Friday, 16 August 2013

Texas insurance coverage attorney

If your insurance coverage provider begins to act in bad faith, you are rest assured that you have with you to back up your legitimate claims the insurance law of the state you are residing. Also, texas insurance coverage attorney can help you if your claim arises from legitimate insurance claims such as when the insurance coverage provider fails to investigate your claim in thorough and timely manner. Likewise, when the insurance provider delays in the payment of your benefits in a very unreasonable length of time, you can put up a legitimate case. Also, you can make a good cause of action if the insurance company refuses to settle even when its liability is very clear from the terms and conditions of the policy.


Tuesday, 16 July 2013

Trekking and camping tips

Trekking and camping tips
Hang your clothes using the bread bag clip

Do never wet you while camping? This can sometimes occur spontaneously or in an accident and could not be well prepared. Clothing clip is big and heavy many hikers and campers do not take them together. There is an easy solution for hanging clothes. Clip for hanging clothes on a line of clothing in pan large bag. Everything you need to do is push clip from the bag of bread on a piece of fabric and online. This is a quick, easy and effective way to hang the clothes.

Using frozen rather than ice for chilling beverages

If you're going on a long trip to camp, you might want to carry a refrigerator full of food. Many campers will use ice to keep food cold. The problem with the use of ice to keep it fresh food is that it is going to melt after a few days and you have a lot of water in the bottom of the cooler, get all wet and moist food. An easy solution to use the bucket of ice cold drinks and put them at the bottom of the cooler. When a drink melt, there is no other food moist or wet. They also stayed on the ice for a long period of time. An added advantage is that you have a bottle of drinking water after the fusion of the bottle.

Use toothpaste to relieve the itching from mosquito bites

Despite all their efforts to avoid being bitten by mosquitoes, it is likely that you have at least one few bites. This can be a constant irritant and really affect the satisfaction of their camp. An easy solution to deal with an itchy irritation is to apply a small drop of toothpaste to the affected area. Toothpaste will provide instant relief from itching. Note that the toothpaste should not paste and gel to be affective.

Bring the five essential elements of emergency for day of hiking

When you're outdoors, you never know what will happen. A lot of things that can go wrong and if you don't come prepared for an emergency, you may find yourself in a bad place. There are some things that are very important for all kinds of hiking or camping trips. You don't have to be big or large and can be easily stored in a back Pack.

  1. Map and Compass: I recommend take a map and a compass when you're on the road. This will ensure that safely you will find their way out of the trees of the dense if you missed. 
  2. Granola or a cliff bar: it is also a good idea to bring some granola or a cliff Bar so you have enough power for your hike. 
  3. Sun protection: If you plan to hike, very smart to bring sunscreen and sunglasses. This will prevent any injury if you are being exposed to the sunlight. 
  4. water bottles: this is not a "brainer." Stay hydrated. 
  5. First aid: the kit does not have to be great, but should include some bands, adhesive and disinfectant.

5 ways to spice up your life

Are you tired of the same routine in your life? Wondering what it happened to your adrenaline positively against everything that brings your life? Don't be too harsh with yourself, happens. Sometimes, I would like to stay a teenager because growth comes with many responsibilities and expectations that can cause you to lose sight of what it means to enjoy life. Well, here are a few ideas that you can revive your old.

Go to retreats

A place to relax and get to connect with nature, meet new people and find new experiences that will improve their health. Sometimes you need a new look or just to get out of your comfort zone, to be has as much to lose in life. There are many different types of retreats, for different purposes. For example, yoga retreats are intended to educate on how improve their health, while a retreat spiritual educate him about his religion.

Make a change

Maybe there is something you hold to have a good time. Perhaps your dress, your hair, your lifestyle! It is time that you change this and the result is new is ready to conquer the world! All you need is an extra belief that to start.

Mingle!

Mingle allows you to know new people and new people can have the knowledge you need to know. Although this may go the opposite way, where meeting people with uncomfortable habits or simply take as an experience, at least you'll have a story to tell, that you do not miss to show to the people, like the next time you go to mingle.

