Okay folks....if anyone is still following this...I want to add an update....
Remember the camera tragedy? Our digital fell out of my pocket and sunk to the bottom of the lake. My darling nephew heroically dove to the bottom and retrieved it, and we had few pictures for the trip, as this happened on morning one!
So the follow up is I did something extraordinary for me. I wasn't impulsive. I am a want-it-now-cannot-wait-hurray kind of gal... At any time up to that moment I would have turned the dang thing on to see if it still works. For some reason unbeknownst to me, I went and got on my laptop and googled the following
Digital camera fell in the water
A series of thousands of hits came up....I read through the first dozen. The general advice was to remove the batteries and refrain from turning the camera on for several days. There were suggestions to dry it out by placing it in a plastic bag with rice in the sun. I did this and religiously wiped off the condensation for two days. In the daytime, I placed the bag in the window, to get the greenhouse effect. At night I placed it under a lamp that had two 100 watt bulbs. Condensation continued and after day 3, I took it out and tried it. It worked in that I could see the pics already taken, and actually take a picture...but there was the fog over the lens, that prevented any image from being seen. I sadly put it in my bag, and there it remained until this weekend.
On Sunday, for the heck of it, I put in some batteries and turned it on. Guess what? Good as new! So people, if you ever drop your camera do not turn it on, and dry it out for at least a week! Had I impulsively tried it, I would have fried its little brains out and it would have been a goner....this is lesson one.
There is another lesson here. Even old dogs can learn new tricks...For me, on the dawn of my 45th birthday to alter such a major behavior is encouraging. Perhaps we can change our inherent nature, even those of us who are impulsive, child-like and in need of instant gratification.
They are selling the cabins individually and making up an association.
