











We spent Thanksgiving Day at Tim and Lisa's house and enjoyed Tim's annual deep fried turkey.





I made my homemade dough in Chicago a couple days in advance and then froze it. On Thanksgiving Day I thawed it, formed it into rolls and baked them.



Tim carving up the turkey.



The spread.



When we were cleaning up after dinner we experienced a major catastrophe. The plate that had ALL of the turkey broke as Tim was carrying it across the kitchen!





Tim felt so bad that we could not enjoy the beloved leftovers the next day that he fried another turkey on Friday night after work! What a guy.

After dinner Shawn and I went outside and I followed behind him as he rode his bike around the neighborhood. I ate too much and just needed to walk a bit.



Friday Mom, Dad, Sheri, Shawn and I did a little shopping. We did not get up for the door buster specials though. The highlights: a 24" x 36" picture frame, an electric throw blanket, some toys for Mitch, and a few other things I think I am forgetting.

We had lunch at



I had their famous (and huge) cod sandwich and Sheri had a vegi omelet and fries.

Dad pulling a salt shaker from Shawn's ear during a coffee break.



Shawn explaining the finer points of the Titanic (or the Hindenburg, Bismarck or Pearl Harbor) to a patient Sears sales clerk.



Saturday we got up and Mom and Dad had already left to run a couple errands. We packed things up, and then soon after they returned we went out to lunch (Mom, Dad, Sheri, Shawn and me) to a place called The Star Diner. It is kind of like Hooters, but they serve breakfast, do not serve alcohol, and are only open for breakfast and lunch. Sheri thought the "uniforms" they wear were much more flattering than the Hooter's ones. The waitresses were all very attractive, and the food was very good too. I had the cobb salad. Good except for two things: 1. The onion was a yellow cooking onion and very harsh and was cut into very large strips. I like raw onion but it was too much for me and I had to pick it out. 2. There were several chunks of the dense yellow core part of the head of lettuce. I picked those out as well. Everything else was fantastic. Sheri had the Buffalo chicken breast sandwich and fries. Very good. Dad had a Rueben sandwich which he said was excellent. Mom and Shawn had breakfast items which they seemed to enjoy.

After that we went back home, finished loading up the car and hit the road by 2 PM.
We got back to Chicago at 6 PM on the dot. Driving back on Saturday rather than Sunday was much better because we missed a lot of heavy holiday traffic.

As soon as we got home Sheri jumped back into work and has been on a bridge call ever since. It is midnight now and it sounds like she has to do something at 3 AM.

A few pictures just because.

Sheri bringing me my breakfast Saturday morning after I gave blood and before we went to the greyhound rescue. I went to sit down because I was feeling a little unsteady.



Our breakfast. I am crazy about McDonald's bacon-egg-cheese-biscuit (which is at the bottom of the picture) and Sheri orders the Egg McMuffin but has them substitute regular bacon for the Canadian bacon. NO fried potatoes! I can allow myself the occasional luxury of fast food if I just stay away from the fries. They double the calorie count and triple the fat content of the meal. Potatoes also jack your sugar way up.



Our GPS in action. We were on our way to the greyhound rescue. I was experimenting with using my flash in bright sunlight so the subjects are not back-lit.



This is the fire I built with our new wood for the OSU vs. Michigan game. I am pretty happy with the wood.



We lucked out. While eating our breakfast on Sunday and flipping through the ad inserts I saw that Meijer had dog pillows on sale. Exactly what we were looking for. They were normally $40 but on sale for $24. We bought two of them. Either to have one upstairs and one downstairs, or to have as a backup if one becomes too dirty, damaged, etc. I guess we will try it out in front of the fireplace for now.

I just ordered a 42" cage, two extra large sweaters, and a rubber shedding brush from Doctors Foster and Smith. The same cage at PetSmart is $100, but they on-line they had it for only $70.

Even though the cage weighs 42 pounds shipping for the whole order was only $11! I would have paid more for that in taxes if I bought it at the store.

It is 12:30 AM and Sheri is still on her bridge call. I am on the third load of firewood I carried inside from the wood pile. I just poured myself a big tumbler of iced tea so I guess I'm up for the duration as well.

We have a few things to get before Mitch arrives. Probably the most important is a new cage. The one we have from Goliath is too small. We measured the size cage they recommend when we were out there this morning and it was 42" long, and 28" wide and tall. They will rent a cage for three months for $30, but a brand new one only costs $60 so it makes more sense just to buy one.

Probably the second most important are some sweaters for him. Greyhounds have very little body fat, very thin fur (usually naked on their bellies), and we keep the house on the cool side, especially over night. Doctors Foster and Smith have nice looking sweaters in his size (extra large) for only $11 each. I am thinking about getting him two or three so as one gets dirty we can swap it out with a clean one and throw the dirty one in the wash.



