Friends Reunite by taffy

Friends Reunite

P3 reporting on some great news...Teddy has returned home to us. Two men brought him today in a really huge box, all wrapped up in tissue papers and padding. Someone was really taking good care of him! He smells fine now and doesn't remind any of us of the smell of the fire and smoke. Danbo3 had never met him, of course, so here I am filling in Teddy on all that has been happening here since we last saw each other -- two whole months ago! Life is good. We hope you all have a good weekend. PS -- here's a photo of Teddy way before the fire, back in Taffy's early days of 365 - http://365project.org/taffy/the-also-ran-ph/2013-02-27
Taffy will be back after she figures out how to back up her new Lightroom catalogue and, she thinks, the photos onto an external drive.
Downloaded and processed solely in LR.
Oh Taffy, I'm sure you are very excited with the arrival of the missing friend. Lovely capture of the reunification.
January 10th, 2015  
Have a great weekend, I'm glad he has returned to you. The smell of a fire is really had to get rid of. I'm sure you have lots of catching up to do.
January 10th, 2015  
Poor Teddy!
January 10th, 2015  
Awesome picture.
January 10th, 2015  
Love this one! And the narrative! Fav!
January 10th, 2015  
Awesome shot
January 10th, 2015  
:)
January 10th, 2015  
Welcome home, Teddy. Taffy can get back to everyone when she navigates through Lightroom. :)
January 10th, 2015  
How wonderful that Teddy is home again the rest of the gang certainly look pleased to see him.
January 10th, 2015  
So glad that Teddy has returned home!
January 10th, 2015  
P3 on Teddy's right arm makes him look like he is giving us a thumbs up!! I am a sucker for good stories like this, and I am dutifully touched by the reunification of new and old friends!
Really impressed with your perseverance with Lightroom. I took a class at the end of last year, and was thoroughly perplexed! I would have pursued it, but the holidays happened, and the new camera that I am still trying to figure out, and become familiar with, so that will have to wait till spring. I will definitely be asking you a lot of questions then!
January 10th, 2015  
@panthora Let's hope I know something and have more confidence by then! Thanks for hanging in there as I sporadically respond! I do appreciate it a lot!
January 10th, 2015  
Oh so pleased Teddy is back with you - you (and the toys) must be very pleased. He looks very sad though.
January 10th, 2015  
So glad of the good news - I am sure you are over the moon to get him back into the fold .
January 10th, 2015  
Hail Hail The Gang All Here !!!!
I love lightroom but still don't have it really set up right. I just gave up and find everything using key words.
January 10th, 2015  
Great news! Delighted for you all. :-)))
January 10th, 2015  
Glad to see this dude back home- he gained some sweet pounds tho':):)
January 10th, 2015  
Congratulations on making the Trending Page.
January 10th, 2015  
All those characters--cute!
January 10th, 2015  
Great photo, like your choice of colour.
January 10th, 2015  
What a sweet reunion/meeting for you all. I'll bet you're glad to see him home.
January 10th, 2015  
Great news on the return of Teddy. Love seeing all of them together. It is so nice hearing of what is good that has come out of the fire. Good luck to Taffy with Lightroom.
January 10th, 2015  
So pleased you lovely Teddy has been returned to you Taffy!! Lovely shot of him meeting his new friends!! Good luck with LR - backups was where I had major problems. I thought I was backing up to an external drive but i also had backups on my hard drive - no wonder it got so full up!!
January 10th, 2015  
This is a lovely photo and I am so glad that you got your bear back :)
but ......I saw this and wondered why you had my panda!!! other than the fact that mine has one eye, this could me mine! I have to ask ..... does yours have a funny little thing that you can press in it's arm that makes a really bad squeak noise? :)
January 10th, 2015  
O he looks a bit worn out from all his dramas. You seem to have 2 danbos again!
How old is the Teddy? I have a 60 year old one in a cupboard!
January 10th, 2015  
He looks lovely and not much damaged by his ordeal. The danbos are making friends with him!
January 10th, 2015  
ha! Marvellous!!
January 10th, 2015  
Wonderful to see you, Taffy.
January 10th, 2015  
So pleased teddy 🐻 survived!!
January 10th, 2015  
Glad he made it home!
January 10th, 2015  
@neatz Anita, Teddy is about 77 years old. My cousin had him first and then when I was born, she or her mom (my aunt) gave him to me. Back then, he probably had fur! Al Bailey @willowdragon posted hers today -- looks to be from somewhere around the same overall era. Fun to see these much loved bears in their current shape!
January 10th, 2015  
@darsphotos Thanks Darlene...good to know that your situation is improving radically!
January 10th, 2015  
Fav for the victory. After all that you've been through, its great to see the simple things being returned. A piece of home. Yesterday, during the worst to the cold and snow, we had to respond to a bad house fire, treat the injured. No one seriously hurt, the worst ironically was a gentleman who got some frost burn on his feet cause he grabbed his family and ran out of the house barefoot. Glad things are looking better. As for Lightroom, I have no idea how to work out the cataloging or storage. I usually just upload all my shots into folder on my desktop, when it gets too much, I just upload it to an external harddrive, then reupload if I need them.
January 10th, 2015  
FAV
January 10th, 2015  
So good to see Teddy is back with all of you safe and sound :)
January 10th, 2015  
Look at you diving in with both feet. Nice results. Glad Teddy survived and smells better.
January 10th, 2015  
:-)
January 10th, 2015  
That's been quite some journey for a bear. So glad he turned up fit and well.
January 10th, 2015  
Lovely capture of this reunion, glad to hear good things are happening
January 10th, 2015  
So touching - little things make all the difference
January 10th, 2015  
@taffy You are welcome, Taffy. I deleted what I wrote as I did not want that much out there. A huge relief that we will all breath again and live normally.
January 11th, 2015  
awwww... sweet shot! that teddy looks well-loved
January 11th, 2015  
So, so sweet. Teddy is an old soul for sure.
January 11th, 2015  
@darsphotos That's what I figured - but I was able to read it in my email thread and was quite relieved for you.
January 11th, 2015  
It's little thinks like this that really brighten your day! Have (well my daughter does)a bear of same size but maybe worse condition that is now 51 years old. It's been dragged through lots of states and lots of beds - holes sewn many times - but she won't part with him.
January 11th, 2015  
Aw! So glad for you that Teddy is back!
January 11th, 2015  
Oh that's great news. You must be rapt.
January 11th, 2015  
Good to see everyone back together again! What a lovely, touching shot.
January 11th, 2015  
HOORAY for Teddy! And you are really making progress on LR! MUST learn in next few days.
January 11th, 2015  
nice reunion shot. I liked the other teddy shot too.
January 11th, 2015  
Welcome home, Teddy! Okay, you're not quite 'home' yet but I bet it feels good to be back with the family. Taffy, I'm so glad something this precious survived the fire.
January 11th, 2015  
I barely (pun intended) noticed you there P3. I did see the Danbos though. Tell Taffy she can do a back up in LR each time she closes it. Edit, Preferences, General Tab, Go to Catalog Settings, General Tab
January 11th, 2015  
glad Teddy is safe - Fav
January 11th, 2015  
Taffy, I'm so pleased for you that bear is back where he belongs: things can be replaced but bear isn't a thing... he's evidence of moments passed and lives lived.
January 11th, 2015  
@vignouse So well stated! Thank you for clearly understanding!
January 11th, 2015  
@bill_fe Thanks Bill, but when I (Taffy now, P3 turned it over to me) go there, the backup choices are simply how often. I initially set it up to save backup catalogue to my computer hard drive. I want to change it now so it backs up to an external hard drive.
January 11th, 2015  
@losthorizon If you use LR, it has a great cataloguing system so that it keeps track of where all your photos are no matter which hard drive or computer they are on. It's quite fantastic -- but you have to use keywords which is not a big deal as you can do those en masse on uploading. BUT, I set up the backup to my computer, so it will end up using up space and can't figure out how to get it to go to an external drive instead.
Wow -- re the person with frostbitten feet. He must have had to move his family out quickly!
January 11th, 2015  
Awwwwww. So sweet! Fun capture and story Taffy!
January 11th, 2015  
@taffy Thanks for the info. Never realized LR's capabilities. Just use if for editing.

