Right now I am in the midst of various projects.
Church: I recently wrote then recorded a sermon for our church. Pastor Eric had asked me to preach before covid-19 hit us. Originally I was going to be preaching 4 times. Now since we have church online I simply made the recording. The sermon is for this Sunday.
A few weeks ago I help with a food drive our church was sponsoring. I simply sat in our empty building and waited for food donations. There was a shopping cart outside for people to fill. Once a donation was made I went out (wearing a mask of course) and brought the food in. I emptied the cart and put the food in boxes and bags we had ready. The cart was returned outside and so it went for two hours. I will be doing the same this next week.
Music: I mentioned in my last post my adventure with Virtual Choir 6. It took some time to learn the music, polish it a bit then make a recording I could live with.
Photos: I believe I have 5 cameras. Three of those cameras use film. Two are digital. I don't suppose anyone wants the film cameras anymore. My best film camera in an SLR and uses two telephoto lenses, filters, flash and other things. It just sits in the basement. I would love for someone to want it so it gets used but after checking online it looks like you can't even give non-digital cameras away. Do they make film anymore?
Well those nice non-digital cameras took hundreds if not thousands of pictures over the years. I started digitizing those old photos recently. I checked Pinterest for ideas as to how to do this. Actually I have toyed with this project a few other times but it never got off the ground. I found what I was looking for on Pinterest and on Google. I was going to make a stand to hold a camera and the photo to be photo'd. Here is one idea I found.
Then my genius brain came up with just the right solution.
This is actually a drill press stand I use in the shop. It is made to mount a hand-held drill in such a way that you can drill perfectly vertical holes. Hand holding a drill and drilling vertical holes usually works fine. Sometimes though the holes need to be just so. That is why I have this stand. It is set up in such a way that my cellphone sits on the platform perfectly parallel to the photo sitting below. It works great.
We have 4 bins filled with photo albums and pictures in envelopes. Accept for the photo albums the photos are not organized. Wow. I have started to digitize these photos. I don't copy lousy photos of which there are many many. During a good session I copy maybe 50 pictures. They go from my phone camera to Google Photos. Then little by little I am editing pictures to enhance them. This has been a lot of work. I have many pictures to go yet. THEN I want to organize them somehow.
Music: Both Cindy and I have collected music albums of our favorite artists/ groups over the years. Another recent project has been digitizing some albums. I can find just about any music on Youtube but there are some albums that never made it that far. Cindy was in the Minnesota All-State Lutheran Choir in 1972. I digitized it for her. I just started this project so I really don't know how long it will go on.
Kites: The kite craze peaked some years ago. I used to make my own kites and fly them with the family. I really enjoyed it. Years and years ago when I was maybe a teenager brother Don and I made a 7 foot tall kite and flew that sucker. I remember tying off a different kite that was way up there to the mailbox on our house so I could go in to eat dinner. It took a bit of time to get it down after eating before it got dark. There is something called a "messenger" that is used to drop parachutes from high flying kites. It is hooked on the kite line and the wind pushes it up the kite line until it connects with something up by the kite. When it connects the messenger drops whatever it was carrying and then collapses and slides back down the line to the ground. They are fun to use. It does mean you have to chase down whatever was dropped. Hopefully not in treetops.
I have three kits now and I got them out yesterday. I didn't fly them yet. I just checked them over to see if they were in good shape. I had to make a few repairs. Now I plan to fly them sometimes soon.
Reading and Happy Hour: Cindy and I put lawn chairs in the front of our house where it is fairly quiet. There we might eat our lunch or sit out there and read. It has been very pleasant. Neighbors walking dogs or themselves pass by from time to time and wave, say hi and possibly chat a bit.
Rick and Brenda had us over to the patio for Happy Hour a few times. We enjoyed our favorite beverage while sitting far enough apart and catching up. It has always been nice. We had them at our place once so far. I hope we continue the practice.
So... I have been busy. It has been go go go sometimes.
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