Behind the Blog

Anyone would think that the “Ellie’s Blog” would be simple to create.  Ellie snaps a few pictures; I type in how she describes the pictures and upload.  If that was only the case, there would be so many more.This is what really happened. 

Ellie decided she wanted to take a horse picture for the blog with her new camera.  As we were getting ready to go outside, she needed to test the camera and took the pictures of her feet.  After about 5 minutes we made it outside with the camera and shoes on our feet.  Ellie didn’t want to take pictures of the horses right next to the house, that would have been way to easy.  Instead she wanted to walk (be carried) to the bottom of our paddock to take pictures of the fouls.  We made it to the bottom bridge and we need to stop and inspect the water level (there was almost no water) and then rest while play with a tickle weed.

Now at least 15 minutes from us trying to leave the house, we crossed the bridge and were only 100 feet away from the fence when nature called.  Not the horses, flowers, seeds, or alpacas the other nature.  No chance we were going all the way back to the house to start again, so Ellie took care of the problem in the grass, all the while keeping the camera close, very close.  We finally got to the fence, took some pictures, climbed the fence, took more horse and fence pictures.  Step one complete!

On the way back to the house, we had to play hide and seek in the tall grass, then play in the dirt, remove our shoes so they didn’t get dirty, and feed and kiss the alpacas. At this point we have committed more than 40 minutes.

Once inside, we downloaded the pictures off her camera and she then selected the ones to post.  As we were typing the description, Ellie was “helping” type; she became distracted by a bug (grasshopper) on the window.  She went to inspect the bug and poked at it for a few minutes.  The bug didn’t care as it was on the other side of the window and just kept moving along.  Ellie came back to the computer and then finished her second post. This was about one and quarter hours from the start of this blog adventure.