• nostalgia: postcards,stories +other

    From August Abolins@618:250/1.9 to All on Wed Mar 24 10:06:00 2021
    Hello All!

    For the last 10 years I've been involved in building and
    maintaining a site to chronicle and archive news clippings of
    births, obits, marriages, and postcards, etc.. primarily of the
    Welland Ontario region. It has since expanded into three
    "sections" (Main, Tales, Events) each requiring their own CMS
    installations.

    If you are interested in exploring photos of barns and churches
    all over southern Ontario and other pieces of history ..then
    check out:

    https://wellandhistory.ca

    The S)earch feature works fairly well. Look up names, places,
    dates. Even content of Comments is included.

    I'll admit, that a fresher CMS design would be ideal (this *was*
    innovative for its time 10 years ago afterall!), but the
    original intent is primary an archive.

    It is a project where the founders prefer to be known as "S & B"

    Every newsclipping was cropped, resized, reshaped. That's over
    10,000 now. Every post was planted and re-edited when required
    - those exceed 11,000.

    It runs on an older Wordpress version. I'd love to have a better
    photo gallery. But it will have to do for a little while longer.
    Porting to a newer WP would be *another* project!

    And that's a little glipse of my world.

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  • From Arelor@618:250/24 to August Abolins on Wed Mar 24 17:39:16 2021
    Re: nostalgia: postcards,stories +other
    By: August Abolins to All on Wed Mar 24 2021 10:06 am

    Hello All!

    For the last 10 years I've been involved in building and
    maintaining a site to chronicle and archive news clippings of
    births, obits, marriages, and postcards, etc.. primarily of the
    Welland Ontario region. It has since expanded into three
    "sections" (Main, Tales, Events) each requiring their own CMS
    installations.

    If you are interested in exploring photos of barns and churches
    all over southern Ontario and other pieces of history ..then
    check out:

    https://wellandhistory.ca

    The S)earch feature works fairly well. Look up names, places,
    dates. Even content of Comments is included.

    I'll admit, that a fresher CMS design would be ideal (this *was*
    innovative for its time 10 years ago afterall!), but the
    original intent is primary an archive.

    It is a project where the founders prefer to be known as "S & B"

    Every newsclipping was cropped, resized, reshaped. That's over
    10,000 now. Every post was planted and re-edited when required
    - those exceed 11,000.

    It runs on an older Wordpress version. I'd love to have a better
    photo gallery. But it will have to do for a little while longer.
    Porting to a newer WP would be *another* project!

    And that's a little glipse of my world.

    I am a bit disappointed, because there are lots of barn pictures in it, but I don't get to see horses in them :-(

    Also I got scared when I used the earch bar to find "horse" and I got a recipe as a result. Thankfully, it was a recipe that used horse radish, so all is good.


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  • From August Abolins@618:250/1.9 to Arelor on Wed Mar 24 20:03:00 2021
    Hello Arelor!

    ** On Wednesday 24.03.21 - 17:39, you wrote to me:

    https://wellandhistory.ca

    I am a bit disappointed, because there are lots of barn
    pictures in it, but Idon't get to see horses in them :-(

    :D

    Most of them are probably abandoned barns, photographed because
    they are not likely to be around much longer.

    Also I got scared when I used the earch bar to find "horse" and I got a recipe as a result. Thankfully, it was a recipe that used horse radish, so all is good.

    LOL

    Hop over to the TALES and EVENTS sections. They have independent
    search functions. There, you will find mention of horses in
    some stories and comments.

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  • From August Abolins@618:510/1.1 to Arelor on Thu Mar 25 19:47:00 2021
    Hello Arelor!

    ** On Wednesday 24.03.21 - 17:39, Arelor wrote to August Abolins:

    https://wellandhistory.ca

    I am a bit disappointed, because there are lots of barn pictures in it,
    but I don't get to see horses in them :-(

    I reached out to the photographer and she spotted two horses!

    1. Barns 1822 centre line Madoc Oct 8 2015 #465
    2. Barns 1936 Old Brook Rd near Weymss June 5 2018 #556

    Just enter the 4-digit number shown after the word Barn above,
    or enter the 3-digit number indicated by the # above (just the
    digits, not the #)


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  • From Arelor@618:250/24 to August Abolins on Fri Mar 26 04:14:18 2021
    Re: nostalgia: postcards,stories +other
    By: August Abolins to Arelor on Thu Mar 25 2021 07:47 pm

    Hello Arelor!

    ** On Wednesday 24.03.21 - 17:39, Arelor wrote to August Abolins:

    https://wellandhistory.ca

    I am a bit disappointed, because there are lots of barn pictures in it, but I don't get to see horses in them :-(

    I reached out to the photographer and she spotted two horses!

    1. Barns 1822 centre line Madoc Oct 8 2015 #465
    2. Barns 1936 Old Brook Rd near Weymss June 5 2018 #556

    Just enter the 4-digit number shown after the word Barn above,
    or enter the 3-digit number indicated by the # above (just the
    digits, not the #)


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    Nice :-)

    I should share some pictures of mine, if they let themselves be photographed... as soon as I pull the camera, they run towards
    me wanted to play with the toy I have in my hands.

