Could not resist running for my camera today… it was like watching  synchronized swimmmers

These two are sort of making friends….

Sheba the cat loves her duckies.  When she hears the words duck or duckies or hears them quacking she wants OUT! 

And then they play this game.

The ducks never go far from the boat ramp and actually use it a lot for "lounging"  ever so slowly sliding into the river if the cat or dog gets a bit too close.

Every neighborhood needs a town crier or a roving alarm clock – doesn't it? 

If you miss having one in your area, come visit ours

My neighbor, Doug, fed this duck once and the duck has returned every day  and quacks at Doug's house for more food.

And as Doug lives right next to me, I too am serenaded every day.

Also – the ducks are not afraid of my cat or dog [more on cat and ducks in another video]

Please comment below…thank you

There are many traps that keep me from making videos for my blog. 

Here are 5 of them.

Trap 1 – Video is much too complicated

This is the first trap I overcame.  Video can be complicated – but it need not be.

I used to work at a cable access station and had to learn to use all sorts of complicated equipment and programs to upload a video, digitize it and then edit it.  It took hours to do and sometimes more hours than I liked.

Now I have 2 cameras that take video and I use the small less expensive one as that video is easier to upload to my computer and all I then need to do is some quick editing on imovie.  The other is a film camera and that makes for many extra uploading steps – so I use that one more sparingly now.

But still – I don’t do any “me” videos – why?

Trap 2 – Editing takes so long 

Yes it does – or can.  But once I got past the original learning curve on transitions and other things it actually became fun playing with editing.  And I have edited a few short videos on outdoor topics. 

[And imovie makes editing so much faster than the FinalCut program I also own.]

To read the remaining 3 traps – see blog video traps – my article on ezinearticles and then come back here and let's chat about it….

Great day today so I took woof [Sam] to the school yard for a run.

Glad i had the camera with me.

Saw this on couch surfing ori's site http://www.couchsurfingori.com and then a few other places –

It is so funny – especially if you are on Twitter and see profiles that announce "I am a social media expert" or "social media guru."

Your take on these "experts?"  Please comment..Thank you….

On a very cold windy December 26th, I went out to catch the colors and movement of the Columbia River flowing through what I call my backyard.

You can hear the wind, wind chimes and the clanging of moving parts of many sailboats near and far.

Enjoy!

What is so rare as a day in June?

A dry sunny day for December 1 in Portland Oregon!!

Rare too that I could be out in the open with my camera!

So rare that I had to memorialize it with a panoramic sweep from my upper deck! 

49 degrees F but it felt GOOD!

  WOW!!

Don't feel jealous – it will rain again soon enough….

Last winter my pipes froze and burst  and I did not have water to all of my house til this Fall when we finally figured out the best way to re-do the plumbing for the entire house – and it's a 2-part house to boot.

The answer was to have it all inside [Yea for indoor plumbing ] and not under the floor where it had been and was only reachable by pulling up the floor.  Remember – I float on a river.  

The solution was PEX plumbing and here is Jesse and the PEX plumbing project.  The connection between the two parts is outside but VERY well insulated… and besides PEX is not going to burst.

So glad this stuff exists.