Find hobbies

What makes you be tired of not having something interesting to do. So try a variety of activities that will challenge you. This does not mean that it must be healthy; It just has to be fun! You must provide an exit when you felt mocked. You can sing, dance, cycle, run, racing cars, the list is endless, so you can not miss something to do.

Travel

This cannot be said enough. Traveling is a way to give flavor to your life forever. Taking some time free every year to discover new places in the world and not regret it! You can learn different cultures, food, recreational activities, that opens his eyes to embrace different lives.

Wednesday, 10 July 2013

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Thursday, 4 July 2013

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Tuesday, 11 June 2013

A Very Quiet Day Working Around Home

Our wonderful May weather continues here on Vancouver Island but I hear there is some rain in the forecast for this weekend.  That’s probably good as we have not had any rain in a few weeks and our yard is already beginning to get bone dry.  It’s way too early for that, I think.  Paulette has  had the sprinkler going on her flowers and gardens every night now.
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Rain or not, our grass is growing like crazy.  I’m having to cut it twice a week right now just to keep it from looking like a hay field.  Yesterday, it was time to cut the front lawn.  Using my gas push mower, cutting the front and back in one day is a little too much so I’m alternating days between cutting the front and back.  That seems to work o.k. for me and it is good exercise for sure.  At least the Lawn Boy mower is co-operating and starting up on just 1 or 2 pulls of the cord.
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Neither Paulette nor I had anything on the go yesterday so we both spent a quiet day at home just puttering around.  In the afternoon, Paulette started up her big quilting machine and finished the ‘5 Monkeys’ Baby Quilt she is making for our Grandson due in June.  Carrie, our daughter, is doing well and all settled into her new apartment so now it’s just time to wait.  She called last night and she’s beginning to get excited as her due date is now only 4 weeks away!!
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Well, Paulette was right again when she said the photo of the water I posted in my blog on Thursday looked like a Monet rather than Lime Jell-o as I thought.  The only person to agree with me was Ruth (Five Just Rolling Down The Road) so thanks, Ruth, I need all the help and support I can get around here.  What I do know is the animal in the above photo is a deer!  No doubt about it.  I snapped this shot while driving down to the grocery store yesterday.
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I’m not so sure my idea of a quick comment using the G+ Button was a good one.  In fact, it just might have been one of my worst ideas in a long while.  it turns out that 17 readers used this button rather than leave a comment and as of 7pm last night there were also 17 comments on my blog – so, a tie.  That’s not exactly what I had in mind but I’ll see how it goes before I decide to nix it or not and just go back to a regular ‘comment or not’ format.
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For our afternoon walk on Thursday, we went to the trail in the Mill Bay Nature Park.  The tide in the bay was out so we were able to walk out on the rocky beach for quite a distance.  Molly and Rylie really like this as there are all kinds of interesting things for them to see and dig up in the sand.
Have a great Friday, and thanks again for visiting!

A Walk In The Park And A Few Quick B.C. Facts

It was addition mostly quiet Saturday at home for me. I don't apperception those types of canicule at all because I can consistently acquisition lots of being to accumulate myself absorbed and busy. Before I got absolutely angry up on my computer for the day I did administer to get out and cut the foreground lawn. It was addition one of those canicule of alternate rain showers but I managed to get the grass cut average the rain.
A Walk In The Park
Most of my Saturday morning was spent alive with the new Google+ architecture and blockage out the abounding changes that accept been fabricated as a aftereffect of the Google I/O Developers' Conference endure week. it's a appealing above check to the attending and feel of G+ and it has been acutely able-bodied accustomed by the G+ community. Sure, there are the accepted amount of "why did they accept to change this?" complaints, but the all-inclusive majority of users like the apple-pie simple accomplishments that acquiesce the absolute abstracts to flash through and yield prominence.

