{"id":3120,"date":"2014-07-31T18:07:50","date_gmt":"2014-07-31T18:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/?p=3120"},"modified":"2014-07-31T18:12:54","modified_gmt":"2014-07-31T18:12:54","slug":"give-a-wife-a-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/?p=3120","title":{"rendered":"Give a Wife a Camera…….."},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I was sitting in my girly room, minding my own business, knitting a hat. \u00a0Suddenly David pushed the camera into my face with this picture.<\/p>\n

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Okay, I thought. \u00a0A little blurry and I said take another one and he took this…<\/p>\n

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Much better. \u00a0You like my blue fingernails? \u00a0 Then David started to show me more pictures.<\/p>\n

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Okay, what’s going on? \u00a0” I used the zoom lens,” David said. \u00a0“Here, look.” \u00a0I looked at my camera and saw the zoom was fixed. \u00a0You see, last summer on a small trip we took, I dropped the camera in my car and broke the zoom thingamajig on it. \u00a0I have still continued to use my camera, but couldn’t zoom in. \u00a0Then, David, bless his heart, bought me a new camera for Christmas. \u00a0Unfortunately, me and that camera did not get along well. \u00a0It was heavy, took too long(for me) to focus and I had to change lenses if I wanted to zoom. \u00a0It’s really a nice camera, just too much for me. \u00a0I told him he could have it and take pictures for me while I would continue to use my little, broken camera. \u00a0 It’s worked out pretty well. \u00a0David takes good pictures.<\/p>\n

Then today he starts using my little camera again. “Did you fix it?” \u00a0I said. \u00a0“How did you fix it? \u00a0Oh, I am so glad to have my camera working again.” \u00a0Then he began to laugh and I looked at the camera closer. \u00a0It was a new camera. \u00a0Just like my little broken one, only better. \u00a0And I could zoom again.<\/p>\n

David had ordered a new pump for our water fountain and I had brought him the box from the mail thinking nothing about it. \u00a0The camera was in the box with the pump. \u00a0He sure surprised me. \u00a0Soooo, today I went around taking pictures just checking it out. \u00a0Here they are in no particular order.<\/p>\n

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Getting ripe.<\/p>\n

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You know those bulbs I bought at a big box store and didn’t think they would grow? \u00a0Well, they are growing and blooming. \u00a0I have several different gladiola right now and each one is so pretty.<\/p>\n

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This one was almost hidden behind the Shasta Daisies. \u00a0It’s amazingly beautiful in person.<\/p>\n

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Gorgeous.<\/p>\n

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Magic or August Lilies. \u00a0In the Spring these flowers grow their foliage, but no flowers. \u00a0 Then as the Summer progresses, the foliage completely dies and disappears and then these spikes of flowers appear. \u00a0Then they turn into this.<\/p>\n

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What I am wondering is, how do they know it’s August?<\/p>\n

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I have a lot of these around the garden. \u00a0Whoever lived here before us planted them and they have come up every year since we’ve been here for thirty-seven years almost.<\/p>\n

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Last Summer a friend and I went to a shop hop and I won this quilting book. \u00a0I haven’t made anything from it yet, but I keep looking at it and planning.<\/p>\n

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I think this is a darling pillow. \u00a0I would make it with wools and I think I will make this pretty soon.<\/p>\n

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Isn’t this bee skep pin cushion cute. \u00a0It’s kind of labor intensive, but I won’t take it off my list to make yet.<\/p>\n

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I love this purse although the giant bee on it kind of turns me off, but I could put something else there where the bee is.<\/p>\n

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Right now I am making a quilt from this book.<\/p>\n

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Yes, I am making a sheep quilt. \u00a0I am not going to make it exactly like in the book, but I think it will be cute when I am finished. \u00a0I’ll try to remember to show you when it’s done. \u00a0I won’t guarantee it. \u00a0But I will try.<\/p>\n

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For those of you too young to remember these are insulators that use to be on the top of electric line poles. \u00a0When the poles started to be taken down, the workmen would often just leave these laying around. \u00a0My dad collected a few and I have found some at auctions. \u00a0They are just a part of history and I like history.<\/p>\n

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My trusty Riccar sewing machine. \u00a0One of four I have plus I have a few other sewing machines. \u00a0A friend asked me one time why I had so many sewing machines. \u00a0I told her it was because I never wanted to be without a sewing machine when I am working on a project should the one I am using break. \u00a0Plus, we sold these years ago and I brought the leftovers home with me when we closed our store.<\/p>\n

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I collect old chairs.<\/p>\n

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I come from creative parents. \u00a0My dad used to build and paint these little houses and sell them. \u00a0I was blessed to receive some from him.<\/p>\n

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He made this little church.<\/p>\n

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It even has a bell in the belfrey.<\/p>\n

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This was the last thing my dad gave me before he died. \u00a0The cow’s eyes are a little wonky which makes me love it even more. \u00a0Dad had had gall bladder surgery that year and his health never got back to normal. \u00a0I use to just put these houses out at Christmas, but I keep them out all year now to remind me of my father. \u00a0I can’t wait to see him again and I know I will.<\/p>\n

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Shhh, this is my favorite chicken, but the others don’t know it. \u00a0Penninah always greets me when I come into the chicken yard. \u00a0Honestly, sometimes I think I can understand what she is clucking. \u00a0Here she is engrossed in my pants.<\/p>\n

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Ada and Abby are now in with the big chooks. \u00a0David said they went into the coop all by themselves last night. \u00a0He had been putting them in after it got dark. \u00a0Seems things have settled down and the big chooks have accepted them more or less although there is an occasional peck when the younguns’ get around their food.<\/p>\n

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The best fertilizer. \u00a0I’m just sayin’.<\/p>\n

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Bonnie. \u00a0I love this dog. \u00a0She is getting old. Ten years. \u00a0We are looking to get another puppy maybe this Fall. \u00a0When we got Bonnie, we had an older dog who got a new lease on life when Bonnie arrived. \u00a0They played together and ran and had so much fun. \u00a0That dog, Subaka, lived to be eighteen years old. \u00a0I hope Bonnie lives that long. \u00a0Seems that it would be nice if your dog could live as long as you do, but it’s not the way. \u00a0I have many dogs waiting for me at the Rainbow Bridge. \u00a0Dogs are the best and the nearest thing to how we people should treat each other. \u00a0They love us unconditionally, forgive everything and only live to be with you. \u00a0Sounds like God, doesn’t it?<\/p>\n

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Belle, the silly girl. \u00a0She always manages to strike a very silly pose every time I try to get her picture.<\/p>\n

Here’s to new cameras and the wonderful husband who surprised me with one. \u00a0Bye.<\/p>\n

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