A few weeks ago the Second Counselor in the Stake Presidency called and asked me to talk in the Saturday evening session of Stake Conference. That was tonight and I’ve accomplished my assignment. It was a good meeting and worth being in attendance, even if I was one of the speakers. Tomorrow morning will be the Sunday morning session and we’ll be finished with conference until November when our Stake will be part of a multi-stake conference and a video broadcast from Salt Lake City.
We got more snow over night which I moved off the driveway and sidewalks this morning before going over to the Stake Center to help set up chairs. Throughout the morning we had several snow squalls and by afternoon all of the weather had moved eastward. The people who go up in the mountains to measure the snowpack say that all of the zones measured in southeastern Idaho and western Wyoming are 125% or more of normal. While the drought probably isn’t over, this should make a good dent in it.
Our day was pretty quiet. I spent much of the day cleaning off my computer desk and reorganizing drawers. I think I’m about halfway finished with what I need to get done. I’ll spend time on this over the next week during the evening and see if I can’t get more working space as well as make much better use of the storage spaces on the desk. Nina has been sorting through letters and papers and has made all kinds of lovely finds (including finding a $100 bill … money that we had forgotten about!). It’ll soon be the case that the only boxes left downstairs will be my boxes and my junk. The truly daunting task will be sorting through the thousands of pictures we’ve taken in the past ten or fifteen years, most of which have no redeeming value. The rest will need to be organized and some put on the computer. So, I’ve ordered a new flatbed scanner that we can use for this activity. We’ll be able to plug it into any of our computers, meaning Nina will be able to convert some of her photography into digital images.
Speaking of digital images, the company that makes my really nice digital camera, Konica Minolta, announced this week that they were exiting the digital camera and film making business and selling the digital imaging business to Sony. I’ve used Minolta cameras for many years and have really liked my new Minolta digital camera. However, it’s the last one in that line. Not necessarily comforting. Meanwhile, Nikon announced that they were exiting the film camera business and were going to focus on digital imaging going forward. It kind of sounds like my next digital camera will be a Nikon camera….