I always have so many more pictures of Madelyn because Jonas likes to do this for pics
Sunday, August 31, 2008
Friday, August 22, 2008
New Camcorder
After much deliberation and a year of not having a camcorder, we have purchased a new one. Our old one, a JVC(which we are convinced should change their name to POS) started malfunctioning after only a couple of years of use. It turns out that it was a very common issue that many of the JVC owners had and JVC was charging to fix it! Basically it would say the lens cap was on when it wasn't, and wouldn't show anything on the screen. Technically, it was the CCD part of the camera that was malfunctioning and apparently there is a class-action lawsuit against JVC on this line of products. Not wanting to miss another moment of capturing our kids lives on tape, especially since it broke when Jonas was little and we missed so much of his life thus far, we splurged and bought this:
Canon FS11 Flash Memory Camcorder
We LOVE it. It's so convenient to not mess with tapes or dvds, which means not having to rewind or ffw a tape or worry about recording over something. Plus, it may just come in handy that it can record 6 hrs of footage, instead of the usual 30 mins to an hour that the tape/dvd setup boasts, because recording a birth may take more than a half hour. At least I really hope the birth is more than 30 minutes!!!
So everyone can look forward to some snippets of family footage being posted soon!!!
Canon FS11 Flash Memory Camcorder
We LOVE it. It's so convenient to not mess with tapes or dvds, which means not having to rewind or ffw a tape or worry about recording over something. Plus, it may just come in handy that it can record 6 hrs of footage, instead of the usual 30 mins to an hour that the tape/dvd setup boasts, because recording a birth may take more than a half hour. At least I really hope the birth is more than 30 minutes!!!
So everyone can look forward to some snippets of family footage being posted soon!!!
Garden Update
Just for Shay :)
Cucumbers - lush and full of cucumbers
Our DAILY picks (we bring in on average 5 really large cucumbers. Some of them are 8-10 inches long and really thick) Anyone have a good cucumber recipe????
Watermelons...this is one of like 6 so far. It's bigger than Jonas' head.
Loads of Peppers...green, red and jalepeno...theres about 12 plants and like 3-4 on each one
Tomato forest - we bring in tons of cherry (although Madelyn usually eats them all before bedtime!) our first beefsteak ones are now red and there is another kind I didn't even know we had, it's like a cherry beefsteak hybrid.
My poor green beans got eaten and not by us. We were keeping up with picking them pretty well, and then Maggie destroyed half of them chasing a rabbit and then something started eating the leaves and well....
Cucumbers - lush and full of cucumbers
Our DAILY picks (we bring in on average 5 really large cucumbers. Some of them are 8-10 inches long and really thick) Anyone have a good cucumber recipe????
Watermelons...this is one of like 6 so far. It's bigger than Jonas' head.
Loads of Peppers...green, red and jalepeno...theres about 12 plants and like 3-4 on each one
Tomato forest - we bring in tons of cherry (although Madelyn usually eats them all before bedtime!) our first beefsteak ones are now red and there is another kind I didn't even know we had, it's like a cherry beefsteak hybrid.
My poor green beans got eaten and not by us. We were keeping up with picking them pretty well, and then Maggie destroyed half of them chasing a rabbit and then something started eating the leaves and well....
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