April 30, 2003
04/30/2003 18:34:00
Melanie Sage has unmounted rubber stamp images, and includes a tutorial on various ways of mounting them.
04/30/2003 10:34:00
On my walk today, I saw a towhee in the scrub trees.
04/30/2003 06:55:00
I made a childhood favorite, Hungarian goulash, last night. It was excellent, although I will probably not put quite as much hot Hungarian paprika in next time.
April 29, 2003
04/29/2003 18:35:00
I hadn't realized I passed the two hundred mile mark for 2003. This hasn't been a great month for my monthly statistics: I got behind on the trip, and then could never quite catch up again.
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04/29/2003 10:33:00
Color Cop is a color picking utility for use while designing web pages.
04/29/2003 07:22:00
Trip 2003-04-13 Over breakfast (at a busy truck stop / local diner) I checked our maps and found we were close to Arches National Park. Since we knew we were no more than seven or eight hours from home, we decided to go there for a few hours. I took this shot while we walked on the Park Avenue trail. The rest of the day was relaxed compared to the previous day, with a late lunch at the Olive Garden in Grand Junction, Colorado. I felt as though we were home when we hit the intersection of I-70 with 470 near Denver, about an hour from where we live in Colorado Springs. Of course, the first thing we did when we got to my friend's house, after letting her dogs out, was check our horses. Trip 2003-04-12 Saturday was our longest drive of the trip, through the Mojave Desert and by Las Vegas, Nevada, where we broke for a late lunch and a little rubber stamp shopping at Stamp Oasis . We had a fast food supper in Richfield, and then drove a long time until we broke for the night in Green River, Utah.
April 28, 2003
04/28/2003 09:42:00
Trip 2003-04-12 Our last morning in Los Angeles, I met my sister and niece in a Starbucks for breakfast.
April 27, 2003
04/27/2003 08:50:00
bwg is a weblog written by a Canadian living in Hong Kong.
04/27/2003 06:56:00
Trip 2003-04-11 We had a few unscheduled hours on Friday morning, so we decided to check out the trails in Griffith Park.
04/27/2003 06:31:00
Echoes Des Voyages is a rubber stamp company offering plates of vintage travel images.
April 26, 2003
04/26/2003 19:58:00
Meals.com has suggested meals with a variety of themes.
04/26/2003 07:19:00
Trip 2003-04-10 The next day, we had originally planned to go to San Diego, but decided to make the shorter trip to Solvang instead. My friend had not seen this section of California before, and thought it was one place in the state that she might actually like to live. Lots of horse country.
April 25, 2003
04/25/2003 07:58:00
Trip 2003-04-09 At the Descanso Gardens, I went crazy taking photos of the flowers. I've never been a big fan of tulips, but the varieties at the Gardens made me change my mind.
04/25/2003 06:00:00
Rocky Mountain Rubber Hi is a rubber stamp convention that will be taking place on May 3, 2003. This year, their website lists participants.
04/25/2003 05:56:00
Just Jhone is a rubber stamp company that sells plates of images with an angel policy.
04/25/2003 05:16:00
COSine, a science fiction convention, will be held in Colorado Springs on February 16-18, 2004. Our guest of honor will be Barbara Hambly, the science fiction writer.
April 24, 2003
04/24/2003 10:08:00
Sars Watch is a weblog dedicated to Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome.
04/24/2003 08:11:00
PCWorld has a good site for Windows downloads of utility programs.
04/24/2003 07:25:00
Wikipeidia has a good article on SARS, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome.
04/24/2003 06:37:00
Trip 2003-04-09 We walked around Descanso Gardens , and ate lunch there on the wisteria covered patio. This is a stone lantern from the Japanese garden.
April 23, 2003
04/23/2003 10:46:00
The Stampland website has an online catalog, and sells both mounted and unmounted images. Many of these images are from vintage clip art.
04/23/2003 10:25:00
Laurie Likes Books, a weblog by the publisher of the All About Romance website.
04/23/2003 10:16:00
Trip 2003-04-09 The next morning, while walking around a Tarzana neighborhood, I took this photo of bougainvillea. Trip 2003-04-08 Leaving Barstow, we made the easy drive to Los Angeles and spent the day with family members.
