Hot NC Days and Goodwill Donations

It's been ridiculously hot. 103° in the shade today. Crazy. Right now at nearly 1 AM, it's still almost 90°. NC can get pretty hot in the Summer, but temps around 100° is uncommon here. It's supposed to be just as hot tomorrow. You literally feel like your skin is cooking when you walk out into the sun at those temps. So the AC is running its guts out and I'm staying inside like any sane person would.

It's supposed to "cool down" into the mid 80s in a few days. lol Funny that we would think of the mid 80s as a cool down. :-
I did take a few pictures around the house outside, but nothing terribly interesting. I still need to upload them.

I put some of my purses into one of the Goodwill bags I've got going. I also need to pack up some of the kids' toys for Goodwill that they don't really play with anymore. I'll get all that to Goodwill eventually. I've brought a lot of stuff there in the last few months. Clothes and toys mostly. A few knicknacks and shoes that are in like-new condition.

So, reckon that's it for now. If any of the pictures I took turned out okay, I might post them here.

Too Early to Think of Titles

Maybe I'll treat this as sort of a journal. Still trying to decide on that. Though obviously I won't post anything too personal.

Made some cookies for the church bake sale, but thanks to a migraine (including ever-so-pleasant nausea) that is thankfully finally gone, I won't be able to make it to church this morning. I was really looking forward to going, too. :-\ Oh, well. I should make it tonight.

Did some browsing online of some of my favorite stores. I think I'm going to have to go to Old Navy (cute shoes on sale for $6.99) and Target (saw a cute shirt I'd like to get) sometime this week. Perhaps Monday. We'll see.

Still haven't gone on that little "photographic journey", but I still want to. Hopefully this week. It's just been so darned hot.

Well, gotta go individually wrap the cookies in plastic wrap and have either my husband or my mom bring them to the church for me.

A Photographic Journey

I'm a member of a photography/picture-sharing community. (Flickr) There are hundreds of thousands of pictures there. I will never see them all. But I have seen a lot of beautiful pictures there. It's made me want to take pictures more often than I do. That and the fact that when I tried to find pictures online of the area of NC I live in, it was slim pickin's to say the least.

I'd like to take my digital camera and take pictures of different areas of my city and the countryside near where I live. Upload them and get them on the internet. There just aren't enough by a long shot. There's a lot of beauty in the area I live in and plenty of interesting things to take pictures of. But you will find many more pictures of the mountains and the coast of NC than you will of central NC.

Anyway, I'm not a pro by any means, but I do enjoy taking pictures. And it's like a mission. I have to get good photographic representation of my area online so that hopefully others will see and so that I will have some pictures to choose from to share with friends or post at forums and on my website. I may do that tomorrow or Friday. We'll see.

Ah, there it is!

Okay, I can see my blog now. :-\ Bear with me as I learn. I'm new at this.

I'm new at this blogging thing. Tried viewing my blog and got one of those annoying 404 error messages. Does this mean the blog I just created has a glitch? Or do I have to type out a post first in order for it to appear?

Here goes nothin'....