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A couple of days ago in the early morning as I was opening the blinds I found that three young deer were wondering around the yard looking for food. For the first time in some weeks the ground was not covered in snow and at least at the top had started to melt.     …

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We are now on daylight saving. Spring will be here officially tomorrow, but there are other signs that it is on the way. Yesterday as I tuned into the street on which I live I noticed the tops of the first daffodil shoots. The tips were yellow, but the next couple of inches were green. …

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The easiest solution to the problem of adding drop down menus was to switch to a new theme: Graphene. The new theme came with drop down menus already incorporated. However, it also had some features of which I was not overly fond, such as the drop shadow surrounding the main viewing area and a background …

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I completed re-sizing the images for use in the galleries and uploaded them. I then bulk deleted the problematic larger versions from each of the four initial galleries. I thought the problem was solved. As usual a new problem arose. When I uploaded the re-sized images thumbnails were present for both the older larger versions …

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This was demonstration day in class. I had been up late Wednesday night replacing the image files in the galleries with larger images and testing that the site worked. Everything seemed to work fine. On Thursday I went to class for the demonstrations by the students of their sites. When it came my turn to …

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The site is getting nearer the point where it is at least internally consistent. I have still not managed to figure out how to handle re-sizing images but at  least each of the four galleries appear in the same format. Unfortunately one of the four images serving as links to the gallery pages is a …

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The site is not yet ready to go. There are more images to upload, more text to add. I managed to get rid of the “Leave a reply” apparatus on all the other pages, but it also disappeared from this, the only page on which I wanted it to appear.