Beady eye to beady eye (what you doing with that camera, honey?)
I was looking through the oldest of the hellpuppy photos and this is what I found at the beginning of the roll. If I’d realised I was about to have a baby robin photo op I’d've washed the pots.
. . . SIGH. No, I have no idea why this one’s all little and you can barely see it even when you click on it to make it larger, and the frame is supposed to go away when you make it live, the instructions say so. That’s a baby robin, okay? And I can’t reload the wretched thing (the photo, not the robin) because it and the scanner are at the cottage and I’m at the mews, eating dinner, having thoughtfully and cleverly loaded several baby robin photos on my memory stick and brought it down here all ready to post a nice low-stress low-effort blog entry. As a part of the plan for a nice low-stress low-effort evening. Which has been blown past recovery by Chaos out of the blue refusing pointblank to touch his dinner. WTFFFFFF??? He’s been fine. And this is not on the low-stress schedule.
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Eee, tiny robin is tiny!
Don’t worry about the pots. The ferrets always do cute things when their cages are especially dirty, too. I think that’s just animals keeping us honest. *sigh* ;)
*Yes.* The hellhounds like to *eat in bed* as well as shedding for England, and since Chaos EATS dog beds (NOT HIS FOOD, BUT GIVE HIM A PADDED DOG BED . . . ) I have to use blankets, which are GHASTLY in about forty-eight hours, and I am NOT GOING TO WASH DOG BLANKETS EVERY OTHER DAY.
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Chaos! Geeze, Chaos! Beds don’t digest! That is not quite the fiber people keep talking about…
The ferrets eat in bed, too. If I was a good person, I’d wash the ferret laundry every other day, but we don’t have actual water lines here! We have a cistern some dude comes to fill up every couple weeks, and only if we bleed money at him. We can’t wash ferret laundry every other day. (Even if I wanted to. Urgh. Ferret laundry.)
This just further proves to me the hellhounds and ferrets would get along splendidly. They’re trying to make us crazy with their bedding! (And doing a good job, too.)
Okay, wait a minute . . . you don’t have WATER?? What century are you living in? Wait, wait, you have COMPUTERS but no WATER??
Although I agree with you about ferret laundry. Dog laundry. Urrgh.
Hellhounds and ferrets have a common ancestor. *really* recent. Like grandparents or something. :)
Isn’t it ridiculous?
I mean, we have water. There are pipes in our house and stuff. But they don’t get water from the town. The cistern is outside, and our water gets pumped in from that. Big bummer whenever we run out. (We did last night. Urgh. Water man came this morning so we could shower and brush teeth and stuff.)
The house is about 70 years old, which isn’t an excuse, I know, because someone could have gotten it taken care of at any point…but no one did. We could have town water (actually a new thing around here :S) if we wanted to give the town somewhere between $5000-7500…which we might have to do, if the cistern really is dying from age.
Big water drama. :)
Golly. Excitement where you least expect it. (And, possibly, *want* it.) No brush teeth before go to bed! UGGGGGGGGGGGGH!
We keep five gallon jugs full of water, just for this purpose. ;) S’okay for brushing teeth and washing faces. And, you know, important things like the toilet!
I AM VERY RELIEVED. (There, another reason to be able to sleep tonight. :)) Gods, you’re reminding me of living in the back woods of Maine. Yes. But there you saved your gallon jugs of good water for drinking and things and you flushed the toilet with the stuff with moss and tadpoles in it from the stream. . . . I used to try to fish the tadpoles out. . . .
I AM GOING TO BED NOW.
If Chaos has been eating well recently, this is probably the exception which proves the rule, so try not to worry (very difficult to follow, this, I know) and keep to the low stress plan, which sounds just what you need …
Candles and hugs (and the bar of green & blacks which I hid from Dawn French last night :))
*sends EAT YOUR DINNER vibes to Chaos… and Darkness for good measure!*
Well, you can still SEE it… it just is very little.
But still cute.
So yay[?]
Enjoy your dinner!!!
–Julia
It’s almost as adorable as my quail chicks. :)
Oh, *quail* chicks! OOoooooh! Any photos? (Preferably of a VISIBLE size?)
