Hmmm. So much for that theory. I decided to give it one more try and voila! it worked.
Sunday, August 2, 2009
Sunday, August 2, 2009.
I have so much trouble trying to blog and I think I have finlly figured out that it is because I have to run Internet Explorer with no add-ons so I can't add any pictures. That, in turn, makes blogging pretty boring to me. That, in turn, makes me not care if I blog. All sounds very negative although I don't mean to be. Just the way it is for now.
I can report that I am making progress on eating bananas with black spots. Doing much better. I was somewhat put to shame when Isaac told me that he likes bananas best when they only have a few yellow spots on them.
I think I just lost a pretty good friend of about 20 years because I asked her to not send me any of her political email any more. I think I was so basically disappointed in her that it ended up being disturbing. The last thing I got was a carciature of Obama in native African garb with a bone through his nose. I have been simply deleting her email for a long time but for some reason looked at this one. It was upsetting enough to me that I asked her to take me off of her mass email list which she responded to by telling me that she never sends me any political email that is not true. Can someone really get to my age and believe that?
I have so much trouble trying to blog and I think I have finlly figured out that it is because I have to run Internet Explorer with no add-ons so I can't add any pictures. That, in turn, makes blogging pretty boring to me. That, in turn, makes me not care if I blog. All sounds very negative although I don't mean to be. Just the way it is for now.
I can report that I am making progress on eating bananas with black spots. Doing much better. I was somewhat put to shame when Isaac told me that he likes bananas best when they only have a few yellow spots on them.
I think I just lost a pretty good friend of about 20 years because I asked her to not send me any of her political email any more. I think I was so basically disappointed in her that it ended up being disturbing. The last thing I got was a carciature of Obama in native African garb with a bone through his nose. I have been simply deleting her email for a long time but for some reason looked at this one. It was upsetting enough to me that I asked her to take me off of her mass email list which she responded to by telling me that she never sends me any political email that is not true. Can someone really get to my age and believe that?
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
On the Road
July 15, 2009
Am at the Holiday Inn in Tonawanda, NY, right by Niagara Falls. This is actually the town where Al's mother was born 89 years ago. Left City Island at about 7:30A this morning and was here about 4PM. It really was a nice drive, not a lot of traffic until I got very close to here and the weather was beautiful.
A Holiday Inn is a Holiday Inn but all I am doing is sleeping and will be on my way in the morning.
Wireless internet access is great but I just can never figure out how to send email out. I can get it but I cannot send it out. I am sure it has something to do with some setting buried somewhere.
I also can't get images/pictures into this blog. Can download them and all but then it just shuts down.
Am at the Holiday Inn in Tonawanda, NY, right by Niagara Falls. This is actually the town where Al's mother was born 89 years ago. Left City Island at about 7:30A this morning and was here about 4PM. It really was a nice drive, not a lot of traffic until I got very close to here and the weather was beautiful.
A Holiday Inn is a Holiday Inn but all I am doing is sleeping and will be on my way in the morning.
Wireless internet access is great but I just can never figure out how to send email out. I can get it but I cannot send it out. I am sure it has something to do with some setting buried somewhere.
I also can't get images/pictures into this blog. Can download them and all but then it just shuts down.
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Travel
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Leaving for Michigan tomorrow. Staying in Niagara Falls one night and then off to my sister's for one night. Up to Paradise, MI for two nights, Mackinaw City for one night. Back to my sister's to stay at her friends and take care of their dog for four nights and then back to my sister's for two nights, off to Syracuse for one night and back home. Who dreamt up this crazy trip? I called my brother-in-law today to try to figure out in my head about clothes. What was I thinking? I was asking someone who wears shorts outside in January to feed the deer?
One of these times when I go through Niagara Falls I may actually stop and look at the falls. I think the last time I saw them was when I got married in 1968 and we were driving through from Saginaw to Syracuse NY. Actually I may have been there once since then.
