My thoughts exactly..... there's a few of these on the east coast as well!

Yes she does! I was on the phone a few time with Apple trying to fix the problems with mine and had no success. I believe it is just bogged down with stuff? It does not want to restart at all, just spins - not the ball, just the other thing that looks like a timer and won't shut off. I have to just shut down or hit the power button. Apple ran out of ideas, except to update the OS which I don't want to do, yet.
My other half wants to use it.... his is a true Asus dinosaur laptop, so I will get something better equipped to handle photo processing and my large bunch of softwares and what-have-you that I love playing with.

I think our laptops have a glitch! I know mine is misbehaving lately. Time to update! Thanks!

Very strange.... just opened LR back up to experiment with trashing a couple photos. This time they did go right in to the trashcan, as they should have. My computer has been buggy - having trouble restarting and such. I am about to get another laptop and newer LR & PS - hopefully, will have better fun with those, although dread moving catalogs and such!

I am getting same results! I have not put Catalina on my Mac. Still on Mojave, since I'm running older LR & PS Classic CC. If I delete a photo out of LR (from the disk), that is stored on the Toshiba external, it does NOT appear in my trash until I shut down and restart the laptop (2013 model.) So weird!

I just tried to delete photos from disk on LR and it did delete out of my pictures folder on external, although I do not see them in the trash..... ODD.

My take on it is this: At the point you are importing the photos from your card, LR says "Eject card" or some such thing, in upper left side. I think once they are imported on to the disk, and the original source of the photos is ejected, there sit your raw (and or unedited files for the duration). If you want to delete groups from the card, and or disk it should be done while it is still in the reader. I could be wrong, however, I have had the same issue, and I am on a MAC. I store my photos in a pictures file on an external, although that wouldn't matter.

Apparently, we aren't the only ones with this issue. Probably there IS a good solution.... I just don't have my handbook here in NC.

Try to sell off unused items and take more pictures.

Hahaha...:-)

https://www.sheepskin.com/product-category/sheepskin-accessories/sheepskin-car-accessories/ I use these seat belt protectors on our vehicles and they are awesome. I have a bad neck and back. Maybe they can help you with a camera strap?

Great 'ol camera the D700. Still have mine, although don't use much, as the shutter is a bit noisy.

Canvas on Demand is great. Definitely sign up for coupons.

Nikon 24-70 2.8, then 80-400, and 70-200 2.8 in that order.

Meridian Pro... wonderful!

Thank goodness! I have wanted a drone to experiment with in the past, however, this last year several have been a nuisance where I was visiting beautiful places. It has made me rethink whether I want to pursue this line of photography. I was so angry with the drone operator in one case - if I could have strangled him I would have!