Can Someone Help Me Understand?

I was just leaving a comment on JCrew's blog, The Storekeeper (refer to the link in my sidebar 'cuz I'm not sure how to link it right into the text like those fancy pants bloggers do) and after I entered my user ID & password, I had to type in some garbled letters I saw. Sometimes I'm not sharp enough to get it right on the first try and have to attempt it a couple of times--although I did get it right the first time today!

However, I have a question -- why does anyone have this feature on their comments section? I've heard it is to discourage SPAM comments. However, I have another question -- does anyone get SPAM comments on their blogs? Shoot, I wouldn't mind if I got a few. I'm still waiting for most of my posts to get to double digits on the comment end of things, a few SPAM comments here and there might be a good thing. Maybe I'm missing something. Can someone help me understand?

I guess avoiding SPAM comments is not the only part of blogging I don't understand. I seem to be a little photo challenged as well. I tried about 24 1/2 times to add the photos to my last post, but Blogger just wasn't working with me in the endeaver. Today is another story, so here are the ones I was wanting to include. The picture to the left is our debate club, Santa Rosa Touché. This is the same club that will be hosting a debate round robin Saturday the 18th of November. For those of you I've hit up to judge, aren't those sweet looking young folks? Surely my sister is beside herself that I can't ask her to judge, Indiana is a little far to commute. She has such a lofty view of homeschool events I know this would be the highlight of the month for her!


The photo to the left is one of the 6 zillion we took of Squiggy & Beamer during our trip down to the debate tournament. I think these two pets are among the most photographed subjects for the fall of 2006 -- taking a distant second to Rebekah Kuhner! Pretty sad huh, but kittens only stay kittens for such a short time and digital is such a wonderful way to take 6 zillion pictures and keep your favorite 3. Anyhoo, it was fun having two of our pets along for the ride, and as you can see, they kept it lively.

Megan asked why we did not have three pets along -- after all, we do have TWO cats! However, our cat Jinx, the original pet of the house, is a little, no actually big time, neurotic. Trips across town to the vet are more than enough time in the car with her--neither my nerves, nor my ears could weather longer distances. No, I think two pets in the car is just about enough. That I understand!