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finder they were some times long gone we old people do not pivot very well the third photo makes it look like they were low they were notice the thunderbird painted on the bottom of the planes posted by ted at 2 31 pm 1 comment labels barnes municipal airport thunderbirds monday july 05 2010 4th of july 2010 july 3rd was the actual date for westfield s 4th of july celebration westfield kiwanis is the group that put it on i am a member now along with my wife this is our 3rd year of doing the event and we finally made some money it isn t a lot but it is enough so we don t have to borrow from ourselves to start next years event as you can see we had a flyover by two of our f 15 s from th 104th based here in westfield at barnes airfield they are sure loud when you don t see them coming we held this event at westfield s stanley park and it is huge hats off to the park nice fireworks this was my first time trying to photograph them with my new 1yr old canon t1i there is now a t2i out there and i still have not figured out how to take movies with the one i bought yet really has a huge learning curve this is picture of my kiwanis brothers and sisters working hard selling things we sold glow neckless s glow bracelets uncle sam hats blinkey flag lights glow glasses and american flags we also had small groups perusing the crowds selling the same things and taking donations its a hard day for all but it is worth it its for the kids this is the start of some new blogging for me christmas was the date for my last posts and it has long gone 7 months without any posts i now have a lot more to say and time is a wasting so i had better get busy since last we talked our president came out with a stimulus package and towns that had shovel ready projects got the first money and apparently we had a lot ready to go every day we heard about new projects starting and people came in and started tearing our town apart including our town green we had a lot of trees in town and they disappeared in a couple of days so has the grass and the fountains and the streets for that matter i think that every plumbing water gas and electrical line has now been torn up and that means all of the streets have been tore up also not that i am against it but i do have some things to say i also have some things to say about those f15 flying around i never did hear where our a 10 s went and whats up with all of the army helicopters flying around see ya soon the old muser posted by ted at 2 49 pm no comments labels f 15 fireworks kiwanis monday december 28 2009 where did christmas go as i sit here pondering the past few weeks or months trying to come up with a respectable post i realized that the christmas season was over to me the christmas season runs from thanksgiving to new years eve the reason it starts with thanksgiving is that is when the pre christmas sales begin and the reason it ends with new years eve as that is when people turn their christmas lights off why don t i call it the holiday season i don t because i am a christian and the christmas season is about celebrating the birth of christ there are others that celebrate their religion during this same period and they call their celebrations something other than christmas such as kwanza or hanukah and are all celebrating something other than the birth of christ so i don t blame them for wanting to call the time by a different name that is their right don t ever minimize or make a mockery of that last sentence because a lot of us had it in our heads that one of things we were doing over in vietnam and the north atlantic back in the 60 s and 70 s was protecting that right called the freedom of religion at least that is what we told ourselves as we buried our friends and comrades back then and even more so today back in the day whatever that means christ was definitely in our christmas celebrations christmas was in the school play it was still in the church in the sermons the church play it was in the shopping the wrapping paper and the music as we shopped it was everywhere christmas was for kids and celebrating christ it slowly started getting different as each year passed christmas became about presents not just for kids but for everyone now the internet has rolled in and it is about something else there are very few web sites that we use to purchase our presents that wish us a merry christmas but rather send us a happy holidays greeting while silent praying that they haven t just offended some person or a group as we shop those web sites we don t find much in the way of christmas music which keeps us in the spirit of the true meaning of christmas yard decorations became about outdoing your neighbor or the whole town and nothing about the birth of the christ child there are less manger scenes displayed and fewer stars and wise men are depicted it is all about lights as led lights make their debut along with super obnoxious florescent colored light strings what happened to the christmas tv specials all are now probably relegated to pbs to save no perry como bing crosby barbara mandrel or dean martin i just read an editorial in our local paper yup we still have one complaining about the same thing as i have and she said in summation that it has stopped becoming christmas and is now santa day merry christmas to all posted by ted at 3 11 pm 2 comments labels freedom of religion thursday december 24 2009 disaster strikes here i am just getting back into blogging and a major malfunction occurs i have had my desktop with my computer guy to clean things up and he did a good job i just brought it back and set it up plugged in my new tera drive then i put in a sd chip to download photos and boom a bright yellow screen appeared with bright blue letters what the you must shutdown your computer a problem has occurred with a device unable to save something of that nature i have never had this happen before after restarting my computer i found that my terra drive was now empty zero nada mt gone were all of my files and all of my pictures oh what should i do what should i do think i ll start over again merry christmas from our family to yours posted by ted at 7 25 am 1 comment labels burning computer terabite drive wednesday december 23 2009 new laptop and so forth what this guy just bought a new camera a cannon rebel t1i no less and now he goes out an buys a new laptop what gives is he rich or what an acquittance just posed this question to me last week i would answer that i am just crazy i have had this camera for a few months now and i still don t know how it really works i never expected this kind of a learning scale to be involved i didn t know what a histogram was how to balance the white scale or even why anyone would ever care i have 40 years of photography behind me but i wasn t prepared for all of this film is all but gone and little tiny cameras that hook into a computer have taken over i bought one the other day that cost 10 and it worked that wasn t enough most cell phones take movies along with still pictures what is up with that it is tough being old as the toys and tools advance at the speed of light and i foolishly try and keep up i was having some problems with my desktop actually a lot of problems and i was getting very stressed so my daughter and my wife took me to staples and bought me a new laptop to make life easier what they didn t realize was windows 7 came along with the package and i had to learn a new operating