I am going ahead and making a place for Dusty Pages on Blogspot. Just click on that link to check it out. I'll probably make some changes and some additions, but there it is for now.
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Well, Someone Moved My Darn Cheese Again!!
Actually the mood I wanted to choose was "disgruntled".
So, apparently AOL is shutting down journals on November 1st. They have a migration plan to migrate (copy) us over to (probably) Blogger. But we should take precautions and start copying our journals to our own hard drive (or other blog spot) ourselves, just in case.
If this is news to you (as it was to me until I opened my email and saw the furiously fast incoming entry and comment alerts from Magic Smoke), then click on the Magic Smoke link at the top of your journals or check out AOL's People Connection.
I just don't really know what to say. My daughter is very distraught. She just started journaling and is having a lot of fun with it.
I really DON'T like change, but I will deal with it. Vish and Guido have taken the lead in making sure we know how to save our pics and in getting correct information out to us. I keep all my pictures and graphics at Photobucket right now anyway, so I don't have to worry about moving them. I don't know where Eler Beth and I will go right now. If AOL does migrate everyone over to Blogger, then that's probably where we'll stay for a while, at least. But I may just start playing around with Blogspot or some other place right now to decide. I keep all my pictures at Photobucket, so I don't have to worry about moving them. I can tell you this for sure: I will keep in touch with everyone I am usually in touch with in J-Land, and they will know where to find me, and I will know where to find them. We won't have the same type of community we had here, so we're just going to have to re-construct a community as closely resembling J-Land as we can somewhere else.
As we do this, we need to ask for help from others when we have trouble saving or moving something, and if we find that we actually know what we are doing, then we need to share our knowledge and talents with others in J-Land. Magic Smoke is the logical place for all of this, so if you aren't a regular reader of it, I'd suggest you become one.
Please, please, please, if any of you decide to leave AOL completely, then please let your readers (me!) know what your new screenname/email address is.
I'll post a link to my new home as soon as I know what it is. (!!)
Sorry for this bit of jumbled-up thoughts. Can't seem to smooth them down yet.
Saturday, September 27, 2008
Quiet Afternoon
Eler Beth went to The Louisville Zoo with her friend Sarah, and Sarah's parents. She came home with some great pictures, a fox figurine, and the thrill of the Lorikeet Landing experience. Then she went to Sarah's house to play, and is still there as I type.
Andrew is off doing his thing, and Thomas worked for a while, so I had a really nice afternoon at home alone. I didn't really do anything, but I finished my book without interruption. And then in the mail I got two more crime novels that I'd ordered from PaperBackSwap (an organization I dearly love). These are Double Jeopardy by William Bernhardt and The Concrete Blonde by Michael Connelly. I'm pretty sure I've read the Michael Connelly one before, but I'm up for it again. I'm not sure why I've been in the mood for crime fiction, but I have.
I did a few piddly things around the house and made some more homemade meat balls as per Thomas' request. I freecycled a garbage bag full of pears. Seriously! A friend had given us a BUNCH of pears. We ate some and I made a few pints of preserves (most to be given away), and I really didn't want to fool with any more of them. So I put them on freecycle, and half a dozen people emailed me for them within minutes of the offer posting. Let's see. What else did I do today? I took Thomas lunch, and I served as his own personal spell check. When he calls me from work and I see that he's calling from his desk phone and not his cell, 9 times out of 10 I know he's checking with me to see if he's spelling something right. So today every time he called from his desk phone I'd answer, "Hello, spell check here." (Ha Ha, I'm just so funny.)
When Thomas got home we watched The Long Hot Summer, in honor of Paul Newman. I was very saddened to hear he lost his battle with cancer at the age of 83.
Now Thomas is on the phone with his younger brother, and I'm getting ready to go pick up my daughter. I hope that everyone is having a nice weekend. I will try to get by everyone's journal tomorrow. I've been out of the mood for journaling for some reason, but I do want to see how everyone is doing. Oh yes, I heard from Anne after she got home. She left a very nice complimentary comment in the entry I posted about our meeting, so I certainly need to stop by her journal to see if she's made an entry yet. Well, bye for now!
Ten more tunes from my iPod:
1) Into The Great White Open -- Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers
2) Running Scared -- Roy Orbison
3) Must You Throw Dirt In My Face -- The Louvin Brothers
4) Paperback Writer -- The Beatles
5) Rock Around The Clock -- Bill Haley and The Comets
6) Cover Of The Rolling Stone -- Dr. Hook and The Medicine Show
7) I'm Yours -- Jason Mraz (contemporary) {I really, really like this song!}
8) It's Still Rock And Roll To Me -- Billy Joel
9) Only In America -- Jay and The Americans
10) Long Tall Glasses (I Can Dance) -- Leo Sayer
Today's salute goes out to
Ostfold, Norway, population 265,458
4,335 miles from Jeffersonville ~~
Sa-LUTE!!
We've All Been There
A little email meme has been going the rounds of my family. It's one I've seen in J-Land before, the "3s About Me" meme. On the list is "Three Places I Have Been."
Most people put foreign countries they've visited, big cities, or other states, or perhaps an interesting and well-known place like a national park or museum.
My sister P.J., on the other hand, went in a totally different direction with her answer ~~
Three places I have been:
- up the 'creek'
- between a cliff and another cliff
- up the 'creek'
- between a cliff and another cliff
- in deep 'cow manure'
Yes, those are VERY much "P.J.-answers".
