No really. Santa really is a woman.

On Wednesday night I got an email through my contact form (up top there) and it was from a wonderful reader who has been reading my site since the days before Hayley was even born. She told me that she had gotten herself a very nice new camera and had a digital camera that would be neglected as a result, and would I be interested in giving it a good and loving home.

Once I re-read it eight times to make sure I hadn’t misunderstood, I told her that yes I would love to adopt a new-to-me camera.

On Friday evening, when I had finally assumed that the package would arrive on Monday (and probably while I would be gone to take Breanna to her one-year check-up, thus meaning I’d have to wait and pick it up at the post office on Tuesday), the doorbell rang at 7:30 pm and a surly mailman arrived at our door. He was probably just less than thrilled about stairs at the end of a long day but I didn’t care, I was ecstatic.

I am now the proud – and very happy – owner of a very sleek, shiny, Fuji Finepix A345 camera. I have occasionally referred to it as “my preciousssssssssssss” in a very Lord of the Rings way.

Obviously I still have some playing around to do to make the absolute most of it, but I’ve had fun shooting some random test images with it for now. I have the PDF of the user’s manual sitting on my desktop to look through again and of course, practice makes perfect! I’m hoping to get out for a little walk tomorrow if I can dodge the snow, and take some more then. If not, well I have plenty of photo ops what with my two lunatics.

The optical zoom is particularly nice. It’s great to zoom in on this pretty face.

A million thank yous again SueEllen – Christmas came early this year!