But wait, where's Babe the Big Blue Ox?

It was a sad day at Spiderwick House yesterday. This winter was rough on our trees, and one of them uprooted itself from the very soggy ground and was leaning against the fence. We thought about pulling it back and staking it to hold it up and see if the roots would grab again, but the yard was much too soggy to hold the stakes. We're not even sure this would have saved the tree. So, we had to cut down a perfectly healthy tree. This was very sad to me and hubby, plus this tree provided lovely privacy from our neighbor, whom we've never met, but there's a lot of curious activity over there. We were also told she loves to "party (wink, wink, nudge, nudge)." Not really our thing.

Oooh, my very own Paul Bunyon - I think I'm in love

Thing #38 - Comics

I read comics I don't create them. I have enough hobbies thank you very much. I know they're there - 'nuff said.

#37 Music

Ok, did the music thing - went with Pandora - only because that's what most people seem to use and I'm lazy and don't want to try both. Since I'm in an environment where I can't play the music outloud, I can't really test this out right now. I did type in my favorite band - Flogging Molly - and checked out their recommendations. I thought it was interesting how they search on criteria such as acoustics, instruments and such. I'll check this out more when I'm elsewhere - but for now I can say it's all good.

It's always all good when I can get rowdy-Irish-punk-rock-folk music anywhere, anytime.

#36 - Photo Editing

Well, I'm back on the track of Library 2.1. I haven't done any of these little "lessons" since last November, but I thought I would try a few tonight. As I was checking out the different on line photo editing sites but I only tried a couple - the ones that don't require registrations - I don't want to register for any more websites. As I sat and waited for sites to load, I remembered trying these a while back and not being very pleased. Sure 'nough, the first one I tried was Fauxto (which I believe is now called Splashup) because it's supposed to be so fantastic - guess what - it doesn't work. At least not for me. It will not open any photo I have stored on my MightyDrive. I remembered it happening a few months back - and it happened again today.

So, I moved on to Pixenate, which I had tried before. I remember actually being able to open photos this time, but for the life of me, I can not get rid of any red eye in any photo. And isn't that one of the major reasons people want to edit their pictures? I was able to use some of the other tools with ease - but the red eye thing is pissing me off - I have a great picture of me and my cat- but I look totally demented (quiet in the peanut gallery).

I was able to resize one photo and lighten it as I had not used flash for this particular shot. Here's the before and after:











Incidentally, does anyone else notice the disturbance in the after picture? Is my cat's tail possessed?

Awesome Prank...

Check this video out. I would have loved to have been part of this prank.

http://www.maniacworld.com/frozen-in-grand-central-station.html