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.