Oh, I see you've already heard it.
We all got a good laugh out of that, for me a second one.
I'm not sure how it got to be 4:30 already, but maybe the fact that we didn't get home from breakfast until after 11:00 may explain part of it. But that was fine, because we have planned for this to be a lazy day.
I went on line to see about installing the Stats device on my blog, but I had to click on the Blogger in draft option to get it. OK, fine. Did that. Then I went into my computer picture files to change my header photo. Good. Done.
It was beautiful outside so I got Tom to stroll around the garden with me, to see what was blooming. I grabbed my camera for some new material to post. That's why you see this blog decorated with flower photos.
Glass flowers with roses.
And fuchsias.
Butterflies, bees and hummingbirds are flitting about these days. I love summer!
We no longer have live cats, just stone ones. But this was a favorite spot for our Callisto when she was with us. Not so much fun for the birds.
We had lunch about 1:00 and sat on the patio and read. I'm reading another Scandinavian mystery, this by Jo Nesbo, called Nemesis. It's very good and I'm trying not to spend all of my time reading it.-
Then I came upstairs to download my photos when to my dismay, all of my photos, hundreds of them, maybe thousands, had been deleted from my computer! I yelled HELP! and Tom came up to see what was wrong. Fortunately we have a back up system, Carbonite, and after some navigating, I found my Photos. I am in the process of restoring some of them back to my hard drive.
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With my new photos finally downloaded, I went to post them on my blog. Well, the image icon no longer directed me to my hard drive????? Blogger in Draft looked foreign and didn't do what I wanted it to. So I spent more time trying to get rid of it and get back to normal. Forget the Stats if it's going to mess up everything else.
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I think I am, normal that is. Well, whatever that is. But I'm definitely confused!
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Oh, and I ran out of photo storage again and this time I went right away to the Picasa Album option and bought 20 GB of storage for $5. That was last Thursday. But it took at least 24 hours to kick in, so I left it and went away for the weekend. When I went to post photos from Whidbey, I got the "used up storage" message. What? I checked my credit card statement online and had been charged, so went searching. Turns out I had to sign in to Google and sign out for the new storage to kick in.
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I think I've got everything all squared away now, finally. I have no idea why my photos were deleted. It's a mystery.
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But with all of that, I'm going to wrap this up and head back outside. It's a beautiful day out there, a perfect summer day.
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I hope you appreciate the effort I've gone through to bring you this blog today. I'm exhausted!
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Maybe I'll set up my mini lap top in the shade on the patio and see what the rest of you have been up to.
Gee, Blogger gave you a hard time! I wonder why they make things so complicated.
ReplyDeleteWordPress is simpler, I think. All I do is click on Blog Stats, and the page appears.
Anyway, your efforts paid off, because the pics of the garden are so nice! Thanks, Linda.
Your pictures are gorgeous as usual!
ReplyDeleteBlogger changed for me a week or so ago also. Now I find I have to post one picture at a time to get the comments to show up at the right spot. It is better in a lot of ways though, so I am not complaining (yet).
what a busy and fun day with friends. new changes on blogger are not that easy-i just avoid them...
ReplyDeleteI saw that new "stats" thing but decided not to mess with it, considering all the changes that are going on with blogger these days. Sometimes it takes them a while to get back on track. But to lose all your pictures? And your gorgeous garden shots? Criminal! Glad all is well, and thank you so much for going to all the trouble to get things squared away.
ReplyDeleteI love the world of computers but sometimes it's all maddening. I'm going to back up all my pictures as soon as I finish this comment. Blogger seems to have a few bugs as they're going through this period of new things. Criminal I say for deleting someone's pictures.
ReplyDeleteSome days you just wish you'd stayed in bed. Ha! Glad your photos aren't lost.
ReplyDeleteI do, I DO appreciate the effort you put in to allow us to see your gorgeous garden shots! They always lift my spirit. I haven't seen the stat thing. It sounds complicated and not quite perfected.
ReplyDeleteWhew I am exhausted just following you around all day. I gotta go lay down. LOL
ReplyDeleteI will stay with blogger even though it gets cranky. I tried foxfire one time and messed everything else up so I figure I can blunder through and I have vowed that the computer will NOT get me down.
Your gardens are beautiful. MB
Oh that walk through the garden was MAGNIFICENT!!!
ReplyDeleteI love the card. What does that say about me that I prefer the funny ones to the romantic messages?
A group of us 'teacher ladies' gets together here about 4 times a year. We have 'breakfast club'. We laugh, we talk, we eat...
When I had Kodak Gallery I was able to buy greeting cards that I made from photos. I hated KG, though, because it ran ALL THE TIME!!! I now use Picassa -- do you have any idea how I can still 'design' greeting cards from my photos?
It's so frustrating when a computer glitch eats up valuable time, and it's even more frustrating when the computer or a program deletes valuable material. I'm glad you were able to get back your photos, anyway. And the ones taken in your garden are beautiful
ReplyDeleteA belated Happy Birthday and here is to a wonderful year..I don't use blogger anymore and it is still hard just to leave comments. I don't know what the issue is....Michelle
ReplyDeleteI thoroughly enjoyed the walk through your beautiful gardens. As for Blogger, my head spins at the thought of anything new with it. I can barely change my header photo!
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