As I’ve mentioned before, I have a Panasonic Lumix that I’m having fun with. It has a 12x optical zoom, and I bought a 3x lens for magnification so I can reach the shot of birds and other wildlife that are usually out of reach from the elph. So…we are sitting at a picnic table at the zoo, and as I’m taking an occasional picture of the birds that have closed in on a recently vacated picnic table, I realized that I haven’t used my 3x lens yet, and that I could be missing some shots if I took the time to use it.

At about the time I’m realizing this, a very animated red squirrel showed up.

This squirrel looked different than the ones we have in our neighborhood, because it’s a RED - not a GRAY squirrel. As I pointed out to my husband, it looks different than the dirty-looking squirrels we have in our area.

Plus, he lept very high as he was bounding around, and he kept standing up like a meerkat.

So I scrambled to put the adapter and get the lens out of its case, and while I’m doing that, the squirrel makes his way into the bushes.

Ugh.

So I start to take the lens off and put it all away with the adapter, and he comes back out. So I take the lens out again, and start putting the adapter on again.

But while I’m going through all this, a little boy’s attention is now drawn to the little squirrel, and the little boy starts to squeal in dlight and begins chasing the squirrel all around the picnic area. Now my husband is laughing.

He had a lot of nerve laughing about this, it was serious business! That kid is ruining my shot and you’re laughing about it!

By the time I got it all together, the squirrel was up in a tree looking down at the little boy, I’m frustrated, and my husband is laughing.

My husband could relate to the little boy’s excitement about making a new little squirrel friend, but he also saw me trying to put that adapter and magnification lens on the camera, and knew what it was I was trying to do….and was laughing. I brought it up afterwards and he kept laughing.

Boys will be boys, I guess…whether they’re grown up, or wearing a diaper.