OK, so I haven't been playing with the camera lately.

There's a lot going on around here.  Most recently, GrandmaM drug me kicking and screaming to the ear nose and throat doctor.  Seems GrandmaM can't sleep at night lately and she's blaming GrandpaM for her insomnia!  INSANITY!  

The doctor listens patiently to GrandmaM, examines GrandpaM and now wants to do surgery on GRANDPAM!  This in spite of the fact that when he asked GrandpaM what he problem was GrandpaM explained to him "I DON"T HAVE ANY PROBLEMS."  The doctor was unmoved! Problem with surgeons is that they get paid to cut so they're always looking to cut SOMEBODY!

After 50 plus years of successfully packing his tonsils around, Sawbones wants to remove them along with GrandpaM's adenoids, trim down the flap in the back/roof of his mouth, and bore out the turbinates in his nose!  Doc says to expect 10 days or two weeks of bed rest and discomfort!

Like GrandpaM get any choice in this one!  Screwed if do and cut off if you don't!  Surgery is on 12/5.

(Actually, GrandpaM knows he needs this but he be damned if he's going to admit it to GrandmaM!!!!!)

Trick or treat smell my feet give me something good to eat!

So, this is why being grandparents is soo very fun!!!!!

Well, it' s been a while since I added anything here.   

But, since I got a new camera, and we've had some time to play with it, here's some new stuff for your enjoyment, I hope!

A bumpy day of flying in the mountains, just a couple thousand feet below the clouds.  I know it looks in the camera like they are closer than that but they aren't.  After bouncing around for a couple of hours coming home from Lake Powell the  end of every good flight should look like this!  (Nick took these photos while I kept the tires in the air until the runway was under them)

One other nice development of late.... someone, or some cat, knocked by Nikon D70, with flash attached, off my desk onto the floor breaking my camera.

So, I went camera shopping.  Ouch!  The new toy is on the tall side of $1,000.  Gonna have to wait for Christmas on that one.  So, well see if we can't find a way to get something going in the mean time to be of interest!

If you've been watching and waiting....SORRY!  

I thought we could save a buck and uncharacteristically decided to give it a try.  BAD MOVE! We thought we'd try out a web based phone system for $25 a month hey, it beats $55 a month to Qwest or so I thought!!!!  Don't do your own thinking here Grandpa!  So we ordered the new phone system.  I didn't realize when they called Qwest they wouldn't keep our DSL line for us. So we got the new phone system and the internet quit working.  That meant the phone quit working too.  We figured out what went wrong and scheduled an appointment for Qwest to hook us back up.  They didn't show up.  A call to them revealed they had screwed up our day. We rescheduled for several days later.  They came out and then we learned that our modem was cooked.  Bought a new modem and just got that working.  Oh, by the way did I mention that the DSL line without a dial tone is as much as the whole phone service?  My bad, should have brought that up too.  

So, in the end, this whole deal cost us more money and headache than it will ever be worth!  

Thank you Qwest, I love you no less than always.  As reported, your customer service is.....