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
The Stripped and Shapely Maple Grieves The Ghosts of Her Departed Leaves. . .
. . . The ground is hard, as hard as stone. The year is old, the birds are flown. And yet the world, in its distress, displays a certain lovliness ---- (A Child's Calendar by John Updike)
Thomas took off work the whole weekend, and we (the whole family) spent some time in Indianapolis visiting with friends. We had a great time. Had dinner at Texas Roadhouse Saturday night, and the food and service were great. We also got to catch up with some friends we hadn't seen in a long time, and marvel at how fast kids grow up! We had a wonderful weekend, but I think all four of us were glad to get home Sunday night.
I'm behind reading journals because of being out of town, and then Monday, Tuesday, and even today I just haven't felt like sitting and reading. Hopefully I'll get back in that mode by tomorrow.
Yesterday morning Thomas and I went car shopping. Actually it was SUV shopping. We test drove a Toyota 4-Runner and a Hyundai Santa Fe (both 2004) and liked them both. One was priced right, but Thomas questioned a few things about it, and the salesman started getting antsy, so Thomas passed on that one. The other was a bit high, and they didn't want to come down on it at all. There's no hurry. We can take the time to be picky and shop around a bit more.
Made spaghetti with home made sauce and meatballs tonight, something I haven't made in a while. Eler Beth and I took Clark and the new yellow cockatiel to our friend's pet shop today. She hadn't been introduced to the 'possum yet, and she was rather surprised at how cute Clark is. We wanted her to sex the cockatiel, and it turns out that it is a female. So she has a name now -- Nadia. The big gray one is still rather hard to handle, although he's tamed down some. He is still nameless. He tries to bully the others except Lucy. Lucy keeps him in line.
Not much else is going on here. We're preparing for our annual camporee the first weekend in October. And Andrew is flying down to visit a friend in Florida toward the end of October, and I hope there are no hurricanes forecast for then. And of course deer season is coming up. Busy, busy, busy.
I got in the mood to read some crime fiction, so I'm reading Point Blank by Catherine Coulter. I think that's the only Savitch and Sherlock that I haven't read, and I don't know how I missed it.
Guess that's all for now.
Ten more songs on my iPod:
1) Steady As She Goes -- The Raconteurs
2) Between The Lines -- Sara Bareilles
3) C'est La Vie -- Emerson, Lake & Palmer
4) Anna (Go To Him) -- The Beatles
5) Eight Miles High -- The Byrds
6) Burning Down the House -- Talking Heads
7) For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her -- Simon & Garfunkel
8) Little Red Riding Hood -- Sam The Sham and The Pharoahs
9) Bury Me Under The Weeping Willow -- The Carter Family
10) Fox On The Run -- The Dillards
Today's Salute goes to:
South Bend, Indiana, population 107,789
339 miles from Jeffersonville~~
Sa-LUTE!
National Punctuation Day®
Today is the fifth annual National Punctuation Day®, so I had to do an entry, of course. I decided this entry would be better suited to I Stand Corrected, so please click on the link and drop by to check it out.
And Happy Punctuation Day!!
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Meeting Anne and Vivian
Eler Beth was thrilled to meet Anne of Saturday's Child today. So was I!!
And here you see Anne, Anne's friend Vivian, and ME!
When we got ready to leave today my girl took this picture of me.
Then she told me to take off my glasses.
This is Spring Street looking South toward the Ohio River. We didn't park close to Schimpff's where we were meeting Anne and Vivian because I was afraid I wouldn't be able to park nearer -- I could see that a part of the street was blocked off. Do you like the feather in Eler Beth's hair? She's also wearing her fox earrings and a fox necklace (hand painted on a jasper arrow head).
We were a bit early so we crossed the street and got a picture of Schimpff's. On the left is the store, and the museum part is on the right. And this is where they have part of the street blocked off. (As we stood there a man (in his 50s, maybe) came down the street, talking to himself. He kept pointing at the utility trucks, and when he passed a garbage can he stopped and looked inside, talking the whole time. Eler Beth said, "I think he's another one who talks to the voices in his head.")
If you look closely you can see the little old lady who sits in the window and makes candy. (They let her out sometimes, though.)
We enjoyed our visit. It was very loud in Schimpff's, so after we'd eaten we went down to the little overlook at the river and sat and talked a bit. Next time Anne comes for a visit, I'm going to have to have her and Vivian to our house, so they can meet all Eler Beth's animals, or we'll meet somewhere else for lunch or dinner. I was a bit disappointed with Schimpff's today. I hadn't actually had lunch there for a few years (just go in to get candy or a shake or ice cream), and neither the service nor the food was as good as I'd thought it should be. (But their candy is still excellent.) Anne is wonderful!! She's exactly how she seems in her journal, very classy, funny, and down-to-earth, and her friend Vivian is a classy lady too.
I was very nervous about meeting a fellow J-Lander for the first time. Seriously! Eler Beth and I got to Schimpff's first, and we decided we'd go ahead and order some drinks and get a table. Before we could order I looked up as I heard the door open, and in came a blonde lady with a smile on her face. I said, "I think this is Anne." It looked like she looked straight back to me, as if she knew I'd be there, and raised her hand to wave. So I waved back, and then we met in the middle for a hug. Then I got a hug from Vivian, too. I'm sure Anne knew who I was because of that pretty brown girl at my side.
Anyway it went well, and I'm glad we had the chance to meet in person. I hope she has a safe trip to visit her family in Kentucky, a safe trip back to New Albany, and a safe trip back home.
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