ok.  bueno.  here we are and an Update of sorts.  

There WAS, indeed, an evil virus.  he described it as having roots.  the root part i liked, but the virus felt to me like VD.  but…now i know.  i will know, for the future, how that begins and will know enough to nip it in it's bud as cruel as that sounds.  

so…we have here, an Updated Windows program.  and Updated Chrome.  an Updated Picasa…what else…i guess that's it with the updates, but then AntiVirus stuff up the wazoo.  all my pics are still happily in their libraries, both Windows and Picasa.  the email remains the original, grace.porvida@gmail.  Stuff's O.K.  

it was the SHOCK of it.  the shock of finally getting a virus…me, who really hardly ever strays from the MotherShip.  who'dve thought????  alas.  and the SHOCK of the Windows 7 update…how it has changed everything.  nothing is in it's place that i'd created for it over the years.  and Chrome…well, it is Chromie.  whenever favorite color came up during my marriage to my children's father, and ?what is his favorite color?, chrome.  he was/is a chrome kind of guy.  me…weeds.dirt.compost.  anyway  so, now to figure out how to Just Go.  i have been able to seperate all the entities at work here.  identify what they do.  Windows 7.  Google Chrome.  Picasa. TypePad.  for some days, it was a blur.  or, really, kind of GAP…a blank space inbetween what was, what became, what no longer was and what i couldn't get to.  an odd gap.   

a couple times i thought i'd figured it out.  but i still have Not.  today, new pics will not download.  this is a BIG DEAL.  but i DO have Confidence that i will be able to figure it out.  it's not Everything, but, Windows7.  so.  ok.   breathe in and exhale.  ok.

and you know what was the WORST??????  that the screen saver that was a pic of my daughter was gone.  so….like Her Herself, now her pic is gone too.  it was a pic of her on my son's back tiny porch when he and his woman tried to live in Albuquerque for a while (it didn't work).  and we were All there (that isn't often) and my son's woman Heather made us the most excellent Margarita's and we were All together but privately wondering about the Unforseen…each in our own hearts…

isn't that funny????as in odd?  that something as plain as a screen saver can throw someone off the edge into a

GAP??????

and while all this has been my preoccupation, this 

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has happened.  the young cottonwoods…there are two….one by the buck pen, one by the doe pen…both…are LEAFING.  this is their 3rd year.  the third year is the year of BEAUTY.  the first is totally ify just in general.  the second depends on what environmental happenings occur…length of season, draught conditions caused by degree of heat etc.  but if those first two years just go…the THIRD YEAR is a burgeoning of fierce energy and growth that MIGHT carry that plant being through all kinds of Unforseen.   I take this as a good sign.

and i love Everyone for hanging in there.  Really.  it's You All that are on the other side of the Gap. Thank You.

 

 

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21 responses to “Day 42. just going.”

  1. jude Avatar

    ok then. i am about to replace my machine. and i suppose i will have windows 8, and can only imagine what kind of gap i will fall into, having skipped windows 7 all together.

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  2. grace Forrest Avatar

    you know…i don’t think there IS an 8. i think there is a
    7 and a NINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    NINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    a NINE, can you believe it????????????????
    really…how amazing!!!!
    and writing this made me realize that my BEST NUMBER is SEVEN…
    OH and EEEEEEEEEEEEEEE i didn’t even think this, climbing up
    by my fingernails from that GAP…OOHHHHHHH….if i can just
    keep Going………….
    How Great is All This????????????????????????

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  3. jude Avatar

    9 is not pout yet, and not sure i can wait. my machine sounds like a jet plane landing.

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  4. grace Forrest Avatar

    eeeeeeeeeeee, well, you have Man. he will know.
    just good…as i KNOW and am not yet able to DO, good to be
    proactive.

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  5. Susan C Avatar

    I love the way you write everything all tangled together, grace. I hope that comes across right. In my mind it’s exactly how things are. Everything blended together.
    Hope your computer is well and sorry about your photo. I think about this sometimes, that images are rarely printed anymore. All could be lost. – and I love cottonwoods. We had a huge one at our first house that shaded our entire backyard. The leaves make the prettiest movement in the wind with the light shining through – a sparkling filter. So I hope your young tree does well.

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  6. Julie Avatar
    Julie

    imagine being in on the birth of a cottonwood tree!!!! They are everything that is Old West to me, whenever we sat beneath them on our ghost town forays, I felt like I should have had an old blanket jn a bedroll, a cowboy hat, and a mare snorting the in the grass just beyond. And the screen saver thing…no it doesnt surprise me that its absence throws anyone into a gap…it is the view out your window (groan no pun intended) and it would be like waking up, looking outside, and it was all gone as jude would say, poof. not very fun.

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  7. grace Forrest Avatar

    well…you can know by this, the way it is to be ME, to
    live with my mind…all tangled together…and i am
    very OK with that. blended. because it IS. so..yes.
    it comes across exactly how it IS. thank you for seeing
    it that way.
    the pics.
    oh…oh if tonight i could have taken pics to post….
    the guy who came on the bicycle to do the weeds, came
    again in his brother in law’s truck and brought rocks.
    a little at a time and Over Time, we will make a rock
    island for Them. he brought 3 tonight as an example.
    took them in the wheel barrow into the doe pen and they all gathered in a semi circle and watched. we arranged them with the wood stumps. when we went out, they rushed over to study them…smelling them, lipping them…then,
    trying them out…like standing on them…
    i am hoping it will help with the Hoof Thing…like
    giant round nail files….
    but…it’s a Worthy Cause. weed guy is really into it.
    going home to think of where other good rocks might be.
    What a Nice Thing is This???, i’m thinking.
    LOVE, Susan…..Love to you

