• Craft

    A Little More Progress

    April 17, 2012 /

    Remember this…my work in progress… There has been a little progress…my project sitting on top of the yarn in one of my little Ikea baskets.  I guess I could have tidied up the yarn a bit before I took this.  😐 Moving right along….although I would have had a little more completed if I didn’t have to pull a few rows out.  It is what happens when you try and crochet late at night when you are sleepy.  🙂

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  • Outside My Window

    Outside My Window ~ 4.15.2012

    April 15, 2012 /

    Outside my window…is dark and fairly late.  It is about 10:40 in the evening after a very warm day today.  Currently we are at 73°F with a forecast low of 63°F.  Tomorrow is going to feel like August with a high of 86°F…yes, 86°F!  Sunshine and wind will accompany those extremely high temperatures.  I wonder if that will set a record….seems awful warm for the middle of April.  Tuesday has a forecast of 80°F with sunshine. Our high this time of year is typically around 68°F.  I’m not so excited about weather this warm this early.  Fortunately it will dip back down into the 60’s on Wednesday with a chance…

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  • Life In General

    Last One

    April 13, 2012 /

    Well, it appears that I not only double backed up some things…but tripled or even quadrupled backups ~ and I’m just dealing with one external and my internal hard drive, haven’t even looked at the other external hard drive.  😐  I guess I wanted to be sure I backed things up….obsessively sure apparently.  The thing….I don’t remember saving some of the stuff I’m discovering.  I’m using a few of these to help me in my quest…. Groan…this is going to take forever…but this will be my last rant about my mess.

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  • Life In General

    Oleander

    April 12, 2012 /

    I’m still trying to free up some space on my hard drives….a tedious task.  Could by why I have put it off until I “must” do it.  I took a lot of photographs this afternoon at my mom’s house….and then it dawned on me that I really can’t download them until I get some files moves around.  Sigh.  😐 On the bright side….I ran across this image.   It was after the storm that wasn’t a named tropical storm but probably should have been while I was in Florida. While walking around after the storm, I found a small branch of an oleander tree on the pier near their house….a victim…

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  • Life In General

    Cleaning house….so to say…

    April 11, 2012 /

    The red lines have appeared…time to clean house. Photographs use a large portion of the hard drives…all three of them.  It is a disheartening to delete or move around a bunch of things only to see a small amount of space free up.  Sigh….I fear this will be taking quite a bit of my time….I would much rather work on images and designs.  😐  

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  • Photography

    Certifiable….

    April 10, 2012 /

    …but not mentally.  Well, maybe I could be that too…but in this instance I’m talking about my quest to become a Certified Professional Photographer.   I will be required to pass a comprehensive written exam that will measure my technical expertise.  I will also have to submit my work to a panel of judges for review and approval ~ gulp!  😯 I have taken the first step to obtaining the certification by obtaining the suggested textbook I need to study for the written exam.  They don’t just ask about apertures and shutter speeds….you need to know much more than that.   I was fortunate to find a used copy online at an…

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