… to my latest plunge into having a daily (or at least weekly!) presence on the world wide web.
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July 15th, 2010Wishes For My Dad
September 3rd, 2010Daddy is having another birthday in heaven. It is hard to think of him as 76 years of age for he died at 54 years too young. He will forever be young and handsome in my eyes. We all miss him, he has been gone far too long, yet the memories are near and dear. Happy Birthday, Daddy!
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September 2nd, 2010
Late yesterday evening, a small clearing in the clouds allowed this brief, but beautiful sight right before nightfall.
Precious Drops
September 1st, 2010
It finally rained a decent and measurable amount today and we are thankful.
End of Season
August 30th, 2010
I truly enjoy this time of the year with summer winding down, the hellish temperatures disappearing and the harvesting of crops nearing the end. Fall can’t be too far away now; I am looking forward to the changing seasons. Oh, and by the way, just cause I’m ready for summer to turn into fall does NOT mean I will be happy to see winter return. Looking forward to the changing of the seasons only applies to a couple of them!
Waiting
August 29th, 2010Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
J. Petit SennThere are two things to aim at in life; first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.
Logan Pearsall Smith
For most of my life, I’ve been waiting; waiting on happiness, waiting on something… to be of age, to be in love, to be married, to have children, to obtain a job I very much wanted and more. While some of my goals were attained, some were not. It took many years of self-growth to learn to live in the moment, to stop waiting, to just… be. I find myself in a good place, as all of us have so often heard, ‘things happen for a reason’.
In 2008, I was asked to keep a child of a young man I had kept when he was a little guy. I never intended to be a childcare provider again, but that opportunity has led to much joy in my life and I will forever be grateful for not obtaining that position I wanted. Had I been employed, I would never have known this newfound happiness in loving on two (yes, now there are two) little ones in my life. I am no longer waiting, I am blessed and the best part is I know it!
Edgar Thissen’s Photography
August 28th, 2010If you have spent anytime at all browsing my site, you know I love to photograph animals. If only (and yes, I’m dreaming) I had the opportunity to capture the animals this man has and have his equipment to do so, I would say I had done it all. Just go have a look for yourself, you will be in awe too.
Tweets in the Sidebar
August 25th, 2010I’m still interested in learning and playing…. so…. drumroll please…. I have a twitter account! Will I actually use it? At least until I figure it out, you know the whole learning and playing thing. I think once I do indeed get the hang of it, it will be fun. Now to just be interesting enough to have something to post there, oh and here, and for goodness sake, let’s not forget my Facebook account! What was I thinking?
Plus Addressing and Filtering
August 24th, 2010I learned a new term and a bit of helpful information tonight. No, seriously, I did!
We’ve been online since late 1996 or early 1997, we can’t decide now, but no matter, it’s been a long, long time! When we first started out with emails, surfing the web and joining sites, we never knew or thought in 13 plus years we might be changing email addresses a few times because we changed ISP’s (Internet Service Providers). Well, actually, its only been three times, but each time we were furnished with email addresses with each provider and of course, went with it. With each change, you spend hours going through the sites you have accounts with and updating your contact information. After that third time and knowing Google had the awesome web based Gmail accounts, I got one! Now if we ever change our provider again, I’ll still have the same gmail address and won’t be pulling my hair out changing my address on all those sites again. And yes, for those of you with my last ISP address, it is still active and some of you still use it.
Now with all that babble out of the way, let’s get back to the title of this post. I subscribe to posts at Plus PSP, my graphics-playing-stomping-grounds, and I have filtered the emails from them within my email client, but only tonight did I learn I could actually set up as many email accounts with my one gmail address as I want with plus addressing. Did you know this? Here, go read, this feature and creating a filter is simply explained.
I’ve only scratched the surface of what gmail can do for me. I highly recommend it and the very best part is it is free!
My Helper
August 23rd, 2010
What kind you might ask? A mosquito larva eating helper! This dog water really needed to be dumped and replenished, but I hated to deprive the little guy or gal from its meal tonight.
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This One is for You, Cathy
August 21st, 2010When our friend passed away days after one of our lunch gatherings, my heart or my head wasn’t open to organizing or meeting with old school pals again. I did state I would attend if someone else initiated it. Pam, Pam and I met earlier this year and then again today including Joyce. I want to think our sweet and dear friend, Cathy, is smiling about that and was with us in spirit. My tears as I type this tell me I was wishing more than that. I. MISS. HER! We had a great time, a couple of hours seemed like mere minutes, but we laughed and loved and vowed to do it again.
