Friday April 16 Day 45

Friday April 16 Day 45

Today it finally happened. I fell down with my video camera. No damage was done to the lens or anything else. I have a lens hood attached to the camera and it protected the lens. At this time of year there are large amounts of leaves left on trails from the winter. This leaves are very slippery and a great deal of time is spent racking them off the paths. It looks very nice and the trails are safer. I was in an area where this cleaning has not been done. In fact I think that leaves had actually been racked to this area from trails higher up the hillside. I was carrying the camera on the tripod and miss judged the height of one of the steps. My foot slipped a bit as I stepped up and down I went. The first thing to hit the ground was the lens of the camera. There was a little bit of dirt scooped up by the lens hood that I brushed out and also blew out with my blower (this is a rubber bulb with a spout to blow dust away from the lens).

I shot from 1:30 to 3:40 and then headed into the bazar to offer obeisance to the ATM god. I had been told earlier this week that there was a new ATM machine just at the Clock Tower in Landour. This would save at least 20 minutes and an mile of up hill climbing if it really existed. I stopped at the Ram Chander and Bros. store to ask for the location on the ATM. I informed the man behind the counter that I had patronized this store in the 1940’s. It has been moved across the street in the past year. Just down the street a few shops was the sparkling new Bank of India ATM. It works very well. I am so pleased to have a more convenient ATM. It is now only a 40 minute climb back home rather than an hour. I got home about 5:15 pm and shortly after 6 I had a major insulin attack. This happens when my blood sugars drop very quickly from to much exercise. I took a sugar pill and the sweats stopped fairly promptly.