We have 3 girls and one of them is just like yours when it comes the slightest movement. She was my mothers kitty and we gave her to Mama when she (Baby) was just 8 weeks old. I think because Mama was well into her 90's she didn't pick her up very much and only talked to her and played with her with toys she isn't used to being handled. She has been with us about 8 years now and she will get on the sofa with Larry and go to him for petting. When I go into the room she is gone in a flash. The only time she lets me near her is if she is sleeping and at treat time. She has a built in clock and knows when it is 9 am and 6 pm. We have to watch her with her treats because she will eat hers then try to take the other girls treats away from them.

mwsilvers
The 18-250 mm.

Oh my goodness you are all making a decision very difficult. I've found a Canon for just $43.00 more than the Sigma. I'm not very experienced in photography, just got my camera in May. I've been using the kit lenses that came with my camera and got some real nice pictures. I'm tired of changing the lenses but I don't want to give up quality for convenience.

CHG_CANON, Thanks for that link. He covers all of the questions I had.

Has any of you used this lens? If you do what I'd like to find out is: Do you like it weight wise and the results when taking pictures with it?

Mogul, Thanks for the info. I'll have to slip a few of them in my camera bag.

Last Sunday I went to the Angola State Prison for their rodeo. No cellphones and no cameras were allowed. That meant I had to leave all my camera things in the trunk of the car along with my cellphone. We were up in the stands and I'm dyeing to take some pictures. Then there was the young girl sitting nest to my husband taking all kind of pictures with her phone. It really ticked me off that she was breaking the rules and I didn't. Had I been sitting next to her I would have asked her if she wanted them to take her phone from her. She had to have snuck the phone in as they went through my bag on the way in. I really enjoyed myself and the things that these guys made for sale were very nice. If I hadn't been tired I would have bought more that a chopping board. Larry found himself a real nice belt very reasonably. We've been wanting to go to the rodeo for quite some time but kept forgetting until it was all over. I wonder if there is some way I can get someone to let me take some pictures next time we go.

I always use these on my glasses, but didn't think they could be used on camera lenses.

I had cataract surgery on both eyes about 3 weeks apart. I wasn't doing photography at the time, but it was have the surgery or quit driving. It was amazing how many wrinkles I saw when I looked in the mirror and how much my kitchen need a good cleaning. I asked why both eyes were not done at the same time. Infection was the reason my dr. gave me. I didn't wear a patch at all on either eye. Good luck.

In our area there is a really big spider who's web goes from one tree to another. One day my neighbor was cutting her grass and all of a sudden saw one of these spiders. She jumped down from the tractor and ran. When I say tractor I'm not referring to a lawn tractor. This thing is used by farmers. Her husband had to go climb onto the tractor. Wish I had seen all of that. It had to be funny looking.

No he wore a special made shoe that was squared of where his toes would have been.

The former holder of the longest field goal of 63 yards, Tom Dempsey, didn't have any toes on his right foot. He kicked with his right foot. I happened to be at that game in 1970. A lot of people had already left the stadium. Can you imagine how they felt.

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As for our Maggie, we had gotten her at the age of 6 weeks and being that Vicki and I both are retired and being that I suffer from sleep apnea (sleep separately in my own bed), Maggie has slept with me in my bed from day 1 :-D

Just about every afternoon, Maggie will walk up to me and give me the signal that I should take a nap with her in, what we now call "Her Bed", which is actually my bed in my bedroom.. Of course, I always take her up on the offer because at my age, a nap isn't such a bad idea as it were !
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Doug, my hubby and I have separate bedrooms because he had sleep apnea also and we have 3 cats all with long fur. The one we inherited when my mother passed is his. He is the only one she will go to for petting and she sleeps with him. The other 2 sleep with me. One of those 2 girls sleeps with her head on a pillow up by my head and the other sleeps at the foot of the bed. I can't remember a time in my life that I didn't have a cat.

A few years ago I had rotator cuff surgery and had to go to physical therapy. At one of the Saints football games one of the men working the chains got run over by a player. It turned out that he's the father of my physical therapist. He was in the hospital for quite awhile. I don't know if he went back to the sidelines or not.

It looks like Jeepers is saying, you again.