I'm in!!! Only just saw this. I love games! Lol. So how do you mannage snail mail addresses, email however you communicate about next address etc. Is this all on Photo bucket? If yes, I'm out. But honestly no hard feelings. Quick fun visit ;-D. Meanwhile I might see if I can find a pair here lol

Lars is you can get what you want with fully automatic settings then that's great and it's true you can usually make adjustments in Photoshop or other programs. I had some disappointing results the other day with my DSLR in the Botanical garden where there are extremes of dark shade and bright sunlight. I'm going back there again and will use only automatic to see what settings the same camera chooses and how the pics turn out. Then I can go back again and hopefully fine tune my settings for some better pictures. It's all trial and error sometimes in difficult lighting situations. Luckily the entrance fee is just a couple of Euros. :-) SharonCb

L2C46, You can start a blog in about ten minutes for free using Blogger, Xanga, LiveJounral or a number of other sites. (I think TypePad now charges a nominal fee.) The free accounts do have limits (storage, traffic bandwidth, etc.) but they are usually generous enough for the casual user. Heck, I think I know more people with blogs than without them now. LOL! If you're trying to make it a money-making venture (like Pioneer Woman or Leites, then, yes, it costs money. There's hosting fees, URL registrations, storage fees, a bunch a bunch of other things that are each small but can add up. Really, it can cost as much or as little as you want it to, but the more popular the blog, the higher the chance it will cost money. A lot of these people who are now trying to turn their blogs into profit centers are often trying to cover the costs of becoming popular. We have this mindset that if something is on the internet, it should be free, and the truth is it costs money to run these services. Here is a link that might be useful: and...a blog about starting a blog!

What a great thread! while these aren"t family quotes, I love them anyway... Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all. ~Harriet Van Horne Practice love, like cooking, with reckless abandon ~Life's Little Instruction Book by H. Jackson Brown Jr. Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside. ~ Mark Twain One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. ~Virginia Woolf Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity. ~Voltaire A nickel will get you on the subway, but garlic will get you a seat. ~New York Yiddish Proverb