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I know it’s been quiet here, lately… My Beloved Laptop died… So, I’ve been in mourning… And in laptop withdrawal. The screen on my cell phone is just too small to be effective for the internet…

Thankfully, I was able to get another laptop yesterday. But, I spent about 11 hours last night dealing with this thing… It was loaded with Vista, but the updates wouldn’t install, because the version of Internet Explorer was newer than the Vista… I’ve used Vista, but I’m not terribly fluent. I couldn’t figure out how to remove the IE. I decided that I needed to get rid of the Vista…

I have a couple of options for Windows… I have my old Windows 98 and the XP upgrade; and I have the full version of XP.

First, I tried installing (twice) the full version. Evidently something happened to the disk, because it couldn’t install SEVERAL files.

Next, I installed 98 – errors there too, but it loaded enough of the program so that the upgrade would recognize it. As I was in the middle of installing the millions of updates, the blasted thing said I was out of memory! It’s a 120GB hard-drive… Out of memory!?! Yep, sure thing, it absolutely was… I did something wrong during the formatting and evidently didn’t remove a partition or something.

So, back to installing the corrupt 98 again… Reformatting PROPERLY this time! Then putting the upgrade on… Then getting the millions of Windows updates…

By 3am I had my computer connected to my network, installed Windows, my ancient version of Office, anti-virus and a firewall. Then I crashed… Just couldn’t keep my eyes open (or think!) anymore.

This morning I was able to finish loading everything up and setting everything the way I want it. Whew!!!

Now, I’m just getting used to a slightly different keyboard. It’s a decent little machine… A bit beat-up. Some scratches and dings, but nothing major.

So, new year, new (to me) computer!

Please excuse the crappy phone photo…

This is Desiree. We adopted/rescued her a week ago Sunday. We had no intention of getting a horse, but a neighbor found herself in a bad way financially, and asked if we could take her. Who can turn away an animal that needs a home? Yeah, we’re suckers… For sure…

You can’t see how skinny she is, because of her blanket. But, without the blanket, you can definitely see her ribs. She’s not as bad as she could be, though, thankfully. We have a knowledgeable friend that came and looked at her. According to our friend, she is about 75-pounds underweight, is very wormy and could possibly be pregnant. She said her teeth look good, as do her feet. The gal we got her from said that the horse was in her 20s; however, my friend tells me, not so. She said that she would put her at under 10-years old.

We haven’t decided if we’re keeping her, for sure, or not. Certainly, we will keep her until she is well and healthy, having gained back her weight and after giving birth (if she is indeed pregnant). Since neither James nor I are riders, if we do keep her (which we are leaning towards), she will end up being a pack animal and draft horse.

The goats have finally warmed up to her and no longer flee when she looks in their direction. Compared to her, they are so small; I’m surprised she doesn’t step on them! But, she’s very sweet, with a great temperament. She will allow a person to do pretty much anything to her. She’s very calm and mellow.

She has started coming to visit us, whenever we go through the gate. James says this is because she wants something more to eat. I think it’s because she wants to say hello…

P.S. I know I still owe you pictures of the afghan in progress. Photos have not been taken, but I haven’t forgotten about it.

I just realized that I haven’t posted anything in a couple of weeks! Sorry about that!

I’ve been crocheting an afghan. I’m using the African Flower Mandala Potholder design, minus the last two rounds . The yarn I’ve chosen is Hobby Lobby’s “I Love This Yarn!” in Pink and Brown. I bought six skeins of each color to use for another afghan project, but I decided to do this instead.

I really do like this yarn. It’s acrylic; and aside from the baby yarns, it is the softest acrylic yarn I’ve ever used! It glides over the hook smoothly and it doesn’t have the “squeak” of many acrylics.

It is being worked in clusters of three hexagons each; one set begun using the pink and the other begun using the brown (colors being alternated). It’s working up nicely and if I use all the yarn, it will be quite large. I’ve almost finished using one skein of each color and it’s already nearly long enough to cover my legs!

I initially began this as a selfish project; I was going to keep it for myself. But, I started thinking about it and I may give it to the little elderly lady that we take care of… Or I may keep it… Or I may use half the yarn to make one to give away and use the other half to make one to keep… I haven’t decided.

No pictures have been taken, because it isn’t finished yet. I may take some photos tomorrow, because I know this thing won’t be done for a while and I don’t want to keep you waiting.

To be continued…