Me And Dollie Too

Playing in Photoshop

2009-07-10T14:45:00.000-07:00

I was playing in photoshop. I wanted to resize a photo ands keep it clear, no blurring. I got out my photoshop book and started playing with a pic of Chanacey that I took at Scott and Kristen's wedding party. It had turned out kinda wierd looking but I still liked it.

This is the results:

Then he preceeded to tell me how to change the pics without having to start over. Just by changing a few things and a couple of clicks, I had the pic of Scott instead of Chanacey without having to start from the beginning. It took about 15 seconds to make the changes. Pretty neat HUH?

I should have taken the pic of Scott into photoshop and played around with it a bit, but to late now.

The Deer

2009-05-28T21:46:00.000-07:00

The other day I went for a walk and as I rounded the corner of this old building on the property I was walking on, I almost ran right smack into 4 deer out enjoying a nice dinner until I interrupted them. I think I scared them as much as they did me. I just happened to have my camera with me so I wouldn't be so bored walking by myself and I would have a reason to stop and rest more often. Of course I had the wrong lens on my camera, so I went running for home (well maybe a fast walk) to change the lens, then headed out again to stalk the deer. When I got back they had started to move up the hill.

This one was taken before I changed my lens.

Look a human.

I took these after chasing them up the hill.

Oh no! she's back.

Honey! I have an itch on my leg, will you get that for me?

I have an itch too.

Wait, I gotta go pee.

Excuuuse me!

I'm so embarrased.

Damn! she's still there.

What are we going to do? She won't go away.

I'm outta of here.

Saving the Bird Nest

2009-04-04T18:59:00.000-07:00

Last Friday I had to go to work. It was cold and rainy, but we had to save the bird nest. It seems that an Osprey had decided to build a new home on top of a highline power poll. It was right smack in the middle of 2 insulators, which is needless to say a very bad spot to build a new home. There is a great danger to the bird and could also cause a lot of people to be out of power, if the bird is unlucky enough to get caught in the hot wires. Instant grilled bird and a loss of power. The power company set out to save the day, it was a major production. Line truck, giant crane, jumper wires, 4 guys and 2 flaggers set out to save the day for the said Osprey.

The guys took a special platform, made just for this reason, out and preceded to put it up on top of the pole. Boy did we have 2 pissed off birds, they were flying all around and swooping in and out and chattering at the top of there lungs trying to scare the guys away, little did they know it was all for there on good.

After they finished putting up the platform, they moved the nest to the top of it. Then cleaned out the mess in between the insulators and all was well. They were happy and the birds were pleased with the new home.

PS the birds had already returned with more twigs and were busy building again before we left.

My pics are straight out of the camera, so I hope you can see the details.

My New Banner

2008-12-14T21:04:00.000-08:00

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

2008-11-15T11:52:00.000-08:00

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

2008-10-29T10:55:00.000-07:00

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!

2008-08-21T13:37:00.000-07:00

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

2008-07-06T21:33:00.000-07:00

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

2008-04-09T15:34:00.000-07:00

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

2008-02-24T09:30:00.000-08:00

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

2008-01-06T19:34:00.000-08:00

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

A Few More Pics - Same effect

2007-11-18T15:20:00.001-08:00

I was playing with a few more of my pics using the same filter.

CS2

2007-11-18T11:41:00.000-08:00

I have been busy playing with Photoshop CS2. I bought a book that tells you how to do things step by step. Is is the Photoshop CS2 book for digital photographers, and I think it is great. Helps me out a lot because I love trying to do different things with my photos instead of just using the original shot.

Here are a couple I have played with.

The first one I burned the edges, that gave the pic the black effect around the edges. It was also very foggy when I took this photo.

These I used Creating Drama with a Soft Spotlight. It focuses on 1 part of the photo, then darkens the rest. I thought it was cool.

This my Ladybug. I took this this summer while picking my green beans.

This was one of my many Roses that I have every summer.

Road Trip

2007-11-16T07:36:00.000-08:00

Now mind you I have driven Interstate 5 both ways mannny times and have seen mannny road signs. You know, Mt Ashland, Canyon Creek, Days Creek, Hayes Hill and so on. Now there is this one that has a unique name, I have passed it mannny a time and never thought a thing about it, but as I was heading up the interstate going to the work site about a month ago, it just jumped out at me. I asked Teri if she had ever noticed the mile post number before, of course she said no. I don't know if every state has mile post signs or not, but as I said this sign just jumped out at me, I guess I should pay more attention as I drive, I am usually talking and singing along with the music. OK OK the name on the sign said Sexton Mt Pass, which I had seen before, but had never paid any attention to the mile post number on same said sign. Anyway who names a Mountain Sexton? Someone in Oregon did. Well this is a pictue of the sign I took the last time I drove over Sexton Mt Pass.

