I'm Sorry If This Makes You Unhappy

I truly understand everyone's frustration with the new word verification.  I personally don't have much of a problem with it.  Yes, that one word is rather blurry but I kind of make a game out of it ... see if I can get the letters right on the first go.  I don't think I've ever had to make more than 2 tries which is pretty surprising since my eyesight is not the best & my glasses are somewhere in the neighborhood of 7 years old.  Anyway, in an attempt to help my followers I removed word verification yesterday.  I try to check my computer a couple times each day for emails & blog posts.  After removing the word verification I came back later to find several emails in my spam folder.  Deleting spam is not a one-click thing because sometimes good emails end up in there ... therefore I have to open my spam folder, take a look at the sender & the subject of each email, & determine if it's to be kept or deleted.  A few hours later when I checked my emails again I had even more spam messages & a couple of them made their way into my inbox.  Once again I reviewed & deleted them.  I then thought okay, I'll adjust my blog settings so that all comments will need to be viewed by me first before being posted.  That did nothing to rid me of the multiplying spam messages & added the burden of having to locate them on blogger rather than them showing up in my inbox where I can respond to them.  Therefore I have once again enabled word verification.

Tomorrow John goes to the dentist to get 4 teeth pulled.  He is rather anxious about it so please do remember him in your prayers.

I have been working off & on upstairs.  Yesterday I took a big pile of stuff out of one corner & sorted it into 4 boxes ... good yard sale stuff, not so great yard sale stuff which is probably just going to get thrown away, stuff to try to sell on eBay, & stuff to give away.  Sadly out in the garage there are probably 8 boxes filled with more stuff that needs sorted through.  The garage is going to be "the last frontier" as far as cleaning goes.

My Christmas Goose Pinkeep is almost finished.  Last night I stitched 1-1/2 geese.  There are 2 of them.  I really have enjoyed stitching this even considering my error in pattern reading.  I have no idea what I will choose next ... maybe another prim design   : )