Amy's Place ... Poetry and Potpourri ... January, 2009

1-1-09 | JustAmy; St.Louie1; MamaBear; Billie

[JustAmy]

Welcome To....


'Amy's Place' welcomes all poets
and those who enjoy poetry.
'Amy's Place' is more than just about poetry.
Come in, relax, and share with fellow FReepers
your thoughts about any of the things on the *Menu*.

Enjoy! :)











Never Forget!





Bad Penny



Amy's personal guardian ~
the ever charming, lovable, huggable,
LouieWolf




Many thanks for stopping by. : )

[Mama_Bear]

Very nice, Billie!

Is that a Kingfisher bird? Colorful guy, he is!

[jaycee]

Lori, I wished I had added your name to Billie’s post about my computer. Pretend I did...LOL!

I really have to get some work done today....I will be in and out. Son was here a while and there’s so much to do, isn’t there? (Hillary is in front of the Senate, gag me with a spoon.)

[yorkie]

A great movie from long ago. Thank you Billie. Great picture to go with the music!

[jaycee]

To Amy's Place FRiends

[JustAmy]

PEACH MELBA

Mound a scoop of vanilla or peach ice cream in the center of a canned peach half.
Cover with the following Melba Sauce:

Melba Sauce:
1 (10 ounce) package raspberries and juice (defrosted),
1 teaspoon sugar,
1 teaspoon cornstarch,
1/4 - 1/2 cup currant jelly (optional).

Mix and cook over heat until clear.
The addition of currant jelly gives a sparkle to its color.
The jelly should be added while sauce is hot, before straining.


Thanks, WCG .... sounds great.

[JustAmy]

Looks great, Jaycee.

[yorkie]

COMPUTER CONFUSION

A Computer was something on TV
From a science fiction show of note
A Window was something you hated to clean
And RAM was the cousin of a goat

MEG was the name of my girlfriend
And GIG was a job for the nights
Now they all mean different things
And that really mega-bytes

An application was for employment
A program was a TV show
A cursor used profanity
A keyboard was a piano

Memory was something you lost with age
A CD was a bank account
And if you had a 3.5’ floppy
You hoped nobody found out

Compress was something you did to the garbage
Not something you did to a file
And if you unzipped anything in public
You'd be in jail for a while

Log on was adding wood to the fire
Hard drive was a long trip on the road
A mouse pad was where a mouse lived
And a backup happened to your commode

Cut you did with a pocket knife
Paste you did with glue
A web was a spider's home
And a virus was the flu

I guess I'll stick to my pen and paper
And the memory in my head
I hear nobody’s been killed in a computer crash
But when it happens they wish they were dead!

[JustAmy]

Brrrrr .... to cold for me. :)

[Billie]

So very lovely and cheery, Billie! Cannot listen to “On Golden Pond” but it won’t be long now. My son has been here this morning. He and another co-worker decided I needed more memory. (the kind of memory you can buy). Don’t ask me too many questions as I am so computer illiterate, its pathetic. It has been ordered already and we should get it in 3-4 days.

Thank you, Jaycee. I thought the picture was so GOLDEN, I immediately thought of "On Golden Pond", and think you'll love the music once you can listen to it. At the very beginning, there is the faintest sound of the birds in the background, and when the piano takes over, it's so pretty.

My hard drive has 15 GIG free. He said my current memory is 245 megabytes and he is upgrading to 1 gigabyte as soon as it arrives. This language blows my mind. Too bad he couldn’t order (me) a little more memory....LOL! And I hope I’ve got all the numbers correct. (I made notes..)

It sounds like your numbers are about right. :) When I bought my XP machine about 4 years ago, I wanted to be sure I had LOTS of harddrive and memory, because I'd had my other one upgraded so many times, there wasn't room for any more memory or upgrades either!

I have 1024 MB of memory (which is 1 GB), and my harddrive is 228 GB. I've only used 17 GB, so there is 211 GB free. My Vista machine has 2 GB memory, but doesn't seem so because it takes so much more memory just to operate the system (I am told).

Anyway, I know you will be so glad to have yours running smoothly again!

[JustAmy]

Good morning, Billie.

Thank you for the lovely Opening. I really enjoyed that movie. The music is so pretty. That color certainly brightens this dreary, foggy day.

You and Lori bring such beautiful music and graphics to Amy’s Place. THANK YOU!

[yorkie]

Good morning to YOU, JC! I love your gingham flowers!

[JustAmy]

I’m trying to keep her interested in Hannah Montana, Jonas Bros and Drake and Josh.

Too much stuff on TV to be exposed to.

[Billie]

Hi, fewz. It was a good movie, wasn’t it?

[Billie]

Thanks, Lori! I'm not sure what the bird is - I just searched for "water birds" and wanted a colorful one, and that one was easy to 'cut and paste' because it didn't have a busy background. I had another one I liked better, but it was on a busy background, and I could never get it cut out right - the feathers were more intricate, and I finally tossed it and started over. :)

[Billie]

Thanks, yorkie. I’m glad you enjoyed it. The music is so pretty I just like to listen to it in the background. :)

[Billie]

What a pretty “Good Morning” - looks like Spring has Sprung. :)

[Billie]

LOL! That’s cute!

[Billie]

Yummmmmm, those Peach Melba Desserts look delicious!

[Billie]

Thank you, Amy. Lori prolly thinks she has more fun doing them for you. She’s wrong. :)

[jaycee]

I love that, yorkie! And isn’t it the truth?

I have to go shower and try to get some work done around this upside down place today. I stayed on the computer a lot yesterday and I must work. Haven’t been to store yet and will have to work that in today! Why can’t we just stay on the computer all day?