I am the slackest of the slack

[pipspebble]

Well, I'm back. And have missed you all, and apologize for being such a fly-by-night correspondant. I've been away, back again, been reading but no time to respond or update. I'm taking the time now, simply because if I don't do it now, I'll look up in a week and it STILL won't have been done.

Comments

[rabidsamfan]

They're very pretty pictures, but if you edit in an LJ-cut, I'll bless you! My computer screen isn't wide enough and the rest of my flist is distorted by the widest pics...

(And I am properly jealous of you for getting to spend a week in lovely scenery while I've been stuck at work.)

[pipspebble]

Oh, dear, I'm sorry. So I've *still* not got it right? :-( I have trouble enough doing the ljuser cut, as anyone who's read past entries can tell. Hopeless, I am, I am utterly hopeles. *sigh* Can someone educate this village idiot on the proper way to edit this entry so that I don't mess anyone else up?

*crawling away like Gollum*......

[rabidsamfan]

You're doing fine!

To include an lj-cut, go to the entry and click on the icon for editing it. Then after the first sentence or paragraph or so type in

<*lj-cut*>

(Take out the asterisks, though. I only put them in so you could see what it looks like.)

Save the entry and it will solve the problem. All the pictures will be behind a link that says "Read More"

If you want to tell people what's in the link type

<*lj-cut text="Whateveritis"*>

without the asterisks of course
and now on your journal's home page you should see a link that says "whateveritis".

When you're actually looking at the entry, the text will disappear, though, so it's a little strange.

[pipspebble]

I fixed it! I actually fixed something! Thank you for your help. Oh, and, I feel like I'm in mighty good company, too. ;-)

[shirebound]

That cat does look pissy! I'm glad you had a peaceful vacation.

:D

[pipspebble]

It's part of her charm. ;-)

[topaztook]

Oy, do I know the feelin' (that you expressed in the part before the cut).

And the flowers and cabin and all the nature-y stuff looks wonderful. I'm miss having a picture of the dog included, though. :)

[pipspebble]

Hee, hee. She had the BEST time, as you can see here:

[pipspebble]

Actually, she's not really doing anything in that pic, but taking it easy on the deck, looking out over the creek and uphill toward the stables where she knew her horsie friends were waiting for us to come visit. She pretty much zonked out as soon as the sun went down, she was so worn out from all the hiking we did together.

[topaztook]

Yay for doggie pic! Hanging out on the deck can be fun for all species. :

[auntiemeesh]

Those are great pictures! What a beautiful, restful looking place for a vacation. And what pretty flowers. It's nice to know it's spring somewhere in the world. :)

[pipspebble]

Oh, it is definitely Spring down here. We're going to be pushing 80 today. I've been invited to go to opening day of the Renn Faire this weekend and the weather is predicted to be so perfect, that I think I just might go. I haven't been in years, and it is so absolutely gorgeous everywhere you look that it will be good to dress up in Renn garb and go play. Nothing wrong with quaffing a few ales at Ye Olde Tavern. ;-)

[auntiemeesh]

Oh, now that sounds like fun! Dressing in garb and quaffing a few ales (or something). Too bad there aren't any such things around here. We are at least having warm weather this week, although rain is imminent, but the plants are holding off for a while longer due to heavy frosts at night. It will be another month, probably, before spring is really here.

Have fun and quaff a few ales for me!

[westwindschild]

Hmmm, yes - Luna does look a little unforgiving there.
Lovely pix - looks like you had a great vacation. Soooo beautiful! Good thing my vacay is coming up, or I'd have to be the teensiest bit envious! And your garden is gorgeous! I usually get lots of greenery, but hardly ever get bloooms. I don't know how this stuff manages to come back year after year when it doesn't ever seem to flower!

[pipspebble]

That's part of the beauty of perennials. I often forget what's where during the winter months so that when they come back out in the Spring and Summer it's like a lovely surprise! Right now in bloom are azaleas, irises, spiderwort, zinnias, impatiens, wood irises and daisies, phlox, petunias, snapdragons and dianthus. The hosta in the backyard has exploded with greenery, but won't flower until around June. The nearly wild rose got their buds last week and have just started to open up. The gardenias are ready to flower, sedam is bursting up and out with its muted green but won't bloom until Summer, and the canna lilies will push theirselves up about that same time, as will the glads. I forget what else is in there, but, like I said, that's part of the fun. Just call me Sam. ;-)

[westwindschild]

LOL
You are way ahead of us northerners, Sam!
My crocuses shot up lots of "grass" but failed to flower, and I got one daffodil. The irises are flourishing, but they won't bloom for another month. I think the moles ate most of my bulbs, actually. I've noticed lovely lilacs in my walks around the neighborhood. One of these days, I will have a yard with a lilac bush in it! Anyway, your garden looks lovely.

[pipspebble]

Thank you. It's my own little personal therapy site, where I have my daily sessions every morning after taking the lads to school and before I get ready for the Orifice. And then every evening just about an hour before sundown I retreat to the gardens and work out my dragons at the end of the day. And so far the only ones still there in the morning are the "snap"dragons in the front bed. ;-)