The Exhaustive Animal Shelter (No Snakes Allowed) and Random Discussion for TPBM (27)

Becky N wrote in post #8346776
So you all have never seen anything like this? LINK

Yep. My parents' old house had a built in gun cabinet....three doors wide...all glass.

Becky N wrote in post #8347010
Just went BUYING.

WOOHOO!! Congrats!

Becky N wrote in post #8347010
Just went BUYING.

Nice, congrats!

Belmondo wrote in post #8347072
Congrats. It is still my favorite lens.

Wow, considering all the lenses you have and have had, that's high praise for the brick!!! A few times, I've been tempted to sell my 24-105 and get one. About a year ago, Scott and I traded my 24-105 for his brick for the weekend. I liked it a lot.

poppie guy wrote in post #8347095
Nice, congrats!

Wow, considering all the lenses you have and have had, that's high praise for the brick!!! A few times, I've been tempted to sell my 24-105 and get one. About a year ago, Scott and I traded my 24-105 for his brick for the weekend. I liked it a lot.

I have both (24-70 and 24-105), but I just trust the brick more. To me, the wider aperture is more valuable than Image Stabilization. YMMV.

Belmondo wrote in post #8347113
I have both (24-70 and 24-105)YMMV.

You make me violent?

Belmondo wrote in post #8344716
Happy Birthday John!! (JSolie)

How're things on your side of the mountains?

Thanks! Things are going okay...the boys got back from summer camp yesterday, and things are just about at their normal decibel level. My youngest found his book of Star Wars sheet music and has been regaling me with all sorts of different pieces...I'm rather partial to Yoda's theme today for some reason.

JWright wrote in post #8346018
Another July birthday! Happy birthday, John!

Thank you!

thomascanty wrote in post #8346120
Happy Birthday, the other John! (For some reason this one wasn't in my database. I gotta go add that now...)

Thanks, Lonnie!

Belmondo wrote in post #8346151
I wondered what happened. I'm rarely the first to post Happy Birthday wishes.

poppie guy wrote in post #8347132
You make me violent?

Your mileage may vary.

Yellow monkeys munch viciously

It's been a while and I have some downtime, so I thought I'd do another State Mottos list:

AL: Where the South will rise again! See your ads from Winn-Dixie for more information
AK: Really, if we melted, we'd be the size of Vermont.
AZ: We're the state with a "Z" in the name.
AR: Yankee! Give me your stimulus money, THEN go home!
CA: We may be broke, but we look gooooood doin' it.
CO: Rockies Schmockies. What we want is some air.
CT: We just sound expensive, don't we?
DE: It's happening here... somewhere. We think.
D.C. When in doubt, make a monument.
FL: Where pastel colors go to die
GA: Had it not happened during the State Fair, we coulda beat Sherman.
HI: Our history involves a lot of grass skirts and coconut shells.
ID: We go all the way to Canada. See? Look!
IL: Still a little sore at Mrs. O'Leary's cow.
IN: We're really not all that interested in surfing
IA: We're into CrazyFarming!
KS: We're not flat. There are areas that are positively undulating.
KY: Where the Corn Mash Still is the state Icon
LA: We like to build large cities in marshy tidal basins and wait for hurricanes to come.
ME: Shoulda been one-a the Original 13.
MD: Long history of stuff and things.
MA: If you look at us upside down, we kinda look like a bottle opener
MI: Automotive industry started here. Ironic, that.
MN: LAKES! EVERYWHERE! LAKES! GAAA!
MS: Our state name sorta stutters there for a bit
MO: St. Louis! Home of Really Bad Beer!
MT: We're mean enough to get away with a capitol named Helena.
NE: At least we're not as boring as Star Wars Episode I
NV: Yes, that's legal here. That, too. And that.
NH: President Franklin Pierce was from here. Remember him? Yeah, didn't think so.
NJ: In. Your. Face.
NM: Neither Canada or Denmark have any claim on us. Or France. Definitely not France.
NY: Just West of the City, it's like another whole universe.
NC: Our Northern border is a pretty good straight line.
ND: If you were to switch us with South Dakota, no one would notice.
OH: We try.
OK: Keeping Texas from attacking Kansas since 1907
OR: Some very cool people live here
PA: Where the fast moving 21st century and the horse buggies of the 19th century meet.
RI: Are you sure we're just not someone's backyard?
SC: Making enough Sweet Tea to make 95% of America go into diabetic shock.
SD: Tough to make a state when most of it is made up of "Badlands".
TN: Elvis is ALIVE! We feel it in our very souls!
TX: We're never get tired of hearing us talk.
UT: Proof that a state can exist without water
VT: Ever questioning the decision to stop being an independent republic and becoming a state
VA: That's SAINT Robert E. Lee to you!
WA: Beautiful. Rugged. Really, really wet.
WV: Just like any other state. Just without teeth.
WI: Where "Cheesehead" is a term of endearment
WY: Look! We're a square!

