My Latest Gadget

I decided Gary could buy me a slide scanner for Christmas, so I went and bought one. I'll mention the fact that it was my Christmas present when all the kids ask him, "Did you buy mom a present??"

Like so many good missionaries, we have boxes and boxes of old slides. Many of them are worthless, but some are good photos and many others are great memories. My goal is to run them all through the "quick scan" on my new toy. There is a way to do a "slow scan" which pretty much assumes you have a degree in photograhy and graphic design. I think for my purposes, the quick and easy method will do.

So, I'll just have to post a few of my best memories for the Empty Nest as time goes by and I work through the boxes. I have it set up in such a way that I can do a few slides each day while I'm doing other things at the computer. The scans nicely land in my Picasa photo program where I can sort, label, and fix up, if I want to.

I plan to sell/rent/lend this machine to some other missionaries when I'm done with it.

These four photos are from our fist months in Dallas, in 1984. David was a baby, Rachel wasn't walking yet, and Andrew was a big Kindergartener.