Clever Clue of the Month

It worked for me! The photo below is about 85kb. This is from our North Shore trip last month.

What's a three letter word for 'One with a pole position?' or a four letter word for 'Fix for good?' Find out at the web-site and while you're at it vote for the clever clue of the month.

I Got Problems

I have been trying to upload more pictures to the e round robin since last thursday numerous times every day. When I click to upload the picture the window just freezes up. I tried making the picture smaller and smaller until I was down to 40 kb. But in the past it's always let me through if the photo is around 100 kb. Is anyone else having trouble too? Or. . .would someone else try to post a photo and report?

After entering the above paragraph, I went to Blogger Knowledge and found a letter apologizing for the huge problems because of a massive blogspot crash last week. That may have something to do with my problem. They've got an entirely new software system almost ready to replace the old one. Here's a few paragraphs from the letter:

The news gets better: We foresaw the need for the long-term solution, well, a long time ago. Long enough ago that it’s almost done, and you can use it as the new version of Blogger in beta. If you can switch to it (see requirements) you really should. The new version of Blogger is better in almost* every way, including reliability. (It’s worth pointing out that none of this past week’s trouble affected the new version of Blogger or its blogs.)

It’s been a bad week for Blogger, and, as I hope you can tell, we’re not denying it. Instead, we have taken and will continue to take specific steps that make Blogger a more reliable, overall better service for you to use.

We should consider switching over to this new beta version. I wasn't sure if it was a personal issue for me, or if we'd have to do it as a group. Would all of our previous posts transfer over too? Perhaps some of you could also check this out at this spot.

Happy Birthday to Me

In the comments below I declared Paul the winner with a guess of August 1971. The photos were developed in September of 1971.

Though I was a little baffled by this picture. I left for Alaska that June. This must have been my birthday that April. The lesson being, the developing date is not necessarily near the date the photo was taken. This photo was number 4. The Travailles was number 18.

At Last

This slide had a date posted on it. Let's see who can guess closest to the year and month when this photo was taken. Jonathan could identify all the Stynsbergs in this photo but that stray boy in the front baffled him. I told him, "You see him every Sunday in church!" And that did it.


Finally, I'm beginning to scan the "Stynsberg" slides. (I'm using "Stynsberg" as a shorthand for slides taken by Stynsbergs before or after our families merged) It's a good thing too cuz there's been a lack of content to the family blog lately. This should keep things hopping for a few months.


Scanning these slides is for me. . .complicated. So I'd like to take a little time, at the beginning, to clarify some things.


1. With the slides of my youth I knew instantly the emotional value of any particular photo. But there are many of these slides that could be invaluable to some of you and I wouldn't have a clue. That's why the plan is for me to scan them and then pass them all on to Paul. Paul will incorporate them into the other slides he scanned, perhaps post a few more to the family blog, and eventually pass them all onto the rest of us.


2. The boxes of slides I got from Dean were a jumbled mess. I spent quite some time trying to sort them.
A. Thankfully, some have dates stamped on them. But sometimes there were three or four "packets" of slides with the same date. I tried to guess by content and number which went with which.
B. There were many that had no date stamped. But it's amazing how much one can sort by just comparing the frames. Almost every "Packet" frame was slightly different from every other.
C. When it comes to 35mm film it's amazing how often the slides of that era varied. Some were 35 mm square, others 35 mm rectangle. The slide I'm showing with this post was 27 by 27. (which have to be scanned individually in advanced mode!)
D. And eventually we'll come to the slides circa 5th street which are all 24 by 12 and have no markings whatever. I'm hoping you all will be able to help me group those.
E. And last but not least there were "orphans". A slide or two that bore few markings and no relation to the larger packets. I'm guessing that some of these orphans belong with packets that Paul has.


3. The conclusion of item 2 above is that I'm hoping, in the posting of samples from these slides, that some of you will be able to establish context and date when it's unclear.


4. Regarding the "Lindstrom" slides, I have a few additions to make and then I will burn them to CD and send them on to everyone to do with as they please.

Video post test...

Disk Drop

Test of first video post.

I just wanted to see if I could post a video to the blog. It's a pretty short one.

Theme Time Radio Hour

Did you know that Bob Dylan does a weekly radio show for satellite radio based on a different theme each week? He is a great disk jockey! If you follow the link in the title it will take you to 23 hours of great, mostly old time music. His commentary is very good. Here are the themes so far:

Episode 1: Weather - Archive - Complete
Episode 2: Mothers - Archive - Complete
Episode 3: Drinking - Archive - Complete
Episode 4: Baseball - Archive - Complete
Episode 5: Coffee - Archive - Complete
Episode 6: Jail - Archive - Complete
Episode 7: Fathers - Archive - Complete
Episode 8: Weddings - Archive - Complete
Episode 9: Divorce - Archive - Complete
Episode 10: Summer - Archive - Complete
Episode 11: Flowers - Archive - Complete
Episode 12: Cars - Archive - Complete
Episode 13: Rich Man, Poor Man - Archive - Complete
Episode 14: The Devil - Archive - Complete
Episode 15: Eyes - Archive - Complete
Episode 16: Dogs - Archive - Complete
Episode 17: Friends & Neighbours - Archive - Complete
Episode 18: Radio - Archive - Complete
Episode 19: Bible - Archive - Complete
Episode 20: Map - Archive - Complete
Episode 21: School - Archive - Complete
Episode 22: Telephone - Archive - Complete

Episode 23: Water - Archive - Complete

Weather forecasting

When the whole mountain turns white...
a. Snow is 3 weeks away
b. I'm dreaming of a white Christmas.
c. Steve turned 60.
d. All of the above.
e. ______ (write your own predictions)

Clever Clue of the Month

We're anxiously waiting for your vote for the 'Clever Clue of the Month' over at Crosswordese.com.

Life on a stump series

This is a close-up of the above stump. Kind of weird looking!


















Years ago at the Walker art center someone made some earth art out of different mosses, fungus, and stuff like that. While walking in the woods recently i took some pictures of some interesting old stumps. Some of these are probably from trees we used on our log house 33 years ago.

Here are a few fall photos. You'll notice that we do not have any red in our fall colors :(
Nor any maple leaf trails;(

















September was a very wet month up here.












On Saturday the 29th we had our first frost and also one of the rare clear days. The frost was about 2 or 3 weeks late. That is OK with me.