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Hey everyone.  My apologies.  I have to experiment again, and to get a hyperlink, I have to publish these “attempts.”  You’ll probably get  a couple of emails notifying you about these posts, and you’ll want to ignore them until I get this up and running correctly.

OK, this sized photo worked better to fit in a social group discussion panel, but is too small to read unless you have disturbing eyesight.  For those of you interested in posting images from your blog to another site, you can do it, but you have to right click on the media (once it has been published) or get the code by viewing it as html.  Then, you will need to find the html img code.  You can copy and paste it and your link will then work. 

Hmmm.  As I read this, it could appear like complete jibberish to those readers who have no idea what this is all about.  Anyway, I wanted you all to know, I am 75% closer to being able to post my cartoons – without adjusting them to the point that they are unreadable.  After all, you saw the cartoon.  That’s progress.  Now, I only have to overcome you being able to read it!

For those of you more tech savvy than me, especially the ones wondering why the left side of the cartoon is bluish, it is because I photographed it and input it that way.  I thought that would give me less heartburn than trying to resize a Quark file.  Anyway, enough cyber talk.  If any of  you have suggestions on how I can load these cartoons in an easier fashion, please comment as soon as possible, as I’m banging my head on the wall until I get this figured out!

Hey everyone, please be patient.  In all likelihood, you will not be able to read the text bubbles of this cartoon, but I vowed the cartoon strip would get posted somehow within the next two weeks.  So, please bear with me as I experiment to see how these will appear.

This post follows “Slipforming, part 11 – Top 10 reasons to build a rock house.”  For a complete list of links to all slipforming posts on this blog, click here.  For more comical posts, click here.

Rock work is pretty unforgiving.  While I advocate in favor of having a flexible plan, I do not advocate having an inflexible (and regretable) remedy. 

First, let me clarify – this photo is not of my house.  It is one of the few that adorn the landscape near where I live.  This photo shows a remodel project where the owner decided against the placement of the front door, instead opting to try to “blend” in the doorway with matching rock work at some later point in time.  (more…)

*At the urging of several friends, I have designed plans for this food storage rack.  If you would like to purchase these plans for $6.00, click the Buy Now icon below.  The advantage of this is that you will not have to guess about how much lumber, or how each piece is cut, and you will have a much easier time putting it together than I did.

I would like to thank the special lady who allowed me to view the food rack that her father built for her.  I adjusted it slightly and built a food rack of my own from looking at her rack and am posting the idea here to help others as she graciously helped us.

My husband, Ken, calls it the Mormon can museum – a tribute to Mormon food storage.  Though neither of us are Mormon, we  have a lot of friends who are Mormon and many adhere to the philosophy of storing a year’s worth of food.  I loved the idea of having some extra foods stocked away, especially since we have suffered lay-offs more than once, but I was never able to manage the foods without a lot of waste since the expired foods would get lost in my cupboards and expire before I could use them.

Complaining to a friend, he urged me to come look at a rack I could build with scraps of lumber.  I did build my own version of it, and I cheer anytime I can incorporate using canned food in my dinner menus.  I enjoy watching the cans roll down the rack filling the hole where I had just removed a can. (more…)

For those interested in the prior Grass Carp entry, click here.  For a complete index of Dani’s comical posts, click here.  *Before and after shots of the pond are shown at the end of this post.

The grass carp have been in the pond now since late August and I, the ever-optimistic one, assumed they would have already cleaned the pond by now and be ready to tackle the laundry, or vacuum my living room, or at least be sweeping the front stoop.  This, to my disappointment, is not the case. (Proof of abundant laundry shown at left.)

In looking out at the pond, I continued to see globs of crusty nasty glop floating atop the pond.  Asking husband Ken about this, he explained to me that while grass carp will clean the pond, they eat the yummy stuff first.  Crusty nasty glop floating on top of the pond, he assured me, is not that yummy.

I concede that point.

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