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I’m not sure. I’ll look for pictures, but it will probably mean trawling through masses of pictures with very little guarantee of finding anything. If I find anything, I will email it to you. If I don’t, it means that I haven’t had time to go trawling through said masses of pictures or I didn’t find any quail chick pictures there.
Oh! Idea spark! Here’s a URL to a picture I found online for you:
http://martybugs.net/gallery/photos/IMG_2894_600.jpg
Oh, have a few more. They are so darling.
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/52/182831157_4a793bca92.jpg?v=0
(Don’t know why there are so many.)
http://www.quailrestoration.com/images/baby_quail_chick.jpg
http://dianesjohnson.com/images/Family/quailnew_small.jpg
(To give scale to how tiny they are)
http://www.wildnatureimages.com/images%203/060524-019..jpg
http://www.dkimages.com/discover/previews/803/10017685.JPG
Hi again.
I just sent you an email with the photo attached– I downloaded this image and cut out the white bit and then photoshopped it so it is bigger and clearer and stuff.
I sent it from my school email, not the same one as the email I sent the bell picture email from… but it is still me!
Hope it goes through, and that maybe your day is a little better and less stressful again!
–Julia
Gosh! Okay . . . I’ll go look! thanks! :)
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Hahahahaha. I did the same thing. Except I don’t have Photoshop, so I didn’t make it bigger. *high five*
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You’re trying to cheer me up, right? :)
Always! :)
*high five* back at you!
Great minds think alike, eh? Or at least minds of we readers of the McKinley blog who do all we can to make life easier or better for her… especially when it is actually something more than virtual hugs and candles and chocolate!
Yeah, Photoshop came with my laptop, which is really nice- because it is ridiculously expensive… yay for college laptops [which themselves are ridiculously expensive] that come with software. Except I often waste time playing with pictures. One MORE way to be distracted from my work, eh?
:)
–Julia
I’m sure Blogmom will come to your rescue before me, but the problem appears to be with the actual image, not the uploading/blog displaying part. You need to open the file up in an image editor and crop out everything but the photo (the black “border” is really part of the image). If you need an image editor GIMP (gimp.org) is free and good.
I imagine the reason why it’s not getting very big is that Blogmom has your settings so that anytime you upload a file, it gets resized so as not to take up a ton of server space/bandwidth, which is usually fine but less helpful in a case like this, where we want to zoom in on the photo. I would guess that if you cropped the original and then re-uploaded it, it would be a decent size.
However, all blog posts (and pictures) are a gift, so please don’t feel obligated to futz around with it!
Yes but why THIS time when so far as I know I’ve done EXACTLY the same thing before successfully?????? I *am* going to try rescanning the photos . . . tomorrow.
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It looks like your scanner is thinking the white background is part of the image instead of cutting it off like it normally does. I have had this problem when I tried scanning without closing the cover all the way (makes those black borders that the scanner can see and therefore saves because it must be important), or when my white background got a mark on it. Also, your scanner may want a photograph placed in a specific corner. Where you are putting it is the bottom right corner (if you think of the glass as a piece of paper); you might try putting the photo up against the top left corner instead (usually there is a cryptic little arrow in one of the corners that means where you are supposed to put small things).
It worked just fine with the rose photo a week or so back, but your suggestion about a mark on the background . . . I’m going to try cleaning the screen before I try again.
My guess is that you didn’t resize the area you were scanning to just include the picture, hence we’re seeing the whole scanner bed. I’ve done that accidentally before too. :)
Oooh, no GIMP for Robin. No no no. It’s an excellent program, it’s true, but unless one is a Linux geek or married to one, that is not a program I’d recommend. Especially to Robin!
(I say this with much affection, Robin, having seen your issues with other things. GIMP is great, but it’s huge and confusing – I had it downloaded on my laptop, and couldn’t figure it out after a few tries. And, as you say, I was born knowing how to drive a computer. ;)
If you ever need images resized or anything, you have the emails of a bunch of people who’d be happy to do it for you. It takes about .6 seconds. :)
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I may get back to you tomorrow, after I’ve tried to reload! And I am NEVER offended by being assumed to be beneath human comprehension-ly computer hopeless!!!!!