For All Of Posterity

At the request of several emails (and some were strongly worded, too!) I am putting up another post to move those fishing spider links down the page a bit.  You people have made Cody feel so much better.  Neither he nor I had any idea that there were so many other terrified (and expressive) spider haters out there.  Well, maybe we both knew, actually.  Who doesn't hate spiders?  Especially big, hairy, gray ones, with legs that spread out into a circumference bigger than your hand and rows and rows of weird, spidery eyeballs....

Ok, ok.  Sidenote: if I were ever to try and write a horror novel, that's about what it would sound like.  Crappy descriptions of spiders, with their googly eyes...oooh!  Horrifying.

Cody and I went out to the lake this Saturday to celebrate our upcoming (three year - I mean START OF OUR FOURTH YEAR) anniversary.  We wanted to bring Lydah out there so she could practice her dock-diving, which actually consists of her looking at the ball in the water, whining, and then kind of squirming off the edge of the dock, banging her doggy shins and hips against the wood on the way down.  It's REALLY athletic.  She's a total shoo-in for those agility shows.

We also took the boat out, which required us to go into the Closet of Life-jackets and Doom, the closet formerly haunted by the Scary Spider Family.  I did keep my eyes peeled for any strange, eight-legged movement, but all my vigilance was rewarded with was a couple of inconsequential encounters with some Daddy-Long-Legs.  We brought Lydah out on the boat with us and, as could be expected, she loved it.  She stayed on the floor of the boat for a while, and then blah blah, am I actually writing about how my DOG felt about riding on the boat?  Y'all better hope I never have kids.  The potential for totally inane Mommy Blogging is obviously here.

So!  Here's what I was actually writing about.  Cody bought me a hard-disk camcorder for our anniversary.  A camcorder!  That films!  I think it's a pretty good camera, too, but honestly Cody could have given me a camcorder with a little wind-up crank on the side that I had to turn while filming and I would have been totally impressed.  Anyway, this is The Best Anniversary Present Ever (said while avoiding the evil-eye from the cat Cody bought me last anniversary - sorry, Sophie!).  I have wanted a camcorder for ages.  I still watch the videos taken of me and my brothers when we were kids; forcing anyone in arms length to sit and endure the grainy home-video goodness whether they want to or not. 

If not for the fact that I am still working out a couple of Apple compatibility issues (oh MacBook, how I love thee, and how you betray me on a regular basis) I would show you some video right now!  And it's RIVETING, let me tell you.  So far I have taken video of Lydah walking around, Lydah chasing Sophia, Jill hissing while sitting on the windowsill and then attacking my arm (she is SO pleasant), Cody making a series of increasingly entertaining faces, and a LOT of lake footage.  And as interesting as that was to read about, just imagine watching it.  Just imagine!

Anyway, I am obsessed with my camcorder.  I want to video everything, and have it with me at all possible moments.  I think I am beginning to understand how some people feel about their digital cameras.  I've always wondered what it was that drew people to take photo after photo of a flower, or a field.  But now that I've got my camcorder, I can't help but grab it, press record, and point it straight down at the tile, all to document that right at this very moment, I think I might be standing in dog pee.  Is it pee?  I think it's pee.

Comments

[Hoover]

As a photographer who specializes in floral photography (i.e. - taking "photo after photo of a flower"), I am offended.

Also, did you know that Daddy Long Legs are not technically spiders? It is factual!

[elise]

You're not offended, you're just huffy.

[VirginiaGal]

Our dog rides the Jet-Ski (sitting in front of the driver) and loves it. That's a fun way to get some strange looks from other boaters.

(followed you back from Lindsey @ The Good Kind of Dorky)

[alyndabear]

I was all excited that you'd blasted off any mention of spiders... AND THEN I READ THE FIRST PARAGRAPH FULLY. And huddled into a ball. And cried just a little. Bad girl, Elise.

I'm up for filming Lydah on boats. And diving. You could get some potential Funniest Home Videos out of the footage. (And ack, I can't believe I'm saying this, but maybe film the spidies for extra spook points.)

NOW PRETEND YOU DIDN'T READ THAT.

[elise]

Y'all are making my heart warm, with all your pro dog-loving comments. Maybe I CAN turn this site into an unashamed Lydah LoveFest!

[elise]

Oh, and sorry, Alynda, about the spiders. Really! It happened before I could help myself.

[thethinker]

I'm attached to my digital camera at all times. I will take one hundred pictures of one flower, just to catch it from every angle possible.

It's kind of pathetic, but it passes the time.

[Lindsey]

Spiders are icky. I HATE spiders.

I recently got a video camera too and I took footage that was equally as riveting--my two dogs sitting around, sleeping...the action was pretty much my shaky hand. :-)

[Helen]

Promise me you won't do the dog a christmas stocking, anything short of that and we can deal, even a charcoal portrait is almost Ok but the stocking? Too far.

[Chaos Control]

I really must learn to use my camcorder more often. I'm just know I'm going to regret it later if I don't. Sigh ...