Cowinkie dink or not. You decide, but I hope you get a good laugh out of it.

Closer view

I Am So Mad!

2007-10-31T19:32:00.000-07:00

I don't know if you watch Dancing with the Stars or not, but after last nights results show there are a lot of unhappy or happy people out there. The Best Dancer on the whole entire show just got voted off.

Sabrina was the best dancer there and should have won the whole thing but somehow the people did not like her. They kept saying things like, she's a Pro and should not be allowed in the contest, or she's a choregrapher because of here connection with the Cheetah Girls. These same people kept saying she was fat and cocky. I think most of them were just jealous. These same people did not think that Mario was a pro, because they thought he was sexy, from what I understand he had a lot of dance training. These same people didn't think Joey Fatone was a pro even with all his dance experience with the Back Street Boys. These same people don't think Jane Seymor is a pro, but she had 16 years of Ballet lessons when she was younger and wanted to become a Ballerina. They just don't like Marie Osmond because she's Marie Osmond and she is also fat. They don't like Cameron either, they say he can't act or dance. I don't know who they like because if you read the message boards, they don't like anyone.

Everyone says they are through watching for this year because it is either rigged or they don't like the judges or who is left to dance.
They thought that either Jane, Marie or Cameron should have been voted off last night and I agree. I don't think anyone was more suprised that she was not the one to go last night than Marie, I thought she was going to faint again when they told her she was safe.

I don't know who I will vote for now, because the best is gone. I guess I'll just keep voting for Marie and see how much longer she can hang in there and really piss THESE PEOPLE that think that they are dance experts off.

You go MARIE! Keep hanging in there and I'll keep voting for you.

Still Hanging In There

2007-09-15T08:32:00.000-07:00

Well, I'm still hanging in there. I must lead the most boring life of anyone I know. You guys have so much going on and so much to write about. OK so I am going to tell you what exciting things I did this past week.

#1 and top of the list, well this is not what I did but BOB is working out of town for a month or so and I don't have to worry about cleaning or cooking except on weekends. WOOOOO HOOOOO, WOOOOO HOOOOO, WOOOOO HOOOO. Now don't get me wrong, I Love my husband but it is so peaceful and quite around here when he is gone that I don't know what else to do or say except WOOOOO HOOOOO, WOOOOO HOOOOO, WOOOOO HOOOOO.

#2 -- I decided I would do some deep cleaning. I cleaned out the freezer and frig. Then I decided to wash my bottles and faux plants on top of my cabinets. Well that lasted about a half of the day. Enough of that, there had to be something better to do, but I don't know what. So I'm just hanging in there and not doing much of anything.

#3 -- I bought me a GPS system for my car, so I thought I would go for a spin to see how well it worked. Boy does that woman get pissed when you don't follow her directions. I was intentionly ignoring her directions to see what would happen and she would say make a U turn as soon as it is safe or recalulating and fine me a new route, but I did end up back where I was supposed to be with her initial directions.
She gets a little pushy and I found myself telling her to shut up and give me time to make a right or left turn, I need to get to the intersection first. OK OK I know it's her job to do this but give me a break woman.

#4 -- I picked Tomatoes and other Veggies and delivered them to my senior neighbors, am I not the best. They sure are enjoying my garden, but it's about all gone now except for a few Maters.

#5 -- Last but not least I ended up taking pics of Millie just sleepng up a storm, which is what she does most of the time any more. My poor baby is getting so old and crippled up. Bob says if she doesn't quit peeing and pooping everywhere he's going to make a one way trip to the Vet and guess who won't be coming back, but I think he knows that if he does that he will also be making a one way trip to the cemetary. She is bad, but she's my baby and I have to clean up after her and him too. So there.

There, that is about all the excitment I could handle for the week so I want bore you anymore.

Until next time. SEE YA!

A Day At The Beach

2007-08-16T10:57:00.000-07:00

Well it started out as a Beautiful day, we were heading to the Beach to go camping. First we had to stop by the grocery store to pick up a few extras. We pull into the parking lot, got out, leaving Millie Dog in the moter home. Well I guess Millie did not like being left alone, so she says "hummm" I'll fix my Momma and Poppa, I'll just take a DUMP while they are gone. Well she did and what a mess, smelled to high heaven and enough to gag a maggot. After I finally got her and everything else cleaned up, we proceeded to the Coast.