April 22, 2003
04/22/2003 09:22:00
The Xeriscape Demonstration Garden is maintained by the Colorado Springs water utility.
04/22/2003 08:47:00
PCWorld article describes how "cramming" works. This is a scam which places small charges on your phone bill that you may overlook.
04/22/2003 08:42:00
Trip 2003-04-08 We saw this cactus planted in a garden in front of a bank in Barstow, California, on the way back to the motel after breakfast.
April 21, 2003
04/21/2003 08:13:00
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04/21/2003 07:55:00
Trip 2003-04-07 We saw this petrified log near the museum at the park. One exhibit in the museum had samples of letters and small pieces of petrified rocks that people stole from the park and then returned when their conscience bothered them. After we left the Petrified Forest National Park we drove west across Arizona, eating lunch in Williams. The weather was cool until we entered the Mojave Desert in the afternoon, and we pulled out summer weight clothing and changed in a rest area women's room. We stopped for the night in Barstow, California.
04/21/2003 07:28:00
The COSine science fiction convention will be held in Colorado Springs on Martin Luther King weekend in 2004.
04/21/2003 06:56:00
The Langa Letter lists good freeware software tools.
April 20, 2003
04/20/2003 08:12:00
Denver Post article about West Nile virus moving into Mexico. I am glad that all my horses were vaccinated againt this disease last year, and have already received their boosters this year.
04/20/2003 07:59:00
I made this recipe for taco casserole yesterday for dinner, doubling the amount of turkey and chili powder. It turned out very well, though next time I won't put in quite so much chili powder.
04/20/2003 06:58:00
A star card book tutorial from the DRStamping Delphiforum. The Stampers Uni-VERSE-ity on the same site contains a collection of sentiments that can be used in cards.
04/20/2003 06:47:00
Trip 2003-04-07 The next morning, we drove to the Petrified Forest National Park , and were first at the gate to get in the park. Here is a photo of the badlands known as the Painted Desert. Trip 2003-04-06 We drove from Albuquerque to Gallup on I40. I had expected the scenery to be very plain, but it was quite spectacular for most of the route. After checking into our Motel 6, we had dinner at a restaurant close by called the Ranch Kitchen . The guy who seated us put a small flag on our table indicating we were from Colorado. There were many different flags around the room.
April 19, 2003
04/19/2003 07:33:00
Wired article Inside the Soul of the Web
about watching 24 hours of queries at Google.
04/19/2003 07:10:00
Trip 2003-04-06 On our way to Gallup, New Mexico, where we spend the night, we took a short break at the Rio Grande Nature Center in Albuquerque. Although it was still early spring there, the walk in the woods was very pleasant, and I enjoyed seeing the xeriscaped gardens.
04/19/2003 06:55:00
Discover article describes a process that can turn organic waste into light crude oil. This sounds too good to be true, but ConAgra is due to start using the first commercial scale plant at a Butterball Turkey factory.
April 18, 2003
04/18/2003 05:59:00
Trip 2003-04-06 Here is Pikes Peak as viewed from my friend's house on the morning that we left Colorado. An inch or so of snow had fallen the night before, but the roads were good. Heading south, the snow was gone before we reached Pueblo. We ate lunch, from the cooler, at a road side stop in New Mexico. The wind, fairly cold, was strong, so we ate in the car instead of at one of the picnic tables.
April 17, 2003
04/17/2003 10:03:00
It is greener at our place right now than it ever got last year with its drought. Yesterday, after Rags begged, I let him and Smoke out in the new field for the first time since it started to turn green. Right now, I can only let them out for brief periods, both to protect the grass in the new field, and to prevent the chance of the horses foundering from too much fresh grass.
04/17/2003 06:43:00
Toronto Stars article reports on SARS in Ontario, Canada, where another eight cases were announced yesterday.
04/17/2003 06:31:00
I returned home from my trip to California, and found that our high speed access to the Internet was down, and Jack had switched our router to using our old dialup system. (I still find it amazing that we have a router in the house: have I been working too long with computers, or what?) Yesterday, for an interminable four hours, the guy from Netbeam was here and ending up rebuilding and reprogramming our antennae. We are concerned: if they have to do this much, how are they going to afford to stay in business? We can't buy their service if they can't afford to stay in business. And going back to dialup was painful: our slow rural lines rarely achieve more than 24K rates, and other technological solutions do not apply because of our isolation.
