July 2, 2007
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4th Of July 2007
Past time, a-g-a-i-n, for another entry.
Have A Safe and Festive
4th of July, Xanga
This is a travel poster I designed for a challenge our small group was given. It just felt like the 4th displaying bits and pieces of Ohio. The Blues Brother is a photo taken of a decorator piece that was on display at a local restaurant.
A 4th of July desktop. Right click on the above pic for the 800 x 600
CLICK HERE for the 1024 x 768
I am looking forward to the 4th. I hope to take some new photos and enjoy a picnic. The most exciting thing I am doing lately, includes move. Good move-ies and moving furniture and move-s to whatever part of the house I need to move to. Our house is too small and how that happened is a question as we did have a family of four here plus room for company. I need to trash what doesn’t matter.
Halie and her other half are traveling to his class reunion in Iowa. I want to send some things home with them including a fouton sofa. They are driving a Volvo. I think the car won’t carry a sofa. I had high hopes.
BOB HOPE MOVIES: See info on Bob Hope accomplishments HERE. See a biography HERE. VERY SHORT AND SWEET INFO: born May 1903, died July 2003, with his beginnings in Vaudeville he graduated to MOVIES from the 1930′s until the 1980′s acting in 77 movies.
Update on a Bob Hope DVD order “The Ultimate Bob Hope Collection” DVD’s, I placed with Publishers Clearing House.
1- order placed 5/29/2007 arrived 6/29/2007
2- the original order form listed this amount $24.99 with payments divided into 4 parts. On arrival an additional shipping charge $6.99 was added in.
3- The order page details were 10 disks, 10 movies. The movies came on 5 disks double sided.
4- I really like upfront, exacting details for a purchase so I am not completely happy. I will be very careful with orders placed and do some print screening of details. The disks as the are double sided are difficult to read the title text, naturally. The digital editing seems good, they are decent reproductions of the originals. Still a good deal as it is 10 movies my cost going from $2.50 per movie to $3.20 per movie and divide that by two = $1.60 per person to watch and that is cheaper than we could purchase a ticket. Now take into account what a ticket would have cost me at the Emery Theater as a kid, per ticket =50 cents. AMAZING what reading a few numbers can do to your sensibilities.Getting past the garbage’, the movies are there, all ten of them and they are fun to watch, nostalgic and interesting to notice the difference between movies made today and earlier in the industry meaning 1947 – 1969 for the movies I received. We have watched 4 and one includes Roy Rogers which turned out to be interesting and another with a scene that included shaving off an eyebrow, Halie are you reading? ANOTHER INTERESTING MOVIE SITE: CLICK HERE
The weekly photo challenge, I have returned to playing with my photos on my PhotoGraphics site. There challenge is a nice way to display your photos and see other’s photos as well. If you like photography digital or otherwise you might be interested. No membership required, just play. GO HERE for the challenge and jump right in. The list of people who have accepted this week’s challenge is in the current entries comments.
I need a background script, for comments left in Xanga guestbooks. I am able to put a background behind comments left for blog entries but I really need something for the guestbooks. My busy graphics don’t handle comments well. If anyone knows of a script and could lead me to it I would appreciate the information.
Eden is home from her Student Leadership conference. She is tired but had a wonderful time (life changing according to what she told her mom) and was reluctant to leave as were the others attending. It had to be quite something from what I have heard, so far and once again TIME FLEW.
Stay upbeat and remember our men and women who serve. See helpful links to the left side of my page or visit Xangan USA_Troops_Aide.
HAVE A SUPER 4TH OF JULY
Becca
Comments (8)
It’s a “get out of jail free Independence Day” in George Bush’s America! Celebrate by outing a CIA spy! Maybe announcing a Marine action in advance!
but less sarcastically, its a great poster…
How was Eden’s conference?
Have a great picnic and holiday…
Between you, T-Nuts and Josaju, I am beginning to think Ohio is a pretty nice place!! Of course, if I moved from WI, it would be further south, where it is warmer year around. But, certainly have a better impression of Ohio that I did before I started blogging!
We have much-needed rain today, and it is also forecast for tomorrow, the Fourth. For us it doesn’t matter—we don’t do anything anyway, but may put the damper on many festivities in the area.
ryc: A “settler” thing – not religion really, though the religions, Catholicism v American-style Calvinism are so culturally different it creates problems. But more like American whites moving into Indian lands. The Protestants (“Prods” in local slur) were sent by the British from Scotland (which wanted to be rid of them) to colonise the Irish. To take the land from “the natives” and make it productive for the Empire. The division in terms of citizenship was simply a means of British control (the Brits divided all their colonies: Jewish v. Muslim Palestinians, Hindu v. Muslim Indians, English v. Dutch whites v. Black v “Colored” South Africans, the tribes of Nigeria – it was their way of “dividing and conquering, favouring one group over another to gain “local allies” – you can see the love Rumsfeld, Cheney, Wolfowitz have for the British Empire Strategies in the way the US has divided the groups in Iraq). When “The Troubles” broke out the Brits, especially with Heath/Thatcher in charge, emphasized this – putting the police and army together with Protestant paramilitaries (which long pre-dated the IRA) in an unholy war on the Catholic population. Centuries later, we are just trying to get past the consequences.
Thank you for linking USA_troops_aide!!
God Bless.
(((HAPPY 4 of JULY)))
That half of my eyebrow has yet to regrow properly. I have only a few, stray hairs where once were many.