Technology hell

Posting wll be uneven for awhile -- we've run into the perfect storm of technology problems.  The only working computer in the household had to go back to Spawn 1 (big school project, and hey, it IS her computer).  Mac the main computer is still in the shop, and Dell XP still doesn't want to go on the internet with ATT.  (We're borrowing Mrs. Altadenablog's office computer, but it's only available at night and when work calls, we have to give it up).  And we hate working with just a touchpad, and there's weird security things on this computer, and it's a dial up -- yikes!  So posting will be light, late, and no pictures of anything until Lucille (the Macbook Pro) returns from its sojourn at the repair depot.