We dodged the rain showers in the early afternoon when we went for walk in the Mill Bay Nature Park.  This was a pretty safe bet for us as most of the trail is sheltered by the big fir trees so even when it rains fairly hard, we still manage to keep fairly dry.
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This little park is probably Molly and Rylie’s favourite simply because they’ve been to it so often.  Once out of the car, they race for the start of the trail and know exactly where we’re going.  They mostly stay to the beaten path although on occasion they’ll wander off on a little adventure but not for long.  It’s a safe place to go for a walk as the park is bordered by the ocean on one side and by various neighbourhood homes on the other 3.  We’re never worried about encountering any bears or cougars in these parts.
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A few days ago, while hiking with Paulette and the muttzo’s in the Glenora section of the Cowichan River Park, we came across a bunch of wild Dogwood Trees that were in full bloom.  These are beautiful trees and we’re very lucky to have not only a white Dogwood in our front yard but a Pink Dogwood as well. 
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Blackberry Cheesecake Cupcakes & Thetis Lake Park

Blackberry Cheesecake Cupcakes
We had a appealing quiet Wednesday as Paulette was active baking up some aliment for her black Sorority Accumulation banquet party. I anticipate I'd like to accord to a accumulation like Paulette's as they do assume to eat well, bigger than us poker guys.
Paulette's addition was a few dozen Blackberry Cheesecake Cupcakes. I did get to sample a brace of these and anticipation it was bent that they were all traveling out the aperture in the black to the Sorority party.
While Paulette was active baking up a storm, I had to drive into boondocks to renew the authorization tags and liability, blow and absolute advantage allowance for our truck. Once again, I managed to delay until the endure day accessible as the accepted year allowance expires May 23rd. That didn't yield continued as I was in and out of the ICBC broker's appointment in 5 account and $900 poorer.
This couple had hip waders on as they fished in the lakefished in the lake
We went on our afternoon airing a bit beforehand than accustomed bygone as Paulette still had some advancing to do for the abode banquet affair she was traveling to. We just went down to the Cowichan River Estuary for a nice, active 2 mile walk. Although I did yield a few pictures, I'm instead traveling to allotment the ones I took on our backpack about Thetis Lake on Tuesday.
A twisted, gnarled old Arbutus Tree hangs over the trailold Arbutus

BBQ’d A Whole Chicken & Tags

After a anniversary or so of added blurred canicule than sunshine, we awoke to bright dejected skies with just a few billowy white clouds blind around. Amazingly, the sun and dejected skies backward about all day so it fabricated for a nice change from our backward May black weather. On the downside, I had actually no alibi for not traveling out and acid the foreground lawn. I'm starting to absence my old John Deere mower!
My first whole BBQ Chicken on our Weber Q120 – It was pretty good!Chicken
By George (aka The Weber Q Man of Blogland), I followed his instructions and BBQ'd my aboriginal accomplished craven on our Weber Q120 endure night. And, I’ll be accursed if it didn’t attending just as acceptable as George’s and it tasted as acceptable as it looked too! it got the "2 thumbs up" address from Paulette so that's about as acceptable a assurance as I’m anytime traveling to get for affable anything!
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Not continued afterwards lunch, we absitively to yield advantage of the sunshine and go for an aboriginal airing as we still don't assurance the acclimate all that much. It was o.k. admitting as the skies were bright and at no time did it anytime attending like it was traveling to rain. Our destination bygone was a accustomed one - the Mill Bay Nature Park.
It was great to look up and see blue skies for a changethe Mill Bay Nature Park
Walking down the aisle and again on to the bank at Mill Bay, we saw 2 families of Canada Geese with babyish Goslings. There appeared to be about 2 dozen of them walking about and again demography turns traveling for a bathe with their parents befitting a actual abutting careful amphitheater about the little ones. We had a nice airing afore branch aback home so I could get active with the BBQ for dinner.
the Mill Bay Nature Park
When I apprehend the aboriginal few comments on yesterday's blog, I accomplished I had abashed abounding by advertence that "license tags" for my barter amount $900 for a year. That's what I get for application a appellation (Tags) that is not absolutely applicative actuality in B.C., I just best it up from a few American blogging accompany not absolutely acumen that it was just for authorization plates, or tags, and not for auto allowance costs as well. Actuality in B.C., we pay for our Authorization Plate "Stickers" in aggregate with our car insurance. So, my $900 amount included Basic Liability, Third Party Liability, Collision and Comprehensive Allowance advantage as able-bodied as accepted year "stickers" .

