New Tree

You may remember that we had to take down the magnificent 92 foot tall tulip poplar tree in front of our house a couple of years ago. It was our last tree of the five that we had when we moved here. Tornadoes and Hurricane Ike did bad things to them and we took them down, each in turn.

This year the lilac bush is gone as it was rotting inside. The bush on the west edge of our yard may not have survived the vicious winter. The verdict is still out on that one. Which pretty much leaves our yard denuded. We still have a young rose of Sharon bush and a couple of bridal veil bushes, but they are set way back on the property. Also the dogs will have no place to rest in the shade in the summer.

So we decided to get rid of the satellite dish that we haven't been using for over a year now. (I'm sick of mowing around it anyway.)

 

And since the hole was already available, we went out and found a tree that won't endanger the power lines, but will be big enough to cast a little shade.

 

 

Thanks for visiting with me,

 

Kathi



 

A Walk in the ... Cemetery

There are a lot of dogs in our neighborhood and not all of them are fenced. When we take the dogs out for a walk, we like to drive about a mile or so to the big cemetery in town and take a lap there. It's about a mile around the outside of the cemetery and many optional routes through and around. The paths are all blacktopped so we stay mostly clean and dry while the dogs sniff all the spots they wish. It's a well-used dog walk and jogging place and really rather pretty.

 

 

The dogs love coming here and I appreciate not having to worry about loose dogs or being run over in the streets. Today it was busy. We met several walkers and another dog.

Thanks for visiting with me,

 

Kathi

Last Project of the Season (I Hope)

 

 My pastor gets cold when he fasts during Lent. This year he asked me to make him an afghan like this because it is a particularly warm type of stitch. I took it to the church today and dropped it off. There's not much of Lent left, but I did the best I could.

 

Thanks for visiting with me,

 

Kathi

Recent Projects

 

All given away.

 

The hats went to my coworker who shaved her head for St. Baldrick's Children's Hospital.

 

I'm on my last crochet project before I hang up my hooks for a while. Now that I have the capacity and ability to upload my books to Kindle Digital Publishing, I'm trying to spend more time on my writings. I've written (or nearly finished) many manuscripts that ache to be put out in public. I finished and published two last week while I was on vacation. I would have finished more except the local hideous cold that's going around laid me out for most of the week. It's a wonder I got anything done.

 

Anyway, I'm back on the trail - a pun tied to my most recent effort - "When I Was Your Age...": How Things Change - hoping to finish at least one more this weekend.

 

 

Here's the link to my Amazon author page: https://www.amazon.com/author/kathilinz

 

Thanks for visiting with me,

 

Kathi

 

Northern People, Spring Is Coming

And here are the pictures to prove it:

 

Trees blooming

 

Tulips coming up

 

 

Even my hay bale garden is sprouting. I'm growing more hay so far, the bales need more conditioning before I plant my vegetables.

 

Thanks for visiting with me.

 

Kathi

 

 

A Simple Solution

I have a Kodak camera. As you know, Kodak no longer functions as a company. When my laptop crashed back a ways, my camera stopped talking to my computer, so I couldn't download any photos to the laptop. The photo program still worked on the desktop, so I would download over there and email the pictures to myself to move them to the laptop. I can't blog on the desktop unless I run Google Chrome - which I prefer not to do.

Then the word came down about Windows XP being at risk. That pretty much turns our desktop computer into a word processor.

It eventually occurred to me that I would not have any place to download my photos and I would have to get a new camera. So I went to Walmart on my usual shopping expedition yesterday. I checked out the various cameras and picked out a couple that I would be willing to pay for. A lady came over to help me. I was about to tell her which ones I wanted to look at and I started by saying, "I have a perfectly fine camera which still works, but it's Kodak and won't talk to my computer."

She stopped me almost in midsentence and said, "I have an adapter for your memory card. You'll be able to send your pictures directly into the computer."

It works beautifully and I saved about a hundred bucks.  Cool!!

Thanks for visiting with me,

Kathi