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Congratulations on your choice of St Augustine Florida. Some of my cousins still live and it's a fun place, we'd visit from Jacksonville. Hurricanes had a long dry spell then and we were lucky for it. The heat & humity you quickly forget about. LOL, I've encountered more hurricane (remnant bands) causing tree falls on my quarters in the last 15 years in Kentucky than when living in Florida then so maybe things will calm back down on the east coast, they certainly deserve it.
The content requires instalaltion through DS and the plug-ins require log-ins, at what frequency I am not sure, to activate so yes - if you don't let DS connect that will be an absolute block on those benefits of Premier membership.
I can understand that. I didn't use Smart Content, just the Content Library.
I can understand that. I didn't use Smart Content, just the Content Library.
You an also download through the Content Library in the Products container - right-click on the "folder" for the product. Smart Content and Content Library are different, potentially complementary, ways to access content - they don't have anything to do with how it is installed.
Thank you! It's one of those locations in Florida which rarely has hurricanes, they got grazed by Matthew in 2016 but it was out in the Atlantic. Thankfully they were on the good side of it. I lived in St Augustine about a year but on the coast so I don't know where anything is. Rather a challenge but internet makes it easy. Remember when you went to places and had to use paper maps? I still remember the AAA auto TripTiks. It showed where the construction work was pretty effectively.
this is the front of the new house- I went with minimal yard care. This picture doesn't show the pretty Bird Of Paradise in bloom- my favorite flower!
Beautiful house!
I remember the TripTiks and the AAA books. Both were very useful. Now they've gone all digital which isn't as handy so Google it is. We have two children living in Washinton state and visit often. We place paper maps in our car when we arrive. We found early on you lose internet pretty quickly in the mountains and sometimes have a need for them.
I have two paid up YEARS of Daz+ left. They offered to let me trade that for two MONTHS of Premier. Are you kidding me? No thanks. At their current rate of Daz+ $9.99 per month, my two paid up years are worth $239.76. They want me to throw that way for $37.96 worth of Premier. Do I want to lose $201.80 worth of what I've already paid for, and be on the hook for an additional $417.56 for premier for the other 22 months, to fill out the two years, beyond the two months they offered me in trade. No. (I didn't pay $239.76 for my Daz+, because I got it on sale, but that is what it would cost me now to buy it, if I didn't already have it - hence that is the current value of what I already own.)
If I had no paid up Daz+ subscription, I'd be willing to try Premier for a few months and see if I thought it was worth while. I'm not excited about paying $119.88 per year for just Daz+ in the future, either. Since in the past I have renewed Daz+ for about 20-30 dollars per year during sales, that is a huge jump in price. I'll keep the two years I have already paid for, and then maybe I am done at these rates. Premier would be even more expensive than Daz+, at $227.76 per year!
Nice looking house
Yes, Novica, that is a great looking house!
@barbult I wouldn't take that deal either- certainly isn't one! Who on earth did that math??? I'm glad they're letting folks keep their subscriptions which have been paid for.
Beuatiful house. You are smart going with minimal yard care. Here in Kentucky I have only 0.66 acres but the extra rain has accelerated growth since 2015 and I am in the yard now cutting down all these invasive weedy eastern Siberian shrubs and native Poision Ivy. They grow so extremely fast now. So much effort but if I don't the parts of the yard I don't tend too looks like a dump for all the woody shrubs. I am poisoning the stumps with "Crossbow" and that should slow down the amount of work I have to do.
Don't laugh but I love highway A1A so much that I at one time had plans to write a video game based on Highway A1A.
If you're interested in a new way to pep up your renders, I just posted a thread on using an AI service to enhance an existing render. This isn't the "write a sentence and get the computer to make a picture of it" type of AI. As a Daz hobbyist I want to make the picture myself, but this is an AI post-process that you can apply afterwards. It can turn this...
into this...
Congratulations; what a beautiful house. Hopefully Milton left it unscathed. Do you have a place for your horse?
@Novica, that is one lovely house! And I echo Charlie's question about your horse. Did you find a great place for him to live near you?
My experience with the freebies during previous 'give us your money and we will give you a free item later' promotions has born out from what I have seen of the two characters so far. I would have bought Aiko 9, but not like this. I have all of her releases from Aiko 3 to Aiko 8 and while I never used her much, I still used her a bit. My DAZ + ends Sept 2025. Not sure I will extend it. My purchases have decreased (partially due to finances and recent content) and I am even passing on some of the weekly/monthly free items: not to my needs/taste or offer me anything I don't already have. What I would give for a Jack Tomalin update for one of his older sets or a new item from him! Pity he was pulled into management and out of the creative side of the business.
