My neighbors are pigs!

 
When I say my neighbors are pigs -- I really mean hogs!

Coco was cold!

 

This is a photo from the other day --- when it was really cold in the house. Coco actually let me put a lightweight blanket on her -- never usually sleeps with anything on her. She's my good old girl --

Describe this one for me somebody?

 

This is one of my sister's items -- trying to list it and she's no help. It's absolutely gorgeous -- heavy for 'just' a Christmas ornament, no markings on it at all. BTW, the blue on the top -- it belongs to something else that was hanging behind it.

So, any words for the ornament, I'd appreciate it.

My weekly commercial

This DSL is amazing

Well after almost a week on DSL, I am duly impressed. If someone tells me I have to go back to dial-up next week I swear I will just sit down and cry.

It's taken some adjusting. I've gotten so used to dial-up that I click to do something and then get up to get something, do something, whatever -- knowing that it will take 'x' number of minutes for the task to be accomplished online. Now -- wow, can't even do anything else - it's instant. WHAT A CONCEPT!

So, I've been visiting pogo.com -- relearned Canasta. So much fun. In addition I haven't had working speakers or soundboard for a year -- no need since there isn't anything I could really do with them. Now I can hear all kinds of stuff!

That brings me to youtube.com. My goodness -- that's dangerously addictive. Of course I'm so nerdy and boring that I don't look at anything of the really weird stuff I've heard is out there -- I put together a playlist of performers singing MAMBO ITALIANO. Now, does that prove my previous point about being nerdy and boring or what? But two of my favorite singers of all time are Dean Martin and Rosemary Clooney and they each have a great rendition of this songs that I just love to listen to. Since I'm not ipod ready -- it's nice having it on the computer to queue up any time I want to.

Now I've seen others link a youtube video to the blog post, but that is definately for another day. For today, I've got another post under my belt. I doubt anyone is reading them yet. But, writing is first, reading is second. Am I writing to be read -- or just to write? Don't know yet.

This blog is definately a work in progress.

A day of FIRSTS!

I just sat down to write my very first blog -- right after I installed DSL for the very first time. Timing seems good, doesn't it?

I have been on the internet for a couple of decades now - back when I was afraid every time I touched the computer in fear it would explode or something -- when to move the tower you had to lock the hard drive (remember that) and flex your muscles since it was quite heavy, when compuserve and prodigy were the only choice out there, and compuserve was not easy to use -- and boy do I miss those forums. And since that time I have always been on dial up. First, because it was all there was and then, when better was available, I always lived too remotely to get anything I could afford.

So, today I stepped up to DSL - thanks to my sister giving me DSL for a year for my birthday. Thanks Sis!

MY GOODNESS! I don't know what I thought it would be -- but this is even faster than I hoped for.

Next is pogo.com to see how playing cribbage is on DSL -- cuz on dial-up it's just almost impossible.

I feel like a kid in the candy store!

And so begins my blogging experience. I'm sure it will be bumpy, and I'm sure I'll make some mistakes -- and of course I still have to figure out what I'm blogging about. But for today? I'm having fun!

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