Wednesday, August 30, 2017

Yes, It Was Awesome!

Hello Everybody!

I'm back from our trip to the East coast and Midwest. However, I now have almost 4,000 photos to go through and create photobooks for my granddaughter and grandson to remember this memorable summer.

We saw and did so much! And yes, we saw totality on August 21st, but not without a lot of planning and readjustment by my Super Techie son-in-law.

I'm afraid I'll still need to continue my hiatus but I've already created a long list of ideas for posts that I'll be writing about our fun, aggravating, touching, maddening, loving, educational, fabulous experiences. (Once I'm done with the photobooks, that is.)


Thank you so much for caring about me and letting me know you're thinking about what I'm up to. I'm sending you all my aloha from the middle of the Pacific.

POSTSCRIPT:
OK, OK... You guys are too funny! Yes, I did get off the ground, but just not at the same time as Art and KC. Sigh... Not as easy as you might think.

28 comments:

  1. So that's where you were and I bet you were in my neck of the woods for some of that time too. How nice to spend time with family. For you to it takes lots of planning, too. Looking forward to your posts.

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  2. It's so nice to see you are back! And congratulations on getting to see the totality. I look forward to hearing more about your adventures, Kay. Love the picture of you three. :-)

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  3. Will be happy to read all about the trip. Those two certainly got airborne. I'm assuming you are just landing. ;)

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    1. We took three jump photos, but couldn't seem to synchronize our air time. LOL
      Maybe we'll try again next year.

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  4. Only two made lift-off for the photo. LOL Glad to know you are safe and sound.

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  5. welcome back, i missed your daily posts...but glad you had a great vacation!

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  6. I missed your posts but I'm happy you had such a good time!

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  7. Welcome home. Yes, you can only do so much. What fun you must have had. We will wait for your return. Hugs.

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  8. Grandpa looks like he's in good shape but it looks like Grandma can't get off the ground. I look forward to some photos.

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    1. OK, that's it, Red. I'm going to prove I did get in the air. I'm going to add a Postscript. Too funny!

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  9. Laughed out loud at your making it off the ground. Welcome back and hope you are back for good soon.

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  10. Welcome back!!! LOVE the jumping pictures - would make a great series.

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  11. Welcome back - love the photo's.

    All the best Jan

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  12. My brother in law and grandson saw totality too and have similar photos and videos of themselves Freaking out. So I guess you'll be doing a lot of catching up in the next weeks. Unless you are off again somewhere?

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  13. Fun photos and so glad your trip to the mainland was a good one. Looking forward to seeing future posts when you have the time. Sounds like you are going to be very busy with your photos :)

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  14. Welcome back! I what to hear, and see, it all!

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  15. I don't like flighty women myself, I am not surprised your feet want to stay on the ground!
    Glad you had such a great time!

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  16. so glad you had a wonderful vacation/trip!

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  17. What a pleasure to see you and Art still floating!!!

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  18. Glad you returned home safe & sound. Sounds like a wonderful trip. I have to ask, how do you make your photobooks, and how do your store your photos on your computer? I am having one heck of a time trying to get all of my photos in one place on my hard drive. Thanks for any help you can send my way!

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    1. I have a Pictures folder on my desktop. In it, I put folders labeled with date (Year, Month and Trip Name). Inside of those folders I save photos by day in separate folders, again labeled Year, Month and Day.

      As for how I do my photobooks. It's a rather involved process. I create my pages on a program called PhotoRecord that I got through Canon. I believe you can get a free download online, but it's a newer version than what I have. I prefer the older one.

      Anyway, once I get my pages created, we upload them to the Costco Photo Center to publish our photobook. There's a maximum of 100 pages so it forces me to edit carefully. We choose the Custom Photo Cover option that starts at $17.99. If I get 100 pages, it runs under $50. I can't remember how much exactly. I have to admit it's not really easy, but we've been satisfied with the results.

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    2. AND I always back up my photos on an external drive... just in case.

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  19. Enjoyed this update, Kay, and there's nothing more wonderful than taking an extended vacation and spending it with family is a huge plus too. Looking forward to seeing your future posts. Thanks for sharing how you do your photo books. I've been thinking of doing something similar and Snapfish online seems to offer a lot of possibilities as well as frequent discounts. I order reprints through the site and have been satisfied.

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