In spite of the song, having too many boats actually isn’t my problem. I have 8 boats, and regularly paddle 5 of them - reasonable to me. I do tend to hoard pictures though. They end up on my desktop or in the download file, and I just can’t seem to delete them, even after I copy them into a trip file somewhere else. It drives my wife crazy and slows down the computer, so I finally started to clean things up, but ended up making a video instead.
Too Many Boats? from Erik Eckilson on Vimeo.
The pictures are still on my computer - haven’t deleted any of them. I do like the song by [Jerry Vandiver](http://www.jerryvandiver.com/Home.html "Jerry Vandiver"), even if it isn’t true in my case.
I am off this week and would love to paddle, but it is going to be real cold - temps not above the 20’s with wind. We’ll see.
mmmm…there were nine…took a project boat down and gave it to the neighbor …now there are eight. …oh wait I forgot the dog’s kayak,…there are nine again. Its only too many if the government inacts registration for paddle boats.
Same issue with photos. So many, my guess is over 40k. I do have them backed up to a portable drive and have started to sort them by place and date and putting them in their own folders. It’ll take me years!
Eckilson, great photos and many good memories of fine trips with good friends. I enjoyed it. I too take tons of photos. I always download a trip in a folder that starts with a date like this 2017-12-27 and then the location, like say Bull Island. This way I have everything in chronological order. I then go through and edit the photos and pick out the best that tell the trip story, and save them to a portable hard drive. I also have theme folds like sailing, kayaking or wildlife that I put my very best photos or only one of a kind shots in. Doesn’t take a great deal of time to do, and I enjoy the editing. If you don’t keep up with it then it becomes a chore.
The pictures that I take end up in trip files. It’s the pictures that other people take (usually of me) that end up on my desktop and in the download file. I copy them into the trip file, but then don’t delete them. I need to come up with a better backup system. Then again, it is nice to be able to look at them all in one place.
I’ve got to get that song and arrange for my wife to hear it. Maybe slide it into her CD player and she can discover it while driving in the car or something. She is very tolerant of my boat addiction, but it might do her well to know I’m not the only one that has a few boats.
