Choices, Choices, Choices

I am officially out of a camera. Yes, I am already having withdrawal symptoms, but at the same time I am weighing my options carefully. My little Walmart special camera finally bit the dust for good and I sent it off to cash in on the extended warranty that I bought on it way back last June. It has served me well all these months and I was happy enough with it's features even tho all the while I have coveted all those big fancy spancy cameras. So, the search is on. The Black Friday adds were a very real temptation, but alas, the electric bill came first again which meant I gladly went back to sleep at 3:00 A.M. rather than brave the cold and snow to drive to Stuffmart. The cheap side of me doesn't want to spend any more money than I have to. Weighing my spending options between the mortgage, winter coats for the kids or a new camera usually leans towards the foremost option. But being two girls quit the same week at work, and I am one of the only other options to cover the emergency room desk for the weekends until the new girl is trained, I have a little bit of green thoughts rolling around my brain. That is after the new truck tires are purchased. Sigh.

So here are my options: This cute little Fuji camera in Berry {cute}{cute}. I loved the closing cover option on my old Fuji as I could take it everywhere (on horseback, to the barn, on top of shed roofs, etc, etc) without worrying about it getting destroyed. It's cheap and is a good everyday camera that you can put in your pocket. Some of the pictures even won first place at the Fair.

But what I really want is something like this. Big. Black. 26X zoom. More options than I could ever figure out. Sigh. The price isn't too bad, either, but it would require another 30 hour weekend shift. Sigh. What I really want is both of them, one for everyday outback pictures and one for fancy shooting.

Then there's this end of the camera spectrum which would require me winning alot of Fair entries and working full time or raising a few more calves to even consider buying. I wouldn't even know how to put that lens on, nor would I honestly want to read the manual to figure it out. It costs more than most of the vans we looked at last spring. Choices, choices, choices.

So for the time being I will just have to use some of my thousands of old pictures for blog post inspiration until I can make up my mind what to buy. You'll just have to take my word for it that the snow is beautiful; the puppy is getting bigger and fatter and is soooo cute now that her eyes are opened; having the yearling horses in the half finished barn is a sight for sore eyes; the friends and family who made it for Thanksgiving were cherished again; and Micah really is a bigger boy now that he had his 6th birthday.