We will probably also get him boots but not right away.



We need a big soft cushion for him but I don't feel like paying $50 - $70 for one from the pet store. We talked to someone that had a great idea: keeping an eye on the scratch and dent sections of stores like Ikea.

We also need general pet supplies. Coal tar shampoo for their skin. All the dogs we saw fresh from the track looks like they had flaky dry skin. Goliath had sensitive skin and coal tar shampoo seemed to do the best for him. I think the bristles on the shedding brush we had for Goliath are too long for Mitch's short coat so we will need to get a short hair brush. Maybe one of those rubber things with the little nubs. Greyhounds are not supposed to be big shedders, and they don't have an undercoat, so this may not be that big of a deal anyway. We'll have to get a bag of the same kind of dog food he is eating now so we don't upset his stomach with a big change. They recommend elevated food and water bowls, but they were eating Scooby snacks off the ground just fine today. I am not convinced they are necessary. We still have the water bowl from Goliath that has the 5 gallon water jug that automatically keeps the bowl full. We have a leash from Goliath. He comes with the special collar they need. Maybe a few toys to chase around.

I think that is all we need. I am not above getting something like this for him though.



It is 1 AM now and Sheri just finished her call so we are going upstairs and go to bed.

Sheri started working on a problem for work around 2 PM and is still on it at 8 PM. She says it is not going to end any time soon either so I guess I will keep myself busy by writing a few posts I think I have in me.

A couple months ago at work they had a blood drive I participated in. Back in Ohio I tried to be a regular donor but I think I only made it three or four times. I thought about here but never got around to actually doing anything about it. After the blood drive I made a resolution to try and regularly donate and made a little reminder in my calendar 8 weeks out to remind me to donate.

Thursday after work I went to get a haircut. The closest blood donation center to us is just a couple storefronts down from where I get my haircut so I thought I might as well walk down and get that crossed off my list.

Since I already donated once before with them they had me in their database and knew my blood type. I am O+ which I think makes me either a universal donor or a near-universal donor. (I think I might not be able to donate blood to an O- person.) While they were going through their normal paperwork routine she stopped and tried to recruit me to be a double red blood cell donor because of my high-demand blood type. This is where you get hooked up to a special machine that sips a little blood out of you, it automatically spins the red blood cells out right there and then pumps the plasma, a little saline solution and some anticoagulant back into you through the same needle, and then repeats the process until 492 milliliters, about two cups, of pure red blood cells have been collected. The actual needle time was about 30 minutes. I could see the little clear container of my plasma fill up and then get pumped back into me. It was a yellowish color. Because they are just taking my red blood cells they can take twice as many of them than they would for just whole blood.

I think they use pure red blood cells for cancer patients.

On the way home I got cold, my teeth were chattering a bit and I had a few body shivers. I don't know if this was from the donation or I was just cold from not having on a heavy-enough jacket for the weather. They did give me an electric blanket while I was donating and had heating pads under each of my arms, so it was probably a little bit of each.

I was scheduled for 8 AM but they were short-handed this morning so I didn’t get going right away when I got there. They got the machine all set up while I was getting my paperwork done but when I got into the chair the machine indicated a priming fault and they had to uninstall the entire single-use sterile tubing kit, reinstall another and then get the whole system primed and ready again, so that added some extra time to my morning.

With double red cells you have to wait 16 weeks between donations rather than 8 weeks with whole blood.

I want to be able to do something good to give back to the community and society, and volunteering at a nursing home or something like that takes too much time, so this seems to be a good match for me. I don't know if I believe in karma, but if it exists this also has to give me all kinds of points for that too.

They said they have a hard time recruiting double red blood cell donors. I asked how many double reds they get per week and she said the last one they had at this location was about three months ago! She said there are a couple regular double red donors at the location in the city next to ours though.

I got back home around 9:30 AM and Sheri was dressed and ready to go see the greyhounds, but I wanted to lie down and warm up a bit first. That took about 20 minutes on the couch under the comforter.

I had Sheri drive because I felt just a little off. We went to McDonalds and had breakfast inside. I only had a Luna bar and an 8 ounce glass of milk before I donated which is probably why I felt a little off afterwards. I should have eaten more before I went but I was running late. I stayed up with Sheri until 2:30 AM keeping her company while she worked.

We didn't linger too long inside McDonalds reading the paper or anything. I just didn't feel like eating in the car.

