Souvenir Photo Studio, by Al Bourassa: Monday-Tuesday August 19-20 , 2019 Hiding

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Monday-Tuesday August 19-20 , 2019

Doing Sunday's Blog, "my head must have been in the potato patch", as my sainted Mom used to say. That yellow flower is a Daisy (thank you sister Yvette for the correction), and.... those weren't geese going west, but rather Ibis (which I saw going east this morning..).

Monday I walked the dogs with the camera slung around my neck and that darn rabbit actually hid from me, and we only had the promise of a spectacular sunrise that didn't happen.

Cristina was actually up real early to spend the day running around in German's car with her niece Ana. The 2 days of outings did her some good. We spend too much time in the house.

I had larger heads of cabbage for cutting up for my salad lunches and actually had enough for 11 meals this time. It is strange that I never tire of my salads and actually look forward to them.

Today I again packed the camera on the dog walk and the open lot bunny eluded me. Drat! The sunrise was promising but really low this morning too.

I finally got my reply from Ted's Electronics after the promised 7 business days and it was again the silly, lazy "do a return through eBay"... They have deliberately stalled me past the 30-day return window so that return is no longer a possibility. So I wrote them asking that they at least have the courtesy to throw the 2 small items that they shorted me into an envelope and send them to me.

Then I filed a grievance with eBay about getting the wrong lens, the $85 difference in price, and the other 2 items not sent. Then I posted my feedback on eBay and other sites about my experience with their so-called Customer Service department and what a joke they are. So now there probably is not much more I can do except to make the best of it.

I have, until now, hesitated to use the 70-300 zoom, and I will probably wait a couple of more days pending responses from Ted's and/or eBay.

I grabbed Cristina and we slipped into Tulua for lunch at Bizcochito again. We both ate our fill, I had a juice, she had a coffee, and it was less than $1.50...

We made a pit stop to drop off Miguel's movies that I had borrowed then went for gas at one station, but they only had premium gas so we went to another. At the current exchange rate, regular gas is $2.83 USD an American gallon. There are 3.79 liters in a US gallon, so it is about $0.75 USD a liter, or about $1 Canadian a liter. How does that compare these days?? Gasoline and utilities are the expensive items here.

When I returned home, the earlier camera experience did remind me that I do have a 2.2X Teleconverter and a Wide-angle lens available! So I tested both of those. The big spider between our trees has fled the scene... These tack-on lenses are OK in a pinch, but they certainly don't add to the clarity. I will have to test them again some day without the UV filter in between to see if that makes a difference.

I hope you enjoy the pictures. That was the day’s excitement.

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