Monday, September 29, 2008

September 29, 2008










It is a Sunny Day and the Cows have decided to stay in California after all..






This is the first time in a while that I have made an entry to this blog. For me it takes a little getting used to, writing in this format. One of the things I have wondered about is just who reads the blog in the first place. It seems like there are what, fifty billion or so blogs posted on the internet, and finding any one of them randomly looks to be one very remote chance. Thus it appears that self-promotion is an essential of blog posting. Truth-fully, I lack the enthusiasm for that. Just where that leaves me in terms of readership I don't know, but hey, life is full of unanswered questions..
I am also trying out a new (to me) text writer, a program called OpenOffice.org Writer. That rather laborious name is the result of some quirk where there is some other program called “Open Office”, so as I understand it, the longer moniker was conjured instead. Be that as it may, the program is free and seems to have a lot of interesting features that are less complex to understand and use. I have been using a program called Professional Write of many moons, like from the early 90's, and more and more I find it wants to balk at uses with the 'modern' operating systems like Win XP. The fact is, I can't even get the PW documents to print on anything more than my very old Epson LQ-570. So, facing a little reality, I find myself having to go a bit more modern. The fact that it is free for at least the basic version is not a small influence on my decision to try this program out.
Another effort we are trying to make here is to insert pictures!! into our blog. OK, so everybody else does it without sneezing, but remember I am a newbie, so it is an exciting venture to me. Alright, I could ask my son or daughter how they do it, since they do it all the time. Alas, I am a tad stubborn, and adventuresome, so I will go it on my own and see what I come up with. THEN I will ask..


SO.. The above is a picture of me eating lunch at a wilderness park in the Coastal Mountains of California. You get to this park by traversing several miles of winding dirt mountain roads. But once there it is one of the most serene experiences you may have felt in a while. It is national park, and fairly well maintained. That means there are campsites, rough toilet facilities and I think, running well water. There were a few RVs there, but it is all dry camping. We stumbled upon the camp by following some camp signs down a side dirt road where we found the site laced into the woods alongside a nice meadow with a small pond. It is not a casual drive to get there, but well worth the effort for those who like the peace and quiet of mountain retreat camping..


I expect I will have more to tell of this particular road trip in upcoming blog entries..