As the cat is truly out of the bag now...meet spawn

Imagine appropriate amounts of fanfare. It is admittedly, not the most flattering of pictures and now somewhat out of date. Really to understand how talented s/he is, you have to see the video, since s/he is clearly a kicking champion already. This is just his/her head in profile. See the bump right in the middle? That's his/her nose. For a while we could see his/her hand up around his/her forhead. I think perhaps s/he is trying to learn to suck his/her thumb. Brian thinks s/he was giving us all the loser sign. And yes, I will be doing grammatical gender gymnastics for another 5 1/2 months, because we aren't planning to find out.

So aside from taking videos of Moose and making birdie putts that is what we've been up to.

BRAKE FOR MOOSE

"It could save your life. HUNDREDS OF COLLISIONS." That's what the signs say on the side of many roads in New Hampshire. Until this past Sunday, I was not convinced that there were any actual moose in NH (having never seen one myself), and wondered if the signs were just more roadside clutter as part of a government conspiracy to get people to slow down. However, as this video shows, they do exist, and it's not the moose you have to watch out for on the road, per se. This was on US 302 just east of Twin Mountain, NH.



I recently got a new Canon PowerShot SD960 camera, which can shoot 720p HD videos as well as still photos. I'm generally not a fan of video blog postings, but I'm experimenting with the process in this post. One problem is that my old and feeble laptop can't display the video without transcoding it to something smaller or lower bitrate. We'll see how bad this looks after Google re-encodes it yet again. Also, please excuse my very amateur cinematography, including excessive digital zoom. At least I was holding the camera in the right orientation (maybe a story for another time.)