Belmondo wrote in post #8347113
I have both (24-70 and 24-105), but I just trust the brick more. To me, the wider aperture is more valuable than Image Stabilization. YMMV.

Mine didn't. Sold the (practically unused) 24-105 to Riley. He got more use of it in his first 2 weeks than I did the whole time I had it. For that matter, I'm still trying to find any photos I actually took with it, although I know here are some, somewhere.I'm all for the Brick!

Oh, and Dan - there actually is some decent beer (ale) in St. Louis. Just not from the company that bottles the fermented rice and horse byproduct "beverage". Even Ann, who's not a beer drinker, enjoyed the stuff from St. Louis Brewery. I've been known to (back when you could) carry a 6-pack or so home from a business trip there. "Missouri: We do brew real beer here - but it's our best-kept secret!"

I never used the 24-105, but I have, and love the 24-70. I used to have the Tamron 28-75, and that's a superb lens, but the 24-70 has just enough to make it worth the expense.

Yay Becky on the new lens .
Dan ..Did you expect they would go off and break themselves??

Miniflash wrote in post #8347306
Yay Becky on the new lens .
Dan ..Did you expect they would go off and break themselves??

I had my suspicions.

DoodleBunz wrote in post #8346792
G'MAE all, picked up a leather club chair this afternoon, its in excellent shape and I'm thrilled to pieces. It should work for males and females, especially h.s. seniors and newborns. Pics later, when I get them uploaded.

Cool on the chair.

Becky N wrote in post #8347010
Just went BUYING.

Very nice TMS Becky.

puddlepirate44 wrote in post #8347181
It's been a while and I have some downtime, so I thought I'd do another State Mottos list:

