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| Re: Weather and other circumstances* [message #37859 is a reply to message #37856 ] |
Wed, 29 December 2010 00:35   |
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 Ford of Rivendell
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Registered: May 2010
Location: Family Farm Country |
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"Now if I only had a camera to take pictures. "
It begins, somebody get that woman a camera, she's got withdrawal.
I laugh now, but have been there, with threats from rellies that the next time I said that phrase there would be consequences. :0)
What about whilst your brain is spacing out and on the fritz (quite understandable from all that hoopla everywhere, specs, reviews...blah, blah, blah, plus long-worded forum members) will your Canon suffice you till you choose or even though cell pics aren't high quality but like somebody suggested your cell, just to tide you over?
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| Re: Weather and other circumstances* [message #37860 is a reply to message #37856 ] |
Wed, 29 December 2010 00:53 |
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Diane in MN
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Registered: October 2008
Location: Twin Cities, MN, USA |
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We are having a brief warmup, which will alas allow the coming storm to give us freezing rain and/or rain before probably turning to snow again over the weekend and then freezing everything solid. I hate this, but the dogs like the relatively warm (just above freezing) temps because they can stay out longer running the paths and eating snow. I probably should have tried for dog pictures today, when the sun was shining; tomorrow might not be as nice.
I’m starting to suffer the freaked-out, hair-standing-on-end involuntary-wailing symptoms of information overload.
This really is maddening. But if you've got a good camera store in your vicinity, staffed by people who know their stock, you can take your list of makes and models to them and have someone to bounce questions off of. They may even have some of your choices in stock. I bought my dSLR locally rather than online largely for that reason, but also to avoid any chance of getting greyware. (But the pricing for the Canon was pretty consistent at all dealers, so it wasn't like I had to pay a premium for buying it from a real person.)
"The point of books is to have way too many but to always feel you never have enough . . . " Louise Erdrich
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| Re: Weather and other circumstances* [message #37866 is a reply to message #37856 ] |
Wed, 29 December 2010 12:20 |
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You feel a bit foolish looking for the bad patches to give your yaktrax something to bite into, but if you wear them on pavement they start breaking.
Yes! and if you are foolish enough to train your giant dog to tolerate being leaned upon for balance while you pull them off mid-walk and jam them into your pocket, you'll pay for that snazzy little manoeuvre and moment of self-congratulation when you arrive at home forty minutes later to find that one of them has leapt out of your buttoned coat pocket at some point unknown.
(I did this twice before realizing that the gods of winter must really want me to fall on my backside and that traction gear must therefore be tied to my person at all times (even when not in use) to have any chance at thwarting them. An old shoelace looped through a buttonhole or zip tab works fine. Take that, Beira!)
[Updated on: Wed, 29 December 2010 12:22] by Moderator
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| Re: Weather and other circumstances* [message #37871 is a reply to message #37858 ] |
Wed, 29 December 2010 12:41 |
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| mgw1979 wrote on Tue, 28 December 2010 22:49 |
[** I’m trying to think what dogs are actually dogged. Not hellhounds certainly.]
If you want dogged, get a terrier. Any variety, although my main experience is with wire-haired fox terriers. We had one when I was a kid, and if you played tug-of-war with him you couldn't stop until you'd let him win; if you didn't, he'd pester you unmercifully until you finally gave it one more round and give him the final tug. Of course, this was also the dog who held on so tightly with his teeth that if he had hold of a pull-toy, you could lift him up in the air with it.
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My vote, basset hounds. There's one at the park who sets up baying the minute we're in view (sometimes a solid quarter mile away), and never lets up until all the dogs are in a group together. Last week, his owner headed down the trail in the opposite direction and for thirty solid minutes Darwin shuttled between our group and his owner, plowing through a foot of snow as he shuffled constantly back and forth on his stubby little legs over the ever-increasing distance, baying continually through the whole episode. Darwin's owner must have snagged him eventually, because I doubt he gave up, but by that point we were so far out of range of sight or hearing (anything besides a baying basset, that is) that I couldn't say for sure. That's what I picture when I think of 'dogged', in any case. A Basset hound plowing through the snow.
[Updated on: Wed, 29 December 2010 12:42] by Moderator
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| Re: Weather and other circumstances* [message #37930 is a reply to message #37858 ] |
Thu, 30 December 2010 20:40 |
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what dogs are dogged? scenthounds on a track, sighthounds chasing, terriers obsessing... lol
Bull terriers determined to fit on the sofa 
Someone says "pie" and we all go on alert, like meercats. "Pie? Where?" - Blackbear
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