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By setting a date that is a month or so away, we have time to sort through what we’ve got and convert paper photographs to digital. If anyone doesn’t know how to do that, we can share tips here. I think you can have photos scanned at most places that develop film. Or you might have a friend with a scanner.
I’m thinking that we would have a main diary that holds links to the Display Diaries. That main diary would be the one we would want recommended.
And each of the display diaries would have maybe 20 photographs (with a bar linking that page to all the other pages). The photos should be at the main comment level. But comments could be made under each one.
After we reach the max size for a page would we want a poll to vote on the favorite photo for that page? Would we want a best of show? Best of various categories? Would it make sense to have pages focusing on categories of photographs — if so, what categories
Would we want to allow for slightly larger photographs just for the fair? Do we want to define any other standards for the display of the photographs?
Take a moment to vote for the weekend that is best for you!
I know it’s not fair to drop this and run, but I’ve got to go for just a little while.
I’ll be back very soon — let’s talk about the fair!
Thanks to all who stopped by the Jazz Jam and made it such a great party! A few die hards are still going at it…
Good morning!
thank you for coming up with the idea, and hosting. I beleive you are correct, it was a hit, and hopefully the music spots will continue on Fri night..KUDOS
Today we go looking at land for sale. Yippee! What fun!
Looking for farm land in the age of the internet has some interesting twists: We find listings via a local MLS site and also for sale by owner in the local newspaper.
We use mapquest to see where the property is and how far it lies from Hubby’s work. Anything within 30 miles is okay altho we would prefer to be closer. Thing is: farther away generally means cheaper and bigger.
Next, we use google map’s satellite feature to look at the property. You can usually see the exact property lines quite easily and any bordering farms or subdivisions. If it looks good, we’ll take a better, clearer look with the images available at TerraServer.com.
Then, Hubby fires up Topozone software to look at the lay of the land, check for high tension power lines nearby and any creeks or ponds along the property line.
Finally, we actually get in our car and drive out to look at it. Today we’re checking out 4 prospective properties. If nothing else, it’s a pleasant day’s drive in the country.
This sounds like the best project. I would love to live a little way out in the country. Please tell us about it when you get back?
And Hubby looks like he was mauled by a bear. We get to this one property that has a narrow neck leading down to what the real estate agent described as a level, open 8 acres. So, he says to me, stay in the car. Off he goes hiking downhill thru dense undergrowth, with a camera, a compass and a cell phone.
Bout 15 minutes later, I get a psychic alert that Hubby is hurting badly. I check my cell phone and sure enough, we’re in a dead zone; Hubby can’t call for help. I sit in the car and decide to wait another 15 minutes. If he wasn’t out of the woods by then, I planned on going to the nearest house and asking for help. 12 minutes later, I see him in the side mirror, staggering up the road toward the car.
He gets in the passenger seat and bellows, “Drive. Home. Now,” while I take in the fact that he’s dripping blood from multiple cuts and abrasions on his hands and arms. He’s being all macho, of course, ex-Marine Vietnam vet that he is. But his hands are trembling so, I stop the car, drag a bag of snacks from the back seat and hand him a bottle of orange juice. He downs it and the color starts returning to his face.
Down at the bottom of the hill was a huge debris hurdle of felled scrub pines and brambles. So he thought he could just jump up on one of the bigger logs and stride over the heap. Um, WRONG! He slipped and fell into the thorny heap and had to fight his way out.
Lessons learned: Next time, we go together, carry a back pack of survivalist gear… and a machete.
Before this mishap, we saw one parcel of land that looks exactly like what we’re looking for but it’s 22 acres and more than we can afford. Now, if a couple of you folks want to form a Green Dragon Farm, LLC with us we could start ourselves an intentional community…
while your out, you might try something that has been rewarding for me over the years in property searching.
When your done with your schedule, then just look around, and take the next backroad you see, and follow it, when you come to a fork in the road, let your instinct be your guide, or flip a coind, and go for it. You may be surprised in what you’ll find.
One other thing I have found, when you see an ol’ farmer around, stop and visit a while, usually they can give some very good insight on local property.
Enjoy, and Good Luck…
Absolutely, we’ve done this. Gone up and down and around back roads until we got ourselves dizzy. Mainly looking for For Sale signs. But a couple of times, we’ve come upon an ideal fallow field that seemed to be at the edge of some larger property and we noted the GPS location and the road number as near as we could discern.
If, after looking at all available properties, we don’t find what we want I will head to the county courthouse and determine the owners of these fields. Then, Hubby can approach them with cash in hand about the time they are contemplating how they will pay their tax bill this year. This approach will be a last resort in November if we can’t find what we want by more conventional means.