We arrived at the Beach around noon, got everthing set up, Bob decides to go surf fishing.

I decided to go take some pics of all the STARFISH everyone says that are just hanging around on the rocks. So off I go, Camera in hand. The first thing I encounter is this Lovely Starfish Condo

After the Condo, I find a couple of Starfish just hangin out.

OOOO, this water is cold.

I'm just Hangin Out

Next I encounter a couple of Starfish sun tanning and the green Monster.

A little more shade please

I really needed this.

It's not fun being green

After I spent the rest of the afternoon taking Fifty Bezillion pictures of Starfish and Green Monsters, there was this perfect ending to a Wonderful Day of play. I captured this BEAUTIFUL Sunset.

PERFECT ENDING TO A PERFECT DAY.

Salsa Salsa Salsa

2007-08-08T13:06:00.000-07:00

Well my day started off at 7:00am. In the kitchen 2 buckets of TOMATOES waited patiently for me.

After I spent 3hrs blanching and peeling tomatoes.

I spent another hour madly chopping the onions, peppers, green onions, garlic and cliantro. Then happily mixed all the ingredients together, gradually adding the salt, pepper, lemon juice, white vinegar and tomato paste, stirring until everything was melded together. I then took the pot of SALSA and carefully placed it on the stove and cooked it for at least 1/2 hour. As I am cooking the SALSA I get all my jars and lids ready. I then carefully ladle the SALSA into hot jars and seal. Then into a hot water bath for at least 45 mins.

Then VOILA I have 11 pints of SALSA.

Kathy this is for you, here is a pic of your Uncle Jere as a Tomato.

Playing Again

2007-07-29T18:46:00.000-07:00

Click to play | Make your own Smilebox

I took this pic last night. I thought it was pretty neat. Kinda looks like a Halloween Moon showing through the trees. What do you think?

Catch Me If You Can

2007-07-09T17:07:00.000-07:00

HA HA, catch me if you can. I'm here and you can't get that camera focused fast enough to catch me. I think I might just have a bite to eat and tease you some more. Yea that's right put that camera down and I'll come back for some more of that great sugar water and you still can't get me. I think I might just take a short break and rest here on the clothes line.

Color Banner

2007-07-08T23:35:00.000-07:00

Here is a color banner, using same pics as before.

Banner

2007-07-08T20:28:00.000-07:00

Hi, I'm back.
I just wanted to say a few words about my new Banner, hence the name.... Me And Dollie Too
This is the first Banner that I have created using some pics of Porclain Dolls I have made. I had a heck of a time but here it is.

I had to join a PSP group again and start from scratch. I have not played with PSP much lately. so I forgot how to do anything. Boy did I feel dumb. I did a lot of deleting and starting over, but that EDIT button is a PSP'ers best friend and I got to know it up close and personal, but I kinda like the results somewhat. I spent my whole afternoon messing with this thing. I plan to try it again soon, using different pics and leaving them in color and see what happens.
Well, what do you think?

I am A Smores

2007-07-08T10:59:00.000-07:00

You Are Smores

Unusual and unconventional, you make your strange ways work for you.
You've got personality - no one's denying that!

What Dessert Are You Most Like?

This is so true.

Just Saying HI!

2007-07-04T21:39:00.000-07:00

Hi,
My name is Linda and I just wanted to stop by and introduce myself to everyone. I lead a very BORING life in Rogue River, OR. I am also not very good at writing exciting or interesting stories about what I do or why I do certain things.
I just bought a new Canon Rebel Camera,(HAPPY BIRTHDAY from ME to ME) so I have been very busy taking pictures of every flower in my yard and trying to capture a couple of Bumble Bees, but they just will not sit still and pose for me. I finally got tired of the flowers and bees, so I went out searching for other things to photograph, like the River, the Dam and some more flowers. I have taken so many pictures of my poor Dog she barks at me when I pick up the camera or she tries to sit on my feet because she is afraid of the flash.
I have also taken some pictures of my latest creation, my cute baby girl. Her name is Hannah Rose. I am so pleased with the results. She's all dressed up with no place to go.
I flag traffic so I can have extra molah to buy myself camera's and play with my Dollies. Two things my Mother always told as a child was not to play in the middle of the Street and get in out of the Rain, so what do I do for a living, (you got it) play in the rain in the middle of the street and dodge cars all day.
I am new at this so I am going to try and post a couple of pics, but your guess is as good as mine if I will succeed at this. Here goes nothing.