I got up early this morning (4am early) to check the radio… I still need 2 distant states to finish up my Worked All States on 160 meters… but no luck this morning… since I need HI and AK I figure I am going to have to do some night work to catch them since they are about 5 or 6 hours later than I am so about midnight for me is just sundown for them and prime op time my be about 4 am? if they are on… but none were out there this morning… so at about 7 I took off to get my work out in… At the Seratean Wellness center, did 2 plus miles on the treadmill (at about 5% grade) no since just walking on flat ground… and then did a few weights… back home and do a little more radio and then off to lunch… After lunch on to my Scan Project…
Recently I have been working on my “SCAN” projects… Over the years we have taken a lot of pictures and put them away in boxes… books, and other places… maybe 15 years ago I spent days going through some of them and had a lot of them dated by years in the boxes… but then we need one and another and they kept being pulled out and put back in other places so a lot of them are ….. screwed up as far as “when was that”?
I have said for years that I would get them scanned and stored digital as they are fading and turning yellow or orange as the case may be… and digital is easier to save , make copies and secure from further aging… Thank goodness for Picasa too… in my scans I have found I did take a few decent pictures…
Hear is an example of what I scanned… getting kind of red…
With a little help it looks more like this… still not as good as it could be but ok…
a frost on my antennas wire in about 1978….
Taken after a big snow when we were at Hunting Camp in 1978… We had pulled our camp trailer up and then over night it dumped on us but fortunately we were able to get the trailer out before it got a lot deeper…
In front of the other picture… our camp… not horrible yet but could get much deeper quick…
Same year a little later… Christmas at Great Grandma’s house…
We were taking class this year to learn how to take better pictures… I did ok but Sherrie took some really great B&W’s…
I still have a huge box full that I have to get scanned… and I have done maybe 1000 so far… or more?
Something to keep me busy during the cold days… between working on taxes and hitting the Ham Radio…
The hard part is not getting involved with looking at them all and keeping the scanner busy… it is a single picture scanner so I have to constantly feed it… maybe it will last long enough to get them all?
WD0AJG