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  8. grace Forrest Avatar

    Cottonwoods. yes. they are Queens of the desert. i have
    tried maybe 6 times and failed. they need water.
    this place is on a Fault Line and some years ago, when there was RAIN, and i mean RAIN, that caused the irrigation ditch bank to collapse and flood, there was an evacuation order,
    but i was sleeping, so didn’t know, anyway…
    it caused some fissures here. i think i lucked out…putting these two into one of those fissures that may go down to
    the aquifer that runs the distance???? We’ll see. if so
    there will become, in Short Time, SHADE for all and then
    in the fall the dried leaves that are nothing short of
    ecstatic for a Goat.
    AND yes….POOF! and i needed her at least There, where
    everyday i could stare at her, and think…”JENNY!!! what on Earth Are You Doing???????????????” but she was
    gone. oh, eee.
    maybe i’ll go find her. i think screen saver’s are a
    thing of the past, tho.

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  9. grace Forrest Avatar

    When All is Said and Done
    yes
    isn’t it just that way?
    all the craziness, all the Fear, all the Stuff.
    and it only lasts a few days. that’s the great part.
    a few days. we have learned something. or…i have….
    to know to wait.

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  10. Dee Avatar

    oh my god, I am going through update trauma too! it’s been horrible. the fear. the black screen. the frustration. the loss of familiar pathways, that then lead to the freezing up of relied-upon connections. and on top of this my phone is telling me I used 200 MB of data in three days (never used more than 87 in a month)and I have no idea why! none. it’s like a revolt is happening in this house through the wireless and through the wires. Learning Photoshop Elements 11 will be breeze compared to all this.
    I understand how unsettling it is. Hang in there… “TO WAIT” – for me it was just walking away from the screen. that’s all I could do. walk away. it feels like there was some kind of lesson in that.

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  11. Valerianna Avatar

    My, my… through the GAP and onto the…ummmm…. little raft with sail that will someday be shaded by cottonwoods maybe? Glad things are getting sorted, and that leaves have unfurled – they’re the tree’s sails.

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  12. Nance Avatar
    Nance

    Ok… It must be catching… I have mac so I know it’s not the same virus… I think I know that. But my computer keeps asking for my email password and when I type it in they say its wrong. So I go to settings and check …nope. And then I ask for a new password and they ask if I want it emailed….duh… No. That is why I am getting a new password? So. I say I will answer security questions. And they ask for my birthdate first…. And when I enter that… And I know it’s right…. They say no its wrong. So now I know something is very wrong. Wahhh!
    Cotton woods. We have cotton woods here. There is a nice park over by where the willamette and the Columbia are together and they grow liked wild there. Then when they bloom and their white stuff comes down it looks like snow! It’s soooo thick! I love it but I feel sorry for the people who have allergies to it… It’s not a pretty sight to them.

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  13. Michelle Avatar

    Related perhaps-A solar flare – a powerful burst of radiation from the sun – took place today (April 11, 2013), peaking at 3:16 a.m. EDT (716 UTC). This morning’s event was considered a mid-level event, with a classification of M6.5. It was 10 times less powerful than the strongest flares, which are labeled X-flares. Still, NASA says:
    This is the strongest flare seen so far in 2013.
    Today’s flare was associated with an Earth-directed coronal mass ejection (CME). Experimental NASA research models show that the CME began at 3:36 a.m. EDT on April 11 and that the charged particles left the sun at over 600 miles per second (1,000 miles per second). Most CMEs reach Earth in one to three days, which means this might be a great weekend to watch for auroras, or northern lights. GPS and communications signals might also undergo some disruption.”

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  14. Nance Avatar
    Nance

    Thanks Michelle…. I haven’t been keeping up on the latest news… I knew we were expecting some solar flares but then I forgot about it…. I suppose we should expect these things to happen… But I like many others just go on my merry way!

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  15. Laura R Avatar
    Laura R

    There’s an 8, but nobody seems to like it much and are awaiting the 9. I’m an Apple girl, myself- from way back in the ’70s and ’80s when I lived in Palo Alto and Sunnyvale. I am so sorry about your photograph.

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  16. grace Forrest Avatar

    Laura…it’s ok now. good Enough.
    good enough to Just Go and that’s all i really want to do.
    xoxo, apple girl

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  17. Nancy Avatar

    Julie~ I love how you’ve said this…this is how I feel about cottonwoods too. There are so many in the Carson Valley and general area of northern Nevada. They are always along the irrigation ditches. We had some behind our tri-plex and just everywhere! I love them.
    When driving home last week after work, at this one corner where there are many cottonwoods…my headlights lit up all the little cotton puffs skittering across the intersection in the dark. I can’t even describe how odd they looked…like little aliens!

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  18. Nancy Avatar

    Grace good to go back and see the solving of it coming together. Sorry about the pic going poof. I know how that is with disappearing children.

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  19. grace Forrest Avatar

    you can’t buy cotton producing cottonwoods in NMex anymore.
    they are forbidden.
    these supposedly don’t produce the little aliens.
    but then…i think…HOW DOES THE TREE REPRODUCE?????
    Are there enough in the whole state already??????
    The Rio Grande which runs through the center of the state
    is lined with these cottonwoods. they ARE the bosque.
    it’s interesting and sometimes heart stopping how we try
    to control what is Wild.

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  20. Nancy Avatar

    Why are they forbidden? Yes always trying to control the wild in the wild…and even in us! Why is that?

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