• Dog Days

    I was sitting at my laptop (which I am also doing right now) and noticed that it had been getting rather much darker … so absorbed in looking at something I didn’t notice it starting, as I usually do. It’s been a hard last few days, with DH out again, and him not supposed to…


  • Happy Birthday Sis!

    Happy Birthday to my sister Debbie! July is a big birthday month, we have other relatives with July birthdays, and in my family growing up it was our dad on the 9th, sister on the 11th, me on the 18th, and then there was my dad’s brother on the 4th, then one sister married another…


  • Hawklady’s Saga, and others

    My Hawklady went through a horrible time this past month, with first an egg-bound-like condition that I helped her get over (with attention and warm baths, in a cat carrier away from the others entirely) and then she went back outside to her normal space acting like her good old self, very chipper and active,…


  • Bird Nest Updates

    I was outside “checking nest sites” –bird nests in trees in our backyard. One nest that was in the very back has a Northern Mockingbird sitting (on some eggs, most likely) –it’s a high nest, too high to see into without a huge ladder. The Robin’s Eggs that I posted on June 29th are done…


  • News of the Dog

    I wanted to let anyone who knew that we had a new dog that we gave him back to the adoption folks. He wasn’t working out in our home. Thanks


  • Happy Birthday Greetings

    Happy Birthday to my Dh! He’s now two years older than me, for about a week in length. 😉 July is about Fireworks, Baseball, etc. The All-Star Game is always right before, on, or after this day of DH’s birth, so … for you … A Virtual Birthday Cake Enjoy!

    One response to “Happy Birthday Greetings”

    1. Frank Avatar

      HEY THANKS!!

      Cool cake and best part of all NO CALORIES!!!!!

      GO TIGERS!!!!


  • Fixing my own printer – Epson CX4600

    I’m not the type to “do a Snoopy dance” i.e. dance around in glee about something as Snoopy the dog of The Peanuts fame. I have a virtual model of that going on though, I’m giddy inside with pleasure. I had troubles with printing on my Epson CX4600 in the last few months, but didn’t…

    3 responses to “Fixing my own printer – Epson CX4600”

    1. james Avatar
      james

      Where could I purchase a chip reseter to be used wtih an Epson picturemate Delux printing machine?

    2. Maisy Avatar

      In my post I said I found one on eBay for the printer I was writing about. That’s the only one I’ve ever gotten.

      I have a picture mate and I’ve never tried to reset the cartridge of them. I have used the printing utility that I talk about in the post. Find that to better manage your picture mate printer in the future. I haven’t used it lately, have just determined it’s better to save up a bunch of things to print out all at once and churn out a huge stack of photos to “save ink” or get the “most for my money” FWIW.

      BTW, the printer I wrote about in the post I haven’t bothered to print with since getting a HP LaserJet, no more color documents, but then the epson cx4600 wasn’t printing me color documents anymore either. There’s something about an ink fill up for the dumps they make an I abandoned the whole idea of trying to make it work, or buying anymore ink for it.

    3. Mike Woodard Avatar

      All lights on my CX4600 a blinking away. That started after I “stopped” a job (to save ink). Epson reference book says “..if all lights blink at once the unit needs service.” On my computer screen the Epson window says that all part have used up their usefulness. Ha! Three years and 3 months is it? Any idea where a new CX4600 can be purchased? Got lots of ink cartridges left, too.


  • The 4th Fireworks 2006

    Last night (Fourth of July 2006) we had some ‘fireworks’ at our house. Firecrackers I had gotten last year for my birthday and hoarded most of them until this year (my birthday is two weeks after The 4th), and a package we had gotten from Costco this past week. They had TNT firework bundles, we…


  • Birdies

    We have Eastern Bluebird babies in the nestbox again, they are getting near to fledge-stage … their little cute bodies are getting blue little feathers, and the pattern that is on young bluebirds, so very cute. Click here to go to my Bluebird Set on Flickr. I took a walk outside a bit ago, with…


  • Rain

    I feel like writing, have things to say, but can’t get them out. So, I’ll just input what happened yesterday, we got RAIN and Lightning and Thunder and Wind gusts of pretty big power, but nothing on the weather websites really shows any of that as true … which makes a point about me being…


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