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Thread #131845   Message #2980632
Posted By: katlaughing
05-Sep-10 - 07:07 PM
Thread Name: BS: Declutter & Accountability Sept 2010
Subject: RE: BS: Declutter & Accountability Sept 2010
SRS, I captured a couple of shots of the some Ponderosas from the video, but NOT good quality and don't really show the widespread devastation as I wasn't taking pix of them. Rog will be going back up soon, though, before the snow flies as that area is totally closed off and inaccessible when it gets going winter-wise. If I don't go with him, I'll be sure he gets a few pix regardless. I should have used his video camera. It was on the seat next to me, but I am not familiar with it and my camera is so much handier. I do have a raw footage video if anyone wants me to email it. I don't want to put it up anywhere public as I would get laughed at, I am sure, but it does give one an idea of what it looks like to travel along dirt roads up in the high country. Some parts are not too bad, just the whole thing is kind of jerky. I tried slowing it down in moviemaker, but it looked worse, so there ya go.

Rog and I worked from about 10a-4p. We got a huge project done! Went through the rest of the books in the living room and we were ruthless about what little to keep..the rest will be sold, given away, etc. Once we'd almost emptied those shelves, we brought out the library truck which was full and then some. Went through all of those and culled out a bunch more. So, now the truck sits in the LR, draped with plastic to keep out the dust and, still full to the brim with extra books stacked on top. Those are my new job. I will try to get at least 2-3 listed online each day from all of those. There's a lot of research to do AND photos to take as well as deciding where to sell them, but at least they are sorted. We also moved my 3 ring binders of various stuff up one shelf in the office, so the paperbacks for the swap site can be on an easy to get to shelf when I get a request for one of them. We added over thirty new books to that list today, so the shelf is full counting the others I had in boxes.

So, I also listed the thirty at paperbackswap.com AND I entered them and all of the other paperbacks I am giving away or whathaveyou on mylibrary.com list of books read. I cannot believe, but I recruited Morgan to help me by reading the ISBN numbers to me and after we were about halfway through, he asked if he could go home! Hahaha...turns out he was not feeling super and just wanted to go lie down...puir kid.

Anyway, I don't know where we will put the truck to get it out of the LR...it looks like an elephant in the middle of the room:-) but it's not going back in the office. I will just have to hurry up and get the books listed and sold! If they don't sell in a certain time, they will go to friends and/or a public library.