Month: March 2007

Pets, Photography

Saturday Dogblogging

Shelly

Miss Brown was given custody of Mr. Chicken this morning. It was a momentous occasion–will she, or will she not, chomp off his itty bitty drumsticks? I’m pleased to say that it took her awhile to get down to business. First, there was much ridiculous prancing around with Mr. Chicken hanging out the side of her mouth. Then, there was licking and nuzzling and the requisite resting-of-the-chin-on-the-chicken. And then there was the chewing. Hoo boy! It took her awhile, but she did indeed disarticulate Mr. Chicken’s right leg. At that point, I took him away from her.

Even though she didn’t get to play with him for very long, the time spent was of a most excellent quality.

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Genealogy

Harold Beaver Sunday

Shelly

No, seriously. Harold Beaver Sunday is one of the names I came across while doing genealogy research. Another favorite discovery–neither of these are related to my family in any way–is Edmund Loosemore.

I also found an interesting entry while looking at parish records–again, no relation:

Mary the bastard child of George ACTON Bridge Mount and Nelly BYRNE a very young girl seduced by him while in his employ and married as pure and virtuous to Pat JENNINGS a workman 12/2/1860 July 21 [1861]

From Baptisms in Balla-Manulla Parish Co Mayo Ireland 1837 of 1864

In news that is related to my own family, I finally found great aunt Margaret’s immigration information.  She did come through Ellis Island, and she came before great grandma Nell.  I always assumed it was the other way around.  Both listed their half-brother, Denis, as the person they were going to stay with.  He was living in Heron Street, Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

Genealogy

Names o’ the Day

Shelly

Cordelia Ana Desdemona Dakin (Someone was a Shakespeare fan.)

Edith Delephine Tibbals

Fanny Tressa Ames

Americus Dakin

Zebulon Jones

Preserved Fish Dakin (No, I am not making that up.)

Josiah Akin Dakin (I’m not making that one up, either!)

Mercy Mary Coggleshall

Rosina Maria Francesca Otte

Edwina Estelle Dakin

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There is a season

Shelly

I mentioned that we seem to’ve moved straight from winter to summer? I took Harriet out back at about 11:00 last night, and Mr. Upstairs had his AC running. Now, I’ll grant that it’s warmer in upper apartments than lower ones, but it couldn’t have been that warm up there. I mean, I had to go get a blanket because I got a little chilly while watching teevee.

Air conditioning!?

In March!?

Pets, Photography

Speaking of Spring

Shelly

We’ve had a few days where the temperature was warm enough to open the windows. Yesterday was not one of them! It was too warm. Saturday and Sunday were beautiful, though. I opened all the windows, and Harriet installed herself in the bedroom window, where she could stand on the bed and rest her chin on the sill. Pandora chose the studio window, where she could keep an eye on the parking lot and all the comings and goings.

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The space she’s wedged herself into really isn’t big enough for all of her to fit, but she doesn’t seem to mind.

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Apparently, I Lied

Shelly

So I did suddenly decide that I had to change my blog template.  The really stupid thing is that I went looking for something clean and basic, but without freaking san-serif fonts.  (Ariel must diediedie!)  I had installed this theme ages ago, but never used it because the default fonts were san-serif.  Well, silly me!  The author created a utility that makes it easy peasy to change the fonts and font sizes.  Et voila, serifs!  That was a lot easier than screwing around with the style sheet.  I’ve had enough of that for the time being, thankyouverymuch.

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Spring Cleaning

Shelly

After working on the new web pages yesterday, and coming up with something aesthetically different from the way the rest of the website looks, I decided to do a little revamping.  So far, it’s just some minor tweaking of the style sheet for the regular web pages, and some new graphics for the main pages.  I probably won’t touch the blog and gallery for awhile.

Mostly this was prompted by the fact that I have to move between two computers with different resolutions.  It’s been bugging me for a long time now that the banner graphics were all fubarred when viewed at higher than 1024 x 768 screen resolution.  Not enough to do anything about it, mind you, but still, it’s been nagging at me.  So I went with vertical, 1000px high images that are fixed, so when you scroll, the text moves, not the graphics.  One image for each main page, mostly taken from the Hemp Bound Journal, and cropped like nobody’s business.