Wayne:
Thanks for your concern.
I have 10 lenses that are "users". Then again, I have 6 that have not seen
daylight. I seem to do mostly digital these days.
My wife is 15 years younger than I so hopefully, she will be around long after
I am. We had a close call 3 years ago when we had to remove her right kidney
for cancer. We are both doing quite well at present. However, one never knows!
We are the parents of a baby ringneck dove that was hatched 3 days ago. As
soon as the parents allow it to emerge from under their bodies I will be taking
daily photos with my Nikon 990. I had my 50mm F/2 macro set up to use but the
990 swivel allows me to hold the camera above the nest, inside the cage with
the LCD screen facing me ... most convenient.
I will post a link as soon as I get a good photo at the chick.
Norm
----- Original Message -----
From: "Wayne Culberson" <waynecul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 4:45 AM
Subject: Re: [OM] For Sale 90mm/old folks OT
>
> >From: Norman S. Nadel <nsnadel@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> > This is my second attempt to respond. I have no idea of why some of my
> posts
> > do not get posted. ....
>
>
> It's probably just your age. ;-) It always posts mine. ;-)
> On the downhill curve I'm on at 50, I can't imagine ANYTHING working at 72.
> :-)
>
>
> > Not really. I bought quite a few items thinking that I would be using
> them
> > in the future. However, at my age (72) , future is more of a concept than
> a
> > reality. So, I decided to sell them rather than leave my wife the
> problem
> > of disposing of them when my time is up. Would any true OM enthusiast like
> > to see his or her equipment end up in an "Estate Sale" ? Surely not !
>
> And if you live to be 90, like the old photographer (he did use a M*nolta,
> poor old fellow) I visited the other day in the nursing home, and your wife
> dies 10 years before you do, what then? By the way, his mind seemed sharp
> at 90, and he had just moved in. He showed me all around the home, where
> several of his photos hung on the walls. He seemed in such good health, I
> asked him why he was in there. He said it was just because of his age. :-)
>
> > Norm
> > Norman S. Nadel, M.D.
>
> Wayne
> PS, I'm not trying to be rude, and don't know your present state of health,
> but I am always amazed at the number of older people who think their spouse
> will outlive them, and it turns out just the opposite. Or the number of
> people who live 10 years longer than they thought they would, and the ones
> who die 20 years before anyone thought possible. I talked to my dad last
> night, who just got home from the hospital on Friday, after surviving his
> third heart attack. He is 78. He had his first cancer operation (kidney) 15
> years ago, at which time the surgeon gave him about a year to live. (That
> was before his lung cancer and bowel cancer operations, and before he took
> type 2 diabetes.) He presently has cancer in his pancreas, rib, and lung
> (again). Today he was to have an appointment with the cancer specialist,
> which he said he was going to cancel. "They always tell me the same thing
> anyways, that there is nothing they can do for me", he said. "I'll see him
> next year."
>
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