Urban Oasis: Bloggered ... Again!

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Bloggered ... Again!

Ok, this confirms it ... Blogger is messing with me big time tonight. I just took at look at what it had done with the previous post, and now the comments are missing. I checked my settings and comments are enabled, but apparently not working at present. Sorry about that, and I hope it will just miraculously fix itself sometime during the night.

Enjoy the flowers anyway, and as always, I love hearing from readers, so when they reappear, let me know what you think. One other thing ... if you're not already doing this, you can view much larger versions of the photos by either clicking on the photo or (what I prefer, since I use Firefox) right click and open the photo link in a new tab. This way you won't miss any of the detail from the larger version. If you don't use Firefox yet, you should really consider making the move ... it's vastly superior to MSIE, stable, and very user friendly and customizable. Go to Mozilla to see more and download it if you haven't already!

4 comments:

Larry Kollar said...: Maybe it's fixed now?

I need to type something up.; 6/25/2008 08:52:00 PM
Iowa Victory Gardener said...: Hey FAR,
What was weird is that I checked after I published this post to make sure it actually did and it had a comment link below, but no link on the previous one.

I see both have comment links today, but that wasn't the only weird thing it was doing last night ... wouldn't let me use the insert pic in compose mode, kept messing with the size of fonts and went into a perpetual hang when it tried to autosave. Hopefully the blogger gremlins have moved on now.; 6/25/2008 09:29:00 PM
Family Man said...: IVG I would have sworn I left a comment here yesterday. Anyway I agree with you about Firefox. I just upgraded to 3.0. Haven't had any problems so far.; 6/26/2008 05:28:00 AM
Iowa Victory Gardener said...: Hi again FM!
I've been holding off on Firefox 3.0 since I've read (a while back) that it wasn't quite "ready for primetime" but maybe now I should go for it. Automatic updates hasn't told me to do it yet, so maybe I'll wait a bit longer. It does sound quite improved, though. Question: are you running the Linux or Windows version?; 6/27/2008 12:13:00 AM

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Transforming one urban corner, one season at a time

Welcome to our little corner of the Plant Universe!

I started Urban Oasis almost three years ago with the intent of both chronicling the seasonal changes of our gardens, as well as to serve as a kind of "rough draft" for a gardening book I've been wanting to write for about six years now. Well, the book remains unwritten, but readers will still find in these pages, the seeds of what it may eventually become when I'm gifted with adequate time and resources to really apply myself to writing it....

When we moved into our house in 1998, (affectionately dubbed Casa IVG), it was a practically barren garden canvas just waiting to be reborn. Our urban transformation project began in earnest in Spring 1999, and continues to this day, with some major changes occurring along the way (such as the boulder beds in 2003) ... and the evolution continues to this day.

Urban Oasis itself has evolved too, from its original exclusive focus on the plants to postings on some of my other more personal interests, such as Politics, International and Independent Cinema, and one of the enduring passions of my life: our dogs. 2008 was a year of many transitions for us, the saddest of which was the loss of our beloved Pepa and Rolly in December.

But, as in any garden worth its petals, we are now experiencing a joyous renewal with the recent adoption of our new pup, Hanna, who will be appearing regularly here as the seasons progress. She'll never truly replace Pepa as the official "mascot" of the blog, but she's an eager "intern" who will go far in filling the enormous paw prints left behind by her predecessor ... and fill them well, she will!