We drove out to the greyhound rescue, picked out Mitch, went to the grocery store for football food, drove home, started a fire while Sheri started working, watched the Buckeyes win, and then I took a nap while Sheri continued to work. I woke up, made some food, and Sheri is still working. I think I am going to go bring some more firewood in the house now.

This is Mitch the greyhound and we will be adopting him. He still needs to go to the vet to be neutered and spend a week with a foster family to teach him how to climb steps, not get freaked out by mirrors, etc. He has only lived at dog tracks his whole life and this will all be new to him.







Look how muscular he is!


Mitch was an active racer but he got into a bad dog fight and had a major artery ripped open. It would have cost the owners more money to rehabilitate him than they would recoup from racing him after he healed, so they gave him to the rescue.

We don't have his racing number yet, but when they do we can look up how he did in every race he ran in his career. How cool is that? His birth month and year is tattooed on the bottom side of his ear.

Greyhounds are sight hounds (as opposed to scent hounds) and moving-things really get their attention. A squirrel that you can't even see on the neighbor's fence across the street is like a big red neon sign to him saying "Chase me!" Because of this the rescue people could not stress enough how important it is to be very aware of him when going through an outside door. They said they are trained to run like crazy as soon as the trap door at the starting gate opens up, and they think some of that stays with them whenever they see a door opening. They had lots of sad stories about people whose hounds snuck through their legs in the doorway and they find them two miles away flattened in the road. (They can cover two miles in about 2 minutes 40 seconds!)

We spent time with four dogs today. The first one came right over to us and immediately started snuggling which was nice, but he seemed too timid. We were afraid he would be a nervous dog with separation anxiety issues which can be a real handful. Mitch was the second one we saw and he had a perfect combination of being into being affectionate with us and playing with toys and exploring the room. The third dog really couldn't have cared if we were there or not. He was interested in what he could see out of the window and front door and didn't really seem into his toys. The final dog had a personality about halfway between Mitch and the third dog. He was a little more into us but not as much as Mitch. The third dog was also all black and I really wanted more of a classic brindle greyhound coat. So Mitch it was.

We should have him in about three weeks.

Now we are getting ready to settle in and enjoy the Ohio State vs. Michigan game.

I went to a camera store at lunch today to get a grey card (they were out of stock) and I was looking at their Manfrotto tripods. They feel NOTHING like the $15 Vivitar tripod I got at Wal-Mart a few years ago.

I guess really good tripods you buy in two pieces. You buy the legs separately and you buy the head that the camera attaches to separately. The few I glanced at were priced about $100 for each component. But they felt amazing. Perfectly machined. Everything glided and snapped into place very precisely. It sounds weird to go on about a tripod like this, but it's one of those things were you won’t get it until you actually hold one. One of these days…

A few times over the last month or so we have made chicken paprikash with homemade spaetzle and loved it. For the spaetzle I would just use my fingers and pull small bits of dough/batter from the bowl and drop it into the boiling water. It worked and it tasted good, but they were on the large side and not uniform in size.

Because we liked it so much we went on a quest to find a spaetzle maker. I didn't know if a place like Wal-Mart would, but I thought for sure Bed Bath & Beyond or Linens & Things would. Nope. We couldn't find one anywhere.

On Sunday when I was out with the brother-in-law and nephews I stopped in Sur La Table to see if they had one. I literally walked 20 feet inside the store and they had them hanging right there, like they were waiting for me.

Last night we had to try it out. Here I am filling the hopper with the batter. It turned out a little runnier that usual but it still worked OK. The pot it is sitting on is half-filled with boiling salted water. The pot in the foreground is the chicken paprikash. It turned out a little runnier than usual too, but still tasted delicious. The white balance is off in the picture because it is really a nice red color; not yellow/orange. Compare it to the bowl of the finished product at the end to see the real color.



I moved the hopper back and forth and little perfectly sized dumplings fall into the water and get cooked. It only takes a few minutes for them to cook.



Here is a serving bowl of the cooked spaetzle. I add a little butter to the bowl to keep them from sticking together. The little specks you see in them are nutmeg. All of the authentic German recipes called for a little nutmeg, so I added some and I like it.



Here is the paprikash and spaetzle in a bowl, even though you can't see the spaetzle. Notice the rich red color.



It is so delicious it is almost unbelievable, but it is so easy to make. Even on a night after a hard day at work I can get the whole thing ready, start to finish, in about 30 minutes. Both the paprikash and spaetzle.

For some reason Ben feels like his new pants are going to fall down, so ALL weekend, whereever he walked, he had at least one hand holding up his pants at all times. I thought he looked like a little old man.





I got in trouble for taking the picture below. I lost Sheri and Greta in Caputo's so I was just wandering around enjoying hanging out when I noticed the neat colors of all the pasta packages stacked up and thought it might make a neat picture. As I snapped the second picture I hear a goon voice behind me say "Who are you wit, sir?"

