Evening all: Good turnout at the march today, although here in California (and especially Santa Barbara) protesters are mostly preaching to the choir. We heard short but good speeches from some young people and teachers from local schools and colleges. It's great to see young people so energized. Those kids from the Florida high school have really started something. Lots of calls for voting preregistration as many of them will vote for the first time in 2020.
Lindybird: Hope the baby pigeons survive this year.
Clare: Some beautiful markings on that bird. Congrats on finally spotting it.
Very springlike here today; must get into the garden tomorrow: The weeds are feeling entirely too self-confident and I have some salvia to plant while the soil is still nice and damp.
Hope things are better with Forestboar..... Also that OG has a good ride back from the festivities.
Take care everyone.
OG- what on earth is a database?!!!!!
I got myself a Thingy -
It was the latest kind.
No cheapo copy, no, it was the very Latest, mind!
I turned it on, and it went "beep" -
The lights all started flashing.
I pressed some buttons, moved some levers,
Then I started bashing!
The noises which it made were strange:
Most of them were a mystery
I decided, then, that this machine
Would very soon be history....
I fiddled, pushed and stopped it then
I swore, and up it started again!
It's in the bin, now -
Useless still, and no one can explain
Why it won't go anymore,
or indeed
What the heck the darned thing's for!
Brilliant Lindy -I think we have all experienced these symptoms at some time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Morning all:
AQ: Oh my - the silo art is wonderful. I followed the link to the Silo Art trail - a unique canvas and such a creative way to showcase the people and the life of the region. They have silos in the US Midwest, but I don't recall ever seeing or reading about anything like that. Ah, now a cheese factory turned into a church sounds more like it (wonder if there was any cheese left over to go with the wine....)
Diane: :-)
Lindybird: I see you haven't lost your touch! I upgraded my iPhone (not the latest or even the previous two latests) and was amazed at how it was activated. I started the "activate" process on the new phone (after backing up the old phone) and got an immediate instruction that "if you have a phone with OS-11.? (I think), put it beside the new phone and follow instructions." So I did. The new phone then showed a blue circle with a swirling image (think milky way) and then indicated I should pick up my old phone (which was now displaying a white circle) and focus the white circle (using the camera) on the blue swirling image on the new phone. I have NO idea what it was doing, but the phones started communicating - exactly what, I don't know. Seriously amazing to watch. It took a few more steps, accomplished with the help of granddaughter's techy friend, who had to set up a hot spot on his brand new iPhone because the house WiFi was so slow (all this while Ms. D's birthday party going on). Still, mission accomplished. I was gobsmacked by the whole thing... Who are the people who come up with this stuff!? 13-year-olds no doubt.
Clare: Thanks for the News from the Nests.
Off to sort out the world....
ANNETTE- talk about swirling images- my brain was swirling as I tried to imagine you setting up the new phone!
A quiet day today - fell asleep three times! Have just prepared the masters for reproducing the church newsletter. Hopes of garden time tomorrow. Enjoy Easter when it arrives, everyone; I think J intends going onto the Castle Motte (by the river) for the early service Easter Morning.
Ospreys Rule OK, but Goldfinches come a close second!
OG- the same wishes for Easter from here.
Happy Easter, OG and family, and of course, Everyone on here.
AQ - I forgot to say how much I enjoyed your pics, especially the wonderful, wonderful bits of artwork on the silos -- I've never seen anything so brilliant on that scale before. You must have had a really good day out.
A busy day, broken up by various phone calls and visits for my OH on his special day. Other sis in law came around, with her dog Mabel, so she immediately set to with Bonnie, and the dogs had a good wrestling session. A discussion between us was inevitable, over the horror of Awful Cousins visit being impending, and how evasive action can be taken! We enjoyed a piece of fillet steak tonight, with onions & mushrooms, and managed to find room afterwards for a slice of "Millionaires Chocolate Cheesecake' which was just as decadent as it sounds! Now my OH is asleep again!
Annette - I know what you mean, modern technology is galloping on ahead of us. I was fairly confident at first, having taken a course in office use of a pc in the early days, but now they're so sophisticated. I don't even cope with a smartphone and my pc is largely a mystery.
Electronic thingies? When I started work, sez she in a quavering voice, our computer filled the whole room.
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Glad you like our silo art. SA’s second is at Kimba on Eyre Peninsula.
A third silo is being painted at Tumby Bay. It will feature children jumping off the jetty.