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Ysabel Josephine

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Last week Scott approached me and mentioned that he saw an article online from the Kalamazoo Animal Rescue, a local no-kill animal shelter and fostering service that places cats and dogs with their new forever homes. The kitten he met was named Baby by her foster mother, and she was born on April 11th, 2018.

Scott met her first, then I met her afterwards in a second encounter. These photos cover that experience. After we did a lot of soul-searching and talking it out, we decided that we had room and heart enough for this new kitten to be a part of our lives. In these pictures, she was just washed and was cold and shivering. By the time we were done holding and cuddling with her, she was almost dry. The shivering gave way to some loud purring and she napped gently on both my chest and on Scotts.

She’s scheduled to be fixed tomorrow, and then after that we’ll take her home to live with us. As kittens go, she is incredibly sweet and even tempered. She’s been bottle fed by multiple humans, she has socialized with many other cats and kittens, dogs, goats, and pigs, so integrating with our two at home shouldn’t be too much of a problem for her. She is FELV and FIV negative, something that was important to make sure of before we could get any further. The link below will take you to the iCloud Photo Sharing site with her baby pictures.

https://www.icloud.com/sharedalbum/#B15GfnH8tGpb1UY

Welcome Home, Ysabel Josephine. We love you.

Bandinage in Robin Hood’s Barn

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HexedWow, what a long strange trip that was! I’ve got a lot of my amateur photography and I’ve been kicking around the notion of placing it all on my host and sharing it through my blog somehow. I started this sad trip with Pixelpost, then looked around for other LAMP scripts that could work after Pixelpost belly-flopped and died on impact. The issue I had with Pixelpost was trying to mass-import 218 pictures of my two cats. The software just couldn’t cope. So after a while trying to hammer a square peg in a round hole I just gave up altogether.

Then it struck me that I could use my WordPress blog maybe. I had a dim memory about something about Galleries. I can store as much as I like on my host and there’s no bandwidth issues so why not? So I did some reading in the Codex and well, there you go! Create a new Page, add Media, create a new Gallery and it’s EXACTLY WHAT I WANTED. Then I happened to notice JetPack and looked in there and it has Carousel feature which improves the standard Gallery control for WordPress. WOW! It was everything I wanted and it ate all 218 files without blinking and making new pages is a snap! Adding and removing pictures from the Galleries is just as easy.

So all that way and all that time blown out trying to get a weak system to behave itself and the answer was just under the covers in WordPress all along! I am exceptionally pleased. 🙂 Thanks all you wonderful ladies and gentlemen at Automattic! Thankee-sai!

You can find these galleries on the main menu of my Blog, under the title of Photo Galleries. I hope you enjoy them!

photo by: Nicholas_T