Mary
@memcneil70 @charliejudge Thank you! Regarding Stetson- he is staying at the barn, his home since 2013. His girlfriend, a quarterhorse named Flash, has been by his side in the next door stall all those 11 years, and they are going to grow old and die together. Flash's human, Cheryl, and I said we'd never move either one of them. Stetson has a 5 acre pasture at the very front of the barn, and when there are birthday parties in that huge grassy area right next to his pasture, Stetson is the star of the show, getting pets and carrots.
I could never take him away from all that, so I asked the barn owner (my best friend after all these years) if she would adopt Stetson. She was "honored" and said she'd lease him to someone who would love and pamper him. (To help pay his stall and food costs.) I made it clear he couldn't be used as a lesson horse, he had to have one lease person. She agreed. While I will miss him, I had only been going out about once a month and he is as comfortable with the barn folks as he is with me, and moreso even with Cheryl. (She wouldn't have been able to afford two boards.) So Stetson and Flash will continue to be sweethearts and Stetson won't ever leave his home, particularly THAT stall (also part of the agreement.)
I was wondering about Stetson too. I am glad he is happy. It must of been a tough choice as he'll miss you and your family as well.
Good to hear Stetson will still be in a loving home with best friends.
Nice looking new house! Shame to have to leave Stetson behind, but as you say he is happy where he is. How much of the rest of the animal household are you managing to take with you? Dogs I assume, but birds?
Taking all the dogs, Rhonda (who I got the birds from) is finding someone who has an indoor type aviary as all my birds are free flighted and have an entire room to fly in. They can go to their cages at night if they want (and one does, the Regent Parrot) and all the birds will remain together. :) Mycats are also coming.
The feral cats- someone took in Capri we think, the tortie- she was super friendly and came indoors- and I still have Shadow. I've opened the door several times to see if I can get him inside but it's a no-go. I'm going to talk to my neighbor to get her assistance on feeding him. Under no circumstances will I just leave him. I'll either have to trap him or get the neighbor's help. She is feeding another cat we named Tommi and that cat gets along with Shadow so-so- she'd have to feed Shadow in the yard I think. I think Shadow is between 14-18 years old, I can't remember when he first started coming here, but I believe no later than 2006.
He didn't STAY at my house but came almost every night the first year or so, then every night. The past two years he's pretty much just hung out here but does leave for awhile at times. During the summer, he knew I had the fan out just for him lol so he spent the hot Florida summers under a fan. I've already got his tent built with the heating pad as we've had temps down to 41, and we all know as we get older it's easier to get cold/easier to get sick. So I'll keep you posted. I think the neighbor will help, I really don't want to take him away from his home. I'll pay for the cat food of course. I'm going to try in the next few weeks to see if I can get him inside. We're not going to move in permenently over in St Augustine until next summer or fall, depending on how fast we can get the current house done with paint, new flooring, repairs, etc. (Oh JOY.) Not to mention reducing clutter.
So here's a fun question- what momentos have you hung onto? I have my kids' artwork, and found some clay artwork from my husband and string artwork he made when he was a kid. I gave away eight bags of clothes (went up in attic and also did my closet) and it was very nostalgic to see the children clothes when they were 10-12 years old when we moved here from Houston. I also had a few shirts they made in Pre-K and Kindergarten, and I'm keeping those of course! We have a Waterfront Mission here and they support homelessness and addiction so that's who I give to. Mom always did that so she made me aware of that organization here in Pensacola.
I gave away a lot of decor, I just don't switch it up (like EVER) so it was nice to give it away so others can have it. So the next question- how often do YOU change up your decor? New theme, new colors? Do you have any of your art on display? (I only had one pencil sketch of me and my Arabian, from my army officer days. I'll post it for you sometime in the future, it's packed at the moment.)
@Novica, I had to think about this. I have moved 24 or more times that I can remember. We were/are essentially gypsies. I am one of those Americans that never had a 'home town'. So it was natural for me to go into the military. My childhood things were left behind, taken or sold by family members, except for my comic collection, art supplies, and books. I have added quilting supplies to that now. I have a phrase, 'It's in a box.' That sums up my life. But I am also the repository of some of the family's historical items: books from the 19th/early 20th centuries, my baby Uncle Tommy's B/W photos, an antique desk & chair, silver pitcher, and Bible. I have the quilts my mother's mother made for her in the 1930s, that sparked my love for quilting.
