Yesterday was rainy on and off all day and I stayed inside and worked most of the day.  My yard is loving the rain and all the flowering plants are blooming.  I just cut the grass a few days ago and it can use it again already.  While I always water at the base of my trees and bushes, I don’t water my lawn, I let it kind of fend for itself.  The half of the back yard that gets full sun all day was mostly browning grass, but it’s now green and getting lush.  The other half of the backyard is under the high shade of several big oaks and pines, and I have St. Augustine grass growing there.  Little by little, each year it creeps out just a little farther into the sunny part of the yard.  Which wasn’t always the sunny part.  It was actually where an oak was growing, which came down in the storms of 2004.  It left me with a view of the big open expanse of north sky, which I had not had before.  I really enjoyed having a new view and being able to see so much at one time.

I remember back in the beginning of Horizons Magazine in the 90’s, I was sitting at my computer with co-founder Kristy Swaim Souto .   She and I have different computer styles.  She looked at my screen and laughed and pointed out that I had all of my Tools and Options showing and yet the size of my actual working screen was very small.  I like keeping my options in the forefront.  Whether in my mind, or on the screen before me.

I’ve been working on my websites and discovering some basic things I have been doing wrong, and correcting them.  I use WebStudio4 to create the pages, a program I love to use.  There is a setting under the Advanced Website Properties that is checked by default, directing that all nonsafe fonts be turned into graphic images.  That means if I use a real fancy font on my webpage, you may not be able to see it unless you have the same font, unless I check this box.  If not, your web browser will do this font conversion thang that can make all the web pages look wacky, with text overlapping, etc.  So, for whatever reason, WebStudio had been turning ALL my fonts into images, not simply the nonsafe ones.

So when I wrote and asked WebStudio what I was doing wrong, they promptly wrote back and told me the fix.  I simply went into each file and unchecked the box and re-uploaded the pages.  That is what I spent yesterday doing.  It was perfect, because I didn’t feel like doing real work, but I like playing with the websites, so it wasn’t really much like work at all.

And today is another day like that.  While I have things I must do, they are rather fun and easy chores and I can take my time in the doing of them.  I could not have designed a better life for myself if I had done it on purpose.  Oh wait, I did do it on purpose, and now I get to live the fruits of my labors.  Yay, me.

If you want to check the websites I was working on, go to Goddess Grub and to AnimalSpiritGuidance and go to Secret2dollars