Well, I learned last night that Photobucket has changed its policy on linking photos to other websites and they are now holding hostage the links to all my photos I have ever posted (as long ago as 2008 ). For the 'nominal' fee of $399 (US dollars) per year, I can fix all those links and have unlimited (until their next policy change) use.
So I thought I'd try and update posts with pictures, but of course I can't do that since SMF changed the policy of editing our own posts. I can do it at other forums I belong to, but don't know that the effort is worth it. I had to make a new post to make the corrections here, but that puts the threads on the 'newest threads' list and I don't think that's a good way to go. Guess I'll just have to accept that most of my previous photos are not going to be visible to anyone and live with it. Going forward, I will just use the attachment feature, which as a lifetime member of SMF I have unlimited space (as per the notice when I signed up for it.)
This is very discouraging, though, on my end. But, I am glad to see that not everyone here was using PB, so there aren't as many ugly PB notices speckling the SMF pages as I feared.
If my back cooperates, I plan to give the monthly challenge another go. I could barely walk the two days prior to yesterday. My back pain started on July 3rd and finally began to be passing bearable yesterday. I am still walking gingerly, but mostly am able to stand straight again. How long I'll be able to stand is another story, but I'll see how it goes. I may have to just do the prep today and do the actual soap making tomorrow.
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