I got up from my desk and walked out to the kitchen to heat up the air fryer and start cooking some lunch. When I walked back into Harry’s room, Robin Sparkles was laying down on the day-bed. I reached into my pocket for my iPhone and then stopped myself. My Z5 was literally three feet away. If I want to start using the real camera instead of my phone camera then I actually have to stop reaching for my phone, right?
I picked up my Z5 and snapped a picture of Miss Robin. There. Let’s adjust that mindset, Robbie. Let’s do it. Let’s get back to using the real camera instead of the iPhone camera. I need to get a new point and shoot if I am going to move away from the iPhone again. Something pocket sized, and no one makes those anymore. At least they don’t make decent ones anymore. Well… Nikon doesn’t make them anymore. Ugh.
I haven’t had my Nikon Z5 available for the last week and a half. When my step son is home in Vermont I work from home at a desk in his bedroom. When he comes home to stay with us I stay out of his bedroom and work from home at a desk in the cellar. For the last week and a half he has been home with us. At the time he came home, my Z5 (and both of my film cameras) were in his room on the desk. They stayed there while he was home because I don’t like sneaking into his space, probably because I feel a little guilty about using his room for work.
He went back to Vermont yesterday so I’m back in his room today and I have my cameras again! Today’s photo a day picture is a mirrorless sucker!
I also moved the plants that are clipped from my step daughter’s plant back into his room too. They spent the week and a half in the living room on the bay window. The cats ate a couple of leaves off of one of them.
I want to try to use the mirrorless camera for the every photo over the last month of the current photo a day thing, but I doubt I will be able to do that. I’m too dependent on my iPhone. sorry.
The bird feeders are full again. It only took them a few days to blow through four whole bird feeders worth of seeds. That probably means I am going to slow down on the feeder fillings in the near future. For today though, we’re full once more.
Our trip to Florida last week was sick, both literally and figuratively. It was figuratively sick in that it was a great time. It was literally sick in that Jen and I both came home with head colds. No Covid this time. We did that on a Florida trip back in September 2023. This time it is just a persistent, annoying, bad cold.
That’s two Disney World trips in a row where we were sick on the drive home. Well, last time I got sick on the day we got home. I was okay for the rest of the drive. Jen was really sick the whole way home.
I have to pause to acknowledge the fact that a Red Tail Hawk just attacked something at our bird feeder. I don’t think it got anything, but it swooped out of the sky and landed on our little patio. I saw it there for a second before it bolted into the woods. Hawks are freaking cool.
Okay, back to the subject at hand. Travel. Now that we are home from Florida it is time to tentatively plan not only the next vacation, but the next two vacations.
Tentatively, we’re looking at Southern California in the fall. Maybe September. If we do it, we will split the time between San Diego and Disneyland in Anaheim. After that it will be Orlando again at some time around Jen’s birthday. She has a milestone birthday in 2025 so we are going to want to do something epic. We’ll see if the kids can join us for this one. Maybe Jen’s mother and step father too. It’s all hypothetical at this point. For us though, half the fun of a big vacation is planning the big vacation. We’re well into that process already.
In closing, here are a few pics from our drive down to Florida. We stopped at Castillo de San Marcos in St Augustine, FL and just spent a few minutes wandering around the fort and the neighborhood around it.
That’s way more pictures than I was planning to use for this post. It doesn’t include any of the film shots either. I still need to send those out for developing. Woah!
We’re home and it’s Monday and we’re back to work. We’re both working from home, digging out from under a mountain of emails that piled up over the last week.
That also means we’re back to lots of cat photos. Everything is back to normal now.
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