Five Acres with a View

July 21, 2007 - Click on image for higher resolution version.

July 21, 2007 - Click on image for higher resolution version.

The young woman who is leasing him took Hap to a local horse trial last weekend. Here she is warming up before going cross country. Her father took this photo.

Five years ago today I started a web log called “Coffee and Oranges.” Blog software was still quite primitive or seemed difficult to install on a web host, so I created my own using a handful of Perl scripts. In July of 2003, I volunteered to be a beta tester of the new TypePad service and started a web log called “Five Acres with a View.” I decided to install Movable Type when the beta was over a few weeks later and kept the name of my TypePad blog which seemed more appropriate than a Wallace Stevens quote. I moved to WordPress when forced to stop running Movable Type by my web host in May 2004. I have been running some version of self-hosted WordPress since then.

If my web log was a child, it would be old enough for kindergarten in the fall. Where do the years go?

July 11, 2007 - Click on image for higher resolution version.

The local deer evidently read my web log.   They interpreted my announcement that my day-lilies are blooming as an invitation to a buffet.  Damn deer.

July 11, 2007 - Click on image for higher resolution version.

These ponies were grazing near the inland bay marsh.

July 10, 2007 - Click on image for higher resolution version.

July 18, 2007 - Click on image for higher resolution version.

My daylilies are blooming.

I found this at Ugly Mailbox.com

A nursery school teacher was delivering a station wagon full of kids home one day when a fire engine with lights flashing and a wailing siren at full blast zoomed past. Sitting in the front seat next to the driver of the fire engine was a Dalmatian. The children, never having seen a dog in a fire engine before, started to discuss what the dog might be for.

“They use him to keep crowds back,” said one youngster.

“No,” said another, “he’s just for good luck.”

Several more ideas were put forward and an animated discussion soon ensued when a little girl who had sat quietly throughout the discussion and deep in thought finally brought the argument to a close…

“They use the dog,” she said firmly, “to find the fire hydrant.”

A new release of the Firefox blogging add-on, ScribeFire 1.4.1, is on Mozilla Addons. It looks much more polished.  The change log is at the blog article ScribeFire: Fire up your blogging » ScribeFire 1.4.1 Released.