Caputo's security? I said "My wife and mother-in-law."

"Well we don't normally allow pitures in here." I wanted to say get bent, but instead I said I was just waiting on them and liked the colors and wasn't with another store trying to research prices. They lost some good will with me on this, but I am still crazy about their sausage.



A little angel.

This was Ben's idea of a picture. He held up the crayons and asked me to take a picture. I did it only to humor him, but after I looked at it enlarged on my PC screen I like it. His hand and crayons in sharp focus but his face slightly out of focus. Describing it doesn't make it sound like a picture you would want, but for some reason it works for me.

He calls this "Battle".

"Lets do battle Unc Bid."

Back in Columbus there was an Italian butcher shop/grocery store called Carfagna's that made really good Italian sausage. I assumed when we moved to Chicago there would be good Italian butcher shops all over the place to get authentic sausage. I was wrong. At least in the areas we frequent.

That has now changed with the discovery of Caputo's. We picked up a pound of their hot Italian sausage on Wednesday night and grilled it up last night. I think it is actually better than Carfagna's, and not just a little bit better. It is REALLY good. Very juicy. Seasoned well. NO gristle or bone bits.

I can't wait until the next time now.

This is our fire wood pile with the camouflage tarp. Much less intrusive than if it were a big pile of blue.

I discovered a neat trick my camera can do today. Before I tell you what it is I need to tell describe how cameras set exposure so everyone is on the same page.

Every camera lets the amount of light in that will let the average grey level of the picture equal 18%. You can buy an 18% grey card from Kodak to assist with setting exposures (I want to buy one) but more on that later.

If the subject matter is mostly dark, everything will get lighted up so the average shade is 18%. If the subject matter is mostly white everything is going to get darkened so the average grey shade is 18%.

The problem with this is that things that actually are white will not appear white. They will be a dirty grey. Black things won't appear black. They will tend towards grey.

To solve this problem some cameras (mine) have different white balance settings. Mine has white balance settings for the following situations:

Daylight
Outside shade
Cloudy, twilight, sunset
Tungsten lights
Fluorescent lights
Flash bulbs

These help, but it is not perfect.

Now for what I discovered today:

The camera doesn't know what things are actually white. You can take a picture of a pure white object in the lighting you are going to take the picture and tell the camera that is what white looks like under that light. Not only will the whites be white and the blacks be black, but all of the colors will be more accurate.

(Disclaimer: These pictures are for technical illustration purposes and are not intended to be family keepsakes.)

This is the picture I used to tell the camera what white looks like.



This picture was taken with the auto white balance mode. The camera can only guess what white is. Notice everything has a yellowish color to it. Her shirt is blue, but you can barely tell that by this picture.



This picture was taken using the custom white balance information gathered from the white napkin picture. Notice the blue shirt now looks blue. You have no way to know this because you are not here, but the colors are much more faithful in this picture than the first one, and the ugly yellow tint is gone.



Pretty neat, huh?

Our Christmas cameras came today, but they did not show up until almost 5 PM. I was hoping they would show up earlier in the day so we could get the batteries charged before we went to a grand opening of a new Italian grocery store in the area.

We went to grocery store, had some pizza in the café, walked around the place, had some free coffee at the coffee bar, and then went home.

By then our batteries were charged so we could play around with our cameras.

I took about 70 pictures, but they were more figuring out what the buttons do and how the camera responds than really trying to take a picture. The light in our family room is horrible for photography at night anyway.

The purpose of this picture is I wanted to play around with setting the ISO. The shutter speed was 1/400 of a second and I had the 300mm lens at f8, but I had the ISO cranked to 1,000. The higher the ISO the less light you need, but more "noise" will appear in the image. (In digital photography it is called noise. With film you would call it graininess.) The lower the ISO the more light you will need, but the image will be very clean. For not knowing too much about nighttime sky photography and not having a shutter release cable I think it came out OK.



With film you had to make the decision of what speed film you were going to load in your camera not knowing exactly where you might need to take a picture. I usually ended up in the middle with 200 speed. If I was indoors the flash would help out, and out doors my shutter was fast enough to handle pretty bright sun. With digitals now day you can set the ISO on the fly for each picture. I can set the ISO down to 100 and all the way up to 3,200!

With this picture I was just experimenting with depth of field by opening up the aperture all the way in aperture priority mode. The pop bottle is in focus while Sheri is out of focus. I never experimented with depth of field with my old film camera so this is all new to me. Fun!



I told you the light is horrible. Maybe tomorrow night I play around with the white balance options.