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Welcome to my homepage. You can use the links to the left and at the top of the page to navigate this site.

What's here

The purpose of this site is to offer a glimpse into our little world here, and learn a little bit more about us. The more insidious stuff can be found in my Blog.

What's New

I've posted updates to the following pages recently:

Hen House Quilts website has been launched

As a birthday present for my sister, I put together a website for her fledgling business, Hen House Quilting. She is now doing long arm machine quilting as a business out of her home. Her new machine is absolutely amazing, and her work is really top-notch.

Get Firefox, for crying out loud!

I made the switch from Internet Explorer to Firefox over a year ago, and haven't looked back. It seems to me to be more stable, more expandable, and faster for the kind of surfing I do.

I find I still need Internet Explorer on hand for a couple of tasks.

Windows Update will not run under Firefox.
I have a spam-a-rific hotmail address, and I cannot sign out of hotmail properly if using Firefox.
My employer's website for looking at pay stubs and such only runs on IE.

What I really like about Firefox is:

Popup blocking is standard.
It's faster, more secure, and more stable that Internet Explorer.
It's highly customizable, with dozens of free extensions that add true functionality to the product. My favorite extensions are:

Click on the button below, and check it out. It's a relatively fast download, you can import all your "favorites" from IE, and you can always just go back to using IE if you don't like it.

Mozilla also has an open-source mail and newsgroup reader called "Thunderbird", which can take the place of Outlook Express.