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25 Friday Feb 2022

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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…

webinars…

23 Wednesday Feb 2022

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gosh, I think my head might be hurting, lol…

I spent time watching three different webinars all on the same day…

the first was a chair yoga session… planning on doing these three days a week…

then I learned some interesting things regarding my website and ways to improve it…

and finally, information on using my iPhone to take better photos…

I enjoyed it all and in the end it was a good day, although my brain may have been slightly overworked, lol…

knee-deep…

20 Sunday Feb 2022

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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…

another example of those big girl pants, lol…

congratulations…

31 Monday Jan 2022

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today WordPress congratulated me on 50,000 views…

that was kind of exciting…

so I dove in and found a few numbers…

as of the end of the year, I had written 3333 posts… there were 3,287 days in that period… basically one post every day… how cool is that…

and I have used 482,698 words…

that works out to around 145 words per post…

interesting information;-)…

unfold…

27 Thursday Jan 2022

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one of the great things about retirement is having the opportunity to watch as things unfold…

like this orchid which has been coming along nicely for a while…

yesterday at 8:48 am it was just starting to unfurl…

and at 1:55 pm it looked like this…

finally it was open at 9:14 am this morning…

and there is another bud;-)…

sweater…

16 Sunday Jan 2022

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had some fun with my bouquet… it is changing… the orchid stalk was removed and now the carnations are getting ready to come out…

used the table from the hot tub, a purple sweater, and the purple wall to get a few shots…

it was fun to gather up the items and set up for the shoot…

and the photos came out quite well…

dimsum…

15 Saturday Jan 2022

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had some very nice dimsum for dinner recently…

I love dimsum but appear to be out of the delivery area for any of the restaurants I like…

not too long ago I found some frozen when I was shopping online at Gimli Fish so I ordered three items…

finally got around to having them… they only took about five minutes in the microwave and were tasty…

going to order those again;-)…

crew…

13 Thursday Jan 2022

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recently watched an interesting Cornell Lab webinar about chickadees and learned something about squirrels…

gray squirrels hide their food – one seed, peanut, or acorn – at a time, with each item in a different place… and they remember where each bit is…

red squirrels hide theirs in one spot…

now it makes more sense to me as to why they scare birds and other squirrels away from any of the feeders as they consider them to be their property, lol…

this little red guy was at it this morning, chasing away the crew of sparrows…

and a bit later, this gray one was sharing the deck happily with the sparrows;-)…

maybe the red one was having a nap, lol…

instant…

07 Friday Jan 2022

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got a text from my grandson advising he would be dropping a few things off for me today… he was supposed to let me know the day before he was coming, lol…

I had promised to make red curry lentils so I got started…

usually I put the uncooked lentils into the sauce to cook slowly as they simmer, but as I wanted to be sure they were cooked in time, I did them separately…

while the sauce and lentils were cooking, I made the rice in the Instant Pot…

felt a little more rushed than normal, but I had everything cooked and in containers in about an hour…

he picked the containers up along with some other treats when he dropped off items he had collected for me;-)…

he also brought a couple of gifts from my younger grandsons… an Indigo gift card and a monopod for my camera;-)…

lovely to get a few late gifts…