Pictures

Okay, I used to have an online Yahoo photo account. Then it became Flickr, which I never have liked as well. Then I found Webshots, which is so much easier to use that I started using it & ignoring my Flickr account. Big mistake! I went looking for a picture & couldn't find it on Webshots, so went to Flickr & couldn't access my account. Suddenly, I have to pay $20 a year to have an account with them. So I paid it to get to my pictures, but I can't download them off there or do much of anything other than order prints. I've been doing this a group at a time. As soon as I have them all, I'm just deleting them & will eventually clear out the account.

So, then I've got these new envelopes of pictures, I've got a cabinet full of envelopes of older pictures, half full photo albums & had a couple that were empty. I decided to put all our pictures into albums. I started Saturday night & worked on it most of the day Sunday & had to go buy some more albums, but I did it! Over a decades worth of pictures are all in albums! They're not labled or sorted or in any kind of order, but they're in albums. And I'm going to have to buy some more, because I'm almost at capacity & still have pictures coming from my Flickr account.

Riley is happy though. She was convinced that we had no baby pictures of her. She has been told repeatedly that there's lots of baby pictures of her, some on the computer disks and some regular pictures, but there was no belief. Well, I found a lot of her baby photos while doing the albums. She's quite happy & has spent actually a lot of time looking through the pictures. For some reason, I got Doug's baby pictures into albums right away, but Riley's just didn't make it into albums until now.

The flip side of this project is that it has been a lot of fun looking at the old pictures & remembering things that I had forgotten about. I'll also be able to provide some pictures to my nieces of their childhood, they don't have a lot if any.