My New Banner

How do like my new Banner?
I don't think I am going to leave it this way, but I could not find the pictures that I used in the other one. They seem to have gotten lost somewhere in computer land. I guess I am going to have to schedule a new photo session if everyone is not busy.
I'm not sure I like this one at all, so check again soon for more changes.

Early Christmas Present

Hi Guys'

I just wanted to show you my Early Christmas Present from Robert.

I was working on my old computer and the moniter went out, yes the new one Bob got me for Christmas before. Well it croaked, so I went looking for a new one or to get that one fixed. They said it would cost at least 100.00 to fix it. That being said I just decided to buy a new moniter. Well I bought a new one and as I was heading to the check out stand I saw this new HP computer. It was an HP Touchsmart and very compact, kinda like the IMac. I found their sell paper and it was on sell, so of course I took the paper home with me and showed it to Bob. He looked at it for awhile and said if you want it, go back to the store and get it, I was out the door before he could change his mind. I also had to take the moniter back and get MY money back.

This is a very smart machine and it has so many easy ways to do things. You can use the wireless mouse or use the touch screen. It also has a wireless keyboard. You can also hook the computer up to wireless if you have all the right connections, I have wireless for my laptop, but I haven't tried hooking this up to wireless yet. I love the scroll system, it sure makes finding photos easy, you can view photos by year, month, or date. You can also look at all the pics on your computer at once using the scroll or view screen. You can also move things around in the touch screen by touch drag and drop, you can put your favs on top so they are easier to find and the others at the bottom of the page and still be able to scroll through them.

Here are a couple pics, I had to use their stock photos because I could not get any good ones of my own.

Robert's New Toy

Robert just had to have this new TOY, it's a Kubota RTV 500.

He bought it to take hunting, which he does so much of and to go scooting around in the hills.

He also said we could take it to the beach and ride around in the sand, we'll see.

We Did It!

Now Now Now

Get your mind out of the gutter, it's not what you are thinking.


WE DID IT!


WE DID IT!


WE FINALLY DID IT!


AND BOY DOES IT FEEL GOOD.


You want to know what we finally did.?


OK OK


WE FINALLY PAID OFF OUR HOUSE.



No more monthly payments to GMAC.


IT'S ALL OURS NOW, FREE AND CLEAR

WOO HOO

See you later when I find something good to write about.

WOO HOO AGAIN

SEE YA,
Linda

My New Toy

This is my new toy.





It is an HP Photosmart A610 series portable printer. You can print out 4x6 or 5x7 photos. This is the cutest little printer I have ever seen. It is about 10 inches long, 5 inches tall and about 5 inches deep. My sister had one and of course I had to have too. I bought mine off of Ebay, I got it for half price, because I bought a store display, it has a couple of scratches but other than that is looks and works fine.

I got the brainy idea and installed it on my laptop, because I could not figure out how to print from my laptop without hooking everything up to the main computer. Now I can take it anywhere I take my laptop and print out photos as long as I have electricity. You can also buy a battery for it, but the battery cost almost as much as I paid for the printer. I will have to wait a little while for that.

Side View



Top View

Update

Sorry but I don't have much to say right now. I have had a pretty rough month.

First off my dog Millie died.


Then I got the Flu and didn't do much of anything except cough and feel really rotten.


But now things are starting to look up a little. I am going to Arizona, will be visiting with my brother Jere a couple of days, I am also going to my son Scott's wedding. Kathy and Rick are coming out from Illinois for the wedding and afterward we are going to doing a little bit of sight seeing. Then back home and back to work.

See Ya
Linda

Eclipse

Did you guys watch the Eclipse the other night? Well I did and it was Beautiful for about the first hour. I tried to take pictures, but as usual trying to take a pic of the moon and get it to turn out good is a task. I guess you have to have a big fancy camera and a lens the size of the moon its self. I tried everything that I could to get a decent pic but to no avail. I put my camera on my tripod, used a remote control, tried 3 different smaller lens, and a super telephoto zoom lens ( couldn't see a darn thing through this lens) maybe they don't work at night, I don't know. Any way this is the best I could get.

/20/2008 Lunnar Eclipse





Her is another pic I took of the moon back in January. It was about 7:15 am. I saw this moon setting when I was taking Millie dog out to do her morning thing. I had to run back and grab my camera before it was gone. I thought it was so pretty.


This is the moon setting behind the hill across the street from my house.

A Day At The Office

Friday 01/04/2008 started out just as any other day at work, with the exception that it was pouring down rain. I mean Cats and Dog style raining.
I was on my way to work and my cell phone rings, it was Shawn (our boss) looking for Robert. He had me turn around, go back to the house to let Robert know he needed him for some storm work in Northern California.
After I told Robert, I proceeded on my way to work and of course the power company was also on storm work. Teri and I were put on standby until they needed flaggers, in other words we just had to hang out until they needed us. We hung around the office for awhile until they sent us out to set up signs and wait for a crew to show up and fix the lines that were down. We waited and waited, finally our crew shows up, only to tell us to hang tight for at least another hour. They had to go somewhere else and fix a line that was down further up the road that didn't need flaggers, so we waited and waited again. Finally they called and said they were on the way back to where we were, only to get another call a few minutes later to say they were trapped on the other side of a low lying bridge and could not get back across because the water had risen to high and was moving to fast to try and get back across. Another crew was on it's way to fix the still downed line, mind you about 4 hours had passed since we had showed up to fix the downed power line. You guessed it we were told to hang tight again.

Teri and I got tired of waiting so we went to my house and got my camera so we could take some pictures of the guys that had gotten trapped, by this time we were laughing our butts off because it was starting to get ridiculous as to how long we had been out at this one address to fix the wires that were down and reconnect a transformer. Once the guys finally showed up it took only about 1/2 hr to fix the problem. Needless to say we got paid for 8 hrs for a 1/2 hr of work.

I took a couple pictures to show you how fast the water was rushing across the bridge the guys had to come back across, and of course Teri and I had to get in the pictures.

The trucks and the water.



A couple pics of the water.





Me



Teri