Yes, you can use a digital camera to convert slides to digital files. It depends on what accessories your camera manufacturer offers. A few years ago when Nikon was selling their 900 series, they also offered a slide conversion kit. The camera mounted to the kit and the kit had a backlight to illuminate the slides. The slides would be saved to whatever format the camera supported, and at camera supported resolution. I have a cousin who at one time did commerical photography for advertisments. He had shots from around the world at exotic locations - including models. He convertered about 3000 slides using his Nikon. So, it depends on what accessories are offered. A fast way to transfer the photos to disk or other storage media is to insert a large capacity memory card into the camera, say 1 GB or more and shoot away. When the card is full, pull the card and place into a card reader and copy the photos to the storage media of your choice. While you at the task, it is advisable to check you work. Review the slides before copying to permanent media to see if adjustments in exposure, etc. are needed. The copy process will faithfully copy dirt and scratches as well. If you have MicroSoft Office 2000 or other, you may have a viewer hidden away. To find this viewer, got to Programs> Microsoft Office Tools > MicroSoft Photo Editor. It's not a full featured editor, but what it does, it does well, and works great for reviewing. A caveat: While the camera memory card is in the reader, do not perform any operation that writes back to the camera card other than simple deletion. Each camera manufacturer has their own propertiary formatting scheme, and that can be fouled if you perform a "write" to the card with anything else except the camera. Storage Media: You should give some thought to the choice of final storage media. For example, 10 years later, will equipemnt be available to read the media? How permanent is the media? Maybe it would be wise to set up a calendar to remind yo to copy the media every 5 years or so. I do not advise depending on thumb drives, although these have improved greatly over the past 5 years. Thunb drives are great for temporary storage, but these do have a limited life. Each junction can withstand about 10,000 rewrites before these fail. Memroy cards these days employ 'leveling' schemes to level out the wear over the entire card, not just the front end of the card. This scheme has improved life by a goodly factor, but someday, a jucntion will eventually fail and that file will be damaged. If the damage occurs in the directory, the entire card may be lost. I am not privy to the internals of today's cards, but in the beginning, these cards had an internal, keep-alive battery that was good for about 10 years. I have been tussling with this storage problem and do not have a satisfactory solution for long term storage of sensitive documents. The best that I have at the moment is external hard drives and CDs and DVDs. Nothing yet matches the old time technology of well processed photos. For example, I have several dagurreotypes (tin types) from which I have made acceptable copies. These images were over 150 years old. I also have photos that are over 100 years old that have proven useful in my genealogical research. So far, digital storage can not match this record.

Dual bevel tilts both to the left and right. I have all three of your listed saws. All Makita. Just bought the 12" from Amazon last year for $396.00, delivered to the house. Since I do house remodeling it's also tax deductible. Sort of a win-win situation. I bought the 10" slider about 20 years ago initially for a deck. It can cut 2x6 on a 45 degree setting and could cut 4x4's just barely. The 12" stays in the shop. Very rarely does it have a use in the field, so far. If you want to spend the money on a 12", go ahead. You might find it needed on another project in the future. Keep an eye out at Amazon. You can get some great buys if you catch them. To check online tool prices, go to www.toolseeker.com. It will list various manufacturers and you can compare features as well as comparison shop for price. Ron

I’m also thinking I need something other than a picture either above the buffet or above the fireplace This wall could also hold a mirrori have 2 like this that I could spray paint white and roll on middle space top and bottom Should all frames be the same shape?

A decent handyman could probably do it, but there's no guarantee. I think the removal of the bar would be the easy part, but there is no telling what you would run into at the bottom end. That part would have to be capped off, and whether the end of the cap is inside the wall or not will depend on what is found when the fixture is taken off. In either case, you'll have an ugly hole to deal with and I'm not clear on how you can easily patch and waterproof it. This may be one of those things you don't want to touch until you decide to redo the whole shower. Sometimes "fixing" something that isn't broken can lead to regrets.