Readers, Welcome to my blog (formerly Birds, Blooms, Books, etc). I'm entering a new decade taking on the challenge of moving from Maryland after living there 46 years and learning about my new home here in New England in the Live Free or Die state - New Hampshire. Join me as a write this new chapter of my life.

Monday, March 16, 2026

Fixed

Random Photo: River Cruise 2018 


In order to correct whatever mistakes I had made with first and second migration, I did a third migration from my old laptop to this new one.  Then my son in law came over and set it up for the download from iCloud of all my photos. It took hours!  When I got up this morning it was done.  

My photos were here accessible, though now in different ways for blogger.  In order to put in the photo above, I copied and pasted rather than using the insert photo icon.  For some reason that isn't taking me to my photos.  Another question for son in law but another day.

Eventually I need to do further purging of photos.  In the meantime I'm going to try to insert random ones whenever I post on here.

Thanks for your suggestions and comments on my frustration.


Some new functions in iPhoto.  I tried to remove distractions from above photo.  I have a lot to learn.



Sunday, March 15, 2026

Frustrations!

I got a new MacBook Air last week.  I went through the migration from my 11 year old MacBook Pro and everything migrated or so I thought.

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I went looking for my photos and ended up in a loop telling me the photos were in iCloud except when I tried to open them there I was told I needed to move them to a folder.  Eventually I got some photos but they were only the ones that I had on my phone not the thousands I had on my old laptop.  





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I've been struggling trying to get them out but to no avail.  Today Dan suggested we google how to move photos from one Mac to another.  The AI suggestion was to do the migration again but select only the photos.

Well ... we started that.  It was difficult to find where the photos were.  We thought we had them but then the connection between the two computers was lost despite having done this migration before this way ... no cables.  We chose Cancel Migration.

When I finally was able to open my new computer, it was as though I was starting all over again. And I was because all the files, bookmarks, apps I had migrated before were no longer in place.  There was a long list of all my documents but not in the folders or places on the desktop.  Argg!  And no new photos had transferred.


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So here's what I'm facing.  Doing the total migration again and hoping it worked like it did the very first time.  

Plus I need to do a photo purge then use airdrop to move photos that I want to keep on my new laptop.  That's the hardest part of all.  Many of the photos are in photo books so why do I need them on the laptop? I don't know.

What would you do?



Wednesday, March 11, 2026

Going .... Going ...

March 4th

March 8 - 8 AM

March 8 - 4 PM

March 9 - 1 PM

March 9 - 4 PM

March 10 - 8 AM





March 10 - 6 PM



Sunset

Well, the snow is almost gone.
We have temperatures below freezing at night but above during the day. Tuesday's high was almost 70ยบ but today, Wednesday, we will only have highs in the 40s.  

This morning I spied two bluebirds checking out the bluebird box.  They then flew off to a neighbor's bluebird box. House shopping I guess.