BBQ’d Our First Roast Beef On Our Weber Baby Q 120

One of the bloggers I apprehend every day is George (Our Awesome Travels) and in a abundant attitude he posts a photo of what he fabricated for banquet that night for his wife Suzie and himself. George is the baker in the ancestors and a lot of generally he uses his accurate little Weber Baby Q to barbecue up abundant searching meals. His commons attending aperture watering and I've consistently wondered why I couldn't do the aforementioned with my Weber Q?
90 minutes on the Weber Baby Q120 and we had a perfectly cooked roastRoast Beef
The acknowledgment was appealing simple 'I'd never tried! I've consistently ashore appealing abundant to my old BBQ standards like hamburgers, craven breasts, hot dogs, steaks and pork chops. Never had I anytime approved to barbecue a accomplished craven or beef roast. George absolutely aggressive me to adventure alternating and accord something new a try on my little Weber Q. While at Costco the added day, I bought a baby beef buzz and again I angry to Maharishi Google for a few BBQ'ing tips application our Weber Q 120.
I used an upside down stainless steel tray to act as a ‘Trivet’Roast Beef
One affair Weber recommends is adopting ample roasts off of the capital barbecue to anticipate afire acquired by flare-ups. This aswell creates alteration like calefaction that flows all about the meat. Weber uses a baby accoutrement alleged a "Trivet". I didn't accept one of those so I just acclimated a collapsed baking pan with holes in the basal and angry it upside down on it's handles. I aswell placed a area of aluminum antithesis beneath the stainless animate tray and cut a few slits in the antithesis for drippings to cesspool off.

Adding seasonings and a Montreal style steak and roast rubBBQ’d Our First Roast Beef
About 3:45pm, I angry our Weber Q on High to let it calefaction up for 15 minutes. While that was happening, I acclimatized the buzz beef with peppercorns, garlic alkali and a La Grille Montreal Rubbing Marinade I begin in one of the cupboards. It wasn't even opened so I knew we hadn't approved it afore so I anticipation I'd accord it a go and rubbed it in all abandon of the roast. It had a nice appealing chaw to it.
All done after 90 minutes, looking good and tasted even better!BBQ’d Our First Roast Beef
The hardest allotment of this for me was afraid the allurement to accumulate adopting the lid on the Weber Q afterwards I put the buzz on to cook. I consistently wish to see how things are traveling but that's a "no-no" with Weber Q's apparently. For ten minutes, I larboard the calefaction on Hi again angry it down to average low until the temperature barometer was abiding at just beneath 350F. Then, miraculously I never opened the lid to analysis for 1 abounding hour. When I opened the lid, I was afraid – it looked like a adapted roast!
Weber Digital BBQ Thermometer – gotta have a gizmo right?Weber Digital BBQ Thermometer
To advice me forth with my new Weber BBQ'ing, I ample I bare some affectionate of temperature gizmo. I begin the absolute accoutrement at Home Depot for alone $19. It's a agenda delving that registers the exact temperature and it works acutely well. After 1 hour on the grill, our buzz was 125F which was a little too rare. I bankrupt the lid for addition 30 minutes, activated the temperature and by 4:30pm our buzz was adapted absolutely how we like it. I anticipate I may accept a new job as BBQ Chef!
The Google+ train was rolling again yesterday at the I/O Developer Conf.Google-Train-1024x434
The anniversary Google I/O Developers Conference kicked off bygone in San Francisco with a boatload of new announcements. The one I noticed about anon was the new Google+ format. Instead of a individual cavalcade in the "stream layout", Google+ showed 2 columns by default. Oh, oh I anticipation “ association aren't traveling to like that. Luckily, Google has accustomed us the advantage to change the architecture aback to a individual cavalcade (Good Google). Just attending for "More" on the top toolbar, bang the "down arrow" and annal to baddest Stream Layout option.
The new Google+ Format – You can revert to single columns like this:google stream
There will be lots added to appear out of San Francisco in the next few canicule and if there is annihilation abroad that affects us as Bloggers and/or Google+ users, I'll let you all know, o.k. From what I've apparent so far, it looks appealing good. Gmail babble and messaging is getting replaced by Google+ Hangouts (here comes that alternation again) and Hangouts itself has some accurate new features. I like the new architecture as a lot of being has been organized bigger and is now easier to find.

