I just read about Margie and Bruce in some of your blogs. I went to the RV show yesterday and was so tired I went to bed early and didn't open my computer till just now. I was settling down to catch up, and the first post I opened was about Margie and Bruce.
This is such a terrible thing, I can't believe it happened. I guess I didn't realize how attached I've become to this blogging community, and I'm surprised at my reaction.
Margie had two blogs, and I read them both. I loved reading about their adventures, following along on all their walks, and enjoyed her beautiful photos. She was an inspiration to her followers on her second blog. The last post that I read on her blog, My Healthy Living Through Weight Control, was an inspiration to me, and I was using her blog to get back on track. I'm sure there were many people she inspired.
I felt like I knew them in the short time I've been following Margie's blogs. Margie was a good commenter too, and I appreciated that.
They seemed such a happy couple, living a wonderful life, loving each other, their kids and Grands and Annie. They will be missed by many people who never even met them.
Full-timing in our 24-foot 2006 Forest River Sunseeker 2200 as of June 1, 2011, I've added solar panels and a catalytic heater so that we can camp off-grid comfortably. My dog, Katie, is great company. We traveled a bit in the Western States our first year, and visited the deserts of Arizona and most of the New Mexico State Parks the next four. This year - 2016 - I'm hoping to find a park model to buy so we will have a home base, but we'll continue to travel, too. What a life! :)
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Saturday, October 16, 2010
Katie's cookie eating method, and a product review
I've been practicing with my new camera, snapping different things using different settings. I was taking some pictures of Katie the other night when I gave her a treat, and when I got the third picture, I had to write a post around it. I don't know if you've noticed, but Katie usually has the same look on her face all the time. One ear up, one ear down, looking at me very seriously. It was so unusual to get a picture like this one.
Katie has a procedure she follows when I give her a cookie. She'll pick up the cookie, then she walks around the house looking for the right ball (she has 15 tennis balls). When she finds the one she wants, she picks up the ball, too, and walks around with both in her mouth for a few minutes. She usually comes over and lets me check out what's going on. I pet her, tell her she's a lucky dog, check out the treats and ball, etc. Then she's satisfied and usually jumps up on my bed, drops them both and eats the cookie.
This is such a silly picture. She's got her right eye squinted. Do you think her tongue reaches up to her eye???
I received an e-mail from Julia Taylor at Digeus, Inc. asking if I'd be interested in reviewing a new product on my blog called SnapIt Screen Capture 3.7. She said if I do review the product, I will receive it free. It looked interesting so I thought, Why Not?
Katie has a procedure she follows when I give her a cookie. She'll pick up the cookie, then she walks around the house looking for the right ball (she has 15 tennis balls). When she finds the one she wants, she picks up the ball, too, and walks around with both in her mouth for a few minutes. She usually comes over and lets me check out what's going on. I pet her, tell her she's a lucky dog, check out the treats and ball, etc. Then she's satisfied and usually jumps up on my bed, drops them both and eats the cookie.
YUM, THANKS, MOM!
This is such a silly picture. She's got her right eye squinted. Do you think her tongue reaches up to her eye???
I received an e-mail from Julia Taylor at Digeus, Inc. asking if I'd be interested in reviewing a new product on my blog called SnapIt Screen Capture 3.7. She said if I do review the product, I will receive it free. It looked interesting so I thought, Why Not?
I captured this graphic using SnapIt.
Here is brief information about the product: "SnapIt is easy to use screen capture software which allows you to easily capture anything on the screen including windows, menus, full screen, rectangular regions, web pages and take shots of moving images."
I have Windows 7 on my laptop, and one of the little gadgets that comes with it is a tool called Snipping Tool. I've used it from time to time, and it is a pretty cool little tool, but only comes with Windows 7. SnapIt does the same thing, but also works in Microsoft Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, XP, 2000, 2003, Vista x32, x64 and Windows 7.
Our website at work is set up so that you can't do a copy/paste. Right now we're doing an update to the website, and I'm compiling the page changes to give to our web person, who is outsourced. I don't have Windows 7 at work, and since I can't do a copy/paste of a section of a page, I have to do a screen shot, paste it to another program, crop what I want, then save it as a new jpg. Then I can insert it in my document explaining what I want done. Pretty time consuming, since we have lots of pages and lots of changes. SnapIt would be a perfect program for me to use completing this task.
