Another shopping day

Another nice day today 68F still no frost at night yet but nights are cool going down to 37F here tonight. After our usual morning routine we decide to head into Sierra Vista to do some shopping for a photo printer. We have a Canon all-in-one but it does not do a great job of printing pictures or cards, the colors do not come out true and we are printing more pictures here than we have ever done previously, some for the park bulletin board and some for our friends. I did some pre-shopping on the internet looking at reviews, etc., and have decided on a couple of models that should fit our space and needs. We ended up purchasing a HP Photosmart; small enough to sit on the desk with the capability to print up to legal size paper (not an all-in-one) so will keep the Canon for scanning and regular print jobs. If it does not perform up to expectations, we can return it within 30 days, which gives us lots of time to test the performance. Returning home late afternoon, we take the dogs for a needed walk and unpack our new printer testing it out immediately using the same pictures we could not get the color to print correctly on nor the detail we could see on the computer but not when we printed them. Decided right away that we will keep the Photosmart, without spending a fortune it does a great job of printing photos, also has a separate bin for the 4 x 6 photo paper and it will print directly onto special CD’s and DVD’s. I will not use that function for any DVD or CD that I want to keep long term until the technology improves as any printing or writing directly on them eventually causes deterioration the same as adding a label on any CD or DVD.
After chatting online with friends for a while during the evening we ended up watching movies until 3:00 AM, this is a first for us!