It's Here, It's Here, It's Finally Here!!!

I know, I know, shut up already!!! But I can't help it!!! I feel like a kid on Christmas morning LOL!!! My beloved Nikon D90 has arrived today!!!!!!!!!!! I pulled it out of the box, which mind you I only sent the body of the camera because I didn't know what they would want...So I got the whole new kit again!! So I had my other battery charged and immediately went to work trying to find things to take pictures of!! I could tell from the first picture I took the difference from this camera to the dud I sent back!! Right away when they camera pulled the lens to focus it did so with much more power than the other one did!!! Such a huge difference!!! Hopefully something fun will come up soon and I can put it to the test!! So here are my few samples from today....

Nikon....Are You Serious?!?! Come On Now....

So it's been a topic of mine in the past about my camera. Back in February I purchased a Nikon D90 after much research in trying to decide what suited me best. After reading many reviews and comparing to similar models that was the one I wanted!! Well needless to say if somebody gets the bad one it'll be me....

I have been using this camera despite the fact that half the time it locks up or won't focus UHH!! So I had sent it into a Nikon Dealer and Service center and at the time I thought it was my lens...But upon the return of the camera I was informed that my lens works great, it is something with in the body of the camera. Basically when I tell the camera to focus it's mechanism is to weak to make it....So I had to send it in to Nikon....Not a pleasant experience to say the least...

I called multiple times trying to get the status of the camera and what exactly they were finding wrong with it etc... I was informed that it is against company policy to tell me anything about my camera while they have it, "I would receive an invoice when I get the camera back with all of the details" OH and did I mention that Nikon USA's customer service is based out of the Dominican Republic?!?! Literally you cannot get someone from the USA on the phone...I suffer a 50% hearing loss in both ears so I can't understand what they are saying through their heavy accents... OH and it is against company policy to give any number to the USA?!?! WHAT?!?! I bought this camera in the USA I should be able to talk to an American!!

So finally today I received my camera from Nikon and you know what?!?!..............Nothing is wrong with it.............NOT!!!............They literally enclosed instructions on how to focus the lens properly and instructions in shooting in the different modes...All of which is copied out of the handbook, hello!! So needless to say I was a weee bit pissed when I got this so I called to speak to my friends *not* in the Dominican Republic and after having to make one girl upset and then get her supervisor on the phone they want me to send the camera back again!! WHAT?!?! You've got to be kidding me, you had the camera for 2 1/2 weeks, you knew what was wrong with it! I am not sending it back unless I get a loaner, my kiddo's have WAY to many important things going on this next week!!

So finally I get a number from the supervisor to Nikon's corporate office and I spoke to a very nice lady there and told her the issues and she then had someone from the west coast call me because that's where my camera was at. So all's this guy will say is "we are trying to help you" I swear, I promise, and I bet money on it that they are trained to say that because everyone of them says it and at the dumbest times...So after a lengthly conversation with the man I am having to email him pictures to prove that I am having this problem!! WHATEVER!!!! Seriously I think that they should just exchange the camera....It is only a few months old and I paid a pretty penny for it so it should work pristinely!!

So I have emailed some pictures and now I wait...

Just thought I would share some samples of my perfectly working camera!!!........NOT!!!!!



















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Bluffs in Kansas?!?! Really?!?! Do you believe me?

The general consensus about the state of KS is that it's flat...But I must ask the question, is it really?? Of course I know some of you girls live in KS so you know what I mean..There are alot of flat land area's in KS but we also have some of the most beautiful hillsides to. Such as the Flint Hills...OMGosh, that is one of my favorite area's!! Then down south here we have the Gyp Hills, which there are Gyp Hills in Oklahoma too but our Gyp Hills here are very hilly and gorgeous too!! So now would you believe me if I told you that my Hubby and I met a guy a few weeks ago and he told me that he has a bluff out on his property that has a natural spring shooting out of it in numerous spots...And it has been there forever!!! So he told me to come out and take pictures since that's one thing I love to do!! So my Hubby says to me this afternoon that we are going over there and I can take pictures of the spring...But,but, oh wait a minute....I don't have my camera :( And to top that off I won't likely have my camera for 4 more weeks as the repair tech said he believes there is an actual problem with the body and not the lens... *BOO HOO* It really does tick me off because the camera is only 4 months old!! Well enough of that pity party, my SIL had told me she would loan me her daughter's camera if I needed to take pictures of anything so I called her up and she said sure come get the camera!! So I get there and not only did she let me borrow a camera she let me borrow her Dad's Canon 40D that she has because hers is in the shop too...Well let me tell you she has one heck of a lens on that thing!! It totally rocks!! So now I will have to find the one compatible for my F frame Nikon D90!! So anyways I took the camera and before I knew it the memory card was FULL!! Mind you she sent me with a blank one *smiling*, I don't see what the issue was I had only taken 400 pictures...BA HA HA LOL LOL,how in the heck did I do that in a span of maybe and hour and a half!! So that was that I got the ones I wanted and that's all that mattered!!

ps~ you can click on the pictures if you want to see them bigger!!


























Hubby standing at the top of the bluff!!















Pond/Stream here!!



This is the view from the top, can you believe this you can't even tell that there is a bluff right on the edge there!!