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Larose Forest + Scanning photos + Chocolate salami

Chocolate salami

Let’s start with the funniest thing of the day.

As a parent, I sometimes wonder if I’m doing the right thing…”Should I let my kids watch YouTube Kids all Saturday morning?”.  I equate it to my experience with Saturday morning cartoons.

This morning I walked into the kitchen and all I hear from Ezra is “CHOCOLATE SALAMI?  WOW!”

And that’s when I thought “Chocolate salami DOES sound cool.”.  All my fears about what they watch on a Saturday morning evaporated in that moment!

Larose Forest

On a typical weekend, the kids tend to watch YouTube Kids and Vero sleeps in.  At 47 years old, I feel that I have a hard time sleeping in and for the past few weekends I’ve been sitting there thinking “Why am I waiting for my family to be ready in the morning to go and do something?”.  That’s how I ended up taking a walk in Larose Forest on a crisp sunny morning.  No one was in the forest with me, I was all alone.  Visions of bears attacking me came, but I did not encounter anything out of the ordinary.

Scanning Nanny’s Photos

This past winter I managed to scan all of Lynn and Sue’s slides which was a fun project.  I also managed to tag a bunch of dates to Mom and Dad’s film negatives.  I had one photo album of theirs to use as a cross reference guide which was a Godsend.

But once I finished the one photo album, I realized that I should just wait for more and so I embarked back into the quest to scan all of Nanny Sybil’s photo albums.  I encountered an interesting scenario where I’m scanning an album taken from 1981 and it has photos that are from my parents film negative collection.  I’ve seen them before.  But then I stumble upon a random photo that looks like it’s from the same time period, but I can’t find it in my parents film negatives.  Did the negatives go missing?  Possible.

I then realized that the random photos must have actually been from Nanny’s camera!  The prints are a slightly different size than the ones from my parents.  It’s neat to find a few extra photos from an already documented moment in time.