Lawn Sale, Photography and Hot Dogs

Today we held a lawn sale. It was probably the most pathetic lawn sale I've ever seen! Last night on a crazy cleaning whim, I decided we needed to pull some thing together for a quick sale. We spent the night running around the house gathering as many items we could find that we haven't used in the last year, or that we recently replaced with something newer, or we've just plain been meaning to donate. Unfortunately we came up pretty short. We forged ahead with the plan anyways, and priced everything extremely low. Hey, we weren't aiming to make money...just to get rid of a few things! Good thing we weren't aiming to make money....because our whole day's efforts only resulted in $18.50!! Like I said...it was pretty pathetic! We still had a nice day, relaxing in the sun listening to music, waiting for people to come look at our junk! And hey, we got rid of a few things! And since we had everything already gathered together, it was easy for Sean to take everything we had left after we gave up, and bring it over to Good Will to donate.

The best part of our whole lawn sale though was near the end, when Lily tried to walk off with all our profit! She took the old pickle jar we were using to hold the money, and just started walking off with it! We joked that she would make the worst thief though, because she kept dropping the jar every few feet! Unfortunately she dropped it one last time on the drive way, and the jar broke! It was then that we decided it was time to pack it up! (We hadn't had a "costumer" for over an hour at that point...haha!) So it wasn't the most successful of lawn sales...and I spent some of our "profit" at the other lawn sale down the street...but it was still a fun time overall...and getting this picture of Lily walking off with out money made all the effort worth it!

Lately I've been getting really into photography. I'm reading as much as I can about my camera, and photography in general. As of this week I've started shooting everything in manual. Well, everything that doesn't need a flash! I haven't figured out how to manually set my flash! I hope you'll start seeing improvements in my photo's soon. I know I have a long way to go, and a lot to learn! Please feel free to leave me comments of encouragement when you start to see me improving! Today I did my first lesson from the book Understanding Exposure by Bryan Peterson, all about understanding how ISO effects your picture. The book is great, and is really helping me understand how shutter speed, ISO, and aperture work together to create a correct exposure! I'll be practicing a lot...so you may be seeing a lot more pictures (or less...if it turns out I'm not so good at shooting in manual! haha!)

Tonight Lily is eating her first hot dog (or rather, organic vegi dog). She's loving it! She keeps shoveling the little pieces in her mouth! Another new favorite she's discovered recently is peas. I've been giving her mac and cheese with peas thrown every now and then for lunch. Usually she will pick around the peas, and scarf down the pasta. This week though she started to do the opposite. She's fallen in love with peas! When she sees those little green things on her tray, she'll ignore everything else, and go straight for the peas! I must admit, I have no problem with this! She use to spit peas and other vegetables out when I fed her them. This makes it much easier to give her a more rounded diet!