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A million other things I should be doing, but I’m playing. LOL!

Taken a long time, but I’m finally teaching myself how to convert digicam home videos for Web use by dickering with freeware video to flash conversion software (converting AVI to Flash [FLV] files). Sorry I’m not providing link to the freeware and won’t until I know it’s decent enough to recommend. :0)

I’ll soon try video editing software, so I can add text, effects and more to my home videos.

For now, during my video learning curve, I’m using a video of my daughter (Carla – E.R. nurse [R.N]), who is totally ignoring me while she diddles with her cell phone. The quality is not great, nor the lighting, but it’s good enough for experimental purposes of converting and hosting videos, since I’ve hosted this video on my site. Once I know more about what I’m doing, may host videos elsewhere, to save on bandwidth. Then again, may not.

Anyhoo, in the FLV video below, you’ll see I get little respect from Carla while she’s checking out Internet social sites or  texting  friends. The tapping you hear is me knocking on a glass sliding door as I try to get her attention. I know Carla hears me, but look how she does me:

Gotta love Carla! LOL!

I’m proud! Last week, my granddaughter Madison (a.k.a Maddie) attended the week-long horse and rider “2010 Summer Camp” sponsored by Turnbow Performance Horses .

Lucky Maddie  got to ride a chestnut Tobiano (sorrel and white paint horse) provided by the camp’s sponsor.  During camp, Madison learned more about horse care, “tacking out” a horse and received “professional” riding lessons.

You can see Madison (wearing white shirt and solid colored dark riding helmet) training with other “older” cowgirls in this TPH video entitled “Turnbow Performance Horses: June 2010 Summer Camp“:

Pretty cool, huh! Wish I’d have been able to attend the camp’s horse riding show at week’s end, where Madison won “Best Rider”. Whoo-hoo! See why I’m so proud. That’s my gal!

To find out about this children’s  riding lesson camp and other horse and rider services offered in Longview, Texas area, then visit Turnbow Performance Horses, where Maddie’s father is employed. :0) Boy, he’s lucky, too!

Okay, enough of my peacockin’ about granddaughter and her “ranch hand” daddy, but had to share. :0)

Hope you enjoy your day as much as I’m enjoying mine!

Patricia (a.k.a. Sporkette)

I’ve created a Web page where you can download desktop wallpaper, e-cards and background images that were previously offered at the Sporkette domain. You may recall these free downloads, some themed for holidays:

Cupid Heart, Xmas Nightmare, Clover Pluck, St. Patrick’s Day, Butterfly Flower, Spring Fling, Rabbit Lady, Healthcare Reform Opinion, TurkeyHead Obama, Cash Pile Santa, Happy 2010 Taxpayers!, Happy St. Patrick’s Day Llama and ObamaWorm – all by Patricia Spork. At time of this posting, “ObamaWorm” still being used as my profile background image here.

Although free downloads, most images are for Non-Commercial Personal Use Only, unless otherwise specified on a separate Rights page included in some file folders.

This time around, image files in separate folders zipped as one file for download.  See sample thumbnails and download the zipped folder from this page.

Appreciate ya’ll!

Patricia