God Bless Google!

The Honey-Bear was droopy today. She came in last night and coaxed Buster to go out guarding. He enjoyed that for awhile-there was something out there. Honey was howling in a sort of amateur way. Then Buster came in and shortly thereafter Honey came in and acted very much as if she had bitten off more than she could chew. She sallied forth a couple of more times with a similar result so I just shut the door and we were all safe in our log house. She did not object and in fact was ready to snuggle. They seemed fine this morning but she was draggy-off her chow after their early run and I was wondering what she might have eaten or what had happened. She is fine tonight and full of beans. This picture was snapped with the Cell phone when she was being all moody.

The Cell phone picture is what prompts kudos to Google. Verizon offers no service without charge. You take a cell phone picture, it costs you 20 cents to send it or do anything with it and cell phone pictures aren't, as a rule, all that great. Enter Google: They have a new service (FREE) where you can email to a private mailbox and it gets posted to your Web Album in a "drop box." From there on it is yours to do with as you please. Now I can post or email pictures as I please, no additional charge. Were I to share a picture from my phone it would be 20 cents per recipient. That is 20 cents for me to send and 20 cents for you to receive. Thanks to Google, no charge. With the Q9c I can get a picture off the phone when I tether it but with regular cell phones they just stay on the phone until you delete them. Very limiting. Good on Google.

These days are starting pretty chilly, then warming nicely. All critters, including me, are busy prepping for winter. The Sandhill cranes are forming little squadrons and buzzing the house. The Wild Canaries have been a stitch. They have discovered my nice fat currants. The bushes are alive with them and they dart straight up flashing their golden bellies. They are so excited. Maybe they are getting looped. Sunday morning a local Eagle was scouting the 80- seemed to be sizing up Honey who was busily patrolling the ground. I think she is too big now but some damage could be done.

One of these first days I am going to bust out of here and go take pictures of something new.

I try to avoid politics in this Blog but with the extraordinary events in the economy, I find it fascinating that the great banking institutions are so eager to embrace socialism when it comes to themselves and saving their own asses. Not one nickel for unwed mothers but trillions for Wall street. What a difference 8 years has made in this country. Now all we need is for China to call in its notes, or simply decide the Euro is a better deal than the dollar (and it is) and we will be happy to be making Nikes for 30 cents an hour. Buh Bye, Lehman Brothers- 158 years young. Hang on AIG, I don't know how much of my retirement is dependent on you. Might be time to resurrect the garden.