New toy - maybe

I love this new "thing - a - ma - bobber" but I cannot make it work in gmail! GRRRRRRRRRR!

Anyone out there in Tucscon, AZ?

Hey y'all! There is a fellow blogger, Moonshadow by name, looking for her sister. Last heard from in Tucson, AZ.

All of the details are here. If you can help, or if you can just pass this along, I sure would appreciate it.

Thanks.

Template Giveaway!

Hop on over to Lindsay's for a chance to win one of several prizes, including a free blogger template!

I do not currently have one of her designs but they are just gorgeous. So go on over and enter. You can't win if you don't try and it is absolutely, positively free!

Why I live in this parallel universe.

Before I discovered blogging, I used to read 19 newspapers a day. I read them online. Newspapers from the area where I live, where I used to live, where friends live, where I want to live, etc.

I have been neglecting my news reading since I started getting more involved in the ever-growing circle of blogs that I now read daily.

Today, I wanted to read about the California fires. We have friends and family living in the area. I went to the website for the San Francisco Chronicle. It is the newspaper that, when I was growing up north of San Francisco, we used to get on Sunday mornings on our way home from Mass.

While my political views are no longer exactly mirrored by this publication, it is still a newspaper that I trust.

There was, indeed, a lot of very good coverage on the fire(s).

Then, partway down the front page, were the AP headlines.



AP Headlines
Art Masterpiece Found in Trash
Parents Drown in Water Rescue
6 Elephants Electrocuted in India
Dad Accused of Meth Sippy Cup

I think that instead of reading these stories, I will just pray for all involved and go back to my nice, friendly circle of blogs.

Well, boost my ego!

So here's the deal.

I was feeling a little whiny and yucky and just sort of down this morning. I went to Ree's blog 'cause she always cheers me up.

Then I went to Willowtree's blog for the same reason. WT had a trivia test with it's results posted. I figured what the heck. So I took it. Now I know that I am either a genius or that my head is full of crapola that no one in the real world uses.

Either way, this

Am-I-Dumb.com - Are you dumb?

is a terrific ego booster, so thanks, WT.

our newest blogger

I love digital cameras. I am not very skilled with them but I learned several years ago that if you hand a 4 year old a digital camera, he will be occupied until the battery runs out. We have lots and lots and lots and lots of pictures of the back of the seat in the car. It just doesn't matter. It costs no money to take a digital picture. You don't even have to download every single picture of the back of the seat in the car.

My grandson now asks for my camera often. He actually asks if he can take the camera and "just walk around." If you would like to see what the world looks like to a 7 year old, please check out his blog at www.capturedbycarlo.blogspot.com

I know that I am prejudiced but I swear the child has talent. All his. No retouching, no editing, no guidance.

I am in awe.