Belated Anniversary, Visiting Blue Lake, & Canon Elph out to Warranty

We’ve been here a year now
Actually, over that. Our year anniversary in this place was actually the day after 4th of July (that translates roughly to about July 5th). Yup. See, we spent 4th of July 2007 with family down south, with our stuff packed, and then early the next morning started driving up. We reached our new home around 6pm, and had Round Table Pizza by around 7:15pm.

It’s been really awesome, I may have mentioned once or twice here already. I don’t plan on going anywhere. We’ve been pleased with the area, and though weather was a concern for most everyone (“it rains all the time!”), we didn’t find it particularly troublesome. Granted it was another drought year, but even so, we had actually wished for more rain – we could use it up here.

I just wish all these people would go away, so me & BigFoot could live in peace! :-D



Out to the Non-Lake today
We both have the day off, an I plan to get us ready & out of the house on a trek to Blue Lake again today. We were there not too long ago with all the pups, and we felt it was time to visit again.

Don’t let the name fool you; we’re going there to hang out at the river. Because there’s no actual lake. Just a river. A Mad, Mad River.

There’s a nice little hidden trail that we go 4x4-ing down, get to a nice spot removed from the roads, and hang out. It’s convenient, because then we can take all our stuff (say, a cooler, chairs, etc) and not have to lug it 4,000 miles just to get away from the frequented spots. Which is important when you have 4 dogs (we have 4 dogs! Holy crap!)

Don’t worry; the 4Runner’s rough, rugged, and ready for the trail. We’ve done it before, and dammit we’re going to shine again.



My Canon goes in for service
I emailed amazon about trying to return the products, and was met with chirping crickets. Yep, not so much as a word back to me on the matter.

Anyway, with having recently tried out other makers’ cameras, we can safely say that we’d rather put up with Canon’s occasional malfunction than the other manufacturer’s all-the-time sucking with their sucky suckiness.

It’s scheduled to arrive there in about 3 days (UPS ground is SLOWWWW…), and I’ll probably get it back about a week afterwards.

I’ll let you know how it turns out.