Yeah....the house went quick. Fully engulfed within minutes. He and his family are extremely lucky. Better a little frost burn compared to what the alternative could have been.
January 11th, 2015  
@taffy Moving a catalog to another location (also to an external drive as long as it's not a network drive) is no problem at all. Just move the *.lrcat file as well as the *.lrdata folder and double-click it from the new location to open it. Moving the *.lrcata folder also makes a new build up of the previews unnecessary at the new location.

Once you've opened it from the new location, it will open from that location by default.
I keep mine on an external hard drive, but I have written a batch file to copy it to an internal HD. I have four internal HDs in my PC.
January 11th, 2015  
How wonderful to have your bear back............it's irreplaceable things like this that we feel the greatest loss for ....... I bet Danbo was thrilled to have a new friend.
January 11th, 2015  
Great news that Teddy is back. It must have given you a great uplift!
January 11th, 2015  
@ceilidh @pixiemac It's amazing how nice it felt to have him back -- probably the oldest personal item I have!
January 12th, 2015  
That's good news Taffy, Richards words say it all. @vignouse
January 12th, 2015  
So glad he survived the fire and came home!! Was this your bear growing up? So sweet!
January 21st, 2015  
@amandal Thanks Amanda! I was so relieved. Yes -- I've had him since birth, I think, and he had belonged to my cousin before that, so he's quite old and threadbare. His 'friend' Beau (also from childhood) looks even older and decrepit, but they both made it through the fire and recovery treatments.
January 21st, 2015  
@taffy Super cool. I have my old bear still and he became my son's when he was young. He is so worse for the wear, but I really should get a shot of him! Thanks for the idea. Did you lose a lot? How's the living situation for you? Will the place be fixed or demolished?
January 21st, 2015  
@amandal We were very fortunate to have good insurance -- I've learned so much about the importance of insurance (I typically just looked for the best price but had followed my daughter-in-law's advice and gone with Chubb which has made a huge difference in our lives compared to the insurance company our neighbors are working with that also is the condo building insurance). So we are in a beautiful condo high above the city -- a high price to pay for living here, but it has been lovely. Our house is down to the studs and being rebuilt but the exterior is fine so we should be back in it at the beginning of May if all goes well -- out of the house for about 7 months. Quite a surreal time, but we are well despite the trauma and very fortunate to be alive and well cared for. Thanks for asking.
January 21st, 2015  
Glad you had great insurance. So great that you will get back in later in the spring. Great news.
January 21st, 2015  
Saw this in your calendar view and had to check it out. Love how you set this help with Danbo and the Penguin. Awesome photo and so happy your Teddy came back!
February 4th, 2015  
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