Ways around a glitch?

First, humbly I say, that I can miss things I read. Second, when I ask Google how to add cookies, I know that the answer I receive on how to delete cookies, is the wrong answer. I have gone through many tabs, links and instructions to learn how to stop Google from blocking access to my photos on Blogspot.

Note, there is an URL option to add photos to a Blogspot post. I got a URL from an Internet photo host. It is rejected, can’t access notice.

My solution is to join a different photo host. I trust Photobucket, easy to use and has a good upgrade price plan.

The add photos here by URL, where a box is given to paste the URL, Does Not Work, even with a known snd trusted URL. 

I can link to a photo in the html option. To post a photo here is blocked by Google.

I apologize for going on about this issue.

My problem is that changes making being online difficult, bothers me. Years, no problem turning into hassle after hassle tells me that there is something that Google or iPhone wants or has to have that’s just tough for me. 

Learning the URL option is also blocked is the enough is enough finish line. I will keep searching for the answer to why.

Meanwhile, I just have to rev up the electricity to my laptop. 

Opera browser has clear easy to read instructions
on cookies. I see the photo as I type.
It should publish as well. 

I see that photo in the typing box. I know it is possible for it to post here via copy & paste.

Update: As feared, after posting a photo, the next sign in  returns to blocking. Even signed in to Opera and cookies allowed, Google blocks/ can’t access my photos, to publish photos here. 

Week 35, Day 241 August 2026

Here we go again with the end of another lovely 2026 month. 

Time, I say for me, did not fly by. This last week (werk as the keyboard prefers), coping with anxiety, the days went by very slow. A sloth could have won a race if there was a race. 

Living with anxiety: Part 2 will be next week starting over on Tuesday. This post is a filler of sorts.

I managed to do errands yesterday. It felt strange after being in a sofa tunnel for a few days, like out of the dark and into the light. 

There was an almost session that arose. I almost went to the place I want to visit. I almost did a walk-in for a hair cut. I almost went into the grocery store instead of the McD drive thru. I almost visited the Robert Frost Interpretive Trail. I almost went to Home Depot to look at vacuums. I almost ordered a chocolate shake. 

Have an Almost September Weekend

Browse flannel shirts online

Bake zucchini Parmesan

Review a tree identification chart

Buy comfy hiking socks

Sing to a teapot

Write a poem about maple trees

Have buttered warm brown bread

and a nice hot cup of tea

Part 1: Living with acute anxiety

There is a place I want to go to. I had a late start getting ready that caused me to miss the time I planned on. I’m not happy about that because I want to go there during the morning hours. 

So, despite the late start, I got ready anyway. And that is where I have been for going on three hours, sitting here waiting just in case the anxiety decreases enough for me to get out the door.

A new issue enters the scene. I am hungry. I haven’t eaten anything today. I had a half cup of coffee. When I am going to be out and about, I limit eating (except for maybe crackers). Today I planned to have a small meal where I was going. 

Eating stimulates the digestive system. With anxiety, if I have a hint of a cramp or uneasy digestion issue, an anxiety attack will pop up or start building in intensity until I turn around and go home. 

This is what I have to deal with when I want to go anywhere special, even as simple as sitting outdoors to paint. 

I’m also not happy I have on my favorite outfit. I’ll have to find something else to wear or do laundry. 😕

To be continued…tomorrow is today. I’m not going anywhere so I can rest and feel better about tomorrow. Another tomorrow turns into today. Feeling better. 

Not sure what changed

There was not a time, no matter what browser I logged into Gmail with, that adding photos to my blog was a problem. 

Due to cookie privacy settings, there were times when adding photos was blocked. I’m not sure how the change happened. It took a lot of reading to locate and find what setting is blocking photos on Blogspot. 

After a fix that allowed photos, the next time I logged into my blog on the same browser, adding photos was blocked again. 

 I believed something through or from Google blocks adding photos unless I use Chrome with the Google app installed. That isn’t the case because now after logging into Gmail, on Chrome, where yesterday adding photos was not a problem, I cannot add photos to this post. 

My iphone settings have not changed nor has any setting changed. 

I just now, between typing here, allowed cross tracking on Chrome.

None of it makes sense to me. It feels as if adding photos has to be from a specific place with settings I may not want. All this is when using an iPhone 17. 

An August Tuesday

As I go, no pattern sewn by hand
scissors, thread & needle

There are days to read and 

days to write, a post, a comment, an email. 

Life moves that way. 

Rain has been forecast.

I see the radar and wait for 

the raindrops to fall. 

Thus far, no rain has fallen

where I live in the last 24 hours. 

The flowers will need

to be watered.

Fading sunflowers
Fuumuui Kolinsky travel brush set
Winsor Newton Watercolors