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I like my little Sony digital camera, but it does not do well on close ups. I had an old Olympia camera that wore out a couple of years ago that did an awesome job on close ups, but they no longer make that camera model anymore. Sigh. One day, however, I found the exact same camera that had been discarded by a family member. The camera was in perfect working order. The one drawback was that the attachment that connected to the computer for downloading the images was nowhere to be found. I took some pictures of the garden last summer anyway, in hopes that I could somehow locate a means to download the pictures eventually. Fast forward to last Monday when I was at the Apple Store having my laptop fixed by the ace professional there. I was standing around waiting for my laptop when I noticed a Belkin thingee that promised to download any and all digital images off of any card from any camera. The light went on and I bought the thingee. True to its promise, I was able to, finally, download the pictures off of the Olympia camera. Yippee! I'm back in business, close up wise. It doesn't take much to make me happy. Thank you, Belkin. And thanks to Joey at the Apple Store for giving me my laptop back.

Ta Da

This year I decided to try growing vegetables in a raised garden behind the garage. The area itself is prone to standing water whenever there is a significant rainstorm, so raising the garden bed was a must. It's also easier to tend to the plants, although I haven't had to do much of that. The tomato plants took off immediately, but the green peppers stayed the same size for about a month. Then the pepper plants seemed to stretch themselves upward dramatically. The odd thing is that there are absolutely no flowers on the pepper plants. Bummer. There are lots of little tomatoes on the grape tomato plant, but only one so far on the big boy tomato plant. The cucumber plants are growing nicely and putting out lots of yellow flowers, so I'm hoping to get significant cucumbers from all this. The pumpkin plant has huge leaves and some flowers, but I only want to get one or two pumpkins so that's fine. There are three or four broccoli plants strewn in for good measure and anything I get from them is a bonus. For fun Henry and I threw some radish and carrot seeds around the garden and it looks like some of those are going to produce. The seeds were just thrown in helter skelter and a lot of the little plants are too close together to get sizable roots, but what the heck. This year is the first year for this and the year I see what's what.