I subscribe to interesting blogs and websites. Unfortunately many websites promote subscriptions to its newsletter and doesn’t publish its RSS feed information. I found the website, linked below, that helps me find the #RSS feed for any website making it easy for me to subscribe to the website using my favorite RSS feed reader:
Thelma Lou
Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery, like the idle, curved tunnels of leaf miners on the face of a leaf. We must somehow take a wider view, look at the whole landscape, really see it, and describe what’s going on here. Then we can at least wail the right question into the swaddling band of darkness, or, if it comes to that, choir the proper praise.
I’ve started reading Pilgrim at Tinker Creek for the nth time and am enjoying it so much!
In my quest to move away from Windows and Microsoft, I bought a used Windows 10 laptop that I will use to learn what I need to know about Linux. I plan to set up the laptop to run both Windows 10 and Linux and then use it to get some hands on experience with Linux.
I have several friends and family members who have Windows 10 computers that are not upgradeable to Windows 11. I hope to get all my Windows computers converted to Linux and also help them convert their computers over to Linux in the next several months. This laptop will be my test case.
I’m a little nervous and a bit intimidated by the learning curve, but I am looking forward to success with Linux
This article showed up in my RSS feed today. I trust Clark Howard, he’s a well known consumer advocate who lives in Georgia and I’ve read him and listened to his podcasts for several years.
The article mentions, “In Georgia, the Superior Court Clerks’ Cooperative Authority offers the Filing Activity Notification System (FANS). This voluntary system sends homeowners notifications “when certain real estate and personal property records are filed with, indexed, and data is transmitted by Clerks of Superior Court throughout the state of Georgia,” the website says.”
The link to the Georgia Superior Court Clerks’ Cooperative Authority website where you can set this up to receive any notifications is:
The native orange azalea is blooming brightly in my yard. I love the vivid color of these beautiful azaleas.
The April 2025 edition of Georgia Magazine has a great article in it about lacemaking and highlights the Atlanta Chapter of the International Organization of Lace. Two NeedleNerd members are mentioned in the article:
Sandra Eichelberger had been a regular participant at our meetings when she lived in Douglasville, but she moved to Decatur several years ago and so we don’t see her very often these days. I hope that she’ll find some time in her schedule to come out to one of our meetings this summer.
Yvonne Taylor has recently joined our group and I hope to see some of her lace-art pieces in our upcoming meetings.
I’ve uploaded a copy of the PDF formatted article to my Dropbox account and if you’d like to read it, you can download it by clicking this link: Georgia Magazine: “Stitch in time”
Source: The Opt Out Project
After reading this website, I am inspired to take back my online presence and restore as much of my privacy as possible. First step, moving my email to my personal domain and away from outlook.com
Our NeedleNerds May meeting is Monday, May 5th, at the Panera Bread restaurant on 2868 Chapel Hill Road, Douglasville, GA.
I hope to see you there. Be sure and bring pictures or items you’ve been working on!
Please Note: I’ve stopped using MailChimp to manage and send NeedleNerds email messages. This and future emails will be sent directly from me from one of my personal email accounts (I’m still figuring out how to work this out)