Friday, July 31, 2009

I didn't realize WorldCat offered so much information. I searched for a favorite book and found it at the Broken Bow Library. This is the library I made a favorite. I can see that this will be useful in the library if a patron is searching for a certain book. This way we can find the book in a regional library and the sight even tells the mileage from Burwell. I added a list to my RSS feed. I didn't realize how handy the RSS feature is. When I mention RSS to most people they look at me with a blank look. I have really benefited from the information I have learned doing the 2.0.

Monday, June 29, 2009

This is assignment part 2 and part 3. I did a basic search for Garfield County Library and found our library at the top of the list. The marker was placed correctly. All the info on our library was correct. Currently we don't have a web sight so there is no information on that. I went on to claim the library and tried to put in a picture of the library. However I went out and took a picture of the exterior of the building but when I went to upload it said it was too big. Then I looked at the requirements and it can't be bigger than 1MB. My picture was 1,233KB. Also can't be more than 1024 x 1024. How do I resize the picture I took to use it? I had a terrible time trying to put our hours in. We have split shifts and there is a check mark to put in split shifts but everytime I tried to put the hours for Mon, Wed and Friday and Saturday it put hours on Tues and Thurs and when I marked closed beside those two it took away one of the hours for Wed. Finally I just marked I prefered not to list the hours. I did get to the point they will send me a postcard with a pin to activate it. I am going to have to do some more practicing before I will be ready to show anyone else.

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

There is a lot more to Google Maps than I realized. I looked up the address 1445 K St. 68509 and found the state capitol. And yes I could tell the color of the cars parked around it. Especially the red and black. I prefered the map view. Watching the street view made me a little dizzy. I really liked the photos on the places we were to search.

Thursday, May 28, 2009

Back to learning new technolgy of Web 2.0. I RSS the twitter alerts and the Google alerts and waited several days and I guess Burwell NE is not too noteworthy because I received no alerts. That is not too surprising because I think most of the people in Burwell don't know what Twitter is . I have had several people ask me about Twitter and I try to explain how it works. The common response is who cares what someone is doing every minute. Next week we are having the BIT mobile, Business and Information and Technolgy mobile, come to the Garfield County Library. We are offering three sessions for people to be introduced with the Internet and Web 2.0. We are not having very much success in filling the 14 seats for each session. Several people have commented that they don't need a class they know all about it. I don't think these people realize the scope of what there is.

Saturday, May 2, 2009

Today I went to an auction. I bought one box of pans which I did'nt even know what was in the box. I got it for 2.50. There were two 9x13pans with snap on lids, a Revere ware skillet 10 inch and a Revere Ware skillet probably 6 inch. Some 8x8 pans and a muffin tin, two cookie sheets. After I left to walk to Mom's Ed bought the cast iron. I wanted to see the cast iron sell but Ed was wanting to go and he checked to seewhere the cast iron was and said it would be a long time. So I left to walk to Mom's and he was to pay the bill. When he went to the trailer to pay the bill he noticed the cast iron was on the table ready to be sold. He waited but didn't know how much to bid so Don Smith told him that one skillet would be about 30.00. So he bought the chicken fryer and a big skiller for 12.50 each and then a pile of smaller skillets and a griddle for 10.00 total. They need cleaned up but will be nice pans. Then we came home and watched the Kentucky Derby and saw a 95oo.oo horse beat the million dollar horses. When the band played My OLd Kentucky Home I think I saw a kid that Home Makeover did a house for. He was in a wheelchair and blind but he played the trumpet and his Dad pushed him in marching band. Today they just showed a glimpse of the bank but there was a kid in a wheelchair and an older man standing beside him. When they did the makeover that family did live in Kentucky. After the derby Jerryl and I went to the Prom Promanade. There were some real pretty dresses this year. A lot of ball gown styles with the skirts pulled up in those tufts. One dress was quite striking but different. Real sleek and fitting on a very skinny girl and the print was animal print. The larger girls looked better this year. Nobody wore a sack like they have in the past.
Ted did a good job today of mowing our back yard. Then Ed and Ted cleaned out all the corn husks that had blown in by the garage door. They were just finishing that when Carl Streeter came to spray the yard for the first time. Now if it will rain tonight that will be perfect timing.
Last night Jerryl and Mom and I went to Atkinson to shop at Smith's going out of business sale. We bought some fabric to sew some of Mom's quilt blocks together. Janny met us there and we ate at Subway. Mom was able eat the pizzas they have there.
I had a lady at the library show me this slide show today. I thought you would enjoy seeing it. It makes me want to go there altough I don't know if I could make the climb.

Monday, April 27, 2009

Just a catch up: On April 14 Jerryl and I had club at the Community Center in Taylor. We had a preety good attandance. For the lesson I showed how to make a pie crust. I made 3 crusts in aluminum pans and then Sandy Cronk took them home and was going to fill them with something to take to the Morgan family. Their Bridge Club was fixing supper for the family so she was going to use that as one of the desserts. I still am surprised at how many people have trouble making a pie crust.
This weekend my Mom, sisters, daughters and neice went to Lincoln to the quilt study center to see the Grace Snyder quilts. The exhibit was very interesting although on the video about Grace's life they mispronounce Tryon, the town she and Bert went to live by after they were married. We ate lunch at the Olive Garden and that was very enjoyable. I have taken home Grace Snyder's biography and plan on reading it aloud to Mom. The print is too small for her to see. Also have taken home two smaller books by Grace's youngest daughters. I can't understand why that woman was making a giant block of Grace's flower basket block and I still think she was wrong when she said Grace had to work on that quilt from dawn to dusk. On Sunday we didn't do anything. I didn't even have to leave the house. Ed made pancakes and sausage that we ate pretty late in the morning and I made calzones for supper. I used some Italian sausage that was Johnsonville that I bought at Wal-Mart in GI. It was bulk not cased but it didn't have a very good flavor. I will be busy at the Sandstone the week of graduation. One family has ordered 8 cheesecakes and another wants mini desserts. I will be ready for a break.
Today is a cold and dreary day. No rain. It is light now when I go to work early in the morning and I don't have to scrape a window anymore. That helps. Tomorrow I have to do the calling to see which natural gas supplier is the cheapest and which we will go with. That is such a crock. It makes a difference what hour you call at what the rate will be.