Slideshow Troubles

After many, many hours of trying to get my Sideshow to go onto my blog/page correctly and to download not as a posting, I finally made it...It Was Very Frustrating!

I was directed to Picasa by Google, thinking that I just may have stumbled onto a great sight that will do everything easily, but then locating all my pictures from all the different files on my computer was another challenge, then came all the uploading and downloading and organizing the pictures how I wanted them. This was several hours in it's self. When it came to dropping them onto the sight, well...that's when the hair pulling began, and no, the child at my house isn't into blogging, so he wasn't much help, but he tried...Good thing he's going to school this spring.

I finally decide to drop that sight and go to Becky's and Karen's site, where they configured their sideshows. So the picture uploading and downloading started all over again. When it came to the organization of the pictures, well, that went out the window and I decided to select the shuffle pick...but it still wasn't right. Needless to say, my sideshow went in as a posting, not as a set item. So after giving up or taking a break, a quick call went out to Karen to see what I was doing wrong...so back to the computer I came, FINALLY, It Worked! BUT...I now had 2 sideshows of the same pictures...revolving at different times, it was quite interesting, but not what I wanted. With a few more Helps from Google and Blog Spot, the posting was deleted and now my pictures are where I want them.

I hope you'll enjoy watching my children and grandchildren as they grow and as their lives change. I love them more each day...They are my Life...They're why I do what I do.

Blogging Can be Very Frustrating!

Here I am, sitting at my computer for the 4th time today, going in and out of websites, trying to decide what music I want, what pictures or gadgets do I want to add to my Blog...around and around to this and that, saving this, changing that, trying to add pictures to no avail. Some things go right, then other times...SMACK, your stomach drops out from under you. Everything that you just spent 2 hours doing is GONE...What did I do? Where did it go? How can I get it back or can I? Now I have to do it all over again...is it worth it, so family and friends can see my progress, Or do I say, NOPE...I'll settle for what I have...Good Luck to me next time I sit down to do something...or do I swallow my pride, Get on the phone, ask how someone how did they do that cool thing...or by dang just say, I'm going to figure this out...

Needless to say, I can be stubborn at times...So here's to me that I'll get the hang of this blogging real soon. Or it could just be the death of me!

Who Would Have Thought...

Here it is almost mid October; shorter days, longer nights, cold morning temperatures in the mid 20's, daytime highs of 40 or so. Abandoned gardens turning brown and black from the clear cold nights and morning frost, leaving vegetables exposed for deer and scavengers. Tree leaves are turning bold reds, golden yellows and crunchy brown, as they are blown from the trees, drifting to the ground for children to play in. Frosty morning temperatures bring ice layers to vehicle's windshields, glistening with crystals to be scraped off before work. Deer come out of hiding to feed on green grass, rotten apples and abandoned produce, trying to gain weight to prepare themselves for the fast approaching winter. People are exclaiming how Summer was just here and how it feels like winter, where did Autumn go? Hunters anxious for different hunting seasons to open, so they can provide for their families and fill their freezers. Stores are displaying Christmas, Thanksgiving, Halloween paraphernalia before school has hardly started. The years seems to slip away faster and faster each passing year...

YET...I STILL HAVE TO MOW MY LAWN...whoever heard of mowing lawns in mid October, especially in MONTANA! My lawn's as green as it usually is, in the hot summer days of July. Usually by mid September, the mower has been retired until the following spring, which is usually in MAY. I do have to say though, it's been wonderful having such a beautiful yard since we completed installing our underground sprinkler system. (Our greatest accomplishment of the year!) Yet the deer are breaking and ruining my newly planted trees as they rub and rake the branches to rub off the dying velvet from their antlers. Oh if they only knew the cost!

The weathermen have been predicting rain or snow in the valley floors, and how this year could be a long cold, wet winter. The bees must be in agreement, since they're building hives up high, out of the way of snow drifts. Who knows, this year might surpass our winter of 1998 when we received 3 1/2 feet of snow in one night. I guess Arvil and I need to get busy to prepare for winter. Hoses need to be rolled up and put away, bushes need to be cut back and dead flowers cut and thrown away. Sprinkler lines need to be blown out and things put away. Who knows, we may need to have gloves and snow shovels handy soon...but just in case it doesn't snow this week-end. I'LL BE OUT MOWING MY LAWN AGAIN NEXT WEEK!

Blogging World...Here I Come

It just takes my breath away to see how my daughter's and my niece have created their blogs. Some are very professional looking. Now my sister-in-law is starting to get into this, so I thought that it might be fun too.

I thought to myself, "that if my children could do this, I should be able to do it too. I'm only behind them a couple of decades in the technology world, but I'm the older person here. I'm somewhat smart, I should be able to figure out the computer and what the sites telling me to do, Right. It should only take me a few hours...well maybe 5 or 6".

I'll see how long I can keep up with blogging and make it interesting. It may last a couple days or maybe a week or two...maybe I'll even surprise myself. I'll start slow for now, since I sit at a computer all day long, the computer at home is sometimes the last place I want to go to when I'm home.

I'm sure it will be a while before I'm up to the level that my children are at. I have already realized that I need to somehow save/store my pictures better on the computer and that I don't have very many photos of me...I guess I'm usually behind the camera.

Wish me luck!