I'm back

Hi all

I'm back into 23 things looking forward to reading everyone's blogs and maybe keeping some of the things I learned last year up to speed.

community gardening

This spring/summer I've been fortunate enough to become a member of a new community garden: College Park Assessible Community Garden. So far alot of weeding, digging and meeting new people. Hopefully the harvest will be fine

23 THINGS

Thank you to everyone involved setting up, creating 'lessons' and making 23 Things happen. I also want to thank people for sharing their experiences in their blogs, helping when I got 'stuck' and encouraging me when I got behind -- just call me the Procrastinator. This has been a wonderful opportunity and I enjoyed almost every moment.

THANK YOU

I think I fixed my time prior to posting this

Time?

Maybe before the end of our program I will fix the time on my blog - I seem to be an hour behind real time [must be Eastern]- funny I hadn't really noticed it until this afternoon.

I finished without being behind

Yippee. I did it. I have to confess - this has been a blast - just wish I hadn't lagged behind so much. Because of that I decided to finish [other than Thing 23] today - just do it. Another confession. I fell in love with Word Clouds during LLDP3. During our preliminary Team presentations, another Team [Synergy Squad] had a word cloud - it was love at first sight. I began playing with WORDLE and made everything that I could think of into a word cloud. So much fun and kind of interesting to make up a list of wants & needs, hopes & dreams, a paragraph on where you want to be in 1, 3 and 5 years - put the words into Wordle - play around with the layout and see what becomes highlighted. Very interesting.

LibraryThing was fun to play at - I had heard of it but had never investigated it. That is one of the best things about participating in 23 Things - so many times I've heard about some of our "things" and now I have checked those out and know which ones are "My things".

Maybe tomorrow I will check out 'Smilebox" and later in the week I will finish off with THING 23 which will have to include a huge thank-you to the LDC as a group but especially those people who worked on 23 things.

Finally a photo loaded from Flickr - SPRING - photo taken by Naomi Ibuki

Online Mapping and GIS

I really like online mapping. I've used google maps in the past and have used mapping in Sparkspeople to map out walks that I go on with my friends dog Stryder. Being pet orientated, I created a map for pet stores - gotta love those doggie and kitty treats - the Easter bunny comes for pets too you know. Oh and I remembered to use my labels this post. I think I may flunk blogging - oh well time to sign off - the vacation / staycation part of my day begins. I'm picking up a friend and heading off to the Dunes for breakfast and to try my luck on the slot machines. With luck I'll be blogging that "I'm a winner"