Apple Family

Love my Mac!

I have grown into a techno junkie. With a Dell laptop in one room, an Acer Netbook ever close at hand, and the crowning jewel, my MacBookPro.

Love you Siri!

For over three years I had been a devoted iPhone 3GS user and when the new iPhone 4S was released this Fall I admit I just had to have it.

Love all the features of the phone. Great sound and very easy to use. Yes, I even love Siri. She has really become a great friend and is always there when I need her.

My iPhone has also brought a great friend into my life. Thank you Leslie for taking me under you wing, sharing many "secrets" about the iPhone, and mostly for becoming a daily part of my life. I am so grateful that we even live so close. You are like a daughter.

The camera in the phone is state of the art. Pictures are crisp, clean, sharp and true color. Between the iPhone camera and built in programs on the Mac I have found it extremely easy to take and/or fix any photo I want.

Here is just a sample of one where our Ginger was playing on our bed when I shot a photo of her. As you can see clearly she had "demon" eyes in the original but after a few minor clicks in iPhoto we manage to salvage the shot and exorcise those "demon" eyes.

Ginger with "demon"eyes. 

Ginger without "demon" eyes. 

Every day I seem to discover a new feature on the Mac that makes it so easy and simple to make documents, photos, charts and presentations all with just a few clicks.

My daughter, Lynn, has also become an Apple "junkie" and we share our love for our Mac's and iPhones. We are surly becoming an Apple Family. Tom is even now considering an iPad for himself. WootToot! He is coming into the light!

I still love my Dell and my Acer and use them as well. But I will not deny that high, very high on my wish list is my next techno gadget an iPad. Somehow I will try to wait for the iPad3 and just know it will live up to every expectation I could have for it. 

Now I wish to thank all the designers, engineers, programers and un-named specialists at Apple for building the bridge from today into the future of tomorrow and beyond. At 68 years, I would never thought I would be saying how grateful I am to be alive today and have the ability to reach around the world with such ease. I cannot imagine a day without my links to the world. 

Steve Jobs
1955 ~ 2011

Steve Jobs, you will always be remembered as the Michelangelo for 21st Century and beyond.  If you have also been touched by the genius of Steve Jobs and wish to share your thoughts you can do so by simply sending your thoughts to  rememberingsteve@apple.com. 

Advent ~ A Season of Preperation

It is Monday, December 19, 2011, seven days before Christmas.

Are we really prepared?

And she brought forth her firstborn Son, 

and wrapped Him in swaddling cloths,

 and laid Him in a manger, 

because there was no room

 for them in the inn.  Luke 2:7 NKJ

Have we prepared room for Him in our holiday plans? 

Like Riding A Bicycle - Like Writing A Blogg

The question needs to be asked. Is returning to blogging like riding a bike? You truly never forget how to do it.

Next question on my growing list is: What if you were never a great (good or even mediocre) bicycle rider to begin with or for that matter that great (good or mediocre) writer/blogger, how much worse could you be upon returning for yet another attempt? Right. Who really knows and for that matter who really cares?

Not all blogs are of that important a nature or their writer's that concerned with who is reading it or even why. Maybe the reader just can not sleep and doing something is better than tossing and turning. It is said that reading can put one to sleep. (Little known fact, sometimes writing has the same effect.)

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

Sorry about that. Where was I? Oh, yes. Bicycles and Blogging.

I really loved my bike as a child. Was never a good bike rider but loved the bike anyway. It did give me a small feeling of freedom, but when you are only allowed to ride around two small city blocks, what is there to love. I was also known to have extremely skinned up knees, elbows and what ever else met hard sidewalks and/or stony alleyways.

I really love my blog. Granted it is just a bit off center (yes the pun is intentional) as well as all over the place, which is just like my thoughts. (Could be caused by the fact that I am a Gemini or at my advanced age a suffer of undiagnosed ADD) Which ever it proves to be, I do find some solace in seeing my thoughts written out before me.

I do not intend to impart offence to anyone by blogging these random thoughts, so please accept this apology now, in case you are offended. I would highly suggest that you search (Google) for a blogg or bloggs that will more mirror your personality and "ditto" your thoughts. This is not a blogg for that.

Been many years since I have attempted to ride a bicycle and it will be like never again in the future that I will attempt to ride one. As I tell my Honey-bun (husband), I am not completely stupid here.

Seeing that it has been a year since my last post and now here I am attempting this once again - well, not being completely stupid, there are times I have been known to be a complete nut-job. This may just be one of them.... Anyway, here is to a return of Thoughts that are Just a Bit Off Senter.

New Year ~ New Life ~ New Hope

The mother deer brought her doe as a sure sign of new life and hope. The picture was taken a few days after Christmas from our front yard. Not so unusual for those living outside the city. We who live in the heart of the city and just feet from a busy commuter train track, find these visits an affirmation that all is right with the world and our Sister Deer will allow us to live with her and her offspring.

It is a sign of new life, new hope and a positive blessing for the New Year.

We continue to ask the Lord to bless each of you as you have blessed us.

Happy New Year!

Talented Friends Forever Memories

Portraits of AJ and Jelli Bean, The Hoosier Hug Pugs and our furkids.

What an amazing gift from The House of Pawz and the talented brush strokes of Michelle Rouse.  We were really blessed by the draw (pardon the pun) in the first ever Dogster Dolls Ornament Exchange.

As a so called artist, I know the difficulty in capturing the essence of a subject in a portrait and animals can be especially hard to convey their personalities. Michelle has a way to quickly and very precisely do just that.

From AJ’s (on the right) overly dramatic brooding of the thinker, to Jelli’s mischievous innocent guile, Michelle captured the soul of our loves.

Thank you so very much and as long as there is breath within me, I will sing of the talents of my dear friend and her House of Pawz. 

Michelle’s personal muses

Gus, Brody, Boo, Raven, Cousin McGoo, & Wheezer

The House of Pawz