Saturday, 25 May 2013

Bridges Falling Down And A Visitor For The Weekend

It sure was weird and just a little disconcerting to see all the pictures and videos on the news of the bridge collapse in Washington St. yesterday.  It felt a bit weird because we’ve crossed over that same bridge on I-5 between Burlington and Mt. Vernon dozens of times over the years.  Sure, it took a truck carrying an oversize load that struck an upper span to knock the bridge down but I’d hope most of the bridges we cross are a bit stronger than that!

A bridge on I-5 over the Skagit River collapsesbridge collapse

That may not be the case though as I read reports indicating there are as many as 70,000 “structurally deficient bridges across the country."   Congress was asked to set aside $50 billion to repair some of these bridges starting with the most urgent ones but instead transportation repair is facing a $1.9 billion cut.  I guess all we can do is drive across sketchy looking bridges and hope for the best.  I sure hope the Coronado Bridge in San Diego is o.k. – I love that one!!

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I spent all of Friday morning working on computer issues as Paulette had gone to Nanaimo with her friends Claire, Sandy and Julie for a Quilt Show.  By noon, I’d about had it wracking my brain over a simple yet frustratingly complicated problem with the Feedburner app for a fellow blogger.  Just before noon, and after several attempts to get the faulty Feedburner “burning” again, it magically woke up and began to slowly chug away.  By late afternoon, all seemed well again.  That seemed like a good time to hit the road with Molly and Rylie and go for a hike!

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Another reason I wanted to go early was that I didn’t really have any idea when Paulette would be back from Nanaimo.  Maggie was coming over for the weekend so she could go to Carrie’s first Baby Shower with Paulette on Saturday.  Maggie lives in Vancouver and guess where the Ferry was taking her?  Nanaimo.  Since Paulette couldn’t hang around with friends until well after dinner, that meant we had to drive up to meet the Ferry so Paulette got 2 trips up-Island in one day!

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It started to look like rain by the time I left home with Molly and Rylie so a long hike was not a good idea.  I thought I’d drive out to one of the Cowichan River Parks near Skutz Falls as it’s not too far along the trails down to the river.  That worked out great as we managed to sneak in an hour of sunshine.  We were lucky as on the way home the rain started to pound down in earnest.  I was home by 3pm and Paulette pulled up with her friends about 15 minutes later. 

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Maggie caught the 7:30pm sailing from Vancouver so we left just before 8pm to pick her up in Nanaimo when she arrived at 9.  The baby shower for Carrie is in  Victoria on Saturday afternoon.  Carrie went for another 3-D type ultrasound Friday morning and the baby is doing fine.  From what the doctor’s told her the baby is due sometime in the next 2 to 3 weeks.

Have a great Saturday, and thanks again for visiting!

Wednesday, 22 May 2013

Shopping For A Baby Crib And Views From Mt. Tolmie

Our main task on Tuesday was to pick up Carrie in Victoria to go shopping for a  baby crib.  Our first Grandson is due around the second week of June so Paulette and I wanted to make sure he has a nice warm bed to come home to – and a quilt to keep him warm, of course!  After checking on-line for crib styles, types and consumer safety reports, we all agreed that Sears had as good a selection as anyone, along with competitive pricing, so that’s where we headed.

Stork Craft Carrara Stages 4-in-1 Crib 

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When I first started looking at baby cribs on-line, I was amazed to see how much these units have progressed over the years.  It didn’t take us long to realize that one of the conversion type cribs might be a good deal as they can easily be made up into different styles to make them last a few years longer than normal.  I’m not much of a shopper – I’m more of a waiter, so when we got to Sears, I left Paulette and Carrie to do the shopping while I took off for an hour with Molly and Rylie.

