The ever expanding Murphy Family

Well..I guess it's about time that I spill the beans, if you haven't heard already, I'm Pregnant, Surprise!!! I'm currently in my 10th week, so I figure, I'm really only 1/4th pregnant, right? The offical due date is 2/22/09, right in the heart of Tax Season, awe shucks, I'll miss a tax season! Anyways, I've been feeling great, no morning sickness, no pains in strange places, everything is going great!! We get to hear the heartbeat on Thursday...I'm super excited about that!!

And in other Murphy news...drumroll please...Johnny got engaged!!! Aimee will soon be an offical part of the Family!! Dates and details TBD...

So Uncle Mike, do you have any advice for Dad about having a grandchild and a wedding all in the same year???

Slideshow

Still experimenting with Picasa and photo sharing. This is a link to an album of photos taken at Tommy's basketball game last January. There are a few nice shots of Marin Virginia and Megan Rose. It should play as a slideshow if I did it right. Here goes:



Sorry about the blurry ones.

Photo posting

This is a test of whether we can place links to Picasa Web Albums into the body of a post. Here's Memorial Day 2008. CLICK ON THE PICTURE:

Memorial Day 2008

It should take you to the album so you can view all the pictures. You can also download them.

You have to place the link when you're using the "Edit Html" tab, not the "Compose" or it won't work, but whoa, I think it's going to work. Try it! CLICK THE PICTURE!

More Nuts & Bolts

Do any of you computer-savvy types have any familiarity with "Picasa"? I got to thinking about ways we could share digital pictures - and not just thumbnails but the full files. It looks like we could do it using something called "Picasa Albums." It's free and they give each account a gigabyte of space to upload pictures. I found out that the pictures I used here on the blog are stored in a Picasa album called "The Cottage." What I'd like you brainiacs to do is check out the software:

http://picasa.google.com/

and tell the rest of us the best way to make our pictures available to each other. OK, Nerds, let's get out those pocketliners and get busy!

The carp are going on a low-carb diet!

No more feeding bread to fish at Pymatuning
Friday, July 04, 2008
The Associated Press
LINESVILLE, Pa. -- The carp at Pymatuning State Park are going low-carb.
The Linesville Spillway has long been famous as the place where ducks walk on fish because the fish throng so thick for bread tossed by visitors. But starting Jan. 1, bread, doughnuts and the like are toast. Only commercial fish food will be allowed.
Officials want the area, which recently went through $3 million in upgrades, to look nicer. Careless visitors often leave bread wrappers and other litter.
Officials have been turning a blind eye to the practice anyway because a state park system rule prohibits feeding wildlife.
Park manager Pete Houghton says he wants to preserve the tradition. A concession stand is expected to sell commercial fish food, but Houghton says any commercial fish food will do.
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First published on July 4, 2008 at 12:53 pm