Survey problems...

Well, I tried another company, but couldn't get the link machine herein to accept it. Then I started tinkering and the whole thing went to Toledo...better try again later after more practice and research...sigh...meanwhile, here are some amazing flowers from a succulent that went mad on my deck...

Survey sez...

My first survey, from SurveyMonkey, says nothing....The to-be-pasted URL wasn't complete, or some such, and there was no response from their Help line. Can you recommend a better company?

Disgruntled, ~your blogger, who also lost an old Calico feline friend yesterday. Now Widgie's under the apple tree. :(

By Way of Bloggy Explanation....

While the title of this blog may seem a bit ambiguous at first glance, especially when the focus for a couple of "pages" is on current times, I hope the theme of pets and nature and friends and CONNECTIONS stays afloat for my readers. The blog seems to display differently at different times, and not just by the choice of month on the right side....

Why Blogger displays only a set number of pictures at a time, during "one scroll" which can only be changed by switching to another archived month, I haven't been able to discern yet. For example, one of my favorite sequences, that of our haying adventures with our friends on their ranch, seems to just fall out completely when I manually switch from month to month, then reappear at other times (!?).

Ah well, the "obstinacy of inanimate objects" as my father used to say....I'm reading the Blog Help Blog and Help Lines, so one of these days answers (or the inevitable blank wall) will solve all...thanks for your patience and feel free to ask me anytime what the heck is going on, or to make suggestions of any sort!

Cheers, ~Kathi, your blogger who's going to take a few days' break pretty soon and go play OUTSIDE!!

Jack helps with the blogging & other useful info

This is our rambunctious blind teenager who runs the household. This morning he hopped up behind me, perhaps the better to hear hubby's fiddle practicing.

At Ronni Bennett's Elderblogger site, she has a feature asking bloggers to send a photo of the actual site of the journalers' cyber crimes.

Guess this will be mine until I can relocate back upstairs to my own computer in my office. But it's more fun and closer to the action down here!

The site I'm visiting in the photo is called "The Instructables" and is a rather hysterical listing of dozens of sorts of tongue-in-cheek and realistic inventions you can DIY, if you dare.

Hmmm..are blog titles underlined or in quotation marks!?! (Check with the helpful online grammar folks.)

The Wonderful World of Bloggers, Revisited

Howdy again...

I've spent the last few days romping around the Internet, after a long hiatus, and it's been rich with content for this young retiree who's reaching out for online inspiration from her very rural perch in far northern CA.

I've been especially interested in blogs: by and about midlife women, and those sharing extensively about altered art, collages, assemblages and other crafts. (Ceramics, too.)

I see that new web tools and new sites abound! When I get up to speed on some blogging skills again, I hope to join the flow. Meanwhile, best wishes on your endeavors. What do you love to do? What blogging tools are indispensible to showcase your interests and share online?

If you've landed here, feel free to share any topics or sites that may be interestingly related!

Thanks, ~Kathi