My Iowa Commute

[glatt]

We'll be seeing the pictures tomorrow then, right after you charge the battery.

[Shawnee123]

Originally Posted by HLJ

I had the best intentions this morning. I brought my camera and started taking pictures. About half a mile from home the battery died, just as a baby deer walked in front of my car.

Did you kill Bambi? For want of a battery, the baby deer was lost?

[HungLikeJesus]

Originally Posted by Shawnee123

Did you kill Bambi? For want of a battery, the baby deer was lost?

I was so focused on taking pictures, that if the battery hadn't died when it did, I might have -- though it probably would have done some serious damage to my car -- the hood is aluminum and thinner than a Pepsi can.

I'll download the ones I've taken and see if any are post-worthy. The camera was set for 6MP, so I'll need to shrink the pictures before posting.

What are the size and format restrictions for posting pictures?

[LabRat]

When you go to post a picture, it will tell you the restrictions if your pic is too big. Keep in mind that not everyone has superspeedy connections, and UT is footing the server space bill.

What I do is open the pics (however big) in Photoshop, resize the image to be 300-750 pixels wide (depending on subject, usually about 500, but that sometimes is even big) then there is an option to "save for web" I do that, which gives the options of high-low image quality. Low seems to give perfectly fine pics once on the Cellar, and has a small file size.

YMMV

Edit, because there are restrictions, i'm a doofus.

[HungLikeJesus]

LR, thanks for your help.

This is a view looking down our driveway in December (actually, it looked like this from October through about May, this year).

The snow makes for some good exercise. Shoveling is my wife's job.

I'll post more pictures tomorrow after I recharge my camera battery.

[How do you post the pictures so that you can insert text between them, as others have done?]

[glatt]

Originally Posted by HLJ

[How do you post the pictures so that you can insert text between them, as others have done?]

You need to host your pictures on another website and link to them with the image button when composing your post. I used Flickr to host mine.

When you do it as an attachment like you did, you can only post two, and they go at the bottom. They are hosted by the Cellar then.

[LabRat]

What he said. That's how I do it, (Cellar host's) which is why I have to use multiple posts to get more than 2 pics in.

Beautiful snow pics! Great on a stink-o hot day like today...

[glatt]

Originally Posted by LabRat

Beautiful snow pics!

Yeah. I should have commented on them too. That's a long driveway, and you appear to get snow often. Was the snowblower broken? Was the truck with the plow in the shop? You don't shovel every time it snows, do you?

[HungLikeJesus]

Originally Posted by glatt

Yeah. I should have commented on them too. That's a long driveway, and you appear to get snow often. Was the snowblower broken? Was the truck with the plow in the shop? You don't shovel every time it snows, do you?

Originally Posted by HLJ

The snow makes for some good exercise. Shoveling is my wife's job.

The driveway is 200 or 300 feet long; the top picture shows the narrower end toward the street. The part nearer the house is twice as wide.

The biggest problem we have, after a few days of snow, is finding a place to put it. Up by the garage there is a hill on one side, the house on the other and the garage in front. Here's a picture I took this morning. All the snow has melted.

[Sundae]

Wow - I've only seen snow like that on skiing holidays [envy].
You live in a wooden house! That's well foreign to me!

I can't wait for your commute. Please can I also have pictures of your kitchen, your bathroom, your weekly food shop etc

[glatt]

Originally Posted by HLJ

Shoveling is my wife's job.

I saw that before. You wife has quite a job then. She must be able to beat you at arm wrestling by the time Spring rolls around in June.

[HungLikeJesus]

Originally Posted by Sundae Girl

Wow - I've only seen snow like that on skiing holidays [envy].
You live in a wooden house! That's well foreign to me!

I can't wait for your commute. Please can I also have pictures of your kitchen, your bathroom, your weekly food shop etc

The cedar siding is nice, but it has drawbacks, primarily because the woodpeckers and the pigmy nuthatches think it's a big dead tree. They drill holes in the walls to make nests, some of them 4 inches in diameter, and pull out the insulation.

The other problem is that we live in an area with occasional large fires (10,000 to 120,000 acres) and this house would burn fast.

I can see by that picture that it's time to stain the front door.

[HungLikeJesus]

Originally Posted by glatt

I saw that before. You wife has quite a job then. She must be able to beat you at arm wrestling by the time Spring rolls around in June.

Yes, and she still hasn't split that pile of firewood on the side of the driveway.

[Griff]

Originally Posted by HLJ

Yes, and she still hasn't split that pile of firewood on the side of the driveway.

It's hard to get good help these days.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by HLJ

The cedar siding is nice, but it has drawbacks, primarily because the woodpeckers and the pigmy nuthatches think it's a big dead tree. They drill holes in the walls to make nests, some of them 4 inches in diameter, and pull out the insulation.

My folks had the woodpecker problem. After many years of replacing wood and cursing the little peckers, they stoped staining and painted the house. That did it.