We will be spending a
quiet weekend in New York this week. Barry’s dental work went fine, but he is
still recovering. I pureed the vegetable soup I had made a couple of days ago
and that turned out to be delicious! I think I will serve it that way in the
future.
I started a new
project yesterday. Somehow, although I cannot for the life of me figure out how
I managed to do something this stupid, I no longer have electronic versions of
the pictures we took of our grandchildren from 2004 when Joshua was born through
2006. But I have literally hundreds of printed photographs, all in order, in three
large albums that hold four 4x5” pictures in plastic sleeves on each page. My
plan is to select a representative sample and scan them in. Yesterday, just to
see how this would go, I scanned in a few. This in itself is not so simple,
because if the picture is sitting on the glass just a bit crookedly, it is very
hard to get the image straightened out on the page. I know you can rotate the
image, but then you end up having to cut off a bit, and somehow it is difficult
to get it just right. So after a few tries I had four pictures that I loaded onto
Shutterfly and I started a book. The pictures don’t look quite as crisp as the pictures
we have electronically do. Barry pointed out to me that I could try to increase
the resolution on the scans. Unfortunately, when I tried to do just one
picture, after being tied up for many minutes, an error message popped up and
said that it could not do it. So I may just have to settle for the fuzzy images,
which is odd when the images in my head are so clear!
I have another
project upon which I hope to embark. Recently, one of my sisters took all the
old home movies our father had taken while we were growing up and transferred
them to DVDs. I am looking forward to sharing these with the grandchildren. Meanwhile,
when Simmie was a baby, Barry and I bought a video camera that was advanced as
home movie cameras were back in the 1970s. There are 27 reels in all, and at 3
minutes each that is almost an hour and a half: stay tuned for this at Sundance!
Unfortunately, only about half are labeled. The images on the Super 8 tapes are
very tiny, so there is no way to look at them and know what they are. If I send
them off to one of the services that can transfer them onto a DVD, I have no
good way to put them in chronological order. I’m still scratching my head about
this one. If anyone has any suggestions they would be much appreciated.
Meanwhile, it looks
like there will be one last blast of relatively warm weather this weekend before
winter finally comes to stay. Maybe not warm enough for the Botanical Gardens,
but at least not so wickedly cold!
Be well and have a
nice weekend.
Love,
Rebecca
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