Life in 'the tropics' of Southern Indiana, the high desert of the southwest and back to 'the tropics' with the hounds and dogs.
September 21, 2024
September 20, 2024
A Few Changes
I was going to talk about a few changes since my last post and right off the bat trying to start this post, some of those changes prevented me from loading photos to this blog using Safari but works when I tried Firefox as a browser. Also the photos did not load in the order I wanted them too so at least fore these first three photos I will change my thoughts on what I was going to talk about into the order of the photos.
September 16, 2024
Blog Contact Address Change
Sometime back I was noticing some strange traffic on my blog that Blogger furnishes me. A certain country was blasting my blog with traffic. I just figured it was normal website indexing by bots and I still feel that is the reason for the majority of the traffic. It was just unbelievable numbers in page views/visits.
Not soon after I noticed this increase in blog traffic, my Apple Mail filters for junk mail was being overwhelmed with junk mail sent to the blog email address on my blog contacts page.
That email address had been used since October 2011 when I set up this blog. Normal mail from people that have that address would show up in my inbox. I have all gmail forwarded to my Apple Mail on my computer and other devices.
I went through the inbox of bhounds3 on gmail this morning to find the few people that use that email to communicate with me. Those people need to change my email address in their contacts to ---
houndsdogs4 at gmail dot com
I have always spelled out the gmail address on the contacts page because it was suppose to filter spam mail and keep the email address from being hacked. That may or may not have worked, since I do use that email address for different companies that I sign up for or different apps that need an email address.
I basically used it over the years for times "they" needed an address and I thought it might result in tons of spam or junk emails.
I do know the new address works for my blog as an administrator, as Blogger calls it. Feel free to send a test email to the new address to make sure you have it typed correctly in your contacts.
Once I do all the email changes where this bhounds3 was used I will delete the account never to be used again or to receive any more emails. The number of spam emails is just unbelievable also.
September 15, 2024
Rain Finally Comes
September 10, 2024
Ava Had A Great Day Today
This is my second post today.
It got up to 87° today but it never felt that hot, so the windows stayed open all day and Henry kicked back most of the afternoon. He didn't even feel like getting involved with the game of fetch later but he was very happy to see Watson ... story below.
Two Post Day ???
As nice as this day is so far and it's not even noon, combined with taking a lot of photos this morning while monitoring the actions of Ava keeping her total freedom in he backyard, I decided to do a blog post early. I wanted to update what has happened so far this morning in comparison to what I wrote about yesterday. So this may be the first to two blog posts today.