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When I returned an hour later, I was shocked to see Paulette and Carrie already waiting at the front door of Sears.  I figured the shopping trip must have been a bust because it’s unheard of for them to actually finish up early.  I mean there’s a whole store full of stuff in there!  But, I was wrong.  They looked at all the cribs, had their Internet notes for asking questions, Carrie picked out the crib she liked and that was it.  All done in a flash.  I didn’t even have to haul any boxes as Sears will deliver the crib right to Carrie’s door!

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When I left Paulette and Carrie at Sears, I carried on with Molly and Rylie to drive up to the top of nearby Mt. Tolmie.  The viewpoint at the top provides a 360 degree look at the city of Victoria.  It was pretty overcast yesterday morning but still clear enough for a great view of downtown Victoria and Juan de Fuca Straits in the background.  On a clear day with blue skies, one can see all the way over to Port Angeles in Washington State.

Panoramic view of Victoria, B.C.panorama_victoria

The very top of Mt. Tolmie is dedicated as a park with trails winding down the back of the mountain.  Molly and Rylie had been stuck in the car for a while so they really appreciated the chance to get out and stretch their legs a bit and do some exploring in a new to them park.

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Mt. Tolmie has always been a very special place for our family as my Mother and Father lived on the west slopes, overlooking the city, for over 30 years.  We spent countless visits at my parents’ celebrating birthdays, holidays, weddings, parties and all kinds of special and ordinary events and all the time being able to enjoy the spectacular view of the city below us.  It is a wonderful spot.

An intriguing pathway in Mt. Tolmie Park – down into the rabbit-hole!IMG_4510

After I picked up Paulette and Carrie we found a Starbucks and had a coffee outside before dropping Carrie off at her condo.  Our route home took us right by Thetis Lake Park which is one of our very favourite hiking trails.  This was a perfect opportunity to get our daily hike in so we stopped and did the 1 hour loop trail around the lake before heading home.  It’s kind of late this evening as I’m writing this (I watched a couple of hockey games on TV) so I’ll save the Thetis Lake hike for tomorrow’s post.

Big sister Lola sharing her bone with little sister Scout

Erin reports from Calgary that little Scout is, so far, a perfect little pup.  That’s great news but if I remember correctly, Rylie was a perfect little pup too but grew up to be a holy terror!  I’m sure those two will have a great chat this summer!!

Have a great Wednesday, and thanks again for visiting!

Tuesday, 21 May 2013

Just ‘Hangin-Out’ With A Few Blogger Friends

The Google+ Hangout yesterday with a group of fellow bloggers was a lot of fun and worked extremely well.  It was a learning experience for everyone I’m sure as we had 8 people simultaneously on the video call.  Technically, everything worked well except for a couple of microphone ‘muting’ problems and George’s poor WiFi in his park.  Also, Janna got bounced out before we even started as her Internet service crashed a few hours before our scheduled hangout session. 

From bottom left: Allen D, John H, Nan T, Paul G, Me, Rick M(x2), Sue MGoogle Hangout

One of the problems with videoconferencing has always been situations where you need the person on the other end to see what’s on your computer screen.  In G+ Hangouts, there’s a perfect tool for that!  It’s called Screenshare.  With just a few clicks, I was able to show exactly what was on my computer screen just as if everyone was in the room looking over my shoulder.  An added bonus, of course, was the fact that my face disappeared to be replaced by my Google+ homepage!

Using Screenshare, everyone could see how to create a new G+ Circlehangout circle

Screenshare was an ideal and simple way for me to show a few of the techniques for creating and managing Circles live on my computer screen.  I created a new Circle called the Hangout Group and showed how to send a message in G+ just to that group of 7 people while nobody in any of my other Circles ever gets to see it.

Fictitious Education:  Choosing to share only with RV Bloggers Circle education

We also spent some time discussing our Google+ Profiles.  A lot of folks are rightly concerned about privacy and here is where Google+ really shines.  While a Google+ Profile is Public your full name is the only required information that will be displayed on your profile; you are able to edit or remove any other information that you don’t want to share.  That includes work history, contact information, personal history, location, education, gender, birthdate or marital status etc.

