We also went to another greenhouse today...it was the plant sale at the Rockdale Career Academy and they also had some beautiful plants, we got a red geranium, a plant called a primrose which has kind of a floating type of purple flower on it, and four small tomato plants that were labeled "German Queen". Now, one of my favorite bloggers that I consider a friend..you know that I thought of you! www.librarianwithsecrets.blogspot.com Oh, I also bought two aloe plants, and of course when I put them on the counter to pay for them you know I said, "Allo, Allo"!
After we got back home, I got online to look at my blog. (I am still GREEN at knowing how to do things on my blog.) I managed to somehow hit the Ctrl key and then the zero key...do not do this while you are on your blog! It will shrink your blog, trust me, it will... I would like to thank Meike in Germany at the above blog, Kay from bluebonnet heaven which is Texas at www.myrandomactsofreading.blogspot.com and also Silke, who is another nice German lady but lives in Savannah, Georgia and her blog is www.silkepowers.blogspot.com
What a lovely place!
ReplyDeleteGood friends are indespensable.
Dear Mimi,
DeleteI have written about the Monastery several times before if you would like to see...I just checked if my search engine works on the upper right of my blog and it does! Check it out! On Sept. 10th of last year, you can see better photos of the stained glass windows.
And your opinion of good friends? You better believe it! :-)
I'm so glad you got it figured out. I suspected it was something like that. All those pesky shortcuts that we don't use, but are so easy to accidentally set off. LOL
ReplyDeleteLovely, lovely pictures. I especially like the one inside the church. That blue color - lights or what?
Dear Kay,
DeleteYou would not believe how hard I tried to fix that problem before I typed this in a search engine: My blog shrunk! (Before I had been typing "My print is smaller".) The Ctrl key is so close to the Shift key! Thank you again for helping me by just your calm assurance.
Oh, and I am glad you like these photos. The blue color is from the light through the lovely blue and purple stained glass windows...at the front the windows are yellow and so the altar is bathed in that very different golden light. You may see other postings on the Monastery if you use that search engine at the right corner of my blog. I just tried it and it works very well! There are photos of the stained glass from Sept. 10th of last year.
Thanks again, Kay!
Absolutely gorgeous Springtime pix!
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Hey!
DeleteWelcome! I just looked at your blog and it is a very good one. Expect to see some of my rambling, slightly confused comments on your posts, I am now one of your followers!
Love,
Kay
I just love spending time in greenhouses. Those bonsai are magnificent! I sure am thankful I've never done what you described - what steps did you need to take to rectify the problem? I will copy and save them in my 'Do Not Delete' file - this is where I keep random stuff I don't want to forget or may some day need ;D
ReplyDeleteDear Jane,
DeleteI love greenhouses too!
Here is what I did to fix my problem: Clicked on View in the upper left corner, and then down to where it says Zoom and there mine is on 125%. (Well, it is on that NOW anyway!) But do not press the Ctrl and the Zero key...I must have been typing a parenthesis and accidently hit that Ctrl key!)
Dear Jane, I love greenhouses too!
DeleteTo fix my problem all I had to do was this: View/Zoom.
See the View in the upper left corner of your blog? If you click on that, then click on Zoom. Mine is now back to 125% which is where it was before I hit the Ctrl key and the Zero!
Glad your problem could be solved so easily! Yes, there are many shortcuts on the keyboard that are supposed to make life easier for us - as long as you know them :-)
ReplyDeleteIt is much worse when you are using a laptop without a mouse, but one of those touchpad-things acting as a mouse... it took me a while to get used to that, and I still sometimes manage to zoom out of a page I am looking at, or zoom in on an email while I am still in the process of typing it... but it does not freak me out like it did at the beginning, when I didn't know yet that this could happen with the touchpad, and it happens less frequently now :-)
Can't watch the video as it is "protected content" for Geraman viewers... But I know the song.
Thank you for mentioning me on your blog!
Dear Meike,
DeleteThanks for coming to my aid so quickly! I always think all hope is lost but I am easily frustrated. For my background on Saturday, let me tell you this: it was my scheduled day to deliver Meals On Wheels for my church. My partner and I meet at the Methodist church on Main Street in Conyers and pick up the meals and deliver them to a 6 story building in the next county over...When I got there early Saturday morning, the roads had been blocked off due to a "Fun Run" down Main Street? AHHH!! Luckily, since I have lived here for so long I knew the closest place I could park and then walk to the church. I had to cross in front of the runners and the people in charge gave me dirty looks. Not as bad a dirty look as we got when we asked them to please move the barriers so we could drive across Main Street with all the meals in the back of the truck! They let us through but only begrudgeingly so...maybe they thought we were lying when we said we had to deliver Meals On Wheels!