We’ve already talked to a few old farmers at the market and elsewhere and find that we are in competition with subdivision developers who are offering way more than the land is worth because they intend to put McMansions on it. We’ve seen this happen at both of the auctions we attended — a run-down farm sells for twice what it’s worth because the buyer is going to tear it down, put up a row of spec houses and make millions.
I understand, it’s happening all over, but don’t give up, you may find what I did, a person who dislikes the developers as much as you 😉 then, you’ll have your land….
good luck, be safe, and peace
I wish I could spend the majority of my days lazing around the house.
I’ve got his income.
Now to tackle that lounging part!
Well then you should be doing very well because most of my income goes to him and his sister. 🙂 He only allows me to have enough to myself to pay for the roof over our heads.
Good morning everyone. Thank god its the weekend. I am always super busy the first of the month and this week was noe exception. I would like to ask all of you to light a candle today for Cindy Sheehan and groups marching out to Dubya’s ranch in Crawford to ask him questions about this illegal occupation in Iraq. If you are unaware who Cindy is, she lost her son in Iraq and still hasn’t gotten a straight answer from the military just how he died. She also testified along with Joe WIlson, McGovern, retired CIA and the organizer of DSM.com before the dem senators/congresspeople in the basement of the capitol in June. She is our voice and let us all at least join her in Crawford in spirit.
Thank you for letting us know about this. I wonder if anyone in the media will mention it?
if at all, it would be on the “left” side of the dial ; )
May I please have a coffee Jameson and a quick peruse of:
and where’s that copy of
* The Boston Strobe?
Newspapers are in their regular spot next to the door
Unless someone else is already reading it!
Einstein said this would happen. Will try to catch up. You see I ordered at 3:40 in the afternoon, and you delivered sometime Saturday morning…. this is a big problem. And that’s why I focus so much on the past….. if you see what I mean.
LOL…good drinking requires prior planning ; )
The thing about ice is that it melts. In a perfect world the drink would be ordered in my present, delivered in my past, and the ice would arrive in my future….
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/1203
has media contacts to request coverage. Starts in an hour.
just filling out surveys?
Or, as one of the other google ads promises, over $250 an hour?
Should I really be afraid to click on those ads?
I’m always suspicious when I see more ads for schools to do something than I see help wanted ads for the jobs themselves, and I’m seeing it in all kinds of activities.
Does booman have any control over the google ads here?
I was too early-morning groggy to realize you were talking about a site ad. I generally don’t like to poke my nose into such matters.
Good Morning from the wild lands of California, how is everyone today. It seems forever since I ‘wrote’ with you all. lol
I always have to play catch up when I get up in the California morning, you guys are already talking up a storm.
SJCT I am so happy to hear that you are happy and busy looking for land.
Aloha I am with you on the Cindy Sheehan thing and will light a candle today for her and for all our men in Iraq!
Hi Infidel, Katiebird, Suskind, MLK and everyone else, too numerous to mention, I hope you all will have a great weekend. Any special plans anyone has?
good mawn’n lady.
no special plans here, other than trying to stay somewhat dry. rain’n, and going to for the next week…
outside of that, just watch’n fur them ol’ gator’s…heh heh heh
We might run off for a week or so — might leave tomorrow morning. Might not leave at all!
From a Jack Elam character (Elam was a perennial ragged looking bad guy in TV and movie westerns).
Asked in one show if he’d had a rough nite:
“Night was easy. Gettin’ over it’s the hard part.”
‘Mornin’ all. Another sleepy clear blue
–whoa! Somebody just stacked a chunk of mist on the hill next door. Look at this–it’ll help mentally cool your summer swelters a little:
The faintly deeper blue at lower left, above the tree, is the Olympic Mountains obscured by marine haze. One of the things I most love about maritime climates, from Puget to New England, Scotland and some times of year the Great Lakes, is the inclination for tufts of mist and fog to show up seemingly anywhere any time.
The best scene I never videotaped was in a sleepy fishing & tourist village in the coastl Scottish Highlands just north of the Eilleann a Cheo (The Misty Isle: Skye) called Shieldaig. I swear it was son-of-Brigadoon-and-Local-Hero.
We were honeymooning and we drove into the village in late morning. There was absolutely nothing happening. A row of white stone houses on one side of a curving road faced a small bay sheltered by an island a few hundred yards off the stony beach. It was cold by any American standards south of Alaska, but several young skimpily clad girls were sunning on the beach below the roadside breakwall.
