Happy Mother's Day!

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Snugglebeagles

I've been looking for a companion for my little beaglemeister since November of last year. My sister loaned me her Golden Retriever and I really loved the way she got along with my beagle pal, and thought to find a Golden Retriever of my own for him.

As it turned out, the Golden Dog of his dreams was another beagle. She is just a pup, and she is so sweet. They have had some adjustments to make in getting along, but after about three weeks now they snuggle by each other and live to go for walks, play fight, and explore the yard side by side.

Beagles for the win!

Another Animoto Short

I really like Animoto and am suggesting we use it for pictures of an in-construction building and a building in the remodel process for our official web site. Here is another Animoto short, set to another type of music from their music selections. I like the music group's name "Whiskey Priest" and the song is lovely too. Notice how differently the animation rolls through the photos (from my Love, Mom clip), so there really is an interesting variety to be had.

Love, Mom

Well, I'll be. I finally got it to work. I'm not sure if using a different computer helped, or if I didn't see something obvious, but there she is, sweet lil mom.

Animoto's Kind Support

Thanks to the folks at Animoto for trying to help resolve my problems using Animoto. They suggested I update my Adobe Flash Player and try the Firefox browser.

As it turns out I have the most up to date version of Adobe Flash, so that's all good. Since I use my laptop for posting and for all my picture files, I don't want to use precious drive space on the installation of an alternate browser.

Even if I can't use the Animoto feature, I'd encourage others to give it a try. It looks to be a very unique and dynamic way of making static photographs into something much more than a slide show.

For all the programs a library does all year long, it would be a great advertisement and fun way to show what happens at libraries besides the daily checking in and out of hundreds of books, the answering of every question under the sun, and the pampering of wayward copy machines. Libraries are waaay beyond cool. Animoto can help show that off.

Animoto technical difficulties...grrrrr

So, I read a post about Animoto on the Librarian in Black's blog (with red hair and wearing black does she look like Willow from Buffy the Vampire Slayer or what?) about Animoto which turns your uploaded photos into a short video clip with musical accompaniment. Very cool looking. So...I thought I'd do some photos of my little mom, as a tribute because I miss her every day...

But! Animoto would not see to upload any of the dozens of pictures I have scanned into my computer. Even looking in the "scanned photos" folder. Grrr!

So, I really wanted to do this post, and my mind says, hmmm maybe it really wanted to work from Flickr instead. So I put them on Flickr. All Animoto sees to load from Flickr is the little alien I originally uploaded to test Flickr as part of my 23 Things on a Stick. Argh, argh, triple argh!

I wrote to them in their little Feedback box, but haven't heard back. I tried my best Google enabled troubleshooting searches to see if anyone else on the planet had trouble but noooo noooo, it easy as pie for everyone else. Maybe my little mom's ghost doesn't want to be posted here? *sigh*