Hi there, up until now I just assumed my e-mail was automatically available to everyone on my friends list. Duh!!! (Well, I’ve never been accused of being the thinking kind, LOL.) I’m blaming my meds, that’s my story and I’m sticking to it ; -). However, my e-mail address is kirk6177@aol.com. I’m not sure if there are any forums or the like that others post to, I sure wish there was so that us WS members could share photo ideas, let me know if you know of any please. Thanks - Kirk

said kirk6177 9 months 5 days ago

Hi Friend, I finally made it back safely to Louisville from Ohio on Sunday evening and met my family at the Days Inn where my wife had found a room as we were still without power. That night the interior temp was 19 degrees and falling in the house when we came over to get Rocky our dog. He was in the garage in his doghouse staying comfy but I didn’t want to take any chances with the outdoor temp expected to go below zero that night, which it did. (Maxwell was staying with family friends that had room for him.) The weather has since warmed up enough and the Sun graced us with its appearance a number of days to help get the snow melted on the streets and the Electric Co. was able to get back to our area and repair all of the downed lines and replace a couple transformers that had exploded. We were finally able to come home yesterday, Feb. the 4th, My Birthday! What a great gift that was, able to sleep in my own bed, woohoo! I will soon be posting some photos that Chris (now five) and I were able to take. He was here in Louisville taking photos of the ice storm damage and I was in Ohio taking a few photos while waiting for the roads to thaw out enough so I could make a run for the border, LOL. I do hate the fact that I was in the wrong place at the wrong time and missed some fantastic photo opportunities according to my wife, but there will be others. I’m just thankful that my family and I were kept safe and although we have lost a lot of material possessions and incurred some unexpected financial burdens we are all together and have a roof over our head. Blessing to all my WS friends - Kirk

said kirk6177 9 months 23 days ago

Hi friend, I will keep this message short due to my fear that my computer will crash again before I finish, LOL. Once again I have found myself at the mercy of computer gremlins, as well as Dell’s tech support :-} after my computer started crashing for no apparent reason (Although I believe it didn’t like the new-fangled version of Webshots newest software as that is when my problems first started... of course that is only speculation on my part). After a couple of weeks of erratic behavior, blue screens, error messages, lost operating system messages, I made the purchase of an external hard drive wishing I would have taken the advice of annedm1 a couple of months ago because my continual procrastination resulted in the sickening loss of over 4600 photo’s that were not backed up that I could not retrieve! I have since learned my lesson and it is my New Year’s resolution to start doing computer back up’s. Anyway, we had a wonderful Christmas Holiday and New Year’s here and I hope that all my WS friends did also. I will be catching up with everyone as time allows. Blessings to you and yours. Sincerely, Kirk

said kirk6177 10 months 13 days ago