Puzzling

Christmas puzzle finally finished. Dinner will once again be served in the dining room!

Grown up pups

Gorgeous puppies with piranha-like teeth.

Olympics

Says it all!

Winter

Snow Day

After another night of the heavy white stuff

the driveway is finally clear and I have some time

 to finish Ian Rankin's new book. The title gives 

us a clue to the content of the book. The shadow bible was

a book of Scots law on which Rebus' group of policemen

swore to cover up their

collective rule-bending in the name of the greater

good. I think I learned a lot more about Rebus in this book.

Still a favourite of mine.

Dream on...

Oh summer, how much longer?

Posts are nicer with pictures.

Cardinal

Our backyard beauty patiently waiting for his turn at one of our feeders on Sunday. His mate just finished up and was chased off by a squirrel.  Sadly we missed getting her pic.  Maybe today!

Books

Ahhh, Friday night. Again. What to read this weekend. Well, honestly I've been on a roll lately with my reading choices and it occurred to me last week that I have absolutely no loyalty to one author or genre.  Well, most of the time, that is. I read pretty much everything.

I love Bill Bryson's books. All of them. I don't know why I haven't realized before this that his books are all different from his others. His new book is called One Summer - America 1927. I had a really hard time putting it down. He's a master of narrative non-fiction.  I've know this for a long time but every new book reinforces the obvious. In this particular book he takes events from that summer and weaves them into a wonderful adventure.

Too rarely I read Canadian authors. A.S.A. Harrison surprised me. Sadly she didn't live to see this book published.  It's called The Silent Wife and is  a psychological thriller. Not to give anything away but her central character is a wonderfully complicated woman who manages, while living in the present, to completely ignore her ongoing relationship issues. She's a little bit scary. It has a great ending!

The Monuments Men was a terrific read. Until recently, when I saw George Clooney interviewed about his upcoming movie,  I had never really paid much attention to the story of the group of individuals asked by President Roosevelt to go to Europe  during the Second World War. Their mission was to find the great pieces of art which had been stolen by the Nazis and hidden behind enemy lines. They were to return it to the countries it came from, risking their lives many times during the process. These men were for the most part, not soldiers, but rather museum directors, curators and art historians.  Wonderful. Written by Robert M Edsel.

So many books, so little time. Working in a library is sometimes a little bit like taking part in an ongoing book club. Definitely a perk!

Week 5

Movie night at the library!

                              Free popcorn and a drink!!

Moving right along in Week 5 creating a library movie blurb in an art board on my Pinterest page and moving it to my blog.  Hmmm, not bad but have to learn more about how to place the pic in the designated space on the page. And probably more about what can be seen by the public as in how to create a secret board, etc. It was a week of widgits and gadgets, deletes and much googling. Not intending to learn more about codes for the time being .  HTML scares me a little. :D

Pinterest

So I finally figured out how to create a "follow me button" which links my Pinterest boards to my blog. Don't know how to delete the first one but the second try is perfectly placed on the right hand side of my home page and it works! Made an error when putting in my Pinterest username and it was downhill from there. It's all good now!  Success!

The problem with adding a Pinterest widget to my blog is that, although it connects to my account, the boards displayed belong to someone else. Haven't figured out how to change that yet. I've had a Pinterest account for some time and use it many times each week. Would be useful to have a pin button on my blog. However I may have to learn how to change the template etc. Will try again tomorrow.

Apps

Got a new app today (Waterlogue)  that turns your pictures into watercolour art. My new bird pic looks like this now- I just might frame it.

Bird Break

 All "things"completed for week 4. Time to treat the local wildlife!

Groan

So for today's exercise I created a Wordle and after asking and receiving some tips from the nbrunswick23 team I clicked on the HTML icon and under that I copied and pasted my wordle. I was disappointed that the code came up but no picture but chose preview and (voila!) there it was on my main blog page . Sideways, mind you, but there. Now I'll try and figure out if I can turn it without taking a course in code! And here it is.

Pics and puppies!

Success! Found a way to move a picture of my friend's new puppies from my email to my blog. Love it! Learned lots of new ways to manipulate photos during this process.

Week 4

Adventures continue into week 4 and images, specifically digital images, and how to find them and how to give credit to the author who created them. Reviewed NBPLS image use guidelines. So here goes -    


                                           



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Well, not a bad first try. To be continued...