AL: Where the South will rise again! See your ads from Winn-Dixie for more information
AK: Really, if we melted, we'd be the size of Vermont.
AZ: We're the state with a "Z" in the name.
AR: Yankee! Give me your stimulus money, THEN go home!
CA: We may be broke, but we look gooooood doin' it.
CO: Rockies Schmockies. What we want is some air.
CT: We just sound expensive, don't we?
DE: It's happening here... somewhere. We think.
D.C. When in doubt, make a monument.
FL: Where pastel colors go to die
GA: Had it not happened during the State Fair, we coulda beat Sherman.
HI: Our history involves a lot of grass skirts and coconut shells.
ID: We go all the way to Canada. See? Look!
IL: Still a little sore at Mrs. O'Leary's cow.
IN: We're really not all that interested in surfing
IA: We're into CrazyFarming!
KS: We're not flat. There are areas that are positively undulating.
KY: Where the Corn Mash Still is the state Icon
LA: We like to build large cities in marshy tidal basins and wait for hurricanes to come.
ME: Shoulda been one-a the Original 13.
MD: Long history of stuff and things.
MA: If you look at us upside down, we kinda look like a bottle opener
MI: Automotive industry started here. Ironic, that.
MN: LAKES! EVERYWHERE! LAKES! GAAA!
MS: Our state name sorta stutters there for a bit
MO: St. Louis! Home of Really Bad Beer!
MT: We're mean enough to get away with a capitol named Helena.
NE: At least we're not as boring as Star Wars Episode I
NV: Yes, that's legal here. That, too. And that.
NH: President Franklin Pierce was from here. Remember him? Yeah, didn't think so.
NJ: In. Your. Face.
NM: Neither Canada or Denmark have any claim on us. Or France. Definitely not France.
NY: Just West of the City, it's like another whole universe.
NC: Our Northern border is a pretty good straight line.
ND: If you were to switch us with South Dakota, no one would notice.
OH: We try.
OK: Keeping Texas from attacking Kansas since 1907
OR: Some very cool people live here
PA: Where the fast moving 21st century and the horse buggies of the 19th century meet.
RI: Are you sure we're just not someone's backyard?
SC: Making enough Sweet Tea to make 95% of America go into diabetic shock.
SD: Tough to make a state when most of it is made up of "Badlands".
TN: Elvis is ALIVE! We feel it in our very souls!
TX: We're never get tired of hearing us talk.
UT: Proof that a state can exist without water
VT: Ever questioning the decision to stop being an independent republic and becoming a state
VA: That's SAINT Robert E. Lee to you!
WA: Beautiful. Rugged. Really, really wet.
WV: Just like any other state. Just without teeth.
WI: Where "Cheesehead" is a term of endearment
WY: Look! We're a square!

Quoted to read when I am not at work, so I can laugh out loud.

See you all tomorrow most likely. We are off to a memorial for the pup that was attacked a couple of weeks ago.

puddlepirate44 wrote in post #8347181
IL: Still a little sore at Mrs. O'Leary's cow.

Ah, but the anger had distinct differences, in the State of Chicago because she didn't vote more than once. In the State of Illinois, because she didn't kick it hard enough to burn down the entire State of Chicago.

puddlepirate44 wrote in post #8347245
I never used the 24-105, but I have, and love the 24-70. I used to have the Tamron 28-75, and that's a superb lens, but the 24-70 has just enough to make it worth the expense.

Here is the thing, since Curt got the 1D Mark III he has taken over the Tamron 28-75 because the 17-50 causes vignetting, leaving me without a walk about lens. So I told him this morning I would like to get the 24-70 ordered so I will have it next Saturday when the photo club tours Chicago aka The State of...see above. Much to my surprise the only thing he said, "Does it come with a lens hood?".

The wide end and the f/2.8 will work well in the theatre also. f/4 is too slow for movement on stage, I wouldn't be able to get a fast enough shutter in most cases. Glad to hear your comparrison, Dan, with our L experience, we're confident it is worth the extra expense. And we will agree with you, both our Tamron's have performed superbly no complaints, well there was the Err99 we got on the 28-75, but Tamron fixed it and has worked flawlessly since.

If anyone is interested, here is our itinerary for Saturday, subject to a moments change depending on the weather and interest at any given venue:

• University Club of Chicago

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2. Chicago Cultural Center

• Lower Wacker Drive-view of city looking west down Chicago River with Chicago Spire foundation in foreground
  
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• Adler Planetarium grounds- view of Chicago skyline to the Northwest.
  
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• University of Chicago Campus

• • Rooftop access to 50 story building: people-friendly, safe vantage for spectacular lake and city views

Sounds wonderful Becky and having that lens will be a bonus for you

monkeygirl wrote in post #8347406
See you all tomorrow most likely. We are off to a memorial for the pup that was attacked a couple of weeks ago.

Becky N wrote in post #8347451
If anyone is interested, here is our itinerary for Saturday, subject to a moments change depending on the weather and interest at any given venue:


The member orgainizing this venture loves architechtural photography, it should be a good day for photos.

Wishing I could be there.