Travel
Thanks to readers who have commented on my problems with spam. My blog currently allows anyone to comment, and I can deal with a couple of spams a day. You may remember a few months back I received close to 100 spams in about two days. Since each comment comes to my inbox in a separate email as well as on the blog, you can imagine how inconvenient it is to find a great number of spam comments that I have to delete, as well as to go and delete them from the blog. Yes, blogger doesn't let them get to the main page that is viewed by readers, and I'm thankful for that, but I still have to delete them from the spam folder. For now I will take a wait and see position.
I drove over to the Farmers Market near my house this morning - the clock in my car showed 9:15 a.m. as I left home. I was pulling into my driveway at 9:38, so you can see I had a plan for shopping and stuck to it. There weren't as many stalls as at some Markets in the summer, but I found lots of fruits and vegetables to buy. I also splurged on a large bottle of olive oil - the olives were harvested in October and the oil was bottled yesterday, and has a rich and robust flavor that is my favorite. A woman who was leaving as I arrived at the stand said she was going back to Montana with her olive oil, and would be back next year. She said how this was her favorite oil. The man selling the oil spoke to me in Italian and I understood him!
I think next week I will walk over on the trail behind my house. I've walked with Lady up to the section that goes under Freeway 50, and it looks like it isn't much further to the location of the Market - the parking lot at the light rail station.
These are the opportunities I will miss so badly when I am at Lassen this summer. I almost never buy canned or frozen and I might have a problem getting fresh fruits & veggies in the northern counties. I'll be able to find them, but it will require many miles of driving to get to them.
- Dreaded Job Finished, For Now
I'm talking about laundry, and it's dreaded because I have to wash the clothes, then load them into the car to dry them at a nearby laundry. It's really not that bad, but for some reason I hate doing it. The towels will wait until...
- Catching Up
My trip is finally catching up with me and I am really tired. This morning I cleaned up the kitchen and then made a big pot of minestrone-style vegetable soup, but this afternoon I sat down with a glass of wine to look at a magazine and fell asleep...
- Who Can Figure?
I have about one week left until my cable tv is cancelled, and lo and behold I again have the Science Channel. DirecTV removed it from my service, then told me it was in another package and I would have to pay additional to get it. So I get...
- Comments And Spam
A couple of days ago I changed my settings so that anyone could comment, and hoped the spammers would leave me alone. I immediately got a couple of spams and the number is growing. Blogger catches them, fortunately, but I do have to go back...
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Thanks to all who have responded to my dilemma with blogging. I can only think it is something to do with my computer and the way it is set up - Blogger doesn't work correctly when I use Firefox, but it does when I use Safari. I'm...
Travel
Saturday morning
Thanks to readers who have commented on my problems with spam. My blog currently allows anyone to comment, and I can deal with a couple of spams a day. You may remember a few months back I received close to 100 spams in about two days. Since each comment comes to my inbox in a separate email as well as on the blog, you can imagine how inconvenient it is to find a great number of spam comments that I have to delete, as well as to go and delete them from the blog. Yes, blogger doesn't let them get to the main page that is viewed by readers, and I'm thankful for that, but I still have to delete them from the spam folder. For now I will take a wait and see position.
I drove over to the Farmers Market near my house this morning - the clock in my car showed 9:15 a.m. as I left home. I was pulling into my driveway at 9:38, so you can see I had a plan for shopping and stuck to it. There weren't as many stalls as at some Markets in the summer, but I found lots of fruits and vegetables to buy. I also splurged on a large bottle of olive oil - the olives were harvested in October and the oil was bottled yesterday, and has a rich and robust flavor that is my favorite. A woman who was leaving as I arrived at the stand said she was going back to Montana with her olive oil, and would be back next year. She said how this was her favorite oil. The man selling the oil spoke to me in Italian and I understood him!
I think next week I will walk over on the trail behind my house. I've walked with Lady up to the section that goes under Freeway 50, and it looks like it isn't much further to the location of the Market - the parking lot at the light rail station.
These are the opportunities I will miss so badly when I am at Lassen this summer. I almost never buy canned or frozen and I might have a problem getting fresh fruits & veggies in the northern counties. I'll be able to find them, but it will require many miles of driving to get to them.
- Dreaded Job Finished, For Now
I'm talking about laundry, and it's dreaded because I have to wash the clothes, then load them into the car to dry them at a nearby laundry. It's really not that bad, but for some reason I hate doing it. The towels will wait until...
- Catching Up
My trip is finally catching up with me and I am really tired. This morning I cleaned up the kitchen and then made a big pot of minestrone-style vegetable soup, but this afternoon I sat down with a glass of wine to look at a magazine and fell asleep...
- Who Can Figure?
I have about one week left until my cable tv is cancelled, and lo and behold I again have the Science Channel. DirecTV removed it from my service, then told me it was in another package and I would have to pay additional to get it. So I get...
- Comments And Spam
A couple of days ago I changed my settings so that anyone could comment, and hoped the spammers would leave me alone. I immediately got a couple of spams and the number is growing. Blogger catches them, fortunately, but I do have to go back...
-
Thanks to all who have responded to my dilemma with blogging. I can only think it is something to do with my computer and the way it is set up - Blogger doesn't work correctly when I use Firefox, but it does when I use Safari. I'm...