turmeric

It's been a while since I blogged. Life has been ambling along okay, with Penny having to deal with some arthritis, a leg that has a torn cruciate ligament and some skin issues, but basically she is happy and enjoying life.

I thought I'd do a post today to tell about our experiment with turmeric. A local shop has opened, run by a naturopath for dogs, and we've been keen to try feeding Penny a raw diet, as she used to have. The other thing that was suggested by the naturopath is that we try turmeric for her increasing number (and size) of lipomas. One of them is rather big and in a place where it might need surgery, which at Penny's age would be a very unpleasant option.

The turmeric we are feeding her is in the form of Golden Paste. We were supposed to start with a small dose, to see how she reacts to it, but we forgot that instruction and started straight away with the recommended dose of 3/4 teaspoon per five kilos of weight.

So far so good.
The good  thing is that this medication should help with her allergies and her arthritic also.

This blog is getting too cluttered

I'm having fun adding things, but I can see that in terms of web design, this blog is now too cluttered. Readers would have to scroll down a long way to see all the widgets and gadgets.

I'll have to look around and see how to learn a bit about customising the design of a Blogger page.

Librarything

Visited Librarything and I must admit I don't quite get it, yet. I started to add my favorite books, but found I had to do them one by one and it took ages. I started with my all-time favorite author, Dorothy Dunnett and it linked to Amazon. Every time I added a book I couldn't recall whether it was already on the list and so I think I ended up with multiples. 

I'm going to have a try at adding a widget that goes on this blog and says what I'm reading at the moment. I would like that, I must say. Off now to try to figure that out.

Got the widget in place, but now I have to add recent books I've read.

reflection of myself

reflection of myself, originally uploaded by killarneykateau.

This is a photo I took on a trip down to Williamstown on the ferry. A group of us were experimenting with our cameras. The picture is chopped off, though, and it seems too difficult at the moment to figure out why. So much to learn!

closeup passionfruit tendril

closeup passionfruit tendril, originally uploaded by killarneykateau.

This is my first try at blogging a picture from flickr.

Okay...

I guess I have to send the photo first, and then edit the text. Good fun!

Trying out flickr

Okay, I already had a Flickr account. I hardly know how to use it, except to put photos into a yahoo photo group I'm in, so I'm glad of the opportunity through this course to try out how things work. 

I think I've arranged to send photos from my Flickr to this blog, so now I'll try it out. Not sure how, though. Hmmm...

Maybe I have to close this window and go on over to Flickr. I'll save for now and then come back.

Flickr

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.