Took some pretty pictures of the lavender/blue bearded iris outside, and uploading said pictures plus what ever was lurking on my memory stick while I wait on dishes to air dry so I can do another sinkful plus choke Bloglines with a huge OPML file.

Started back to taking pictures. I need to remember to take my camera with me more often. Also have been working on some fic ideas and even poking at the mythology for a world I’m building for a novel or two.

Did some tweaks to the sidebars, and have added new header images to the theme.

The new Overlords :

Jazz is the teeny fluff of gray, Sansa is the calico and her sister is Oryx, the tabby. Jazz is Queen of the Overlords, if such a thing is possible?

Two of my headers are from personal photographs and the others are from various places on the Net, so all credit goes to the original photographers. All I did was crop them to fit.

Also added a new toy: Abbey Links. It’s my lifestream, everything I link or post to the Net.

Also pondering switching my gallery to NextGen Gallery and moving my custom pages to WP for easy management and one spot to manage them.

We went up to Cades Cove this morning for a family breakfast which was rather nice. It was foggy and oh so pretty. I took some photos which can be found at my Picasa Web Albums gallery page. I’ve also uploaded various pictures I’ve done as well.

Or in my case, a hubby who likes XBOX Live and no way to share the cable internet. Well, in times of no access, I usually messed around with my files, either reading fics I've archived on my hard drive or in tidying up my bookmarks. I've made some headway in plotting out a book I'll like to write and even corralled the plot bunnies for a second book.  And I've been playing around taking photos of clouds and other things, trying to learn how to take decent and pretty digital pictures.

I've posted pictures of our new addition. She's a purebred Doberman Pinscher, 9 weeks old on Monday and oh so sweet. We picked her up Friday night and she's spoiled rotten already. We have her in the house for now until I housetrain her then she'll be outside more and come in at night or when its too hot or cold or wet. Her name is Raven since she is black. We're keeping her ears natural and perhaps breed her when she is older for about 1-2 litters. But we'll see. I also have a picture of my little one, Emily. She had just gotten up in that picture so she was still sleepy. She adores Raven and today they wore each other out chasing each other and wrestling. We're keeping an eye on both of them, since Emily hasn't grasped the meaning of being gentle with animals quite yet and Raven is little as well.

Went up to the mountains today to place flowers at my grandfather and great grandfather's graves. It took me a bit to find my great grandfather's grave as I didn't attend the burial and wasn't too sure on the exact location. I took fresh flowers as I didn't like the choices of silk flowers.