Why I can’t keep a houseplant alive…

You know it’s humid when…

…you can’t take photos outside because your lens keeps fogging up.

I was getting rather worried about my camera, because I couldn’t get it to focus, and everything was so dark, despite the bright sun and the settings I was using. Then I checked the lens and realized the problem. After that, I kept a microfiber cloth out there with me to clean the lens periodically, and that worked much better.

Before
After

Edit: At a much later date, I disabled comments on this entry because I started getting a bunch of spam comments on it.

Uh, yeah…

My cat locked me out of the house today. I went to get the mail, came back, walked up the front steps, and grabbed the handle of the screen door. The door wouldn’t open. I knocked on the door and waited while one of my sisters came to open the door. When I stepped inside, there sat the cat, blinking at me. She had actually flipped the switch to lock the door. She was sitting on the table beside the door wearing an expression too deep and catlike for me to grasp. But I know she was laughing at me. I think it was payback for the pictures of her bath.

Bath Day for Kitty

Most definitely not a happy cat. She’s pretty good about it though, and will stand there and let my sister clean her up without much fight. She just gives out an “I will kill you look” while doing so.

One more picture. I dare you.

A little less angry after the bath, but still not happy.

Another Picture

By this point, I hoped to have taken a lot more pictures, posted a bunch here, and kept up with my blog a bit more regularly. But I got that virus the day I got my camera, and caught the flu the day I got over the virus, so I haven’t exactly felt up to all that. However, I think I’m finally getting over all that stuff, so hopefully I’ll have a lot more pictures to share in the coming days, and will have more to write about here, something besides being sick.

I do have one picture I want to share of our cat, Belle. She’s such a cute thing, which makes her a likely candidate for a photo subject.

Valentine’s Day Pains

From the brilliant Daniel Gardner:

New camera!

I haven’t been posting nearly enough lately. I hope to start posting more though, between pictures and craft projects. Which brings me to…my new camera! I got it for my birthday, and love it. It’s a Canon PowerShot A570. I’ve been playing around with it a lot, trying to figure out the settings. I’m getting over a virus I caught the day I got the camera, so with that, I haven’t been up to taking as many pictures as I hoped to have by now. I have gotten some, however, and I’m having fun figuring things out. I really want to learn more about photography, and this has a lot of manual settings, so it’s good to learn with.

This is my favorite so far:

Also, I made my mom an apron for her birthday, and took pictures as I went along. I plan on posting those soon, with general directions for how I made the apron.

Back!

My blog is back! I missed it! It’s been up and down lately, as I’ve been trying to move it from one server to another and had trouble transferring the domain. But as you can see, it’s back now!

I hope to soon actually have something up at the home page, so wovenandspun.net will be a bit more interesting. I’m also working toward getting an Etsy shop up soon, which I’ll link to on here. I’m thinking about having a separate craft blog, where I post pictures of various things I make and link to the Etsy shop. Then if I wanted to give someone the link, they could just go to wovenandspun.net and find my craft stuff.  I haven’t yet decided though.

Homeschooling families

Just this afternoon, my mom and my sisters and I were talking about how we’re different enough from the majority of people, that many would probably think we’re as odd as The Addams Family. Then I just found this video, and thought it was hilarious.

A Homeschooled Family

Technical Difficulties…

I’m in the middle of switching all of our sites to a different web hosting service, so there may be various technical malfunctions until that’s resolved. I may disable comments until it’s fixed, because any comments added from now until it’s done may be lost. Hopefully we’ll be up and running again soon! I’m tired of the service we have, because it’s almost constantly giving me grief in some way or another, whether it’s one of our sites being down or their site not functioning properly. We’ve been with them for a while now, but from various reviews I’ve been reading, it would seem I’m not the only one with these issues. I find more negative reviews than positive regarding their service. However, I’m only finding positive things about the one we’re switching to, so I have high hopes for their service! Hopefully our sites will be running better once the switch is made.

Also, I added a new section to my profile, which I’ll keep updated with various things I’m reading, interested in, and working on. I’ll add more info soon.