Correspondence Guessing Game
My computer has a boo-boo, and I don’t know where to apply the Mercurochrome happy-face (anybody old enough to remember that stuff?)
Anyways, SIGH. I’ve tried commenting on several people’s blogs over the past couple days, but when I hit the “submit comment” button, they disappear. My techily-inclined partner claims there’s a glitch in the Matrix; I think my comments have fallen through the dryer blackhole to hang out with the singleton socks. Any other guesses would be appreciated (or giggled over).
Meanwhile, here are, to the best of my remembry, the comments I tried to leave. See if you can recognize the one intended for you. (And if work is really slow, check my blogroll to see if you can match each comment to the right entry.)
1. Great visual of “Maypoling”!
2. Looks like it was a lot of fun, and for a good cause! I’m imagining a teeny wooden sparrow perched on the far side of St Francis’s birdbath.
3. I love signs of previous lives too; I prefer getting shivers from them than from subzero temperatures. Interesting repro and photo compare-and-contrast. Does the old photo show a tin roof? Less romantic than the wooden shingles, but a lot quicker to install. I remember in New Zealand seeing artifacts made from corrugated sheet metal, but I think they were more twentieth-century. Did Australia go through a corrugated craze too?
4. Poor little Sparky! It’s amazing — and scary — to read about all the potential problems when they’re that young. I’m glad to know that he and his sisters are getting the remedial help they need.
My latest (or in one case, first) comments on the other blogs in the ‘roll are up to date.
By the way, if you haven’t yet, don’t forget to enter the great Name-and-Genderize-the-Sea-Turtle-Stuffy contest (see March 24 entry)!
March 25, 2008 at 10:46 am
number 2 was meant for me! i’ll put it there for ya….
March 25, 2008 at 9:37 pm
I have the Sparky!! So that one must be for us!
March 25, 2008 at 10:17 pm
Well, I must be number three ! Thanks lavenderbay.
I think the roof in the old photo shows planks rather than shingles but it is a little hard to tell. Corrugated iron was around in Australia since 1840ish.
Often in the old dwellings they did put tin over the original shingles. I have found a few cottages around the place where the shingles can still be seen under dislodged pieces of a tin roof. So yes, Australia had the corrugated craze and it is still used today. I love the stuff as you can probably tell. LOL. I love the way it rusts and the ingenuity of the people that used it. I have a tag on my blog called crumbling buildings and rusting iron where I carry on about this stuff.
March 25, 2008 at 10:18 pm
whoops - I meant to say I think the roof in the old photo shows planks rather than tin
March 26, 2008 at 5:17 am
Thanks, everybody, for coming by and finding your messages. The first comment about maypoling (twisted, tangled leashes) has somehow shown up twice on Checkers’s page, and the polite puppy has acknowledged them there.
Thanks for the roofing lesson, Livingisdetail. Sometimes history and nature get a bit “cleaned up” for the public. I imagine my dad would have fussed and fiddled with shingles, but not all his co-workers were so inclined to handiwork, so I assumed that the guy from the photo had gone the quick-and-easy route. From now on, I’m going to take a closer squint at old roofs!
March 26, 2008 at 5:48 am
Your post actually was on mine, but ended up in the Spam folder.
I was going to suggest that you test if it is your login or your computer. Try sigining in on the other half’s computer and see if you can post. If you can then it is a computer issue. Have her try posting a comment from your’s, if she can its your login.
If it still doesn’t work…its the gremlins at it again.
March 26, 2008 at 7:57 am
Thanks, Shelley! We switched seats, logged in, and commented on each other’s blog. My comment ended up in her spam box, and hers came up fine on my blog, so it must be log-in trouble. Next stop: WordPress Support.