The House Kat

As many who attend the ActiveRain Zoom calls know, using AI to design photos can be a lot of fun. There are many tools and platforms that can be used (free of charge at the moment) to design visuals such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Bing Images and more. The results of prompts can definitely be interestin...

I'm a day late for the weekend, a time when ActiveRainers share various recipes with the community, and with the BananaTUDES! group. But I remembered to take a photo of our Saturday night dinner, and thought our entree would make a good share.I made crab cakes, big huge ones that I served on a po...

Those of you who write blogs on ActiveRain may sometimes wonder why there are no, or only a few, comments on your posts. Besides the obvious reasons regarding quality of subject matter and use of white space and graphics, there may be other explanations for limited comments. So if you often get z...

This week's Zoom call, led by Leanne Smith , focused on Planning for Success. Not only did Leanne share her thoughts on writing out a Value Statement, Vision Statement and Mission Statement, but she also provided tools to use to track goals and results. It was all excellent information for those ...

Liz and Bill Spear wrote a post this morning called "Ask an Ambassador - We're all on Candid Camera". Did you ever see the Candid Camera show? It ran from 1948 through the 1970s, and then would appear from time to time afterwards. The gist was that there would be hidden cameras watching while peo...

Leanne Smith and Carol Williams are hosting this month's challenge which is entitled Reflect, Rejoice, Renew.  The focus of this challenge is to share reflections on the past year, things we rejoiced about, and/or plans for renewal in 2026.  This post could be focused on business or personal life...

It's the weekend, a time when ActiveRainers share various recipes with the community, and with the BananaTUDES! group. One night this week, I had company coming over and wanted something easy to make. So it was time to pull out the crock pot and get that pulled pork recipe going! Pulled Pork Reci...

A few months ago I promised to share more information about Rough Cut Products LLC utensils. It took me a while, but here is one bit of information, specifically about our wooden strainers which we have been making for the last year. The strainers weren't something we just came up with all on our...

This month, the ActiveRain challenge hosted by Lew Corcoran and Patricia Feager has to do with "Aha" moments. The goal is to share four stories about our life journey that influenced our life, career, and/or impacted ourselves or others.I've opted to only submit one post for the challenge. I've s...

Today was our Tuesday 2pm Eastern Zoom call. It was another round-table discussion that focused mostly on Artificial Intelligence. Last week's assignment to have AI develop a comedy roast about us was a total hoot, and we talked about that for a while.Then we focused on what this week's assignmen...