Yes, believe it or not, we are still dealing with computer issues. You know how it is, when they are working, a computer is a wonderful tool to have access to, when they are NOT working, it's enough to drive you around the bend. And, as my husband likes to say, that's a short drive for me. ha!
Well, the second case is what we are dealing with right now. In an effort to be frugal, we took a couple of older computer towers to the computer geeks in town and they loaded all my pics and music from my dying computer onto an external hard drive. At least now all of that info is safely stored. Next they put all my remaining info onto the one older computer they felt was the best choice and we brought it home, hooked it up and turned it on. It's a putz..........barely works...........very annoying........
So, I dragged out the baby laptop(I despise typing on this thing) and that is what I'm going to be using for the next bit of time while we figure out plan B. Grrrrrr......anyway, that is my explanation as to why I have been AWOL for the past few weeks.
I hope all you ladies had a wonderful Mother's Day yesterday. As for me, welllllllllllllll, we picked up the longarm quilting machine Saturday afternoon......after Joel, Jeremy and I did a lot of grunt work moving stuff out of the studio to make enough room for the huge machine. By the time Joel and I got home with the quilter loaded onto the trailer behind the Suburban it was already dinnertime.
Jeremy and Joel brought the machine into the studio, piece by piece. And a short while later it was all leveled and set up and ready for me to try. Whew! But we were all so pooped all we could think about was eating some dinner and crashing. Which we did. Promptly at 9:30.
On Mother's Day, though, I had lots of energy again and spent the better part of the afternoon reacquainting myself with the longarm beauty. It is going to take a lot of practice until I can consider myself even somewhat proficient with this new skill, But it sure is fun to play with!
So, that's what is new here on the Plateau. We are now up to 19 baby chicks and that is all we will have this Spring as the nests are cleaned out once again and the proud new mamas are strutting around the chicken pasture with their babies in tow. It's so cute to watch the babies following their mama and mimicking her behaviors like giving themselves a dust bath, scratching the ground to expose little bugs to nibble on, and pecking around my garden for tasty morsels. They have given us hours of enjoyment watching their antics.
And that's all there is to tell today. I hope to get back to posting pictures next post as I get more used to using the laptop. Meanwhile, there is a mountain of sewing, gardening, planting and housework awaiting me. Sigh......it's good to be useful......I think!
Enjoying the sunny weather,
Debbie