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  • From August Abolins@618:250/1.9 to Arelor on Fri Mar 26 08:47:00 2021
    Hello Arelor!

    Horses:
    1. Barns 1822 centre line Madoc Oct 8 2015 #465
    2. Barns 1936 Old Brook Rd near Weymss June 5 2018 #556

    Nice :-)

    I should share some pictures of mine, if they let themselves be photographed... as soon as I pull the camera, they run towards me wanted
    to play with the toy I have in my hands.

    You need to give them a distraction like a like nice serving of
    oats or grain in a feeder further away from you and then step
    back to take some photos. Or.. if you hang around long enough
    with them and do NOT touch them, they might like to just get
    back to the business of grazing or looking around and leave you
    alone. [?]

    There ought to be great tips out there on how to photograph
    gregarious horses.

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  • From Arelor@618:250/24 to August Abolins on Fri Mar 26 10:53:06 2021
    Re: nostalgia: postcards,stories +other
    By: August Abolins to Arelor on Fri Mar 26 2021 08:47 am

    You need to give them a distraction like a like nice serving of
    oats or grain in a feeder further away from you and then step
    back to take some photos. Or.. if you hang around long enough
    with them and do NOT touch them, they might like to just get
    back to the business of grazing or looking around and leave you
    alone. [?]

    Distractions don't work, because once they figure out there is something out of their reach I can give to them, they start bugging me for it.

    Same with just standing around until they get bored of me and return to their business. They never get bored of me :-(

    I think I have some of them when they were fillies and where running around, playing. I should dig into my vault of memories.

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  • From August Abolins@618:250/1.9 to Arelor on Fri Mar 26 19:30:00 2021
    Hello Arelor!

    ** On Friday 26.03.21 - 10:53, you wrote to me:

    You need to give them a distraction like a like nice serving of
    oats or grain in a feeder further away from you..

    Distractions don't work, because once they figure out there is something out of their reach I can give to them, they start bugging me for it.

    OK... can't you view them from afar yet close enough to
    photograph them? Maybe through a window? Or.. just get someone
    to take a few picks while you are holding a reign off-camera?

    Same with just standing around until they get bored of me and return to their business. They never get bored of me :-(

    Wow. That takes a lot a patience in a horse.

    I think I have some of them when they were fillies and where running around, playing. I should dig into my vault of memories.

    Good!

    BTW.. Found more horses on the wellandhistory.ca site. Go to
    the main site, then the XTRA Xtra! page, then click on the
    Bancroft link. When you click on the images, you will get larger
    versions.
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  • From Arelor@618:250/24 to August Abolins on Fri Mar 26 20:27:41 2021
    Re: nostalgia: postcards,stories +other
    By: August Abolins to Arelor on Fri Mar 26 2021 07:30 pm

    Hello Arelor!

    ** On Friday 26.03.21 - 10:53, you wrote to me:

    You need to give them a distraction like a like nice serving of
    oats or grain in a feeder further away from you..

    Distractions don't work, because once they figure out there is something out of their reach I can give to them, they start bugging me for it.

    OK... can't you view them from afar yet close enough to
    photograph them? Maybe through a window? Or.. just get someone
    to take a few picks while you are holding a reign off-camera?

    Same with just standing around until they get bored of me and return to their business. They never get bored of me :-(

    Wow. That takes a lot a patience in a horse.

    I think I have some of them when they were fillies and where running around, playing. I should dig into my vault of memories.

    Good!

    BTW.. Found more horses on the wellandhistory.ca site. Go to
    the main site, then the XTRA Xtra! page, then click on the
    Bancroft link. When you click on the images, you will get larger
    versions.
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    Usually I can only take pics from them if I hold them and somebody else uses the camera.

    I have this one from my big big fluffy thing: http://www.thefantasyforum.com/data/avatars/l/18/18188.jpg?1464110952

    Also this is from the not-so-big fluffy thing: http://www.richardfalken.com/assets/img/richard.jpg

    The weird dude with the hat is totally not a Spaniard trying to pass himself as a 'murican :-)

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  • From August Abolins@618:250/1.9 to Arelor on Tue Mar 30 19:43:00 2021
    Hello Arelor!

    ** On Friday 26.03.21 - 20:27, you wrote to me:

    I have this one from my big big fluffy thing: http://www.thefantasyforum.com/data/avatars/l/18/18188.jpg?1464110952

    Also this is from the not-so-big fluffy thing: http://www.richardfalken.com/assets/img/richard.jpg

    Those show up as rather small thumbnails here. I think I've
    seen a couple similar ones on an independent author website that
    you were listed with.

    The weird dude with the hat is totally not a Spaniard trying to pass himself as a 'murican :-)

    Yes.. that human being is totally out of place and not required.
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