what I have been up to

• The computer problems have mostly been resolved.... except, of course, for my pictures. All 10,864 pictures (no exaggeration) have been transferred onto my new hard drive, but due to a software glitch I can't actually see them.  Hopefully I will have it sorted out soon.

• Daniel and I had a wonderful, short visit up to DC for Memorial day weekend.  We met up with my family, and I got to take Daniel to a few of the Smithsonians and the zoo.  We definitely need to go back and spend much, much more time there.  
• And now I have a new smart phone, courtesy of eBay, and I'd feel really smug about it if I could get the dang thing to actually do smart things, like take pictures and share them online.  Any fun app suggestions while I climb up the learning curve?
• Yesterday when Daniel came in for lunch I asked him what project he was working on.  He said he was building a chicken coop, which I thought was nice but rather overkill for our 3 chickens.  Then I went out to see it and discovered we now have 13 chickens.  And then we were obligated (no idea why) to go over to our neighbors last night and pick up 4 more chickens.  I'm still not quite sure how this happened....