Backyard Safari

So, on Thursday I needed to put some miles on the Mustang to keep the battery charged up, and I decided I'd nip down to Roberts Camera after lunch and grab a couple rolls of film to toss in the freezer for later.

I got in the car with my camera and the little canvas tote bag I carry that holds my iPad and my handy umbrella and motored on downtown. It's not far, a fifteen or twenty minute drive on surface streets. One of the guys who works there lives near me and he does it by bicycle on the Monon Trail nearly year 'round.

My tote bag.

I got there and grabbed a couple rolls of film. While I was idly nosing around in the used camera department I spotted an old Nikon D2H pro body in really nice shape. They had it packaged with an inexpensive 50mm f/1.8 AF-D Nikkor, a battery & charger, and a formatted CF card already installed for a little over a C-note.

Now, I'm a sucker for old pro bodies and the D2H's slower, higher resolution cousin, the D2X, has been a stalwart for me. The D2H is doubly interesting because it used Nikon's proprietary LBCAST sensor technology, the only camera to do so, before Nikon went to CMOS sensors like everyone else.

I rang up my purchases and was on my way out the door when I glanced at the wall of clearance bags hanging on the wall next to the exit, and there was a blue Peak Design Everyday Sling, like this one, but in the smaller 6L size. "Think how much money I'm saving!", I thought to myself as I took it to the cash register.

So I got home with my purchases and began unloading the car. Now, I had three bags and the DSLR around my neck to ferry through the detached garage and to the picnic table in the back yard where I would set them as I unlocked the back door of the house. 

I transferred them in stages to the hood of the Zed Drei in the garage, shut the overhead garage door, then staged them in two trips to the picnic table, pulling the door on the garage shut behind me after the second trip, giving the knob a little conscientious twist to make sure I'd locked it.

Now to unlock the back door of the house...

...uh...

...with the keys that were still sitting in a little pile on the roof of the car in the locked garage.

So I got to spend Thursday afternoon sitting in the back yard waiting for Bobbi to get home from work.

Oops.