1) Vinegar and hot water (about 1:4) takes wallpaper off but if you run out of vinegar you can just use the hottest water you can stand. Soak, scrape, wash.
2) Oil primed dining room today. Feeling kind of woozy.
3) Selected color for dining room: Sherwin Williams' Luxurious Red; needs the gray primer to go under it since it's such a dark color. Drat.
4) Selected color for living room: SW's Ryegrass
5) Selected color for transition areas: SW's Ivoire
6) Sarah M. suggests the Cashmere (already in office, doesn't come in quarts) or the Superpaint (forgiving, good coverage).
Sunday, September 09, 2007
Friday, June 01, 2007
CF card Failure and recovery
Today my CF card crapped out on me. I've been getting a "CHA" error message on my camera and kind of ignoring it by pushing the CF card in a little on my D70s. Worked up until today. I shot a bunch of photos with no error message, but when I got home and tried to pull them off the card in my usual way it didn't even mount to the desktop. Disk Utility could sort of see it, but it refused to mount it or repair it.
Found out the following by googling, asking metafilter, and searching the D70s groups on Flickr. I'm blogging about it because I want to remember it next time it happens.
- Seems that the CHA error occurs because of overuse of the "trash can" icon on the camera itself. Somehow that method of deleting the photos seems to f-ck up the card. It's better to delete the photos from the card by using the camera's "Format" option.
- I bit the bullet and reformatted the card. Lo and behold, it mounted to the desktop, seemingly repaired. But empty.
- searched for some Mac CF card recovery program and found CardRaider by ECamm Network. Ran the demo and it found my missing photos. Purchased the software (only $20--a bargain!).
- Recovered all RAW files perfectly.
- Yay.
Seriously, though I'm ecstatic! I know these were just snaps of my kids, but what if it had been something really important. No doubt I would have cried about it.
Found out the following by googling, asking metafilter, and searching the D70s groups on Flickr. I'm blogging about it because I want to remember it next time it happens.
- Seems that the CHA error occurs because of overuse of the "trash can" icon on the camera itself. Somehow that method of deleting the photos seems to f-ck up the card. It's better to delete the photos from the card by using the camera's "Format" option.
- I bit the bullet and reformatted the card. Lo and behold, it mounted to the desktop, seemingly repaired. But empty.
- searched for some Mac CF card recovery program and found CardRaider by ECamm Network. Ran the demo and it found my missing photos. Purchased the software (only $20--a bargain!).
- Recovered all RAW files perfectly.
- Yay.
Seriously, though I'm ecstatic! I know these were just snaps of my kids, but what if it had been something really important. No doubt I would have cried about it.
Tuesday, May 08, 2007
Notes for further gardening
- I think the beds closest to the house should be for annuals and bulbs.
- I have many packets of seeds that I'm going to plant and feed with worm poop.
- Rather than chop down the junipers in front, I think they should go in the back to form part of our screen. I've read that they do well in shady, dry soil.
- I forgot that I need to get more Vaccinium (aka blueberry and related) bushes for the backyard. One more trip to the farmers market should do it for this year.
- We decided to wait on moving the cherry tree in back to the front. I read that early spring is the best time to move a tree so hopefully I'll remember by next spring.
- A good place to study up on native species for CT: is American Beauties Native Plants, located in Lebanon, CT. They even have landscape plans for creating a bird garden, a butterly garden, etc.
- I have many packets of seeds that I'm going to plant and feed with worm poop.
- Rather than chop down the junipers in front, I think they should go in the back to form part of our screen. I've read that they do well in shady, dry soil.
- I forgot that I need to get more Vaccinium (aka blueberry and related) bushes for the backyard. One more trip to the farmers market should do it for this year.
- We decided to wait on moving the cherry tree in back to the front. I read that early spring is the best time to move a tree so hopefully I'll remember by next spring.
- A good place to study up on native species for CT: is American Beauties Native Plants, located in Lebanon, CT. They even have landscape plans for creating a bird garden, a butterly garden, etc.
coming together
After some trying years, the front yard garden design has really come together. It was truly a collaborative effort: J and I, with the help of informed sources (her mom and Sara Stein), were able to create something that makes us both happy. The kids are involved, too. They see how happy we are to plant together and they want to be involved. They have their own tools and are all too eager to carry around pots of perennials and set them down on their designated places.
I've recently learned of one more Sara Stein book that she wrote, before her death in 2005, called Noah's Children: Restoring the Ecology of Childhood. I must read. I'll see if the library has it, or if they don't I have to see if they'll order it for me.
I've recently learned of one more Sara Stein book that she wrote, before her death in 2005, called Noah's Children: Restoring the Ecology of Childhood. I must read. I'll see if the library has it, or if they don't I have to see if they'll order it for me.
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