I have Windows 7 on my laptop, and one of the little gadgets that comes with it is a tool called Snipping Tool. I've used it from time to time, and it is a pretty cool little tool, but only comes with Windows 7. SnapIt does the same thing, but also works in Microsoft Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, XP, 2000, 2003, Vista x32, x64 and Windows 7.
Our website at work is set up so that you can't do a copy/paste. Right now we're doing an update to the website, and I'm compiling the page changes to give to our web person, who is outsourced. I don't have Windows 7 at work, and since I can't do a copy/paste of a section of a page, I have to do a screen shot, paste it to another program, crop what I want, then save it as a new jpg. Then I can insert it in my document explaining what I want done. Pretty time consuming, since we have lots of pages and lots of changes. SnapIt would be a perfect program for me to use completing this task.
All you do is click on the camera the program installs on your task bar, click on the function key you chose (I chose F12) and then draw a box around what you want to capture. Save as a JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP or TIFF file, then simply import it into your document, or blog, or wherever it's needed. And that's it. Pretty simple to use, and so much quicker than the old cut, paste, crop, etc., etc., etc. Check it out, they have a trial copy to see if it works for you.
Julia Taylor said in her e-mail to mention in my blog about a giveaway for readers if you also create a review in any blog/forum/twitter/facebook, etc, and contact her with a link to the review. She will then issue a registration code and name for you, too.
Here's a link to their website. SnapIt You can check it out and if it looks interesting you can download a 14-day trial copy. If you do like it, write a review and email Julia at julia.taylor@digeus.com and send her a link to get your free copy.
I would also be happy to write a review on any Class C motor homes... under the same conditions.
I went to the RV show today; I'll let you know in a day or so what ideas I came home with this time. Don't worry, I didn't buy one. Too soon. Too soon. Too soon.
From Me and My Dog, have a wonderful Saturday evening, everyone! : )
Friday, October 15, 2010
Photos from my garden
I think my "oops" blog yesterday was inaccurate - thank goodness, because we all find little things in our postings, correct them, and re-save. In the comments section Rick said he didn't think that was the problem I was having with the "four posts." Well... upon further thinking, I realized what I did that particular day was actually delete the post and start over again. I was so frustrated that it wouldn't format correctly. Sometimes it's just better to start all over again, and that's what I did. I'm now thinking that's why it kept posting as a new blog post - it actually WAS new each time.
Thanks Rick for your comment, it really made me think further. Whew! I apologize for misleading everyone, and thank goodness we can continue to correct and post with no worries.
I was writing the other day about my rose garden not being at it's best right now. It's starting to bloom again. It's in the front of my condo by the walkway in front of my door, and my kitchen window overlooks the roses. Here are three of the varieties. There are also some reds, but there were no blooms today. I don't know the names:
This is another web, but in the front by my front door. If you click on it, you'll see the spider right in the middle of the web. Every year this web appears, and it's anchored from my roof in a couple of places back to the juniper tree. It's huge.
Since I keep getting these webs in the same places every year, I wonder if it's a family of spiders, or the same spider. I'll have to look that up. How long do spiders live, anyway? Couldn't be that long.
This is a bush, not very compact, that is a volunteer, sprouted up a few years ago by my front door. I've let it grow to fill in a bare area, and all of a sudden I noticed last weekend it's bearing some kind of fruit. I have no idea what this plant is. It was just a green bush, but now it's really pretty with this fruit.
I wonder if it will flower. Or if it's an edible fruit. I'll have to wait and see.
From Me and My Dog, have a great Friday, everyone! : )
Thanks Rick for your comment, it really made me think further. Whew! I apologize for misleading everyone, and thank goodness we can continue to correct and post with no worries.
I was writing the other day about my rose garden not being at it's best right now. It's starting to bloom again. It's in the front of my condo by the walkway in front of my door, and my kitchen window overlooks the roses. Here are three of the varieties. There are also some reds, but there were no blooms today. I don't know the names:
This one is huge and sturdy.
When it opens, it looks like a porcelain rose.
These roses were planted by the original owner of my condo, and I think they are very old. The stalks are very thick and thorny, and the blooms are very fragrant. I love having them to cut and bring in the house.
