{"id":1746,"date":"2007-01-03T10:05:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-03T17:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2007\/01\/03\/think-of-it-as-very-early\/"},"modified":"2007-01-03T10:05:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-03T17:05:00","slug":"think-of-it-as-very-early","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2007\/01\/03\/think-of-it-as-very-early\/","title":{"rendered":"Think of it as Very Early&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">See those lights behind her head? <\/span><br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_NeoZjZL4Y_c\/RZvoBzUkjPI\/AAAAAAAAAN0\/3t9hKunibH4\/s1600-h\/IMG_5789.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_NeoZjZL4Y_c\/RZvoBzUkjPI\/AAAAAAAAAN0\/3t9hKunibH4\/s400\/IMG_5789.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5015857727661182194\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>The day after Christmas, we bought a Christmas Tree&#8230; a 9&#8242; Pre-Lit Balsam Hill Blue Spruce on super-big-time-post-Christmas SALE.   It was on our doorstep when we returned home.  Wanting to try it out, I asked Paul to set it up while he watched the kids in the front room (I was busy with laundry and unpacking in the back).   <a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_NeoZjZL4Y_c\/RZvoCDUkjQI\/AAAAAAAAAN8\/dZMSJ8culuc\/s1600-h\/IMG_5799.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_NeoZjZL4Y_c\/RZvoCDUkjQI\/AAAAAAAAAN8\/dZMSJ8culuc\/s400\/IMG_5799.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5015857731956149506\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Before moving from Michigan, we had my parents old 9&#8242; tree&#8230; NOT Pre-Lit.  As the primary tree-putter-upper in the family, to me the Balsam Hill assembly looked like a dream.  You simply put the center pole in place, the branches fall down, and you plug it in&#8230; <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">walla<\/span>!  Paul was frustrated with a few details, but in the end agreed that the tree was easy to assemble, beautiful (even without our fluffing the branches), sturdy, and not coming down for a least 3 days. <a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_NeoZjZL4Y_c\/RZvoCDUkjRI\/AAAAAAAAAOE\/2Bs2i77_o_4\/s1600-h\/IMG_5818.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_NeoZjZL4Y_c\/RZvoCDUkjRI\/AAAAAAAAAOE\/2Bs2i77_o_4\/s400\/IMG_5818.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5015857731956149522\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;d have to change out the camera lens to get the full tree, so no big tree pictures until it&#8217;s back up and fully decorated next year (<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">not comfortable changing out the lens on a whim &#8212; what if I break it?!<\/span>)<\/p>\n<p>A photography aside&#8230; I&#8217;m more comfortable with using AV to play with aperture.  But for some reason, when I shoot in Aperture View, the ISO goes up to 1600 for many of the photos!   I&#8217;m guessing it has something to do with light, but not sure how to control it just yet.  <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Learning&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See those lights behind her head? The day after Christmas, we bought a Christmas Tree&#8230; a 9&#8242; Pre-Lit Balsam Hill Blue Spruce on super-big-time-post-Christmas SALE. It was on our doorstep when we returned home. Wanting to try it out, I asked Paul to set it up while he watched the kids in the front room [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}