So first, I loved the blog post below. The Art Deco buildings from Riga, Latvia, are enticing. Take a long look at the details. The author visited the Baltic area and takes lovely pictures.

Human-scale Buildings and Jugendstil

Next, I messed up a password on my phone five or six years ago and thought it didn’t matter. All of a sudden it does. I want to put an app on the phone for sales at the Shenandoah Valley Fiber Festival. I need space to do it. Because of the messed up password, my phone filled up with pictures, and now has no free space. (Just take my word for that part.) I can’t access my google account which is needed for that app, and I can’t efficiently backup the pictures and take them off to get the room. I’ve spent a lot of time working on both ends of this problem. Some of the ‘pictures’ are videos of my first grandchild so I really don’t want to lose them.

When I managed to get a backup of some pictures and started deleting them (with help from my lovely daughter-in-law), I ran into a new problem. When you put a picture into the trash, for a moment you actually need more room because now that picture is in two places. Video, which uses about ten times as much storage as a picture, is worse. After I choked the phone a few times I learned to throw one video into the trash and then empty the trash. Rinse and repeat. Long and tiresome process. I am slowly winning on that front (I can now put about six videos in the trash, at the same time, and empty it). Next I have to do battle again trying to recover the google account, or just make a new one. Here’s a picture from the account. I had to find one that’s not the kids!

Picture of the staircase in the Loreto chapel in Santa Fe… It was originally built without any handrails; all those decorative spindles were added later. you can also see a bar halfway down the right side of the picture. That was also added later. The picture shows the steep upward curve needed to get the stairs into the spot where they were needed.