This weeks Challenge
“My Favourite Toy”
I would like to tell you my favorite toy is a big exercise gym set purchased and used faithfully for years BUT, as I can not tell a lie, I’ll list what many of you already know, in the order I became interested.
1- my computer, a love / hate affair
2- my Paint Shop Pro software, pretty much the most trouble free software I have ever used.
3- my digital camera, the first a 3.1 megapixel Kodak, and now a 10 megapixel Canon.
4- an add in here, I love the television for movies and have a large collection of great ones with a few duds interspersed. I seldom watch television, otherwise.
We are now using computers 6 and 7, we went through three before the internet came into existence. Under some duress, my husband talked me into doing my typing/writing on the computer. I avoided it for years actually.
Sometime in the frame of things, providers became available for online activities and I discovered Excite Chat where I met friends I correspond with still. While in Excite Chat, I discovered Paint Shop Pro where a lot of creative people used it to make Avatars
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) for changeable profile pictures and creatively designed and displayed pages. I still have all of my images I made and the program in my computer. I have played with Paint Shop Pro since V5. There were previous versions retailed so it dates back a little before my discovering it. All of this precedes but leads to my digital camera’s and that is the total of my all-time, very favorite, toys IF I don’t count children, pets and husband.
Some Photos / Images / More
Toy #1 Writing on the Computer
A Poem For You
© RSBlain
May 10, 1999
(my poem, 10 years old, editing is a given for it’s improvement)
If I could do it all again, my life from start to end
There’s not a bridge that I would burn, not a fence I’d think to mend
I’d travel all the highways that I have traveled on,
And never a pot hole would I change or blade of grass upon
*
My little weeded patch of life, with all its little stones
Which I’ve traveled with some dignity, some bruises, grunts, and groans
Gaining no important titles, no bags of coin or gold,
I’ve been blessed with natures riches, it’s to this I tightly hold.
*
As every road, every turn, led me, to you, before,
Being led to things to learn and share, not view and then ignore
The greatest WEALTH of INTERESTS: flowers, birds, the freshest skies,
Roots, the vines, and various seeds is where importance lies.
*
And though my travels took me not far, from battered, old front door
I know that with my final glimpse, I will have witnessed more,
Gained knowledge and love of a temporal kind, so readily I turn my page
Slate clean and open for the imagined, on which I hope to gaze.
Toy #2 Paint Shop Pro
The above is a desktop. I have made hundreds and offered hundreds as free downloads and sent them as gifts in Emails.
The above is something I just learned, Digital Greeting Cards. All mine, all fun.
Toy #3 My Digital Camera
A photo taken lately with my digital camera. The newest nuisance to our household. It is sleeping on the chair I use at the computer having gotten the notion it prefers I vacate it so it can sleep there. Fun it is / isn’t but so far it is letting me survive.
Have a great week, thanks always for your comments,
The above is a desktop. I have made hundreds and offered hundreds as free downloads and sent them as gifts in Emails.
The above is something I just learned, Digital Greeting Cards. All mine, all fun.
A photo taken lately with my digital camera. The newest nuisance to our household. It is sleeping on the chair I use at the computer having gotten the notion it prefers I vacate it so it can sleep there. Fun it is / isn’t but so far it is letting me survive.Have a great week, thanks always for your comments,
Comments (15)
Great toys!! I’ll bet that you have no shortage of friends who like to play at your house too.
I love the photo of the new family member. Thank you for the valentine card – great work looks very complicated. Have a sweet day tomorrow.
@tkperito - I have a granddaughter who loved to play with me but she is now grown so I play a lot by myself. Still enjoyable though.
@bumblefish - Actually, the program isn’t all that complicated for most things, it’s just learning how to make adjustments. There are a lot of things in PSP I still don’t know how to do. I keep learning a little at a time. For someone very talented, with real artistic talents like Rajobe or Isabelle, similar programs are like another right hand. I wish I were as talented as some. For me, I thank my lucky stars for the camera as I would have very little to offer without it.
Your new nuisance has the habits of some of my feline nuisances. I cannot vacate any seat for even a moment without finding a furry body keeping my place warm when I return.
I was using an early version of Paint Shop Pro on our laptop before we got on the web. It was amazing to me at the time, to be able to do those things. Now, I don’t know how I’d live without PhotoShop.
I love the photo of the kitty and great toys.
love this post ^^. I like the digital card.
Great post!
Hi Becca, a great post for the challenge, i like the poem.
You’ve got great taste in toys!
I like the desktop and your v-e cards. Cat looks comfy – it probably likes it there because you’ve warmed it up nicely.
Not only you are an excellent designer on Internet and a eminent photographer but you are also a poet , Becca .
I guessed .
Love
Michel
I guess the reason people are friends is because they have a lot in common. With you and I it is literally our toys, but what most people on this forum don’t know is that it is thanks to you that I am actually able to do things in Paint Shop Pro. That it is you that taught me how to edit and manipulate photos, so our relationship goes further than most as we have a student-mentor relationship, even to the extent of poetry, what some people don’t know is that I have even started writing it myself, again largely thanks to my USA Mentor who has such an excellent command of the English Language. I even surprised my wife with my romantic verse on her Valentine Card, so I am learning again thanks to you. Looking at Michel’s comment above- How right he is! So all in all I have just one thing to say Becca and that is THANK YOU for your expertise and artistic ability, may it long continue. LOL!—Tim (Your Friend across the puddle.)
@Timages - Hey Tim, I appreciate that you always appreciate my poems such as they are. You are sensitive to my soul. Thank you so much.
@fauquet - Michel, if I could add your talent for little drawings etc that you do, I might call myself rounded. I do so envy your talent with the sketches much as I do the wonderful artistic talents of Rojobe and Isabell. Maybe in the next life I can get it all together. You are a wonderful friend and your kindness (kind words) means the world to me.
@tim_beddard - Tim, you are a sweetie, always, and though you embarrass me to a great extent by your praise, I appreciate your words to the utmost. You are more than kind and I love you for it. Thank you.
@rojobe - Thank you regarding your likeing my desktop and valentines. I realize they aren’t anything like you do with your wonderful talents but they give me some satisfaction being able to do something with my photos besides just looking at them. Thank you,
@Timages - Hey Tim, I appreciate that you always appreciate my poems such as they are. You are sensitive to my soul. Thank you so much.
Great toys!