12,500

Once again yesterday it was time to back my pictures up.  Not to the cloud, because that happens automatically, but also to my laptop.  Amazingly, I have survived taking pictures with just my phone since our first digital camera died many years ago.  We talk about getting a new camera, but 12,500 + pictures later, I am still using my phone.

The upside to using my phone is that all my pics are super accessible.  I can share them at will – or save them to the blog folder!  The down-side is that I get lazy.  It’s so convenient, and they get backed up to the cloud, so I let it go far too long between backing up to our hard drives.  Today was the day.

As with many procrastinated things, there was not an easy way.  I had too many photos to simply plug in my phone and download.  A workaround was in order, so I set about finally trying to figure out how to upload from the cloud.  Many tries and two app downloads later, I learned that a sync was my best option.  Hours later, the sync is now done.  Next weekend I’ll tackle the download to the external hard drive.

Today’s pics were an unexpected catch.  I was getting ready to leave for work and noticed that one of the white squirrels was on the front feeder.  That little acrobat!  And then I looked and saw the other white squirrel was on the back feeder!  It’s been around a week since we saw them together.