Oh Good Grief !!!! GRIEF

Grief is the word of the hour.  Another snow storm, this time with the extra added feature of sleet....aka...a wintery mix.  Got hay this morning....picked up extra bags of corn yesterday....hopefully this will hold me over till all this passes.  I'm getting a little tired of all the shoveling...everything hurts....arms, legs, back and most every other body part including my feet.  I really hesitate to venture out in this slushy, snowy and slippery stuff.  My hay guy told me he was sliding all over the road on his way here.  I'll get the outside work done early before we get the second wave of 'weather'...then I'll just vege-out and daydream about Spring, eat a mini pizza and vacuum the loom room!

Another Step Forward

Moving forward with my internet experience...including a new wireless broadband connection [and I might add, 3G from time to time]...I will be opening a "store" on Zibbet soon.  This is a handmade site similar to Etsy, except the fee structure is different.  I have lots of handwoven items, tons of hand-spun yarns from my sheep and carded,dyed roving also from the sheep. This will be a totally different experience since I have only sold my items at fine arts and crafts shows.  Doing shows became NOT cost effective when the total fees and expenses of going to the shows were close to the total sales.  I believe my last show was a $500 fee plus travel and lodging costs.  That works fine if you have lots of inventory at a mid-range cost....$45.00 or less....When you are selling truly handmade items, made by one person...you are at a disadvantage.  Actually, I found many shows allowed mass produced items in your 'tent'...that really sent me over the edge.  OK....I'll be working on lots of pix and unpacking in the coming weeks.....hey...not to mention...trying to overcome the below zero and freezing temperatures, breaking ice from water buckets and "looking forward to the next snow"....Till then.......JR

PS...will have a link to ZIBBET as soon as I get my shop started

Wireless

Today, I went to the wireless store and purchased a device to connect my computer to wireless broadband....I installed the software and plugged the device into a USB port and off I went. This seems too good to be true...never before have I been able to watch video from my computer screen....geez....I will try again tomorrow morning just to make sure I have this lightning fast speed.  I actually have 2 weeks ....no hassle trial...all your money back if it doesn't work out....hey...how can you go wrong!!!!

Blogger Interrupted... AKA Slow connection speed !!!!

Interrupted...yes....apparently my internet connection speed is soooo slow that I'm having lots of problems getting around on the internet and also getting connected to my Blog!...lots of OOPS!!! and Sorry your server was reset messages.  Talked to my 'computer guy' over the weekend and he told me about new upgrades to search engines and 're-coding' etc.[computereze stuff] so the bottom line is...I need to find another way to connect to the WWW other than my slow as _ _ _ dial-up.  I'll be exploring satellite and other wireless options as I cannot get cable or any other high speed service here...up in the hills of Pennsyltucky...so if I'm not blogging much in the next week...that's why...my oh sooo slow dial-up.....JR