storing pictures

With the new digital camera comes the problem of how to store your pictures. At first I stored them on the hard drive of my computer . Then came a memory card. Then burn them onto a CD.
Now I'm in the process of trying other ways. I'm looking at buying a portable hard drive like 500mb. But want my pictures in two different places in case one fails. So I'm looking into online storage too. But don't want the whole world to see them so it must be somewhere private.

Im testing a online site right now. So this picture is from the site so lets see how it works.

Remember the picture a month or so ago of my old hat that I wore when i first started work.

ok till next time

Old Victoria and Vancouver

Here is a video that was sent to me from my brother in law he found on you tube. It is a newsreel of visiting Victoria and Vancouver in 1936. It interesting to see the inner harbour without the walk way below. And no welcome to Victoria on the grass. Even Butchard gardens is still recognizable but still it is different. Enjoy it and tell me in the comments what you thought about it. It is just over 9 min long.

OK till next time

new email

Well now that I am retired, I have to have a new email. So what best way to do that than just put an x in front of my old one. Now if you don't know the old one it would be hard for you to figure it out. So to fool the bots on here that scan for emails I will decode it but you should be able to figure it out. I know your smart readers. But if you cant leave a comment and ill get back to you with it. Ok are you ready here it is

x
postie at
shaw
dot
ca

ok you got it figured out. just type it the way it sounds.

ok till next time

Now finally I know what its all about

Well finally I know what it is all about. The names in the song that is. Remember the song We didn't start the fire by Billy Joel. If you are like me you know a lot of the things mentioned but can never keep up with the lyrics. Now someone has done the work for you. This guy must have spent lots of hours getting all the pictures to bring the song to life.

It was sent to me by a friend , So now here is the link , Sit back turn up the sound and enjoy the song and the sights.

http://home.uchicago.edu/~yli5/Flash/Fire.html

Hope you enjoyed it. till next time

And Suddenly...

And suddenly there was pain. Last Friday I did a few jobs around the house, nothing too taxing. Then later in the day a bit of tightness in my back. Saturday and Sunday it was still a bit tight. Then on Monday morning a lot of PAIN.

It hurt a lot to bend over at all. and Sitting in my relaxing chair was painful. It wasn't too bad if i stood up or layed down.

Tuesday was a bit better was able to go out and about but sitting down and putting on my shoes and socks were impossible.

Today better still but socks and shoes are still out.
This afternoon its even better but haven't done any shoes on by myself yet. I went for coffee and had a good walk which wasn't too bad . But had to get my wife to put my shoes on and off for me

I'm hoping tomorrow is much better. Man you never know when something is gonna affect your everyday life. Hopefully this is the end of it as I'm not sure I really did anything that would cause it . I'm guessing it is some kind of virus or something.

anyway chat soon

Now that the rain stopped

Well after a week of solid rain. Places flooding and not able to do the things around the house that need to be done. The rain stopped for a few hours today. I had a couple of jobs I wanted done.

The first was to fix a tap that was installed at the bottom of our driveway that was run over a few months ago. It needed to be dug up the casing needed to be straightened and now that winter is coming it needed to be shut off. With all the rain it was kinda flooded in the casing so the job was messier than i thought. Got that done and then the neighbour asked me to help him move a dead deer from his lawn. I guess it either had gotten sick and died or hit by a car. Well we dealt with that.

Then on the deer theme I finished off a mesh box over my wife's heather plants so the deer don't eat the tops in Jan and Feb. third one Ive done so far , I think about 3 more to go. Using left over wood from the old front porch.

Well just in time when I finished it started raining again. Good timing. Well haven't missed working in the rain and its great to be able to wait till it finishes to start to work .

ok later

Lost a good friend

A regular subscriber to my blog past away almost a week ago. She went by the name of Wml and commented on lots of my blogs. She was involved heavily in our church and did many of busy things for the church and the community in general.

This picture is of her little dog. when she posted in the comment section this little picture always showed up. Doesn't that make you smile. She had a whole wardrobe for her dog. It was a Chinese hairless dog. It had some hair but very little on the body. I guess that's why all the clothes.

Anyway Wml is in a better place now as a Christian she can be assured of her place in heaven. 2 Corinthians 5:8 reads

Yes, we are fully confident, and we would rather be away from these earthly bodies, for then we will be at home with the Lord (NLT)


Wml. Good job your rewards await you , thanks for being a good friend.

ok till next time