Last time I put up pictures, I saved up 7 months of knitting and spinning projects so there were a lot of them, I counted how long it takes me. Even with a big batch (so repetitive tasks can be optimized) to do at once, it still took me more than 5 hours do do 75 photos. That's taking the pictures, captioning, uploading, inserting them into a post (I use HTML too. The automated tools just suck.) It's a horrible waste of my time to bother with, but no one will even look at posts about knitting projects unless there are photos. There are people who put up pictures in their posts every single day. I just can't imagine it. You put up pictures about as often as I should. Though your pictures are better than mine.
That's a lovely story about your horse and the ginger bite marks. Though it's sad that she's been bullied like that.
I volunteer to teach knitting to children and one of the most shocking things that ever happened was the day we were talking about sheep ("which is where wool comes from") and a little girl asked me if we could use zebras or giraffes. Another girl said, "Or unicorns!" Because to these girls all animals are mythical and giraffes are actually more common than sheep because the zoo has giraffes. I've run across children who think horses and unicorns are the same thing. And the older children will say, "Well there are cattle with horns but cows don't have horns, so maybe unicorns are the male horses?"
Which is totally an aside from your post, but it makes rescue horses important because they don't look fake.
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Date: 2010-09-27 10:00 pm (UTC)That's a lovely story about your horse and the ginger bite marks. Though it's sad that she's been bullied like that.
I volunteer to teach knitting to children and one of the most shocking things that ever happened was the day we were talking about sheep ("which is where wool comes from") and a little girl asked me if we could use zebras or giraffes. Another girl said, "Or unicorns!" Because to these girls all animals are mythical and giraffes are actually more common than sheep because the zoo has giraffes. I've run across children who think horses and unicorns are the same thing. And the older children will say, "Well there are cattle with horns but cows don't have horns, so maybe unicorns are the male horses?"
Which is totally an aside from your post, but it makes rescue horses important because they don't look fake.