Thanks to Everyone

My thanks to everyone who posted about the possible makeover. I agree that white would be easier to read for most of us.

By the way, PetsMart and I am sure, other pet stores have a donation box for Hurricane Katrina's many homeless pets. I live near a store and make a donation every time I go in (which is often when you own 3 cats).

The human toll is terrible, but when I also see the pets who are wandering all over the place, looking for food and shelter, it breaks my heart.

Making Over this Blog ...?

Looking around and seeing many more popular blogs in white, I thought I might change my own blog. Here's one idea. Is this any easier to read? Alternate Blog Idea

Once a long time ago, I tried a different design: Old Design Plans. While I like the bright colors, I pretty much scrapped that one.

Blambot Fonts

I am a fontaholic and I am in love -- with these fonts from Blambot. Many of the fonts are free. They are perfect comic fonts, my favorite type.

Help Animal Victims

Our local city newsgroup has been chatting about animal victims of the hurricane. Rescuers usually did not permit animals to ride with the people they saved. Many pets had to be abandoned. I found a link to the ASPCA where donations can be left for helping these newly-homeless pets --> ASPCA Hurricane Aid. It is also a source of news about the animals in the area.

Lost People from Hurricane Katrina

Here's a site for those who are trying to find friends and relatives after Hurricane Katrina --> MissingKatrina.com.

Clorox will donate $1 for every person who clicks a button here.

And then there's the Red Cross which has a fund specifically for Hurricane Katrina victims.

Jury Duty Calls

My daughter got a call to jury duty from the U.S. District Court. I doubt she will actually be accepted, being a trauma intensive care nurse and much needed at the hospital. I remember serving last year -- it was a very interesting experience that I hope I get to do again.

I have to chuckle, though. I never got a call to jury duty during my entire life until last year while most of the rest of my family served - and now my daughter gets a call at her young age.

The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina is shocking. Things seem to be getting worse as we find out just how much destruction was done. I put links on my sites and hope others will do the same for organizations that accept donations to help. It is going to take a lot of time of money.

TinyMovies.net & PumpkinBreadMovies.com

I created a domain linking my mini movies from BamaPhotos.com (aka BamaBlog.TextAmerica.com). Normally, I would create this as a category at BamaPhotos, but the system there will not allow us to place an item in more than one category and I did not want to move the movies from the other topics where they were listed. Also, they have a problem where you can not page through categories very well (you can only bring up the first page and sometimes the page number index under the first page thumbnails will go to other pages and sometimes not).

Thus, TinyMovies.net and PumpkinBreadMovies.com were born. (Domain names are a dime-a-dozen and I could not decide between either one.) One of my first "better" movies was about making pumpkin bread. The bread came out soft and delicious, thus I have warm fuzzies about that name, reminiscent of homemade goodness. The other is just a good title, surprisingly available. As of right now, I do not have all of the movies listed, but that should change in the next couple of days.