Don’t get me wrong; it is still winter. However, after a stint of really cold temperatures, the upcoming 10-day forecast has above freezing high temps in it. My computer cables arrived and my upgrade is done. A new Gallery has been completed and is now on the web.
There is better news in the next 10-day forecast: Above freezing temperatures. January was a very cold month, colder than normal, and that accelerated our use of propane for heating. A fill of just over 300 gallons was delivered a few days after my last post. It is comforting to have plenty of fuel back in the tank.
Next week’s forecast is projecting high temperatures in the mid to upper 30s and even into the 40s. While warming will cause issues with mud and melting snow, we are looking forward to the milder conditions.
My new computer cables arrived and I have completed my system upgrade. It is rewarding to have both monitors functioning again, as I had been placing data and folders on one monitor while working on documents on the other. I was missing that 2nd monitor. The new Mac Mini M4 is now working fine for all my needs.
I continue going through my 35mm slides with the goal of grouping them by topic instead of by date. (This is still an ongoing task.) One result: All my “fall color” slides are now together. Other groupings will follow, but one outcome is a new Best of Fall Colors gallery.
Here are a couple photos from that gallery:
Most of the gallery photos are scanned from slides. I am surprised my old Minolta scanner, a Dimage Scan Dual II, works on the newest Mac operating system using a software program called VueScan. The scanner dates from around 2000 and is now almost an antique in computer terms. It is not very fast but gets the job done.
When you click on a photo its name appears at the top of the new tab. If the name begins with “ST” the photo was scanned as “ST” stands for Scanned Transparency.
I also use “SN” for Scanned Negative and “SNB” for Scanned Negative Black for black and white negatives. If the name begins with a number the photo is from a digital camera. Those are my naming conventions. (Some “humor” photos have actually names.)
We saw an unusuall sight the other evening: Four deer were on our lawn. Having seen deer tracks with great frequency, the deer themselves had proved elusive. Apparently they are feeding on seeds that accumulate in the bottom tray of the bird feeder. It was too dark to get a good photo, but now we have seen the critters that have left so many tracks.
There is not much else going on. We have had a few very light snow showers, less than one inch each, just enough to necessitate clearing the sidewalks to avoid tracking snow into the house. My old plastic shovel, the lightest shovel I own, is taking a beating on the leading edge. This may be its last winter.
That’s it for now. Thanks for looking in!
Pam’s Penny
February 1776: The Continental Congress authorized privately owned, armed merchant vessels (via “Letters of Marque”) to attack and seize British merchant and supply ships. Privateers were based in major port cities like Boston, Philadelphia, Providence and New London. Though often described as “legalized piracy,” privateers operated under government commissions and were restricted to attacking enemy, or belligerent, vessels. Privateers played a strong role in strengthening the new nation’s military position.
Rock on through the winter.
Today’s Humor:
