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obelisk…

26 Friday Mar 2021

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my grandson arrived yesterday morning after picking up a number of things for me…

he brought me a bunch of solar globes, a new squirrel-proof feeder, a kneeler for the garden, stamps, seeds, a new plate and a few groceries…

I am thrilled about the solar globes as I’ve been searching for them since last summer;-)…

he also moved a big planter and my hammock chair so that I can clean up the back deck…

the obelisk I ordered will go into the large planter on the deck… as soon as I put it together, lol…

router…

22 Monday Mar 2021

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those big girl pants are fitting more comfortably all the time…

yesterday, in the early evening, the power went out… it was still light so I sat in the quiet and finished a book… then I went in search of flashlights and candles in case I needed them… found both and had them set out in each room so I would be ready when it got dark…

after about forty-five minutes the power came back on… Google turned all the lights on and the fish tank pump started burbling…

I turned on the tv which came on and after a few seconds would say the connection was lost… same thing for the one upstairs…

I decided to go to bed and see if it was more cooperative in the morning… unfortunately it wasn’t…

so instead of freaking out and calling my son-in-law, I went down to the router, turned it off, once I figured out which plug to use, and waited… plugged it back in, and waited…

and then turned on the tv which was now perfectly happy…

I also put a label on the plug for the next time this happens…

way to go me;-)…

instructions…

18 Thursday Mar 2021

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I gathering all the documents to send off to my accountant… this always reminds me of my beloved who really disliked dealing with income taxes…

I am very careful to put all of the pieces into a tax folder throughout the year so that it isn’t too hard to produce what is required, although a number of donation receipts weren’t ready as I had an issue with my printer…. it did take a bit of extra time to gather those up, lol…

had it all done last week, but then received an email with slightly different instructions… so I had to take everything out and remove items and add others, lol…

this first year of retirement there were a lot more T-things to collect… amazingly they were able to download all of those, so I didn’t need to include them in the envelope…

but then, off it went… glad to have that done…

just found out that my finance guy got the numbers right to keep me in the correct tax bracket and I will be getting a refund…

yay…

container…

13 Saturday Mar 2021

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got another batch of reusable tissues and had fun figuring out how to best set them out…

found a small Kleenex box, opened one end, folded the tissues over one another, placed them in the box, used double sided tape to close it, and popped the first one out;-)…

works perfectly…

then I dug out a small container to put the used ones into until they get washed;-)…

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01 Monday Mar 2021

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I am getting more comfortable with the cleaners coming into the house…

my technique is to decide where I will hide while they are cleaning… I don’t emerge until they have left the house, lol…

today, I spent the time in the computer room and shredded a ton of documents… had to empty the shredder at least three times…

felt quite productive…

tools…

28 Sunday Feb 2021

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my grandson came over to shovel today… and pick up a few woodworking tools for his online woods class…

just before he arrived I watched a couple of bunnies eating on the deck…

it was much easier to clean up the snow as it was fairly fresh… the last time it was a few weeks before he was able to get here, mainly due to the crazy cold we went through…

today, he was dropped off and wasn’t picked up for a few hours, so after he finished shovelling, he came inside and we had a visit… we sat as far as possible from one another in the living room and both wore masks…

I learned about his classes and what he has been up to, as well as how he is planning to make money in the future…

we talked about how he will go about taking drivers Ed in these strange times, and it is hard to believe that he will be driving this summer;-)…

it was lovely to spend time with him, even just sitting playing on our phones, lol…

he was picked up, the tools were gathered into the vehicle, and off they went…

looking forward to seeing what he makes…

lightstrip…

27 Saturday Feb 2021

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busy day yesterday…

in the morning I attached the Philip’s lightstrip that I got for Christmas from my grandsons… I had played with it a bit the day before…

I am pleased with how it turned out…

moved around more plants and made a meal that needs to sit for a day…

after that I finished with making a dozen cards from the watercolour painting I’ve been doing…

felt very accomplished, lol…

smoke…

30 Saturday Jan 2021

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months ago the Nest smoke detector on the ceiling upstairs stopped connecting to the wifi because the password changed and I couldn’t figure out how to reset it…

a few weeks ago I decided to delete it from my app and add it again so that I could get the correct password installed…

after I deleted it, and tried to add it back, I discovered that I needed the bar code or serial number… I was so excited that I had the box it came in… but, no serial number… it was located on the back of the detector… so, I just left it alone…

while the ladder was in the house I took it upstairs, removed the detector from the ceiling, found the code, added it to the app, and got it up and connected again… then attached it back to the ceiling and took the ladder back to the garage…

glad I thought of it while the ladder was still in the house…

printer…

20 Wednesday Jan 2021

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the printer works, the printer works…

this, after over an hour on the phone with my son-in-law as he climbed into my desktop and laptop to sort out the issue…

this new printer leaves the paper tray open about two inches… the strangest thing I have seen…

but it prints perfectly using the laptop and the iPhone… still not so happy when the main computer gives the order… we may have to delete the driver and reinstall, but it will do for now…

finally…

reader…

04 Monday Jan 2021

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I’ve been frustrated for a long time because I couldn’t find my Kobo reader… I think I started the search around May…

I came across it ages before that and put it away carefully, sigh… at that point I also had no idea where the charger was for it…

so, I knew it was here, and I’d been searching everywhere for it, particularly after my daughter suggested that one of the universal chargers would likely power it up…

I’ve been using the tablet, but that only works in the house due to the way that the light bounces off it outside… so that meant I needed paper books all summer, lol… I still have one last book from my last online summer purchases…

this morning I was tidying in the bedroom and there it was tucked in along the edge of one of the shelves…

honestly…

and I even found a charger that worked, from my old Blackberry, lol…

woohoo… gonna get reading;-)…