We parked and walked around a cafe and chippie shop but although doors were open nobody was immediately visible. I swear to God, just behind us came half a dozen sheep doing the same thing, peeking into shops and strolling along.
Out in the bay there were cotton-balls of mist resting in spots on the water, one of them up against the little island. We heard several little kids giggling and laughing from the direction of the mist.
A small sailboat motoring bare-poled poked out of one of the cotton balls. “Do it again daddy!” the little voices cried. The boat turned around and burrowed back into the cotton ball. Giggle-giggle-giggle.
Mrs. Gooserock would have filed for citizenship on the spot if there’d been so much as a garden hand job available for a foreigner.
Thank you for your once again glorious picture and commentary.
I always feel much cooler after your pics.
Have a great day, you and everyone!!!!
And last night, I talked the spouse into the Northwest for our Big Trip next year, combined with an Alaska cruise! I’ve cruised to Alaska twice…he’s never been on a cruise ship before. We’re looking at probably mid-July; the weather’s decent then, and there’s still the long days up in the Inside Passage (that’s the time of year I’ve cruised there before).
Now I can start thinking of some ideas…I’d like to spend a few days in Portland visiting my niece and great-niece, and maybe some time in Spokane to see the spouse’s uncles while they’re still around (he’s lost both his aunts in the last couple of years). Geez, haven’t even got the Southern Cal trip done, and I’m thinking about the next one!
Early risers, the lot of you…juice, coffee and checkin’ on some of my fav webcam sites…
Here’s HOME…
and here’s Where I’d rather be
Have a good one
Later
Peace
ohhh! I’d take either one, quite happily.
mmm, I don’t know bro, about the alternative place there…if the bugs are that big…we’d be dinner ; )
you suppose that’s a NeoCon Bug….eeeeeekkkkksss
Fishing up there is really great…Glacier is ,IMHO, the most pristine of the Nat’l Parks…amazing bald eagle watching area.
Camping and fishing for dinner…pure relaxation.
Canoe recommended
Peace
Hi, Katiebird. The photo fair is a wonderful idea, considering the great amateur photogs we have around here. But then, that’s easy for me to say, since all I’ll be is Ms Click ‘n’ View.
Maybe we need a Sign-Up Sheet to find out how much interest there is??
Great idea! For the evening bar, I’ll post a “I have photos to display” / “I don’t have photos to display, but I like to watch” / “I’m not interested in this project at all” poll.
If anyone can think of other categories or poll ideas, I’ll work them in also.
Keep it simple and open…
People
Places
and other Things…
Also, anyone who is a “pro” should state so…not meant to be exclusive, just would like to make it comfortable for everyone to contribute. Great idea BTW, Kudos.
Peace
are there going to be other kinds of art fairs?
I’ll be one of those “I don’t have photos to display, but I’d like to watch” folks. Even if I had photos, I still can’t figure out how to display them. But here’s my “photo description” for today.
I live in a nice quiet neighborhood in St. Paul. Today the temps are perfect, the humidity is low and the sun is shinning. I have a small backyard with a nice patio that sits under one of the few very old elm trees that have survived in the neighborhood. Its trunk is probably at least 6 feet in diameter and the branches cover all of my backyard and at least half of my neighbors on either side. This morning I’m sitting under its beautiful shade having wonderful conversation with all of you lovely people. How could life get any better!!
I normally don’t infringe on others bandwidth, but RenaRF @ MLW has posted the most informative and usefull HTML 101 primer that I’ve ever seen…
HTML 101
Check it out, join up, and say thanks, and post away…
MSOC, if your listening, I hope this is ok…
Peace
Thanks tons for the link. It really does break it down well for us tech dummies. I’m still having trouble, so even with these basics, I may be so slow that I need someone sitting beside me saying “Now type this….” But once I get it – watch out – it might just release a linking monster and you’ll all be sorry for the support you’ve given to me so generously.
We decided to stay home today — got too much stuff to do to go out and play. We’re heading back to SF on Monday anyway (I’ve got some workshops to attend at the SF Apple Store), so I can do some non-cruise ship photography, and if the spouse is back to work in 10 days (crossing fingers), I can head up to SF on my own for when the ship comes back for another round.
The photography contest sounds great! Just a reminder — September 3-4 is Labor Day Weekend, so many of our Tribbers (including yours truly) will be out and about (or as the Canadians might say, oot and aboot) and unable to participate. Not sure what I’ll have to contribute, but I really want to participate if I can!
Okay, time to get to work…will check back in later! 🙂
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