Google Problems Anyone

This is the first screen I see when opening my computer--

When I open another tab from this screen I get this:

The white tiles at the bottom of the screen are normally filled with websites I use often such as Facebook, our local news station and our local newspaper plus other sites such as this blog.  Websites come and go from those tiles depending on the frequency with which I visit those websites.  Well—there is a gremlin in my computer—the last few days, sites have been disappearing from those tiles with regularity!!  One morning I open up the computer and every tile is white—nothing—then the next morning I might have two of the files occupied.  Weird!!

And has anyone had issues with comments on their blogs—my comments are not appearing in Gmail any longer—sometimes not at all, sometimes after they are all ready posted to the blog.  And it seems the number of comments is down—am I just boring or is something going on with ole Google???

After lunch I headed to town for some errands—and was back in a couple hours.  Michael puttered the day away—when I got home he made some popcorn and proceeded to try and trounce me at cribbage.  He won the first game and I barely squeaked out a win in the second. 

A sunset walk netted us some gorgeous photos:

Sun going down over the mountains and the neighbor’s cows on the feed row. 

Emmi gets cold feet—the snow packs up in side the pads of her feet and she hobbles around three legged with a pathetic look on her face.  When it is really cold as in below 20 degrees, she wears the socks I made her.  When we went out this afternoon late, it was 21 degrees and I left off the socks but she still got cold feet making the cowboy feel sorry for her!