Author: Shelly

Crankypantsing, Genealogy, My Garden, Photography

Zinnia Progress Report

Shelly
Baby Zinnia
Baby Zinnia

It’s starting to look like a baby flower!

Evernote released another update that made it completely unseeable to me. Not even the web client worked. So I spent way too much time today trying to decide if a Zotero will do what I need.

I spent the rest of the day cleaning up some entries in the FamilySearch tree and adding my sources to them, then got on Facebook and saw yet another post in the Ancestry user group scolding people who don’t have public trees. Some people believe they are entitled to others’ research. If you don’t agree, you’re some kind of asshole and don’t belong on Ancestry.

Not gonna lie. While I do have a public tree, it there are no Ancestry documents linked to it. I uploaded a gedcom, so there are sources (including notes and transcripts), but no pretty pictures and no easy way to click and look at a document image. My tree also won’t generate tree hints. That’s a feature.

The information is there, and it’s well sourced, but I want no part of spoon feeding it to people who believe they’re entitled to it.

Basically I’m over people today.

Photography

Visitors!

Shelly
Mourning Doves

A pair of mourning doves were hanging out on my patio when I got home from work. They’re more brazen than the blue jays and cardinals.

I don’t have bird feeders. A bunch of my neighbors do, but there are so many feral cats around that I don’t want to encourage the birds too much. But I do put out water for them, so they can have a bath and get a drink. It was 95F today with a real feel of 101F. On days like this there is often a literal queue for the bird bath. They start lining up on the fence and in the dead for tree next to my patio.

(I do not smoke. The upstairs neighbors do, and they toss their cigarette butts on my patio. I’ve asked them to stop, and they’re better about it, but I always have a few stray butts lying around.)

Genealogy

Decisions Were Made

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I spent way too much time looking at this image. And looking at it. And also, looking at it. And then it occurred to me that I should check the name of the person who uploaded it. Y’all, that is a watermark. A very unfortunate watermark.

Image of grave marker that someone has digitally added their name to, in order to watermark it.

I have so many questions, and I’m not sure I want any of them answered.