Happy 4th of July!!
I hope you all have a big day of barbecuing and fireworks planned! Me and Jimmy may go to fireworks in the evening with friends, but we'll be relaxing for most of the day up until then. I didn't get any news or new pictures for the site. Hope everyone's doing great. If you take any pictures during the holiday, be sure to share them in here! Please check out the calendar if you get a chance and let me know if I need to add anything or change anything. :D July's a big month for me because the new season of
Monk begins on the 18th and I'm hopelessly addicted to that show. Beyond that, I'm on chapter 8 of a children's book I'm working on. I'd love to see it in print someday, but for now, I'm just having fun writing. Let me know what's going on in your lives--anything you'd like to share with everyone. Hope to have lots of new things to post in August. Drop me a line! :D
It's warming up nicely and time to start fishing!! Sorry for the stall with the site but it's been a very long time since I've gotten any news or updates or pictures--if you've got any, shoot 'em out to me. I like to see new stuff on the site. I couldn't make the Easter page happen before the holiday came and went, which is very unfortunate. Sometimes I feel like I'm living in the middle of a tornado. rofl. I updated the Calendar page, including Rob's daughter Sheila's birthdate which she emailed to me. Unfortunately, she didn't tell me how old she is so I'm waiting on further information. :D If you see that a birthday, anniversary, or other important date is missing or incorrect, please let me know--email me so I can add it to the calendar. I updated the In Memoriam page so that people who aren't necessarily Caettas can still get memorials there. If someone you loved, admired, or respected has passed on, you can request a page for them. I added one, and would also like to add one for a friend's mother that I used to hang out with. I'll be doing that this week. This is your website--it only works if you contribute. It only stays fresh and new if you send in information, updates, pictures, etc. In the meantime, let me know what's going on.
Here's a new add: Theresa Neumayer (Caetta) has submitted her new website. She making and selling lip balms and other items. Check out her site,
Faery's Kiss! :D
This is a picture of me. Like my slippers? I am soooooooooooooooooo tired. lol! The Christmas page is finished--hope you all like it! Of course there are a ton of holiday recipes. A couple were keepers from Thanksgiving but only because they're good for both meals. A few holiday cookie recipes and egg nog recipes as well, and main course choices of Turkey, Ham, and Prime Rib. Hope you see something you like. :D On to the
Christmas page!
I've found it's very very difficult to update a website while working three jobs. I'm pushing as hard as I can to get this in before Thanksgiving--if you're reading this, maybe I made it. I am doing the
Thanksgiving page a little different than some other holiday pages where I included recipes. I try to get all my recipes off of
Allrecipes.com because they have a function on their pages that allow you to print the recipes without any ads and so that they come out in recipe card size. Handy little function. If you see a picture you like, just click the link for the recipe and it'll open up on their site. I liked transferring the recipes to our website but then you had no control over how to print them up and of course, you'd get everything instead of just the recipe. Below each recipe, you also get comments and ratings from people all over who have tried the recipe. Handy as well.
I also added a page for Adam Caetta, who recently served a tour with the Marines in Fallujah. During his year there, he sent me numerous pictures and I put all his emails into a separate folder to save them. Once this site went to a regular domain and I no longer had to worry about file size, I just had to share them with everyone. You can see his page at the
ADAM link above.
If you haven't already done so, you may want to visit Grandma and Grampa's memorial pages again. With the new storage limits, I was able to add sound files to both. If you're still on dial-up, it will take a while to load but I think it's well worth it. I am a huge Louis Armstrong fanatic and hand-picked each song for them. If you have anything you'd like to contribute to either of their memorials or to any page on our site, just send me an email and I'll add it. The email is "caetta family newsletter at yahoo dot com." No spaces, and use the ampersand symbol for "at" like a regular email. If I write it all out like that, spam bots will still spider the site but won't be able to harvest the email address--the bots can't pick it up.
It's coming along slowly. For now, check out the
Thanksgiving page. Hopefully you find some yummy somethings there. :D
If you're in here peeking, I'm still transferring everything over. As you go from page to page, you may notice that you're sometimes on the old site and sometimes on the new site. At some point, once all the links and pages and files are transferred over, the old site will be deleted. At the very least, you'll notice all the banners, popups, and other annoyances are gone. It's our site, part and parcel. Ads are gone.
I spent most of the last couple days downloading pictures and other files but I was finally able to get the audio files embedded into Grandma and Grandpa's memorial pages. I love not having to keep backing out to the Account Manager every time I downloaded a picture to see how much storage I had left. Yep. Love that. Love that a lot. :D
On another note, to keep up with anniversaries, births, birthdates, holidays, etc., make sure to always check the
Calendar. I do want to note here all the anniversaries in the past month: Danny and Kathy, Chris and Debbi, Judy and Carl, and John and Pat. Congratulations everyone! Caetta marriages last a long time! And Uncle Chris just turned 53!