Oh I bet they have had their share of experience with people who only pretended they had a good reason for driving through when really they were just too lazy to walk a few paces, or drive a different route. You could have opened one of the meals boxes for them :-)
DeleteI hope the people you deliver the meals to did not have to wait too long, and the food still arrived there in good time, and not all gone cold.
Yes, I offered to open the big container which held the hot meals (and you could smell that good food, without having to open the top off of it) but they just waved us through but as I said, with many there giving us dirty looks! The meals were piping hot, so much so that we have to be careful not to burn our fingers (or those that we give it to!) They get the hot sealed container of food, along with bread and carton of milk and a small bowl of fruit. It takes a balancing act to get it to them but I am getting better at it! (Maybe I have angels helping me like your Mum?)
DeleteGorgeous photos, Kay. I especially love the picture of the interior of the Monastery with all that blue colouring - stunning! The bonsai are amazing. I've always admired people that can create those types of plants. They are so cool. I love visiting greenhouses. I spend a lot of time in them during the warmer months of the year, always in search of something nice to add to my garden. All the greenhouses should get going this month and I'm very excited about that!
ReplyDeleteDear Martha,
DeleteThank you! And thanks again for my award, I am tickled!
The blue color in the church is all from the light coming through the stained glass and the monks made that stained glass themselves. The church itself is made of CONCRETE, if you can belive it, and that too, the monks made themselves. It truly is a remarkable place and one that I am grateful to live near. I wish I could record the monks chanting and the clear tones of the bells as they ring...
Thank you for finding me because now I've found you! You photos are so gorgeous; I love the blue Monastery!
ReplyDeleteDear Sandy aka Doris the Great,
DeleteThank you! You are now my 56th follower and I have been hoping for the 56th for my April Birthday! Thank you and the fact that your blog name is "Aging Disgracefully"... how perfect is that for my birthday present! (I was happy when I got to 55 followers since I will be 55 on my birthday, but then when I realized my name is listed as following myself, I realized I needed to get to 56 to make it a true 55 followers...so THANK YOU!)
Oh, and I have other posts on the Monastery if you would like to use my search engine at the upper right corner...I am so excited over that search engine, I love it! Take care and I too will be ageing disgracefully along with you!
Dear Kay,
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for mentioning my blog!! :) I love those photos you took and forwarded your post to Daniel so we can plan a visit to your part of Georgia some day...
Kay, I finally (finally!!) did a blog post about the award you passed on to me some time ago...
Love. Silke
Dear Silke,
DeleteYou must visit the Monastery and it is very close to Arabia Mountain too!
Hey, don't worry about taking time to do your award! Everyone is so busy and I think we should do them when we are able to and can enjoy thinking about what we are doing! That's my view anyway! :-)
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ReplyDeleteFor some reason, the first comment didn't post, so I wrote it again and then both were there. So, I deleted the second one... Blogger sometimes does weird things...
ReplyDeleteBut on the bright side, I have not one, not two, but THREE photos of the beautiful, sunny Silke!
DeleteLove your photos, Kay! Thanks for your regular comments on my blog!
ReplyDeleteHey Paul!
DeleteThank you. It's hard to take a bad photo at the Monastery, it's just so beautiful.
And I like to visit your blog...I never know what you will tell me about! :-)
I have meant to visit the monastery but we are a long way away from it. Maybe next summer we may go there. It certainly looks very pretty. I also liked your pictures on Arabia Mountain – another place to visit someday.
ReplyDeleteHey, you're not that far away. We see cars here from Cobb county all the time. But I'm one to talk, my brother used to live in Marietta and I couldn't hardly stand the traffic to drive up there to see him!
DeleteAnd Arabia Mountain is so special, try to see it when the yellow daises bloom, the 1st week of October or so...
I have always wanted to visit a monastery but never have done so. Thank you for your photos
ReplyDeleteDear Nan,
DeleteOur Monastery is a jewel. You would not believe how many come here from other states and even other countries, and it is so close to me!
That's what our part of the blogging community is all about, Kay, helping each other. So glad you got it sorted.
ReplyDeleteDear Scriptor,
DeleteI was in a tizzy, I must admit, I felt that I had really messed something up and would never be able to put it right. Thank goodness for kind bloggers!:-)
Glad you got the help you needed. It's often out there if you know where to ask, isn't it! I loved the pictures of the monastery - so peaceful and beautiful. The blue of that church is something else.
ReplyDeleteDear Jenny,
ReplyDeleteGlad you liked the Monastery photo too. I can't tell you how wonderful it is to sit in that balcony and feel that immense space around you while the light streams through the stained glass and the monks start chanting...such a sense of peace!