system as well as learn how to use a touch pad as i write this on my old desk top my laptop is also running in front of me as some of the things are stowed on the laptop but sometimes i move the mouse and nothing happens on the laptop frustrating at best i have a cell phone that i am trying to learn how to operate and it has a little flip out thing that is a key pad or something look at the photo as those are my hands on that little dinky pad my daughter is testing me or trying to make me learn how to use it as she is constantly texting me and i have to text back my phone is no exception to those fancy phones i described above it takes pictures movies and goes on the internet i have taken a few pictures and they looked ok but i don t know where they went i haven t taken a movie as all that looks to me is something that eats up my battery and memory and i have accidentally gone on the internet twice but i didn t know where to go both times it scared me and i turned off the phone and let it cool down before i turned it back on i wish it would stop calling people when it is in my pocket and i wish it would turn off properly when i finish calling someone so they can t hear what i say after i hang up sometimes it is kinda embarrassing i wish someone would publish a dictionary for the shortcuts so i know what they are talking about in my messages i know that i never sign off with bff or call another guy my bff what the heck does lol mean anyway i can think of lots of laughs laughed out loud lots of love then there is twitter and facebook tried them both and i couldn t get the hang of it and people who i didn t know never heard of and probably wouldn t want them around were trying to be my friend i quit them both now my daughter wants me to go back on and start a farm there are about six separate posts running around in this one post and i think if i can come up with something about each one i might write a couple of more posts those that are returning after such a long hiatus on my part thanks for coming back and it is really good to see you again i will try to get out there and visit you posted by ted at 8 00 pm no comments labels t1i windows 7 sunday december 20 2009 memory overload my computer was rapidly becoming full to overflowing with photos taken with my new camera my canon rebel t1i because of the 15 1 mega pixel sensor the photos are all in the 3 5 megabits range on every photo and i was taking hundreds of photos i resisted using my movie capabilities with the camera as i could picture megabits bursting out of the seams of my poor little hp computer besides i didn t know how to do it and unload the movies to my computer and i was unable to show my photos on our hdtv as was advertised also i have had my hands full understanding the full working of the still capabilities of the camera i said that i was worried about the megabits bursting out the seams of my computer well it was really the information bursting out the seams of my poor little head in an effort to solve the overload computer concerns i found myself at staples discussing the problem with an on site techie and i walked out the door with a western digital terabyte memory thing all i had to do was plug it into my computer and put all of my photo work on it and my computer would be safe from overloading much easier said than done i was unable to make the transition of sending all of my photos or anything else for that matter to my new terabyte drive though it now had a name as my computer had decided on drive l as the official designation well drive l was not making things any easier for me as i could not wrap my head around the problem wonder where that saying comes from anyway the teradrive has been languishing on the side of my desk taking up valuable space and contributing nothing for about a month now so i had to call in the big guns to solve my problems i called in my own personal geek squad also known as my daughter ellen in about fifteen minutes she downloaded step by step instructions of a document intitled change the default location of the my documents folder typed in the necessary commands to my computer and while it was working went into the living room and took a nap when she awoke she checked her work out announced it was a success and went home to fix me supper my wife is away for a few days in los vegas and without someone cooking for me i would probably starve these daughters are really a great thing to have around today is the day to test out my movie making talents of my new camera and i have chosen my sister in laws dog as my subject i was left with the dog because my sister in law went with my wife to vegas and left me with her brand new yorkshire terrier chulo to take care of along with my two dogs and a cat see if you can tell which one is the new yorkie tried to get the cat to sit for the pic but no luck tried taking a movie of the foursome but no luck seems that you need an 8gb class6 sd memory chip to record the proceedings none in town but are available online and at the camera store in another town amazing what you can learn from the owners manual when things don t work movies will wait for another day posted by ted at 6 25 am no comments labels canon rebel dogs t1i terabite drive friday september 11 2009 papa gets a new camera this picture of the moon sent my heart racing as i looked at the camera and couldn t be happier got the camera with a 18 55mm zoom a 75 300 lens a tripod backpack camera case extra sd memory chips and a special one to use for movies in case i didn t mention it has a 15 1 mega pixel cmos sensor 3 clear view lcd with live view hd 1080p 720p and vga video capture this is way more camera than i need but i had to spend my first social security check somewhere i have had the camera since august 9th and i still don t know how it works for sure oh i can take dynamite photos alright but i haven t begun to understand the cameras potential i spend all of my spare time that is time i am not taking pics or working trying to learn all about it but by the next morning i have forgotten everything from the nite before i am old you know this afternoon i made an inspection trip to the cemetery to see that all was well as we were not working this weekend at the top where our forest starts i got out of my truck and walked around as i stood at the edge looking around i noticed some movement in the trees and about 20 up in the tree was a pileated woodpecker and his flaming red crest was glowing in the afternoon sun he looked about 18 inches tall my camera was back at my office tucked away in the camera bag waiting to spring into action i flew back and retrieved my bag and as i got back i parked away and walked in trying to be as sluthie and silent as an ex submarine sailor could be i found a spot where i could observe the tree in case the woodpecker came back and froze for the next 45 minutes tolerating being eaten alive by insects all for that one shot that i had just missed you all know how this story ends so i won t bore you with the details i have seen that woodpecker one other time i think i will start sleeping with my camera just so i won t forget it again so far i have missed the woodpecker a double rainbow and a bald eagle just because you spend big bucks to buy the fancy camera and gear doesn t mean that you are going to get the good shots you just have to be at the right place at the right time with your camera at the ready today i was at a funeral and as it was arriving there we...