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harbinger…

31 Sunday Dec 2023

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on Thursday the blue screen of death showed up on the laptop…

apparently on Monday, when the camera kept failing during our video call, it was a harbinger of the computer’s end of life…

I spent quite a bit of time on Friday morning searching for the sales slip from January 2nd, 2020, when I purchased it in Ottawa, without success… I did find the record in my credit card statements, but after contacting Best Buy, discovered there was no extended warranty…

did some research and went to Best Buy… had a plan to purchase the same computer, but an updated version…

in the end I found a slightly higher quality machine and was happy they actually had it in the store… after consulting with my two computer geeks, brought it home and we spent time in the afternoon getting it filled with all “the stuff” I need…

the old machine fit beautifully into the box the new one came in, and will take a trip to my son-in-law to see if he is able to save anything on it…

I had some fun in the evening doing some personalization and making it my own, lol…

it will be interesting to see what I forgot I needed, lol…

devoted…

21 Saturday Oct 2023

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my grandson has got me devoted to Formula 1 car racing…

a few years back, he used my car to drive to a race in Montreal…

often the races are rather early in the day, so sometimes I end up needing a nap on race day…

today I watched a few hours of cars shooting around a racetrack in Austin, Texas…

I am learning more of the nuances during each race and have been having a good time getting questions answered by my own expert, lol…

I think that my beloved would have enjoyed it as well;-)…

categories…

09 Wednesday Aug 2023

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had some fun the other evening when I watched a webinar on Mylio… it was a beautiful evening so I watched it on the deck…

I had tried the free version, and eventually bought the better one as I have so many pictures on my various pieces of technology…

one of the things it does is combine all your photos and remove duplicates… still working on that one, lol…

it also puts them in a calendar which can make finding them simpler than having to search through a bunch, guessing when the one you want may have been taken…

the photographer on the webinar mentioned that he no longer uses categories, because the program can find basically anything you ask for…

made me think I need to get back in there and play with it more;-)…

raspberries…

15 Saturday Jul 2023

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on Thursday we made waffles…

we had to get milk, raspberries, and whipping cream… although, not being clear, I was presented with a can of already whipped cream, lol… we chose raspberries instead of strawberries, as they are both of our favourites…

the recipe calls for separating the eggs, beating them, and folding the whites in at the end…

the most complicated piece was figuring out which bowls to use…

they came out great and we even froze a few to try reheating in the toaster…

next up will be grilled cheese;-)…

waffles…

23 Friday Jun 2023

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came by a waffle maker not long ago and we decided to bring it with us to the lake and try making some…

this particular one had no instructions, so we went on YouTube to figure out the process…

not sure why, but I’ve never had, or made, homemade waffles, so it was a fun learning experience… a friend sent me their favourite recipe, which I printed off before leaving home… what I didn’t do was actually read the recipe, lol… so, we went to the store here to pick up a few of the necessary ingredients, like regular milk and baking powder, but we couldn’t find cake flour, so made do with plain…

it was fun searching the kitchen to find the items we needed for the process…

once everything was gathered, it didn’t take long to produce some rather tasty waffles.. we had fresh strawberries and also picked up whipping cream…

delicious and fun, although it does take a while to make them, lol…

a great experiment, and maybe supper will be chicken and waffles…

already thinking about other things that it might make;-)…

gadget…

27 Thursday Apr 2023

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we got a new kitchen gadget recently…

its purpose is to make a circular fried egg…

it is going to take a while to figure out how best to use it, but these came out not too bad…

I tend not to order a one-use item, but maybe we can figure out something else to use it for, lol… any ideas;-)…

rime…

07 Saturday Jan 2023

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the trees have been stunningly beautiful over the last while…

quite a bit of that time the sky was gray so even though it was lovely, it didn’t make for any great photos…

the last few days the sun has been shining brightly…

this frost appears to be rime frost…

from Weather Lab:

“With rime, the moisture comes from freezing fog water droplets that turn directly from a liquid state to a solid state, or through direct freezing. On the other hand, hoar frost occurs on a clear, cold night where water vapor sublimates: transitioning immediately from a gaseous state to a solid state.” Jan 5, 2021

we have certainly had a lot of fog recently…

shim…

14 Sunday Aug 2022

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moved the backyard wifi camera down a bit… also put a shim in so that it points down a touch more…

now it gets a little more of the area in front of the pond… may see critters as they wander past the pond, lol…

getting quite handy with the drill… no trouble to remember how to have it reverse when taking out the screw;-)…

what a pro…

hover…

25 Monday Jul 2022

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what a treat it was to watch a new batch of baby house sparrows test out their wings…

they kind of hover when they are trying to figure out where they want to land…

and they don’t really understand that a person might not be safe to land close to…

once they’ve finally found a spot, they sit there and call mom or dad to come and feed them… I finally got a photo of the feeding, although it is a little fuzzy, lol…

so cute to watch…