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Wow I’ve been having technology adventures! I talked about the printer already, or maybe I have yet to. Then there’s the phone. I had to switch to Verizon, and my Galaxy A11 wasn’t compatible. Long story and a couple hundred bucks in fees for the new free phone, I guess it’s all settled down now,…

My mother would let us pick our birthday cake. My sister always had Bonbon Ribbon Torte (layers of thin cookie with raspberry sauce and whipped cream), my brother liked pineapple upside down cake, and I wanted chocolate chip cake. The recipe was something my sister clipped out of a magazine back in the 60s. Here…

I had a butterfly apron I couldn’t use for an apron because I don’t like the shape. I was waiting for some use for the butterflies as motifs. Finally, the first use! Patching a hole in a screen. I zigzagged around the butterfly, then tacked it to the screen by hand. When the sun comes…

Testing, testing. Welcome to WordPress. This is WP on JANEL. Here’s an image from WP’s cool new free images thingie “Openverse”, complete with an attribution which makes it look like I can be bothered. Yep, that’s me kinda, hehe Kind reproducing after kind, is that even allowed these days? It’s a lovely, wholesome concept from…

Messing around with WordPress and having SO MUCH FUN! I was recently upgraded while I wasn’t watching (AFK for a while but automatic updates had been left on) to version 6.1 and wouldn’t be all that happy about it except that I’m a WP fan and therefore enthusiastic about whatever they do. Full site editing…

I’m moving all the posts from my old website to this one. These were mostly miscellanea I uploaded for testing. Isn’t this the perfect pinecone? Freshly fallen, nicely rounded, light color brown. I love pine trees. It’s been so long since I was among them! Just those stupid boring Douglas firs on the other side.…

What on earth caused this? Who could have poked these holes in our water jug? Maybe a woodpecker? I couldn’t imagine any dog that could reach up that high and make just those two distinct holes without any damage from the other teeth.  We puzzled over it for a while, then looked at the other side…

Last time I walked down to that Little Free Library, I had a pile to donate and I wasn’t intending to pick anything up. But then there was this. “The Wisdom of the West” compiled by Criswell Freeman. I opened it and found several pertinent sayings and thought I ought to try to remember them.…