The Solution

I have chosen to move my blog to here to solve my picture dilemma. 

I figured it would be easier to move this blog than to move all my family history blogs. 
So let it begin; the transferring of all of the links, pages, and photographs.

What a pain. 

As it turns out, it is not very difficult to export and import from one blog to another.  All of the photographs imported automatically.  However, all of my links and gadgets don't import so that will take some extra time to get fixed up.
 
I will keep the other blog up as a link to this blog, but from today forward I will post on this blog site.

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Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr that is how I feel about all my blogs right now!
Last week I went to give my blogs a facelift and add some photographs, but I had met my Picasa photograph limit. 
(Surprise, I didn't read the fine print and I didn't realize I only had a certain amount of picture space in Picasa Album!!!  Go figure!!!)

The super frustrating part of this is:  over the last several months when I have tried to download a picture, I have had to do it several times because it would not download, OR so I thought.  Apparently, blogger was saving all of those duplications adding to the "max" in my Picasa Album.

First thing I did was delete all the cutesy clip art and all those duplicate pictures, however, I could not distinguish the difference between which photo was being used and the duplication photo just being stored in Picasa.  So, it was a gamble on which photo to delete!

Hummmm, I could purchase more gig space for a yearly fee or figure out something else.

Here is the problem, my genealogy blogs have take sooooooo much time to put together, that I just don't want the frustration and the complicated process of separating and moving them and re-posting them.  In addition, I would then need to re-direct the traffic I have already established.

So, for a fast quick fix, I went through and deleted a bunch of pictures.  Now I have a whole bunch of black boxes with a triangle and an ! where the photo's used to be!

Here is my dilemma: 
I believe every time I have a view on my blog I "advertise" Blogger.
Because I have so many blogs and have helped others set up blogs I also further their product.
For these reasons, I don't want to have to pay for more space. 

I don't really want to begin my own "web-site" because I am not an IT person and if I use Blogger, then they take care of all of the IT problems. 

So, my dear readers, please tell me what you have done about this problem.  Give me your feed back in either the comments or email me. 

Thank you.

Baptism

look who was baptized this past weekend:

look who grandma got to love on this past weekend:

and this one is to make grandma jealous:

Pictures of Joseph

His first Facetime!

Welcome

Joseph William Lott
Born 5 March 2012
8 pounds 10 ounces
21 inches long
Born on his great grandpa James William Roberts birthday!

Out My Window

I love watching the lake out my windows.  It is ever changing throughout the day and with the weather.  It is breath taking and beautiful, even on boring weather days.

I am blessed to have this view and I daily recall these words:

Thy power through out, the universe displayed;
Then sings my soul, my Savior God, to thee,
How great thou art!  How great thou art!
(Hymn #86)

Narcissism

The last couple of weeks I have had encounters with dishonest people.  This just really irritates me because it has cost me money and time.  Both people were avoiding consequences.    Aren't we all grown-ups.  Isn't honesty a basic "adult" concept and "consequences" are part of being adult?  Well for some people, I guess not.

This seems to be a re-occurring lesson in my life since Joe's death, and I am increasingly impatient and intolerant as these encounters continue to compound each other.   

As all of these combined incidents have soured my thoughts lately, I had an epiphany on Saturday.  For our morning devotional at the mission, we sang Choose the Right.  The song includes the words:

Choose the right,
There's safety for your soul.
(Hymn 239)

As I sang those words, I realized these people have not understood the basic concept that dishonesty is threatening their "souls".

Wow.

I am so narcissistic that I am concerned about how I am feeling about these peoples actions and how they are affecting my life, when in reality, there is a much greater and more severe issue at hand--the safety of their souls.

Suddenly, my "feelings" and "fairness" to me, pales in comparison, to people and their souls.

I am grateful for this lesson learned and guaranteed I will have more compassion and tolerance in similar future situations.