It may hurt a little!

So torn the hamstring on the 4, have had some physio and tried to keep going on the walking and a few gentle rides on the bike in the basement.  Now wouldn't you know it, the weather this past week and half has been quite nice, go figure.  So how much does this hurt, well a little more with the weather and being stuck on the ctrain sort of bites since i could actually be on my bike.

Not going to lie here would rather be able to play hockey and cycle but I figure it may take a few more weeks of rehab before we are even close to doing much.

On other notes, 2 more days and then I get a week off.  have tried to plan a few fun things to do but it seems like I am running out of days to get road trips in for pictures.  We will see how it plays out.

Not much beyond that to report.

Have a good week and i hope your fall is gently easing you into the next season.

There is a balloon somewhere going ppppphhhhhhttttttt!!!!

yes there is a balloon somewhere.  Not sure where but maybe in my home.  I am to say the least not impressed with my new (cheap on ebay) lens.  Sadly it arrived and one quick look through the glass and it is shot.  The lens was not advertised with any defects but it clearly not a usable lens.  So now what?  I have requested a refund the and seller is agreeing to do this so I am just waiting for the money to arrive.  I am really forcing myself to keep off the lens buying but I am in a funny spot with this camera.  Do not get me wrong, love my nikon D600 it is a wonderful camera never felt that it was a bad step.  But the lenses for this camera are different in that they are all expensive and to get something good is about $1000 bucks.  So yes the balloon has gone ppppphhtttt!  I am working through ebay and various other used channels to find something but it is really coming down to the fact that I will probably stay with what I have and give up on spending my money right now.  I have borrowed an 85mm prime 1.8f from my father in law, it is something he wants to sell I love this lens it is simply put one of the sharpest lenses I know of.  I am tempted to sell off a couple of the older ones I have (25$) old lenses and buy this from him.  But again it means sneaker zoom.  But it means awesome sharp pictures and I like that.  So I will have to probably discuss cost at some point.  My Wife will love that one.

Moving on, managed to get out and take pictures a few times this week.  It is so nice to get out with the camera.  I have a lot of fun, working at being a better photographer.  I am really into black and white right now I love the idea of that.  I have my second print done and in the frame to be hung in the house.  That is right 2 whole images, what have I shot.....like 10000, and I have 2 that I love enough so far.  Actually I have a bunch from the other fall when took the kids pictures.  I am surely not going to forget those, plus a bunch of other stuff I have in small frames.  So maybe I am better than the 2 bigger prints.

Too funny.

Well as the weekend rolls past I am 1 week away from vacation, not sure what I will get done that week, want to get out with the camera to some places further out of town, that is if the weather stays good.  Have an engineer coming to tell us if we can remove the wall in the front living room, that is right the other half of the house is about to start, seems like we have had enough of a break from things time to get rolling over there.

Well I have 2 pumpkin pies baked up and a nice pork roast getting ready to go in the oven so guess it is back to the kitchen.  Maybe I will do something like bake a few potatoes or even oven roast them, that sounds better.

Have a good week.

That was a long weekend????

So how are you all feeling????  Stuffed with turkey or ham perhaps????  I would suggest that this is that time of year where the eating out weighs the exercise.  That may truly be the case in some instances.  I am for the most part at a stand still my leg is getting better the stairs are now manageable but the old hamstring is still not 100%   I did manage to get out and walk a bunch on the weekend.  I can say that did help keep things moving and loose.  Not too mention I was able to eat a little bit more than one should of the old pumpkin pie.  Love that stuff.

So what to report in with or what to talk about?  No real big news.  I am however in a lens dilemma.  I have taken to ebay and found some older lenses that maybe are more manual.  I am still waiting for the one to arrive,   I think it should be more AF than the other one.  But the other one is very clean and looks and feels good.  First impressions are that it is not bad for the price.  But flare....wow lots of flare. I am thinking maybe the other lens which is series 1 vivitar may be less flare.  I am hoping.  I also have on my shelf a very nice Nikon 85mm 1.8f g lens, wow is it sharp and very fast.  It is a loner from a friend that I am considering in this pursuit to buy a less in that middle range.  Being fixed and a prime you expect it to be sharp.  The vivitar are 28-85mm the first a standar 3.5 to 4.6 and has a macro, the minimum focus distance is ok but not 100% what I am after.  The next one that I am waiting for is 2.8 and has more wide angle with no macro.  So we will see, it should be here.

I am off for a week at the end of the month and I have a plan to go and do a bunch of longer days on the road with the camera.  I am going to go to Lethbridge and pick up the girl as she is coming up for the dixie chicks concert as well.

But in general the weekend was quick, I worked on Saturday and also a short stint on Sunday.  But the time flew by.  Sinclaire was home, it was nice she is such a ball of energy, we sat and chatted for an hour and a half on Friday just me and her, she had a bunch of stuff to get out of her head I guess.

Always nice having her home.

I am also going to be doing some more painting.  Finished all the doors and jams now.  I am going to start on the upstairs.  Never ends really.  But I am going to see how things go as Traci is off for a scrapbooking weekend in Pincher Creek and as luck would have it I am not on call this weekend so maybe I can get out to the mountains for some photogs......


Or stay home and paint....nah......photos.

have a good week

Back to the conspiracy theory

So not much time to put anything up here.  But I thought I would stop in with a quick note.  Things have been filled with lots of things in the past couple of weeks.  Back work, going nuts keeping up with things busy is good crazy is not always fun.  School and Track are busy for Lyndon.  Always good for him to keep going on things.  I got back to hockey last friday first game was good to be back on the ice.  I will now explain the title of this post.  Managed to strain my hamstring when I caught an edge on the ice.  Not something I am know for as I have a pretty good ability to skate.  That said I was down and out.  My hamstring is quite sore and walking is a bit of work.  I have fun on the stairs so no biking even though the weather has been fine for cycling.  No hockey as I can not hurt myself like this and get back out there without further injury.  So the cycling season is wrapped up and I will say this from the start there was something about cycling this year it was not meant to be easy or at least not meant to happen the way I envisioned.  Hockey I will get back to in a month or so I hope the physio has started and it will take some time to heal.

The girl is doing well at school tests and such keeping her busy, hard to think that it has only been a month and a half but seems much longer than that.  She is coming home for the weekend which is great look forward to seeing her.

Anyway, that is about it for me.  Busy with other things and posting is obviously not as big a priority as maybe it should be for me.  So for now that is about it.

Conspiracy I say.....I know there out there.....probably snickering as they spread glass and tacks on the roadway.....grrrrrrrr.


Live it up folks....

Oh, last thought need to change somethings, maybe I will explain that when I get a moment.


Anyway Camera weekend maybe?  Going to try and get out there with it.

Thanks have fun stay young and drink water.