To make space for more memories, I’m deleting the outtakes
September 5, 2022I started this week with about 16,600 photos stashed on my personal computer. I didn’t check the beginning numbers on my phone’s archive, but after an hour of sorting and deleting on both devices, I still had 492 videos and 9,935 images left to back up from my cell. My photo storage was overfull. Again. And then, in a weekend filled with family firsts, we loaded up a carful of kids and headed for Yellowstone National Park. It’s one of our favorite places, but we had never taken the whole crew before. The overall expedition, as one might expect in…
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