Thursday, October 11, 2012

Childhood Memories

I finally got the DVDs I had submitted to Costco for conversion from 8mm camcorder tape format.
They had been ready 2 weeks after submission, but somehow we had got the wrong phone number on the forms so I never received a call from them.  I got worried 7 weeks later and went to inquire and they were sitting there just under my name 'Christine' with no last name.  Luckily I had all the receipts.  L was able to enjoy a couple of them before she went back to school.  It's like a documentary, snippets of their childhood captured for all time!  The years go by so quickly and it's nice to look back on these moments.  Costco has a special of $6 off per tape until October 21st, so I will take the rest of my camcorder tapes in for conversion.  It's a bit expensive but worth it.

I bought these chrysanthemums and waited for them to start blooming. It's a real pleasure to watch them every day. They've already changed quite a bit since I took this photo.

Chyrsanthemums



Here's what they look like now




I noticed these shrubs while I was out and about and thought they gave such a pretty, 'spiky' effect.








9 comments:

Anonymous said...

I have never tried Costco for that. David transferred all of our videotapes to DVDs by using a VCR and hooking it to the DVD recorder. They all look great! Love your colorful mums!

Valerie-Jael said...

Glad you are conserving your memories, times and techniques change so quickly. The chrysanthemums are gorgeous! Valerie

Adam said...

I wish I had tapes to convert. My parents never had a camcorder.

Crystal said...

Your mums are gorgeous. :-)

ann @ studiohyde said...

Your plant looks like it is bursting with flowers and what gorgeous colour.

Anonymous said...

hi Christine, flower watching is such a beautiful pass time, these are lovely, I was hacked again, my blog was, my modem fell on the floor right about the same time and I didn't know until 6 days later, I will always keep up with you here, I hope you are well,

Gloria Baker said...

Love your chrisantemus look really beautiful!xo

Christine said...

So nice to hear from you Laurie! I do hope you are back up to blogging again soon, I know you likely keep backups now so can import to a new blog.

Icy BC said...

Oh memory of our children's childhood! I have so many tapes, but have no fund to converse them now..

Your flower is very pretty..