Day 2 Digital Writing July 17

Day 2 proved to be as exciting as Day 1, even more so because we are building on what we learn.  It was another safe day of learning where we jumped in and experimented with new technology.  I worked on making a Digital Photo Essay.

  I found some fun pictures on a disc of an important time in my families life.  We turned an old building known formally as a grade A Milking Parlor into an art studio, complete with a courtyard.  I need some before pictures of the outside because I know I have some after pictures.  I'm going to work on that tonight.

 I know my family and friends(my audience) will appreciate it because many of them shared labor male and female.  It was a big undertaking that involved a new roof, knocking down walls, painting, sheet rocking to insulate and repair, more painting inside and out.  Plastering, pouring concrete to level floors, hauling gravel.  The more I think about it, I have more pictures somewhere of these things.  I hope to find some when I get home.

We have had lots of troubles with slow computers at home.  Regularly my husband would ask me to take my pictures off of the hard drive and save them on flash drives.  I guarded those with my life(didn't label them good enough) and this week, I'm not exactly sure where they are. 

These kinds of projects(making digital essays can be quick or take hours if you have to "research" find the pictures. 

I feel a bit better hearing others talk about the fact that we are moving fast in this class, open this, write this, try that...It's all good, very good.  I'm learning and that's why I'm here.

It  is now and I know will be in the future, a continued blessing.  Sometimes we talk about moving via the work involved in keeping up an acreage and old home.  It was built in 1880.  There's another topic I want to research, who lived there and who changed what through the years  to what it's like today.