My Desultory Blog

RichC | March 5, 2019

Where has this year, and the past TWO YEARS, gone? It seems like my granddaughter Annalyn just turned ONE, and now she is TWO already! We will be celebrating with the family in a few days, but sang her Happy Birthday with Alexa’s help on their Amazon Echo Monday morning (March 4th). She is indeed […]

Category: Archive, Faith, Hobby, Personal, Photos, Woodworking | No Comments »
Tags: animals, annalyn, bible, biblical, birthday, circus, drew, etymology, family, jointery, katelyn, project, slideshow, toys, verse, woodworking, zoo

RichC | December 8, 2018

Read up a little bit more on upholstery last weekend while in Florida while thinking about a couple possible projects. I’m not sure about tackling something as big as a couch and loveseat (slideshow below), but perhaps a couple chair pillows and condo dining room chair cushions are do-able? My projects in the past have […]

Category: Archive, Hobby, Ideas, Photos, Sailing | No Comments »
Tags: boat, condo1718, cushions, encore, florida, sailboat, sailrite, sewing, slideshow, upholstery

RichC | December 7, 2018

A couple years ago I added Simple Slideshow Manager to MyDesultoryBlog as a way to include a series of photos in a single post. Having "attempted" different approaches that fail in one OS, Browser or device before the above plugin seemed to work … that is, until it didn’t. Having posted to the forums, trying […]

Category: Advice, Blogs, Computer, Technology, Tidbits | No Comments »
Tags: blog, jquery, master, plugin, programing, slideshow, tech friday, techfriday, wordpress

RichC | March 23, 2018

Here’s some advice from someone who as blogged daily since 2005 — AVOID using data, photos, video, etc archived on other services. Over the years, I have been frustrated by “what seemed great at the time” using services offered by companies who specialize in hosting data for users. A little history: It started for me […]

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Tags: advice, blog, blogging, cppnet.com, embed, embedding, internet, slideshow, tech friday, techfriday, video

RichC | December 24, 2017

My wife Brenda shows a lot of attention to decorating with memories and detail to our house each December (and my mother did too). I wish I would be more thankful, but am usually a bit Grinchy when ask to do just a few things that seem to much such a waste of time … […]

Category: Archive, Holiday, Memories, Photos | No Comments »
Tags: brenda, christmas, decoration, family, Holiday, home, house, memories, Photos, slideshow

RichC | May 2, 2017

Brenda and I met Katelyn, Drew and Annalyn in Toledo this past weekend. Their reason to be in Toledo was to look at houses for their upcoming move back to Ohio from Minneapolis, MN … it is official now! Our reason for driving up from Cincinnati was to babysit our granddaughter on Sunday and take […]

Category: Personal, Photos | No Comments »
Tags: annalyn, brenda, drew, family, katelyn, lagoon, lake erie, ohio, panarama, slideshow, toledo

RichC | April 21, 2017

Here’s a quick slideshow of photos updating the granite countertops to our kitchen remodel after they were installed this past week. Thankfully every measurement was “spot on” and the install went without a hitch (the photos make them look a lot darker than they really are). A couple photos show a sample of the new […]

Category: Archive, Misc, Personal, Photos | 1 Comment »
Tags: construction, granite, home, house, install, kitchen, remodel, slideshow