My Stupid Back!

Is totally acting up again. So no trip to SC for us this weekend. Drat it all anyway! I was really looking forward to this as both a getaway, and a photo op. Not to mention, it would be a chance to see folks I haven’t in about ten years! And I would be with Brian and Lori, our son and his wife all weekend. That’s always so nice. They are a joy to be with.

So I should have been on the road all day today, enjoying the lovely fall scenery between TN and SC. I have instead been carefully moving around so as not to blow my back completely to the screaming point.

I caught up on my Google reader and cleared a lot of junk out of my email!

And now I’ve loaded Live Writer on here so I can add this to my Blog. Busy gal, I’ve been!

I then decided to load Adobe Elements 7 on here (I’m on my  PC laptop upstairs, not my Mac, down in the studio). I never had figured out how to really use this, so thought I’d give it another try. Boy is it weird (when compared to Photoshop CS4. So here is what I did with it this afternoon.

All of that is my doing. In another words, I didn’t use any of the gadgets from Elements. Oh, unless you count a drop shadow, and I don’t, ‘cause CS4 has that!

But I sure miss masks in Elements! Did I just not see it? I looked around. That is a major drawback for me, as I use masks all the time.

Oh, I just remembered. An interesting tidbit about the piece that is corrugated with the cowboy comic on it. It actually came off one of the logs that make up our cabin walls! We had to strip the logs when we got them, of all the nails and various bits of papers before they could get built back up again. I’ve got the bits and pieces saved. Fun, eh?!

Ever onward my strong as oxen friends!

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