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May 06, 2006
I'm completely operational and all my circuits are functioning properly...
A few interesting sites in my yard...more to come, as I get the pics optimized...making small strides...
I'm here...I'm back...(boring computer info here)- turns out it was my hard drive causing the heat up, not a broken fan...so when Brian replaced the new HD with my old one - it just heated right up like always...not good...So, he took both machines to work and imaged the new HD with my old HD and I got this puppy back at 8:00pm last night...by then I was knee-deep in knitting a new clutch (teehee), so I waited till today to give it a whirl...and I'm happy to say - no heat is percolating under my left wrist...this HD is behaving normally...and I just found that the memory stick reader wasn't moved to this machine, so I can't show you all the cool pics of the storm damage we had on Wed night...
Austin hasn't been on the news much, Dallas and San Antone has gotten all the headlines, which is fine, but we got 75mph winds and lots of felled trees with a massive Spring storm on Wed night...a little hail, not too much...but I was watching our young Bur Oak spin around like it was made of elastic...the addage is true - 'what does not kill us, makes us stronger'...winds are good for trees to strengthen their trunks, limbs, etc...Mostly we had shredded leaves and such (looks like a green parade went thru the yard) but the biggest damage was our 53yr old dying Sycamore who lost the top 1/3 of its canopy into the street on Wed...at least the car wasn't parked directly under it, some folks' cars are completely crushed..and it didn't fall on the house, which it could have and folks down the street had tree removal companies taking the large oaks off their roofs...so all in all, we lucked out...we need to take this tree down anyway, its dying, so this just took about $300 off the removal bill...ha...Brian is gonna pick up the old computer at his office so I can have the memory stick reader and get some pics posted for ya...
Because, I have a couple of beadstrands to offer...they are still in the kiln, and if the gnomes got them, then I'll give them to the bad bead jar...but if everything went well, I'll have a couple of goodies for ya'll in a while..
I woke up at 3:30 and was awake for a few hours during a big storm last night (no downed trees that I know of), so I'm kinda flying on fumes, but I'm working on shaking out the cobwebs and will get this show on the road...Man - I REALLY like this new computer keyboard, its so much nicer than my old one...and its so clean...and pretty...too bad I'm the one using it...it'll prob get cat hair and cocoa puffs in the keyboard by the end of the weekend...
Posted by Donner at May 6, 2006 03:10 PM
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Beads? Goodie! They wouldn't happen to be in my colors would they? Jo
Posted by: jo-mei at May 6, 2006 11:34 AM
Hi Donna-
Glad your house and car weren't hit by that tree!! Thanks for sharing all the awesome pics of your yard. I am so into this...I love following the progress. It looks beautiful! You're definitely a lot more motivated than I am...I get exhausted just hearing your talk about your plans!
Hope all is well-
Rachel
Posted by: Rachel G. at May 6, 2006 05:32 PM