This is one of the spider webs in my back patio area. Every year a huge spider sets up housekeeping in the same place and builds a web. He wasn't at home when I took this photo. Probably hiding nearby waiting for his lunch to fly into his web.
Since I keep getting these webs in the same places every year, I wonder if it's a family of spiders, or the same spider. I'll have to look that up. How long do spiders live, anyway? Couldn't be that long.
From Me and My Dog, have a great Friday, everyone! : )
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Blogger blunders: posting, oops... editing and re-posting
Stargazer from Boondocking Blogger posted an apology to her readers, explaining that she found a misspelled word on a previous post and made a correction, not realizing this made the post come up on her readers' lists as a new post. You can go to her Blog for a better explanation. This was my comment to her:
"Thank you for an interesting post - I didn't realize each edit causes a post to appear again and again to our followers as if it is a NEW post. I sometimes find little things in my posts and make corrections. Probably driving my followers crazy, and I didn't even know it. Live and Learn! "
Last month I had a problem with some information not formatting correctly, and the line spacing was all screwed up. They were the posts about the many ages of a woman, the Captain Underpants post, and maybe another one. I had saved that information previously in other programs and was doing a "cut and paste" into my post. Then I added to it, and published.
I have lots of old files of interesting or funny things I've saved through the years. A couple of times when I've purchased a new computer, I saved documents on CD's (before thumb drives, etc.) and have them filed in my desk. One day I was going through some of the old CD's and found things I had forgotten about. I really enjoyed re-reading some of them, they brought back memories of times and places in the past. I decided to use a few of them in those posts.
So, anyway, I was really frustrated, because they looked fine as I was putting them together and then when I'd hit Publish Post and check them, again they were spaced wrong. I didn't know why they were formatted wrong. I'd change the spacing in the edit mode and publish it again.
One of my readers commented that my blog appeared four times, but I didn't realize what she was talking about. Now I know. I thought it was appearing after itself, four times in a row, but now I think she meant she was being notified over and over that I had a new post. And it was the same each time.
So, I guess I should offer my apologies to anyone who has clicked on my blog thinking a new post is ready, only to find the same one they have already read.
I did finally find out later when an "Aha Moment" happened that if you take text that's formatted in a different program, it might look okay, but you have to take the formatting out, and re-format it to fit the program it's going into. Someone I know had some line spacing difficulties on her professional website, and when I figured out why I was having problems, I e-mailed her and she was able to fix her spacing problems, too.
You would think posting something every day would be pretty simple, but I keep learning new things. I guess it's obvious, just not something I thought about, that it would re-post as if its new. I'm going to need to make sure I do all my edits before I hit the Publish Post button. And check it out on "Preview" too!
Do you ever find a misspelling or something you need to change, do an edit and re-publish?
That's it for today. Thanks again, Stargazer. It's always nice to learn something new, especially when it stops me from making the same mistakes in the future. And - sorry for the misspelled word in my comment. : ( I'll have to start using the Preview function there, too!
From Me and My Dog, have a great day, everyone! : )
(Hitting PUBLISH POST now...)
"Thank you for an interesting post - I didn't realize each edit causes a post to appear again and again to our followers as if it is a NEW post. I sometimes find little things in my posts and make corrections. Probably driving my followers crazy, and I didn't even know it. Live and Learn! "
Last month I had a problem with some information not formatting correctly, and the line spacing was all screwed up. They were the posts about the many ages of a woman, the Captain Underpants post, and maybe another one. I had saved that information previously in other programs and was doing a "cut and paste" into my post. Then I added to it, and published.
I have lots of old files of interesting or funny things I've saved through the years. A couple of times when I've purchased a new computer, I saved documents on CD's (before thumb drives, etc.) and have them filed in my desk. One day I was going through some of the old CD's and found things I had forgotten about. I really enjoyed re-reading some of them, they brought back memories of times and places in the past. I decided to use a few of them in those posts.
So, anyway, I was really frustrated, because they looked fine as I was putting them together and then when I'd hit Publish Post and check them, again they were spaced wrong. I didn't know why they were formatted wrong. I'd change the spacing in the edit mode and publish it again.
