I continue to play around with the blog format and I’m having lots of fun and learning a lot as well. ((Like how to include footnotes in my posts. I also hope that the bugs are worked out of the subscribe option for new posts–I don’t think a notice when out last time. If you’ve subscribed already, thanks! If not, you can use the link at the top of the page if you want to get on the list.)) Right now I still use my old web design program to manage files and create the layout for these posts; however, that is probabably mostly out of habit. I can get done all of the things I need to get done through the web interface so it won’t be long before I retire Dreamweaver at least for this site.
In other news we’ve been getting a little more rain lately. Mostly overcast but with a few light showers on and off which is nice (especially when it has
n’t been as cold)–however, it looks like this is going to end soon and things will clear up.  I don’t have any new pictures of the rain but I did take this panorama shot a couple of weeks ago when the kids were playing outside with thier umbrellas. On the left side is the edge of our garage and on the right is the edge of our house on the other side so this is pretty much the full view of the front yard of Manifa 650. If you look on the left side you can see two Kai’s and one and half Nora’s. I built the panorama by stiching together multiple images that I took from the same spot. While I stayed still the kids did not so they show up multiple times.