The Welcome Wagon Came

A lady from the Welcome Wagon came to our front door last night to welcome my husband and me to the neighborhood.  She's obviously "a multi-tasking" person, because she was also walking her three poodles.  We talked for several minutes as she gave us our welcome kit and explained it's contents and some of the many benefits of joining the neighborhood association . . . then she and the dogs were gone.  I commented to my husband that I thought one of her dogs had been having a gas problem because the air had been getting a little ripe.  He laughed and asked me how I possibly could have missed the clear plastic bag she had been holding in one of her hands . . . it was the poop bag for her poodles.   Welcome to the neighborhood!

More Consternation

The ATTBI Cable guy came out and got me hooked up to the cable modem so I could get to the internet from the new house.  And I could get on . . . the FIRST day.   I haven't been able to get to the internet in a week from my home computer.  Funny thing is, I could get to the internet WIRELESSLY using my work laptop and going thru my cable modem, but I can't get to the internet using my HOME computer.  I called ATTBI and they had me unhook my LINKSYS router and hook the cable directly to the home computer and completely bypassing the router.  And sure enough I could get to the internet again.  So she told me I could re-hook it back up again the way it was and try it again.  Same thing.  Can't get there from my home computer but I could wirelessly from my office laptop computer that I bring home often. So I'm left with a dilema.  Do I hook it up so I can get to the internet from my home computer and forget about doing any work on my laptop at home?  Ain't technology wonderful!!! 

A Moving Experience

We are moved into the new house but we are NOT totally unpacked yet.  Tell me how you can move into a larger house and still not find a place for all the stuff from the old house?  We're about 3/4's of the way done, but we are 100% pooped.  Maybe it's just that I'm 13 years older than the last time we moved.  But, it is going to be very nice when we finally get all settled in. 

I'm too tired to even try to post a picture. 

More Amish Country

Photo and enhancement by Chris Duffy . . . click on picture, then the F-11 key, to see a larger image.

Here's another shot I took while in Pennsylvania on vacation with my sister Alice.  We did a fair amount of driving and we had an understanding that at any time either one of us could declare a "photo opp" and we'd stop.  This particular day we didn't make very good time because we kept declaring photo opportunities.  But that was OK with us, we had no schedule to keep.   The constant stopping would have driven my husband up a wall, but then he's not a camera buff.

Daisies or Coreopsis . . . who knows? 

Photo and enhancement by Chris Duffy . . . click on picture then the F11 key to see a larger image.

These were the flowers that separated the sidewalk from the parking lot at our hotel.   They were so cheery looking each day as we set out on our digital camera adventures.  Alice, you can tell me what kind of flowers they are . . . they all look like daisies to me.

Double Vision

Photo by Chris Duffy . . click on picture, then the F11 key to see a larger image.

My sister Alice and I had a ball with our digital cameras going up and down the Chesapeake Bay.  Although she has a much better eye for what will make a great picture than I do, sometimes I do come up with some pretty good ones myself.  Alice and I must have both thought that this made for a great shot, because she posted a very similar photo on her Xanga site yesterday.  Check it out.  The composition is slightly different, but the two pictures are so very much alike.    

This was in a little town called Chesapeake City, which we liked a lot.  I think it's a draw as to whether this was our favorite town or whether that honor went to Port Deposit.  Both were fantastic. . . of course you could get Moose Tracks ice cream in Port Deposit.