Havoc and Mayhem

Scrapbook Saturday

Welcome to Scrapbook Saturday! I hope you all will join me and link up your layout posts.

I’ve got two layouts to share this week.

You can find credits for them at my Sweet Shoppe Designs gallery

Link up your layouts here.

Thanks for joining me!

This new batch of chickens are far more interested in what goes on in the house than the previous bunch. I don’t think the previous bunch ever paid much attention to the door, though they did peck around in the sage off the right of it.

This flock though seems to spend a rather inordinate amount of time just standing there, in a group, right in front of the door, watching me cook.

This is extremely disconcerting when I have to crack eggs.

I feel like I have to stand sideways to island & block their view of my hands while I am doing it or I’m going to have an angry mob of chickens kicking in the door.

They block access both in & out standing there. You have to knock them out of the way if you want to use the door.

They bang their beaks on it sometimes, which sounds like someone knocking. If I am in another room I get a bit weirded out hearing it because I didn’t hear a car in the driveway & cannot imagine why anyone would walk all the way down my driveway if they didn’t have some sort of ill intent.

I’m not entirely sure the chickens don’t have any ill intent.

They know I have their eggs.

And we have achieved full

ere.ction!!!

My Blight on the Landscape™ is back!

And the man from my ISP managed to get it up with only minimum pulling on my part.

It’s so hard to do these pole & tower related posts with out using words that will attract the less desirable elements of the internet.

So I just embrace it.

Because actually, it was also minimum scre.wing on my part.

I held in place & then tightened guide wire bolts when his partner in crime was called away to an emergency repair on a signal tower & I had a choice of waiting until they could get around to me later or helping out.

Naturally I said “Well if it’s help achieving ere.ction I‘m your girl! I’ve had lots of practice over the years.”

Because I’ve been helping these guys get their poles up in my yard since 2007.

Now that my landscape has been re-blighted my internet has improved exponentially.

That big dish at the top is the second most powerful receiver they have.

I used to download stuff at a max speed of maybe 70kbs, on a good day, around 10am, Tuesday mornings, when the wind is from the south & I am the only person using that signal tower. Lately it had been more like 38kbs, with frequent lows of down near 5kbs.

I haven’t watched a non buffered You Tube clip in a year or more. I‘ve heard of this thing called ‘streaming video’ but never experienced it in my own home. If the video doesn’t buffer, I can’t watch it.

But now! Now I’m downloading at anywhere from 400-550kbs!

I watched Downton Abby on pbs.com with no pauses yesterday!

Graphics load instantly!

I uploaded 11months worth of 2011’s edited photos to Smug Mug in less time than it took me to upload a single month’s worth a week ago.

Yay for faster internet!

And yay for my ISP returning my Blight on the Landscape™ to me!

They really are good guys, despite my sometimes frustrated comments about them.