It began raining Saturday afternoon & continued steadily through the
night. Woke up to rain Sunday morning which in turn just kept coming down non
stop until mid day. Not necessarily a heavy rain but a steady rain. Looking out
our sunroom window one would think we are living in a jungle. The lushest
period of the season is now upon us with everything growing like gangbusters.
In our part of the country I always see June as the greenest month & it is
all this fresh new foliage which in turn will set our forests afire with Autumn
reds & golds come September & October.
Been a couple weeks since I switched my blog's statistics info from
Sitemeter to StatCounter & must say I do like StatCounter better. Like
their combination colored bar graph plus numerical counter showing daily page
views, unique visits, as well as return visits. Of course it does much more
than that but it's that feature I have on my desktop which gives me an idea of
how my blog is doing whether it's gaining in popularity, holding it's own, or
sinking fast. Stats can help a blogger determine if their posts are finding
favor with readers. I can generally tell when I've a written a clunker or a
series of clunkers just by a drop in numbers. To me stats are an important
guide in encouraging one to continually try to do better.
Thanks to Retired Rod & Steve for the feedback to a question I had
about Bloggers font size & color. Although knowing about how to use it I had forgot to even
look in the template area for making the changes to Blogger. It's a good
example at this age of forgetting how to do things when you haven't done them
for a long while. This technically overloaded computer world is a classic
example of that. Like the majority of people & having not made a career of
computer learning it is always a real challenge trying to hold all that
information in one's head. And of course with the passing of years it is not
getting any easier either. Not only is it harder to retain things in one's
memory I find it is also harder to learn new things. Where one used to pick up
on new things reasonably well I find now an overall sense of confusion
often seems to slip in quickly & envelope one's keen interests &
learning abilities in a kind of fog. Of course some days are a little less
foggy than others & of course those are what can be hailed as 'good days'.
Well, we Windows Live Writer folks are still holding our breath out
here & of course grasping at straws with every little murmur coming out of
Blogger & Microsoft about a possible fix soon. I'm still on the pessimistic
side with it all though & sure hope I am proven wrong. The Blogger format
is working for me but it sure isn't as slick & fast as Live Writer when it
comes to smoothly inserting & precisely sizing photos. Had Live Writer
never come along years ago I wouldn't know the difference & would
probably think Blogger was just the cat's meow. But it isn't & for those of
us having used Live Writer over the last bunch of years that is where the real
bite comes in for us. Arrrrggghhhh!!
Weatherman is calling for sunny days ahead & warmer
temperatures. Today sitting in the sunroom reading & bouncing around on the
computer I had not only our gas fireplace going but a small electric heater
under the computer desk throwing out wispy thermals of warm air to dispel the
day's mid 40's cold dampness.
Sad to read of a tragic aircraft related death in a
fellow Blogger's family. Stewart, who goes
by his blogging name 'The Furry Gnome' is author of Seasons in the Valley & has
written a fine tribute to his son. William,
1977 - 2015.
Stewart's son William died a week ago flying a water bomber fighting a forest fire at Cold Lake, Alberta Canada.
GROANER'S CORNER:(( Here is the final word on nutrition and
health. It's a relief to know the truth after all those conflicting medical
studies.
-The Japanese eat very little fat and suffer fewer heart attacks
than do the British or Americans.
-The French eat a lot of fat and also
suffer fewer heart attacks than the British or Americans.
-The Japanese drink
very little red wine and suffer fewer heart attacks than the British or
Americans.
-The Italians drink excessive amounts of red wine and also suffer
fewer heart attacks than the British or Americans.
-The Germans drink a lot
of beer and eat lots of sausages and fats and suffer fewer heart attacks than
the British or Americans.
CONCLUSION
Eat and drink what you like.
Speaking English is apparently what causes heart attacks & kills you.
GROANER’S CORNER:(( I put some turnips, his least-favorite vegetable, on my
eleven-year-old son's dinner plate and instructed him to eat everything. He
cleaned his plate, except for the turnip. I pointed out to him that if he'd
eaten it earlier, he wouldn't have been left with its taste in his mouth at the
end of the meal. Thoughtfully, he replied, "I guess I was just trying to delay
the inedible." 