As for what gets tossed, junk that is at the front of a Target like store or company swag or at Starbucks. My closet gets wiped out at least every two years, or when the rods collapse! If Temu sells it, I won't move it.
Mary
I have some quilts too- that seems like a lost art. My mom made them, and so did my aunt. And I love the black and white old photos, particularly with the old cars.
There are some quilting groups on Facebook. My oldest daughter she's 49 shared some a while back.
My mother's generation saw quilts as a sign of poverty and a reminder of the depression and restrictions of WWII, so often wouldn't quilt or do hand work. Baby Boomers often had to learn from books, or if they were lucky, from grandparents. My maternal grandparents were dead by the early 1960s (born in 1880s), and my paternal grandmother was more focused on teaching me 'ladies hand work' like embroidery and crochet with thread for doilles. My mother did teach me to sew by hand and on her Westinghouse sewing machine so I could make clothes for my Barbie dolls. I had a Barbie modeling salon or store, and I needed to fill it up. An apron in junior high school was a joke, along with the cooking class when I was already expected to plan, shop, cook, and serve a full meal by 4th grade.
When I was stationed in Oklahoma at Altus, I bought my first book on quilting and some fabric in 1974 along with a Singer sewing machine. The top wasn't special and I used cotton batting, but I made a newbies' mistake by tying that quilt. When I washed the quilt the first time, the batting went to the corners or into clumps. But it went to South Korea and on with me. I needed it in that winter and it ended up cuddling many litters of puppies and kittens. It may be in a box now. My quilts now are more for wall hangings, I no longer give them away after finding one I hand pieced and hand quilted thrown on a floor and used as a shoe/dog rag. Unfortunately with my arthritis and eyesight degrading, I have my last quilt at the hand quilting of the border in a Japanese thread that was hard before, now almost impossible to hold the needle. It was a homage to an antique Pakastani quilt I was unable to buy, some Hawaiian appliques mixed in, African fabric backing. I still want to finish it. I have the long side of the garage I rent lined with plastic boxes stacked high with fabric I have bought or hand dyed myself.
I bought an antique hand-cranked sewing machine in England, that is in my closet to protect it. Have no idea how someone could guide fabric and crank the wheel at the same time! But the case and machine are lovely. The 1974 sewing machine I gave away to a young co-worker. I had bought a computerized machine in the 21st C.
Movers hate me, books and fabric are not light and take up a lot of room. And I seem to be collecting computers now! But I learned from a friend that if you move, carry them with you, don't trust with a moving company. Things don't arrive always or work if they do.
Mary
@memcneil70 nteresting- my family (mom's generation and my grandmother's) used quilting as a social event. My grandma though was in "the country" with the red clay roads, not paved- and horses in the pastures. She and her friends would get together and share fabric to do their quilts. I'm glad you've kept some of your work and hope you can finish it.
My dads mom did crochet Moms side of the family did crochet, knitting and quilting
My paternal grandmother did a lot of sewing on an old treadle sewing-machine. She made all her own clothes and most of my clothes until I was about 9 or 10 and decided home-made was not good enough (I feel bad about that now!)
She made Durham Quilts too - they are a northern-England thing, not patchwork like American quilts but made of a top layer and bottom layer of plain fabric sandwiching padding and then hand-stiched in various patterns through the sandwich. Unfortunately they all got thrown away when we stopped using them (overtaken by duvets).
She also did knitting, crochet and especially tatting. I have a number of her "tatted" pieces - some lovely lace-like collars, some doilies and tatting-trimmed tablecloths. She tried to teach me crochet (quite successfully) and tatting (with less success - my pieces all came out mis-shapen or domed shaped instead of flat because I could never get the tension right).
Mum taught me knitting and I did qute a lot when I was younger, but gave up when I was working all hours and didn't have the time - buying a sweater was quicker! She also embroidered, until her hands got too stiff with arthritis. I never had the patience for embroidery.
My grandma and great grandma did both Durham and patchwork quilts They also sewed clothes by hand neither had a sewing machine
@melaniel Oh, how special to have your grandmother make clothes for you!
You did remind me- I did embroidery for a couple years. We were packing and just the other day, I found a mother mouse with a baby mouse in a crib, and it said, Shhhh! Baby Sam asleep! I also did a Holly Hobbie (remember her?) with army boots on and it said Happiness Is Mom.