Photobucket is EVIL, but have some tea

- About a month ago I opened up my blog, only to discover that the photos had disappeared. My entire blog was littered with ugly ass grey squares.

On that particular blog I had transferred a lot of my old posts from waaaay back when, and then posted new stuff for FOUR LONG YEARS.

And now? Now it's all gone. I've been using Photobucket for AT LEAST 14 YEARS, and now they're holding everyone's photos HOSTAGE for the hefty price tag of $400 a year. That's right. They didn't even give a warning that this was going to happen.

And people desperate enough to pay that ransom still can't access a lot of their photos. Mark my words, Crapbucket will be dead in a few months. The ads alone on their site have been a nightmare for at least the past year.

Now, I would have been fine with their new "terms of service" agreement over 3rd party hosting if they had just done the right thing and left the old accounts alone!!! Thanks to what they've done, EVERY SINGLE BLOG OF MINE has been rendered useless. What they've done is bordering on diabolical!!!!!

I was pretty darn livid over all of this. I still am angry, but I decided to use my powers of anger for good by completely fixing a few of my other blogs. It wasn't easy, but I was determined to at least save those few blogs. I managed to rescue my dreams blog, my old pets blog, my old siggie/wallpapers blog, and my Patrick blog.

As for my main blog, may it rest in peace.

I cannot possibly fix thousands of broken picture links on that blog. It pains me so much to see it all gone!

- This has been the view in front of our house for a week now.





And NOTHING seems to be getting done on that road. I think these people are being paid by the hour, so they're just biding their time day in and day out.

- In other news, for health reasons I've been experimenting with trying not to drink coffee anymore.

I'm not gonna lie. There are days when I break down and will have decaf, but at the end of the day I'm trying not to obsess over it. I'm not even sure it makes a difference, but just for peace of mind I've been thinking of getting one of those little cold brew coffee filters. They're not expensive and what they do is basically take out all the acids found in coffee.

But, as I said, I don't think it really matters.



Yesterday I had my very first cup of hot tea with milk. Never in my life have I ever poured milk in tea, but I was surprised that I didn't hate it. Chamomile is the safest tea to drink, so that's what I tried.

It's nothing like having a cappuccino, or a yummy frappuccino for that matter, but it's nice being able to have a warm drink every single day.

- We had to pet sit my brother and SIL's dogs again while they went on vacation.



"Beans" and "Crunchy" are their names. "Beans," as always, was like my mother's shadow. He is OBSESSED with her whenever his Mommy and Daddy aren't with him. Mom is most definitely his security blanket.

Lucky for him, he and his sister returned home yesterday.

- I think I've been spoiling one of our squirrels lately.



This squirrel is not in danger of going hungry anytime soon. This little guy has been packing away the peanuts like crazy.

The birds have even been going so crazy at the feeders lately that we have sunflowers popping up.



Which I actually love.

- One of the neighbor's cows gave birth just a couple weeks ago.



This means it's a SUMMER BABY!

We were so shocked to find a fourth calf, just a couple days old. It was so strange seeing a new baby, not in the spring but summer.

- And now for the weather report. Here's how it was yesterday.



And it will be exactly the same today, and the next, and the next.... ad nauseum.

I've noticed the deer coming out a lot earlier lately, to get a drink from the neighbor's pond.





And here it is now 5 pm and here's the report.



That's summer for ya, but the good news about being in the midst of the hottest part of the season is that we're nearing that finish line and headed towards autumn.

Well, autumn in the 80's but that's better than the triple digits coupled with that hellish humidity.

- We had a surprise rain shower the other day. We only had a 10% chance of rain that day, but it poured.

It was l-o-v-e-l-y!



- Since I am still so incredibly angry - FUMING even - over what Crapbucket has done to my blog, I've decided that from now on this new Blog O' Mine will be a lot different and posted in a lot less. Few people read my old blog, and even fewer will find this one.

There will be photos and video from time to time, but overall I'm just going to share those elsewhere. The videos can be seen on Vimeo, and the photos I'll place elsewhere and on Facebook as I've always done.

I already have tons of photos on Flickr, but I always worry about using too much memory. I don't want to go over the storage limit of photos that can be uploaded for free.

And speaking of this new blog, I wanted my post titles text to be a color but for some odd reason it's also making my page text a color and underlined; like a link. Even adding a CSS Code doesn't help. I'm really familiar with Blogger, so it's a mystery to me why it's doing that. It might be the code links I'm using with the new photo storage place, but the text is behaving differently on this blog than the others. No matter what I do, it's messed up in some way, shape or form.

Also, I can't go between 'Compose' and 'HTML' without it completely pushing everything to the left. That means I can't ever use different colors for the text, underline, change the font size, etc.... unless I copy/paste the codes myself.

I happen to find that ridiculous, so yet again.... I surrender to the evil Techy Gods of the internet. You win again.