Five Acres with a View

Tonight is a Blue Moon. This NASA site explains the origins of the term.

The countryside still looks green due to afternoon rain showers.

Pixel Perfect Digital 3.0 – Free Image Archive offers a growing collection of free high resolution photos and illustrations. The terms of use allows modifications to be made to the image.

OOo Off the Wall: Setting Up Page Styles in OOo Writer discusses how to set up pages styles in Open Office. Until I read this article, I didn’t know Open Office had page styles.

A friend sent me a link to an account of the trip that he and his wife took around Australia. Jack and I visited with them on our trip to the Whitsundays in 1999. Another friend writes about touring South American in her aptly named weblog Connections.

For a while, the adolescent chicks with their naked heads reminded me of dinosaur chicks. Now, only Cassie is still lacking feathers on the head.

Yesterday, along with two other people, I helped my friend take her three chickens for a walk. And yes, Martha, the one at the bottom, really is that white.

DYMO LetraTag QX50
I’ve wanted a label maker for a long time. While I was visiting my sister, I drooled over hers, which is a peripheral to her PC. I am currently doing a lot of organizing in the mudroom and garage, and decided to encourage myself by giving myself this little freestanding model. I paid way less than list price for it, though. The only thing I don’t like about it is the size of the print in the manual.

A few pansies have managed to survive bunnies, torrential downpours, and even hail.

It is amazingly difficult to find places that recycle electronics. For the rest of the summer, Office Depot is offering to take certain items for free.