this morning I received an email from the David Suzuki Foundation about Healing Forests…
forests are one of my favourite places and I had already been thinking of Cathedral Grove and the banyan tree in Lahaina on Maui…
as a matter of fact I chose a tree mug for my tea…
for years I have walked through a portion of the forest at Assiniboine Park on my way to the English Gardens…
after making a donation to the Healing Forests, I came across an IG Live as they were broadcasting a ceremony from The Bay where it was transferred to the Southern Chiefs Organization…
the project looks amazing and is supported by all levels of government…
I have always found forests, whatever their size, to be restorative and healing, so these two things that came to me on Earth Day made me very happy…
a while ago I gathered all my donation documents and printed them so I would have them ready to go with my tax documentation…
then I got a notice reminding me I could upload everything to their portal…
after that I had to consult with my computer geek to sort out where scans went once they made it past the printer, lol… he even put a link on my desktop so I would be able to find them, lol…
I scanned and named all of the pieces of information… at last I got everything uploaded and then waited…
before long I heard back by email that there were documents for me to review…
once I’d reviewed, signed and scanned them, I uploaded them to the portal…
and before you know it my taxes had been submitted…
always makes me think of how tax time was so stressful for my beloved and how much easier it is now to get them done…
this morning I watched a couple of bunnies on the deck looking for something to eat, so I tossed out a few carrots that I broke up for them…
I checked back a bit later and discovered one enjoying the treat…
reminded me of the bunny in the den… it is one of those Build-A-Bear animals that the boys and I had made when my beloved had his heart surgery…
the staff in the cardiology unit had recommended a pillow for him to hold against his chest when he coughed and we thought the bunny would be great… it worked well and he liked it;-)…
it wears scrubs, although a few pieces of the clothing have gone missing, lol…
it is a sweet reminder of a difficult, but special, time…
over the last week more and more of my Google Home products have gone offline…
at first it was 2 tp- link plugs, then a switch, then more of the plugs and finally my Geeni cameras… made me crazy…
and then the printer stopped because it couldn’t find the wifi…
my grandson got the printer going… yay…
the suggestion was that I should delete and then add all of the products back in… I did not want to do that… my plan was to call my provider to see if there was an issue with my internet…
was waiting for another call so didn’t get around to contacting the provider…
just for fun, I went in and turned off my wifi and then turned it back on…
getting ready for bed, I went to turn one of the plugs off manually only to discover that its light was blue, not the orange that meant it wasn’t connected…
I downloaded an app the other day, rather excited as it was supposed to copy old slides into electronic versions…
I found the slides I had put aside and followed the instructions and it made six great photos…
then, it advised I needed to buy the program to be able to save the photos… very disappointing… it is frustrating when the apps aren’t clear that you need to pay a certain amount to use them… with only a few slides paying $8 a month seemed a little excessive, lol…
it was fun to see the photos, even if only for a few minutes…
I’ve been having trouble with my PVR for a few weeks…
it has been telling me that it was full and would delete things I hadn’t seen…
this has happened before and it had been difficult to get the problem sorted out so I wasn’t looking forward to calling them…
I waited until the Olympics were over because I didn’t want any problems while they were on… so that meant that every day I would have to stay up until I finished watching anything saved… made for some long nights…
I was pleasantly surprised with how well the interaction went… took about half an hour to get the process completed… the person on the phone was able to do most of the work from a distance, with me pushing a few buttons at my end…
so happy it is fixed… we will see if it does it again, lol…
got up at 5:30 am to watch the Olympics closing ceremony…
while I was cozied up in the bed, I could hear the furnace turn on and then off, and on and off, and on and off… I knew immediately what the issue was…
for the last three days we have been under a blizzard warning… I hadn’t thought that much snow had fallen, but I was wrong…
put on leggings, socks and my outer gear and went out the front door with a shovel and a straightened coat hanger… over the last years I have learned how to clean out the vents and be sure there is no snow inside them…
the snow was knee-deep in many places and I didn’t shovel, I just climbed through…
the vents weren’t visible except for a small hole where the exhaust vent was still blowing out air… the intake was under about eight inches of snow…
only took about ten minutes to dig them out… the snow was tossed into the middle of the driveway because there isn’t anywhere else to put it… did a quick swipe with the hanger and headed back in…
once I was in the house I could hear the furnace working… yay…
climbed back under the covers and watched the rest of the show, although about half an hour later my legs started to feel cold…
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