One of my readers commented that my blog appeared four times, but I didn't realize what she was talking about. Now I know. I thought it was appearing after itself, four times in a row, but now I think she meant she was being notified over and over that I had a new post. And it was the same each time.
So, I guess I should offer my apologies to anyone who has clicked on my blog thinking a new post is ready, only to find the same one they have already read.
I did finally find out later when an "Aha Moment" happened that if you take text that's formatted in a different program, it might look okay, but you have to take the formatting out, and re-format it to fit the program it's going into. Someone I know had some line spacing difficulties on her professional website, and when I figured out why I was having problems, I e-mailed her and she was able to fix her spacing problems, too.
You would think posting something every day would be pretty simple, but I keep learning new things. I guess it's obvious, just not something I thought about, that it would re-post as if its new. I'm going to need to make sure I do all my edits before I hit the Publish Post button. And check it out on "Preview" too!
Do you ever find a misspelling or something you need to change, do an edit and re-publish?
That's it for today. Thanks again, Stargazer. It's always nice to learn something new, especially when it stops me from making the same mistakes in the future. And - sorry for the misspelled word in my comment. : ( I'll have to start using the Preview function there, too!
From Me and My Dog, have a great day, everyone! : )
(Hitting PUBLISH POST now...)
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
5-year-old Little League game
A big WELCOME to Carolyn and cpatinjones, two new Followers who are coming along for the ride with me and Katie on our journey to full-timing. Thanks for your support, and I hope you enjoy reading about our daily goings on.
On Sunday I met up with my son and his three kids, Kennedy - 7, Gavin - 5 and Graydin -1 1/2 at Gavin's Little League game. Tom's wife is out of town, so he was running all day. He fed them breakfast, got them all dressed and took all three kids to church, went back home to change clothes, then off to Gavin's Little League game where I joined everyone. Then after the game, took us all out to lunch in Encinitas, to the Yellow Coyote Tortilla Factory in The Forum. I had the taco salad, and it was fabulous.
After lunch I left them to run my own errands, and Tom took the kids home to change clothes again, then it was time for Kennedy's cheer leading practice. OMG. Now I know why God gives the kids to the young people. After cheer practice, it would be dinner, baths, get ready for bed and school on Monday.
Tom takes it all in stride, but I'm tired just writing about it!
Here are some pics from the Little League Game on Sunday. Remember, Gavin is only 5 years old, he'll be 6 in December. He is an amazing little ball player! It's hard to see the ball in some of the photos, if you click on them, you can see the arrows I've added.
This out was so close, I didn't realize the runner was out until I ran the film clip at home. Gavin said they won the game, but I don't think they keep track of the score. Everyone bats, and most of the kids can't throw or catch well enough to make many outs. Once everyone has their ups, the side is retired.
Everyone gets up each inning. They have a bunch of tries to hit a ball thrown by a coach. If they don't hit it, the T is brought in and they hit from the T. Most of the kids were able to hit a pitched ball, though.
On Sunday I met up with my son and his three kids, Kennedy - 7, Gavin - 5 and Graydin -1 1/2 at Gavin's Little League game. Tom's wife is out of town, so he was running all day. He fed them breakfast, got them all dressed and took all three kids to church, went back home to change clothes, then off to Gavin's Little League game where I joined everyone. Then after the game, took us all out to lunch in Encinitas, to the Yellow Coyote Tortilla Factory in The Forum. I had the taco salad, and it was fabulous.
After lunch I left them to run my own errands, and Tom took the kids home to change clothes again, then it was time for Kennedy's cheer leading practice. OMG. Now I know why God gives the kids to the young people. After cheer practice, it would be dinner, baths, get ready for bed and school on Monday.
Tom takes it all in stride, but I'm tired just writing about it!
Here are some pics from the Little League Game on Sunday. Remember, Gavin is only 5 years old, he'll be 6 in December. He is an amazing little ball player! It's hard to see the ball in some of the photos, if you click on them, you can see the arrows I've added.
Second out.
And another out at first base. This was the second inning, they play three innings.
Running to first base.
The game was really fun to watch. They play a different position each inning. Gavin was Right Field, First Base, then Center Field. I was pretty proud of him!
From Me and My Dog, have a great day, everyone! : )
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