This is a biggie, and I need everyone to help! I have added a new menu item at the top of the page for Home Movies. In there you will find all the home movies that we converted and had playing at my parent's 50th anniversary party. What I need your help with is labeling each of the movies. Most of them are way before my time. I have a little information about some of them, but if you could watch them, and leave a comment with your thoughts and memories for each of them, it would be fantastic. That way we can capture all these memories into one location to share with everyone.
I have already put a couple of movies online, and the rest should be there in a day or so. I believe there are something like 41 films that we converted. In order to make sure they stream well from the web page, I have had to reduce the quality a little. Hopefully after I get some more information about each film, I can get them into some kind of logical order, and make a DVD out of them. But that will take some time. For now, I hope you enjoy them on the webpage.
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I hope everyone had a good Easter! We spent the weekend up at the lake, and got a bit more tile done... with a little help. I think the last update I put on the site was that we were getting a new tub for the downstairs bathroom. So the tile down there is on hold until the tub comes in. Well actually, until the tub comes in again. The first one was damaged. So in the mean time we have been working on the mud room, and this weekend we did the upstairs bathroom. Here are a couple of before and after shots of the upstairs bathroom. I just need to get the trim back up, and maybe get a fresh coat of paint on the walls now.


There are plenty of more pictures in the Gallery. Just go to the "Our Projects" album, then to the "Tiling at the Lake" album. It's coming along pretty well. The new tub is in, so we will pick it up tonight, and hopefully make some progress on the downstairs bathroom. After that it's just the sunroom left.

Here's a couple of pictures of the mud room, and me "enjoying" the damaged tub before we returned it.

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Lets see if I can make things a little easier to navigate around here. I have added a new feature to the site that should make it a little easier to get to specific albums in the Gallery. I have added some redirects so that some of the most popular albums can be accessed with simple URLs. For example if you want to get to the Baby Tess Album you can type in Pollacek.com/Tess in your web browsers address bar. I have set up a bunch, and if you have any suggestions for others that would be convenient, please let me know. here is a list of what I have so far.

The main Gallery page - pollacek.com/gallery
Baby Tess Album - pollacek.com/Tess
The Family Album - pollacek.com/family
The Lake Album - pollacek.com/camp
Our Projects Album - pollacek.com/projects
The Road Trips Album - pollacek.com/roadtrips
TessyCam - pollacek.com/tessycam
TupperCam - pollacek.com/tuppercam

All of these work as either pollacek.com or nwi-tech.com. Hopefully they will be useful. The menu will always be at the top so you can get to different sections of the website that way also.
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I know I haven't posted about Baby Tess in a while, but there are some new pictures from Denise, and now some new pictures that we took when we stopped by on March 5th. I am usually better about getting pictures off our camera and onto the website. but it has been a crazy couple of weeks. I'll try to get new stuff up sooner, but remember to keep checking in the Gallery since I often upload pictures, but don't post a new article on the front page. The Baby Tess Album is in the Family Album. Just click the Gallery button at the top of the page, or any of the links in this article to get started.




The piggy picture (toes) is for you Nickie. Brenda thought that would make you smile.
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