Canon Service is Great

Just wondering if anything will show on this night photo of a family of young musicians at the campground where I hosted last summer. Of course I took the picture with my Canon GL2 which is a video camera, but I am addicted to it's still photo capabilities. It broke shortly after this. My old Canon Hi 8 was long ago invalided out, but I had all this Hi 8 tape I couldn't use, so a couple of weeks ago I bit the bullet and called the Canon number and amazingly helpful people explained to me that I could get a quote on fixing the cameras. The quote was reasonable, the service was quick and now my GL is home and I am afraid to touch it. The problem was "sand" in the works. Everything in this area is impregnated with desert dust. I am afraid to take it out of it's plastic bag to use it.....

Today I was standing peacefully in the kitchen thinking about nothing in particular when a great crash followed by a roaring sound shook me out of my reverie. No sonic boom this. A huge branch had fallen from one of my pecan trees and slid half off the roof. The man across the street got it all the way onto the ground. If the UPS man had been standing there asking me to sign for my camera he could well have met an untimely demise and all his chirpy charms would have been lost to this world. Fortunately nothing was in the way of it's majestic fall. I set about with my pruners and saw and in a relatively short time had it cleared up. This was a wake up call. I have to get the trees neutralised before something worse happens. Now I have some nice pecan fire wood, some of it dead and hard and dry.