Thanks to all who participated in yesterday’s Hangout!thankyou

In my blog yesterday, I mentioned that I might record the Hangout Session so that others could watch it either on YouTube or in Google+.  After giving that some additional thought, I decided against it as I hadn’t consulted in advance with the other Hangout participants.  Since this would be a “live-streaming event” it simply came down to a question of privacy as well as courtesy.  To record an event for a live, or even later, broadcast would have to be approved, in advance, by all folks involved in the hangout!  That’s my policy and I’m stickin’ to it! 

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As for future Hangout sessions – I’m all for it, and it doesn’t necessarily have to be about computer topics either.  After all, we’re all RV’ers so there must be something we could find to talk about.  All we need is a volunteer to light a campfire in front of a computer screen and we’re all set!  If anyone has a topic of any kind they’d like to see discussed, let’s hear it and I’m sure we’ll be able to get a crowd of folks to sit around and chat – daytime or an evening!

How about this Weber Q dinner, George (aka Weber Q Man of Blogland?IMG_4492

To celebrate the Victoria Day holiday yesterday, I grilled up a couple of steaks, Paulette wrapped up some new, small potatoes in tin foil and put them on the grill so we enjoyed a great dinner last night.  Tomorrow, we’re off to Victoria to pick up Carrie then I’m dropping her and Paulette off at Sears to pick out a baby crib.  I'll find some place to walk with Molly and Rylie while the baby crib shopping is on.

Have a great Tuesday, and thanks again for visiting!

Monday, 20 May 2013

Family For Lunch And We Have A New Grand-Dog!

Maggie and her fiancĂ©, Toby, were in Victoria for the weekend so they drove up to have lunch with us yesterday.  It was great to get together with Toby again as this was the first time we’ve seen him since last Christmas as well as the first time since he asked Maggie to marry him in March.  Paulette made a special lunch and made sure to send “the boy” home with a big bag of Chocolate Chip cookies and another bag of freshly made Scones! 

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Maggie and Toby were over to check out venues for their wedding which will take place during the summer of 2014.  While it seems a long time away to me, it’s surprising to hear how fast many of the nicer wedding venues are booking up.  In fact, a few places are already booked solid for 2014.  It looks like Maggie and Toby were able to snag the exact place they wanted for their wedding so Paulette and I are both happy about that.  I’m sworn to secrecy for now – or else!!

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For lunch, Paulette made Panini’s and just to make sure that neither Toby nor Maggie left hungry she baked Scones and added fresh strawberries and whipped cream.  It was good and since we had a late lunch that served nicely as our dinner as well.  Maggie brought us right up-to-date with all of her wedding plans.  I was exhausted just from listening to everything that needs to be done between now and next summer. 

Meet ‘Scout’ – our new Grand-Dog

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Erin called us on Face-Time early Sunday morning to introduce us to our new Grand-Dog - her name is Scout and she is a Golden Doodle just 8 weeks old.  Scout will be a little sister to Lola – also a beautiful, gentle and very friendly Golden Doodle.  We’re sure that Lola will be more than happy to have a little playmate to keep her company during the day. 

Looks like Scout is not the least bit intimidated by big sister Lolascout

We’ll get to meet Scout this summer when Erin and Greg drive out from Calgary for a summer vacation here on Vancouver Island.  It should be interesting to have a little pup around with enough energy to keep Rylie busy all day.  Thankfully, we’ve got a big fenced backyard for all the dogs to run in and we’ll make sure to take “the pack” on our daily hikes. 

hangout

I’m really looking forward to the Monday morning Google+ Hangout session with 8 fellow bloggers.  It promises to be a lot of fun.  So far, I’ve had test video chats with George, Allen and Nan and everything worked just fine.  If any of you who are included in this Hangout have any problems connecting just email me right away and I’ll make sure you get on, o.k.  I’m hoping to be able to record this session for others who may wish to view it later.

Have a great Monday, and thanks again for visiting!