Goodbye Google Reader

I read quite a few blogs. Some are knitting blogs, some political or news, several are genealogy related. My friends do some blogging, although many are just on Facebook now. I had discovered the best way to follow them all was to subscribe to them through my Google Reader app, on my phone and laptop. So I was a bit upset to hear, a few months ago! that Google was going to abandon their Reader. The deadline is in just a couple days now.

With Google Reader, I could add a blog that I enjoyed and all their posts would be collected in one place for me to read. It saved me from having a ton of bookmarks too. It was a great timesaver.

So with the death of Reader I needed a replacement. I also wanted one that would work with my iPad. I tried and rejected several. There were pros and cons on each. Finally I chose Feedly. It worked on Android and iPad.

Best of all, I was able to import my Reader feeds so I didn't need to search for each and add it.

I highly recommend it to anyone who likes to follow several blogs. It can also work for news feeds and has suggestions and a great search feature.

So goodbye Google Reader. Hello Feedly!

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COFFEE!

I am finally finishing my "morning" coffee. Ahhhhh!

My mammogram was scheduled today. And of course, there is no caffeine allowed before hand. I almost fell asleep in the waiting room, while knitting. And that isn't easy in those hard oversized chairs. (The seat is hard and lumpy. And too deep and tall. My feet dangle off the floor. Couldn't they have picked at least a few smaller chairs for the Women's Health Center?). And with the lack of coffee I gave them the wrong birthdate. Lack of coffee, I swear!

I am doing much better after my coffee.

While watching "They Died With Their Boots On"* last evening, I switched out the threads holding the sleeve stitches on my Duchess of Cambridge Featherweight. With longer threads I could try it on. I was happy to see that it fit fairly well.

The original pattern that I had purchased had to be up sized. I recalculated and had knit quite a bit before a new version came out with larger sizes. So I tweaked the pattern to those stitch counts. Then out came a new version. It seemed that the second version needed adjustments to the sleeves. I'm not quite sure where I am now.

But I know I know I need couple more inches before the ribbing starts.

* I never realized I hadn't seen this movie. In my mind it was confused with a different movie that involved West Point cadets and the Civil War. I think Ron Reagan and Error Flynn were in it. Anyone know what that movie was? I think what it is.

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Craving Strawberries

I would almost kill for fresh strawberry shortcake right now. Or a warm from the sun, slightly sandy big old strawberry, right from the plant. Yum.

That's right, I am craving strawberries.

I think I may have mentioned how, after seeing in the local buyers guide that my favorite berry patch was open, I was foiled last Monday by a "closed for season" sign. It was too warm today for me to try to pick some so I headed out to the highly touted farmers market in town.

Despite all the press I have seen on it lately, it doesn't open till July. Drat.

To fully appreciate my craving you must understand that last year there were no local berries to be had, thanks to the early heat wave, followed by seasonable frosts. And in the few years previous, the berries always ripened in times that did not correspond to paydays. I don't like imported berries from out of the country, or even out of state. Usually picked before really ripe, those are too hard and flavorless. So I only buy them in season, when I can find them.

It looks like another berry-less year.

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Something Profound

My semi regular readers (if any) may have noticed that I haven't posted since early this week. The reason is that I wanted to thing of something to make this a special post. Because this is post number 1000!

Who knew when I started this back in 2007 that I would still be going?

So anyway, here I am. Nothing profound. No farm tidbits. No knitting (!). Just a plain old post, rambling on about nothing in particular.

Now, on to the second thousand.

 

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Nephews Galore

Sunday, I let Hubby sleep most of the day. He couldn't have had a better Father's Day.

I, on the other, hand bummed a ride with my brother to see all my nephews.

The star of the day was my newest grandnephew, not quite two weeks old. He is a cutie. Of course he is still at the Eat, Sleep, and Poop stage of life. Unfortunately whenever I got my hands on him, he was in the third mode.

Aside from myself, the rest of my parent's descendants (brother, two sons, two nephews and now three grandnephews) were male. Here is my brother's side of the family tree.

My brother and my nephews--the grands and the wonderful. At least the family name will live on into another generation.

 

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