Leaving for Michigan tomorrow. Staying in Niagara Falls one night and then off to my sister's for one night. Up to Paradise, MI for two nights, Mackinaw City for one night. Back to my sister's to stay at her friends and take care of their dog for four nights and then back to my sister's for two nights, off to Syracuse for one night and back home. Who dreamt up this crazy trip? I called my brother-in-law today to try to figure out in my head about clothes. What was I thinking? I was asking someone who wears shorts outside in January to feed the deer?
One of these times when I go through Niagara Falls I may actually stop and look at the falls. I think the last time I saw them was when I got married in 1968 and we were driving through from Saginaw to Syracuse NY. Actually I may have been there once since then.
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
July 7, 2009
So many conflicting emotions about this man. Yet I sit here riveted to the TV watching the memorial service. Right now I would be happier if there was more music and fewer long winded speakers. This story is sooo far from over and we are only going to hear sadder and sadder things about all of it. Financial issues, court cases, his children, his family. I think we will see a lot of his final rehearsals for his comeback tour. So many pictures of him. Has anyone ever been so photographed as he has? Has anyone else ever had so very many different looks?
When I was a kid my family spent the week of the Fourth of July on Crooked Lake in Michigan where my grandparents had a summer home. Every year since then I find myself spending so much time thinking about those days. It was an idyllic time. We swam, ate outside, boated, watched fireworks. I don't remember a single bad thing about any of it except that I was afraid to go into the woods behind the house on the other side of the road. Sometimes I would be a big girl and walk about three feet into the scary woods.
Such a good, good book. Three more chapters. Just learned yesterday that this was Stieg Larsson's first book and that there are two more books written by him, may or may not be the same main characters, etc. This young man commited suicide after the third book was finished.
Saturday, July 4, 2009
July 4, 2009
What a beautiful day! The weather was perfect and there were so many reminders of what a wonderful thing it is to be an American. Tonight there was a knock on my door and one of the neighbors invited me over for a barbecue. Another one of our neighbors joined us and we ate skirt steaks, broccoli and potato salad. Drank a lot of wine and had cake for desert. It was one of those evenings that just happened. Then about 9PM we started seeing fireworks going off all around us in the sky. It was amazing. I have never seen that many serious fireworks going off right here in the neighborhood.
Still a good book but I am only about half way through it. Have too many other things going on to read much.
I have wanted to knit or crochet a shawl for quite a while and I finally found a very pretty pattern and someone to make it for. I am thrilled so I bought yarn yesterday and started it today. It is going to be sooo pretty.
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Two months and more....
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
One gets easily caught up in Twitter, Facebook, etc. and two people have asked me in the last few days what has happened to my blogging? Almost everyday I have had it on my list of "things to do today" and then it has been moved to the next day. That is what has happened to it, exactly.
It seems like there is a lot going on.
We had a visit from Uncle Nick. He was on his way to his summer "home" up on Cape Cod, passing through NY. It was good to have him here for five days and we managed to do quite a bit with him. Will see him again in October when he is on his way back to Florida.
Liz was in Utah for a week at the Best Friends Sanctuary volunteering to take care of the cats and dogs there. I admire her a lot for giving up her vacation time to do something like this. So many animals there and so very many with sad, sad stories. But now they are living in a wonderful place and it almost seems being adopted is a step back. Well, not really.
My yard is in good shape this summer. The hydrangeas
are particularly impressive right now. I was worried they were not going to make it, that I had perhaps pruned them too much but they are looking better than ever.
Let's see. Yankees vs. the Mariners tonight at the Stadium. Weather forecast calling for thunderstorms, hail, high winds. Hail? Hale? Why doesn't that seem right?
A good book. Started reading it and it was going slowly the first couple of chapters. Was going to quit--life's too short. But it definitely picked up after that and now I am enjoying it.
Have been spending hours and hours and hours writing a newsletter for the Shelter and a lot of people got a really bad email this time around so I am getting pretty beaten up for it. So little of it was my fault. Hey! What part of V-O-L-U-N-T-E-E-R don't you get?
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