Wordful Wednesday - 8/17/11

Today, friends, is not going to be wordless in the least.  Today I am forced to be wordFUL because I had a camera tragedy yesterday, the likes of which makes me sick to my stomach to even think about.  But I shall push through it to bring you this post today.

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Drama, right?

Beginning with last Friday I documented so many cute moments...and...another few...(hiccup)...firsts.

My daughter rode the school bus home for the first time last Friday.  She is only riding it once a week because we normally have her in the after-school program.  This was a huge deal to me and the hubsters.  He was quite excited to get in the golf cart and meet her down at the bottom of our neighborhood entrance, where I armed him with my camera and instructions to take pictures.

He did a fantastic job!  Pic of the bus stop.  Pic of the bus stopping. Doors opening.  Maddi standing there waiting. Maddi walking down the stairs.  Maddi running towards him.  Maddi crawling into the golf cart.  Maddi with helmet on ready to ride home.  Really great pictures to treasure!

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On Saturday, we took the kids to the local farm where they selected fresh corn out of a huge bin for dinner that evening.  This corn had been picked that very morning from the fields.  I mean, fresh!  We walked around.  The kids rode the cutest little wagon train pulled by a tractor.  They both rode miniature ponies for the first time ever.  Pictures, pictures, pictures galore!

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After the farm, we drove home and had to stop to take a picture in our neighborhood of an outcropping of granite boulders which is home to the cutest little squirrel (or chipmunk - I don't really know what it is).  We used to see him nearly every day as I took the kids to school in the morning and the kids would wave.  Saturday he was out sunning himself on his boulders and perched right next to him on the very same rock was a hawk. His predator!  It was just too cool - their unbelievable camaraderie - we had to stop and take a picture.

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This brings me to the camera tragedy of last night.  I decided it was time to download my pictures to my computer mostly in preparation for building my weekly Wordless Wednesday post.

Lately, I have been having problems with my beloved Mac.  It's telling me that my "start up disk is full" and I need to delete files.  And I have been.  Mostly, I've been slowly transferring my 9,834 (approximate count) pictures to an online picture hosting website for safekeeping.  iCloud, anyone?

As the camera was doing its thing, my computer crashed and I was forced to shut it down.  Little did I realize, all my pictures would be lost in the process.  You see, I do that usually so handy feature of deleting the originals from my camera at the time they are loading to iPhoto.  It saves a step for me not having to go back to my camera and delete them all.  No more, my friends!  No more!  Because I did that, all these precious memories are deleted. They are not deleted from my memory, of course, because they'll always be there.  But the captured moments and images that seemed too precious for words are in computer-crash-inferno.

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Take what lesson(s) you will from this post.

• Don't store 10,000 pictures on your home computer.  
• Back your computer up regularly.
• Don't use the auto-delete feature.
• Delete only once you are sure your pictures are safely downloaded, saved, backed up, loaded to an outside website, cloud, lightning bolt, whatever.
• Be careful of over-dramatizing.
• Don't put too much text in a post or people won't read all the way to the end to read your wrap-up.

Wordful it is, isn't it?

I'm linking up with Parenting by Dummies and Seven Clown Circus today.