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When we went down to Tallships Fourth of July weekend, I found that my one year old lens, an 18-200mm ED-IF AF-S DX VR Nikkor, wasn't working right. The Autofocus wasn't working correctly: the motor seemed to not be functioning at all (I eventually confirmed that it was the lens, and not the camera). Once again manual focus worked fine, so I still took a handful of pictures.
Although I bought it online at Pictureline, my local store, Abolins Photography, took care of shipping it back to Nikon. Within a couple of weeks, my lens was back and working correctly. Cheers to Abolins Photography for helping me out, I was sorry to hear today that they will be closing their doors.
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We attended the Highline Community College Benefit Auction this year. One of the items that our group bid on was a day trip around Puget Sound in a 50ft (or so) cabin cruiser including snacks and some delightful company. Steve, Jemima, Stephanie and I met our host on the northeast side of Commencement bay. After getting underway, we picked Mark up, from his Vashon Island home.
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For my birthday, Stephanie surprized me with a trip to Walla Walla, we were
met there by Melissa and Brian, and my Parents. This happened to be the
weekend of the annual Walla Walla Balloon Stampede. We went there Saturday
morning to watch some of the balloons launch, then later in the day we were
ferried around to several of the area wineries via private limo service.
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As part of our spring vacation, we visited Steve and Carol and spent most
of the time at their new vacation home the Vistaski, at Thornridge. It was really great
to see the fruits of their labor. It wasn't warm enough to spend time on
the lake, but we did go on some walks around the ranch, checked on the
bluebird houses, and went into "town", Corsicana, were we saw a park that
holds the first western oil well. We also got to meet Walter and Benny,
Steve and Carol's English Springer Spaniels which we hadn't met before.
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Melissa celebrated her 40th brithday by inviting friends for a winetasting
extravaganza and Birthday Bash in Walla Walla Washington.
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After two years of nothing but a mud pit for our back yard we finally got a landscaper to take on our project. In October and November, we had our back yard re-lanscaped, including significant hardscape, new plants and new sod.
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This is a placeholder for text about The Alps, Turin and Annecy.
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We spent our next four nights at Clos des Ocres in the little village of St. Siffret about 5 kilometers from Uzes.
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We bid a fond farewell to Vincent, our host at the Tuilerie, cleaned out the basket of pain au raisin and croissants -- topped off with homemade thyme jelly from Vincent's mother, and set off for Uzes where we would be staying the next four nights.
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