RUST BUCKET

No, it don't say "RUST BUCKET" on the side.

That was just me playing with the computer.

However, all the rust is real.

This is an old pickup I bought from an old lady

up in Nebraska off eBay years ago.

When I bought it there was rust on it O.K.

But inside it looked like brand new.

To myself a truck is a tool, not a trophy.

In fact I get a great deal of satisfaction out

of the old thing.  I am old and falling apart

and I have a matching truck.

Most people would be offended having a

vehicle that looked like that.  But consider 

this.  I paid $1,500.00 for it about 12 or 13

years ago.  I have probably put about $2,000.00

more into it in maintenance, tires and repairs

etc.  How many of you have a vehicle that gives

you 12 or 13 years of service for only about

$3,500.00.

So, this old man thanks God for this old

truck and I just "keep on trucking".

CHEAP FUN

I know.  What is fun and what is cheap???
And, like yourself, what is fun to me now would not
 have been forty years ago.

It happens that one of the things that is fun for me 

"today" is playing with cameras.  (That does not make

 me a photographer.)

For some time I have been wanting to get an old, 

cheap, low megapixel camera to play with.

So eBay, here I come.

I was able to find a suitable camera for $9.99.  

That's right, just under $10.00.  It came with the 

memory card, two batteries and a wall charger.  

All I had to do was put one of the batteries in the 

camera and start shooting.  Praise God for that.

Then the expenses begin to mount up.  From eBay

 I bought a  cheap tripod.  Yes,  .99 cents.  That 

included shipping.  So now I am at $10.98 for my 

photographic gear.  Not quite so cheap now.

All of these images on this post were taken with it,

 my cheapest, lowest megapixel camera.  Just two 

megapixels. I am not quite sure what that proves.

But I enjoyed doing it.

Oh yes!

The tripod.  That is image number one.

A mini tripod is what I wanted.  And boy is it mini.

It will not even support the camera.

So let's just call it a novelty.

But the camera suits me well for an old man's toy.