I was writing a blog post last night and after about 3 photos I couldn’t upload any others. I was told I was out of space. I started this blog in 2008 with this post on January 14. My next post on the same day could have been written a year ago. There are a few more sheep now, but my thoughts about shearing day are the same. One reason I write the blog is as my own journal. In that last post I told about an injury to Ranger, which is something I still refer to, but just didn’t remember the date. It is the comment from the vet, when discussing potential brain injury in a sheep, “at least he doesn’t have to drive heavy machinery”.

By the January 28 blog post I figured out how to include a photo. One photo and it’s small. Same issues–sheep that don’t want to be herded and figuring that out with Rusty. Now it’s Ginny. The next one and the last one I’ll link to here tells a little known fact about myself.

So here we are 15 years later and I guess I’ve outgrown the free version of WordPress. There was a hiatus here when my blog posts were all at my website on Squarespace. I started writing blog posts there in January, 2019. In the first post I said: “I have spent time the last couple of days figuring out how to move my blog from WordPress to this new home (and whether or not I should move it). I started my blog January, 2008! Ten years ago! I feel very protective of that blog. I know it’s out there for the public to see, but it’s really my personal photo album/scrapbook. I love having digital memories. The old paper albums languish on the shelf and are covered with dust and the photos deteriorate. I love that when I scan photos (and recently kid’s drawings) they come to life so much more…and the added benefit is that I don’t have as much STUFF around.” Some of the photos are the same as now–Ginny rolling her ball in the ditch Across the Road and the view of Mt. Diablo from Across the Road, but Rusty and Maggie are gone now.

It was about a year ago that I realized that if (when) I someday stop paying for the Squarespace website the blog posts there would all be gone. That would be like losing all your photo albums. This is one I wrote on my website while I was debating what to do. Since then I have written some posts on my website, but more have been at WordPress. However it seems I am not blogging as much as I used to. This post really is like an entry in a diary. Does anyone care? It’s helping me to figure out where everything is.

In the meantime my son and daughter-in-law. hearing what I said, started having these books made. I’ve been getting one on my birthday and Mother’s Day.

Here is the latest gift, blog posts from the middle of 2017. I don’t know if they have all of these lined up in a closet for the next birthday or if they make them as an event comes up. I find myself looking for a particular story and then sitting down with the book and remembering all the rest. Isn’t that a great gift?

I originally subtitled this post “Where is a Millennial When you Need One?” As I reread it just now I see that I veered off from the original point–that is, now I have to pay for this blog and I hope I did it in a way that all the other posts will be accessible. I think I’m paying for a domain to meridianjacobs.blog . I guess I’ll find out when I click “post” and I’ll see what happens. Hope to see you on the other side! Let me know in the comments or by email if you’re reading!