04/17/2003 06:22:00
Lots of cool photos in the weblog ThenYouDiscover.com.
April 16, 2003
04/16/2003 08:59:00
Bellarosa has densely packed plates of rubber art stamps for sale.
April 15, 2003
04/15/2003 09:12:00
On the way home from California, I stopped at Stamp Oasis in Las Vegas, which is within a mile or so of the freeway, I15, that we took from California to Utah.
04/15/2003 09:04:00
A Scientific American article about television addiction.
04/15/2003 07:32:00
Photojunkie is spotlighting 30 bloggers in 30 days.
04/15/2003 07:10:00
Google Daily Menus shows the meals served at Google. Even the vegetarian selections look great.
04/15/2003 06:51:00
The astronomy picture of the day for today shows a crescent nebula star field.
04/15/2003 06:20:00
This site provides an extensive list of Excel tutorials.
04/15/2003 06:11:00
Dawn. This time of the year, the sun rises due east of our place.
April 14, 2003
04/14/2003 07:55:00
Yesterday, I returned from an eight day vacation in which a friend and I drove to Southern California. Going west, we drove the southern route, through Albuquerque, Gallup and Flagstaff in a little over two days. We returned via the northern route by Las Vegas and Grand Junction in just two days.I've done very little long distance traveling by car this way, so this trip was something of an experiment. My Subaru Forrester behaved very well on the trip, getting close to thirty miles a gallon at times, which was quite welcome in California where gas prices were frequently over $2.00 a gallon. I alternated driving with my friend, and we used unabridged audio books to entertain us on the trip: False Colors, by Georgette Heyer on the way out, and Horse Heaven by Jane Smiley on the way back. We only got part way through Horse Heaven, and I am currently worried about the fate of Justa Bob. I am so happy that Hap was ejected from his race career almost before it began.
April 06, 2003
04/06/2003 06:31:00
More snow. I've lost the enthusiasm and gratitude with which I greeted snow a month ago.
04/06/2003 06:11:00
Dee Hardcastle provides an online gallery of her altered books.
04/06/2003 05:56:00
A Globe and Mail comparison of SARS and the 1918 influenza pandemic.
04/06/2003 05:26:00
Steve, in Massachusetts, writes the essay-like weblog: One Pot Meal.
April 05, 2003
04/05/2003 07:03:00
Meg, from London, writes the weblog: not so soft > life unfolding.
04/05/2003 06:48:00
The website lyrics.jp has lyrics for popular songs.
04/05/2003 06:07:00
This website with Excel macros includes one for color coding unprotected cells.
04/05/2003 05:47:00
The cottonwood tree by the deck is starting to grow leaves.
April 04, 2003
04/04/2003 07:36:00
The mozillaZine weblog covers news about the Mozilla browser.
04/04/2003 07:08:00
This Reuters article compares SARS with influenza, which killed 36,000 people in the United States last year.
04/04/2003 06:53:00
Search Engine Watch article about how to make an RSS feed.
April 03, 2003
04/03/2003 10:27:00
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04/03/2003 07:21:00
The Cartoonist is a weblog with an eclectic collection of links and a strong interest in visual imagery.
04/03/2003 07:06:00
Cardsnstamps.com carries a variety of rubber stamps lines, including mounted and unmounted. There are several pages of Acey Deucey images.
04/03/2003 05:48:00
A photo of Jamie, my friend's Jack Russell terrier. She isn't quite sure why I am pointing that "thing" at her.
April 02, 2003
04/02/2003 06:05:00
Limited Editions has rubber stamp images for making jointed dolls, as well as the Nick Bantock collection, and some cool images by Julie Van Oosten.
04/02/2003 05:49:00
Times Online article about the pandemic of influenza in 1918.
04/02/2003 05:41:00
April sunrise: With only a few days before the change to daylight savings time, the sky becomes light long before 5:30 am.
04/02/2003 05:32:00
A Globe and Mail article about the effects of the SARS quarantine on Toronto health workers.