Do I Have It?

photo mosaic of our puppet show

Guess not. Try again.

mosaic

The thing that’s most interesting about this exercise in futility is that I’ve learned to first look at the address to find out where I am. The address that they give me to link my mosaic does not look like any other address I’ve ever seen. It starts 1. <a href

Have a thought: mosaic

Well, that was interesting. It gave me the first photo in the set, and then I could view the whole set, separately or as a slide show. Well, that mosaic isn’t all that great, anyway. I think I’ll try something else on this thing. Whatever thing it is. Oh my, I think I’m stuck on thing 12.

So, looked through all the other possibilities- I need to know them, but do I have to do them? Yes, of course! The only other interesting thing was the avatar. But, I’ll tell you what. What an interesting way to spend your time. Thinking about your possibilities. I was about to say what a dumb way to spend your time. But possibilities. Is that all that’s left to people? I’ve been reading the news too much.

I can see having fun with that with kids. That’s the time to dream about your future. But, I must say, with all my back problems (gone we hope), I saw myself as a skier. How else do you get there?

Now, I wish to object. There was no ballet dancer as a possibility. And I must admit, I’m as gray as I am blonde. Honesty finished, can I move on to the next thing?

I can’t believe it’s snowing. And, even more, I can’t believe I’m complaining about it. I love it when it snows – but this year the snow is so high that the sheep just walk over the fence. So, we blocked off half the barnyard because the guys are so pushy at meal time that they are getting fat. Gotta separate them from the girls. This third try might be successful.

I ought to be keeping a separate sheep blog, but too many sites, too many passwords. Too many compartments. I’m a whole me.

Don’t Worry, Mara

Don’t worry, Mara, I’m still here. I’m just a little (lot) overwhemled by March. First, there’s getting ready for Town Meeting, then there’s the AfterSchool Adventures program and planning for spring break and the summer reading program. But, MOST IMPORTANTLY, I’ve always believed that the only possible time to leave home is March. And so we will. Destination- Florence, Quince Terre and Venice. I’ll take my camera, now that it’s a light, little digital. (I, the daughter of a photographer and photofinisher gave up taking my camera for many years, and brought my sketchbook instead. These myspace places can allow me to do both. We’ll see what happens this time.

Get ready for all that and doing the 23 Things pales in comparison. I have finished preparing photos for my mosaic, but somehow I’m too tired to deal with the next step right now. I will, I’ll just be behind by a few weeks, and rarin’ to go, I expect, when I come home in April with three more weeks to go to lambing.

Oh, lambing. The sweetest time of the year. There’s nothing better than going down to the barn in the early morning and hearing that “mother-grunt”. And there stands that newborn lamb, doing exactly what a newborn lamb needs to do to stay alive. I carry the lamb into the barn and mama follows. I give her sweet hay and molasses and they fall in love with each other. There’s not a better way to start the day.

So, I warn you Mara, I’ll take a break about the end of April, too.

Starting on Thing 12

Poking around the possibilities, I came across a place that makes your photos into a collage, among other things. So I’m preparing photos. Meanwhile, I’ve sent out an invitation to the trustees to look at my MySpace page. One trustee sent back a message -” I don’t want to go there.”

Well, I don’t blame her. I’ve looked at some other stuff on there and I wonder…Do I want to go there? But, it’s what you want to make of it. I want to make a useful tool, and I want to communicate with patrons and parents. So, I’ll keep looking for the best way to do that.

And, I’ll find a place that Judith wants to go.

This has become a journal- that’s why I’m so obsessed with  it.

WOW

At this point, I don’t quite remember what thing 11 is, but I have my eye on MY prize. I’m going to get a little slide show up there. And it’s working, slowly but surely.

Of course, it’s not exactly what I had in mind. It looks very public to me, and yet I had in mind to restrict it to friends. (But the pictures are so small and of such poor resolution that I hope I won’t get in too much trouble. Although, this is a class, and I should hold myself to the highest standards.)

Also, it’s very incomplete. I hope I can edit it, as I realize what I’ve left out. (Wait, Cathi, you don’t need all 295 pictures in there.) So, I next have to prepare photos for the web. That will take a while. Nothing is quite as easy as it seems.

But, mostly, I feel like I’ve come out of my stuckness.

Does this means I have to start on AVATARS now? Is 12 coming soon? Now what?

No matter what the date stamp says, it’s March 5, Wednesday, about 11:30 and I’m going to sleep now.