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Garden Afterglow
Busy day! I bought a new laptop. Replacing the previous ancient one. It might have been eight years old. Like that one, I got the new one at Micro Center, a warehouse for computer equipment also-known-as my happy place. I purchased a refurbished HP, with 32M of RAM, 1T solid-state disk drive and at 4lbs it is pretty light and still clean of bloatware. This completes the second of my three-step computer modernization program. Last year I did the iPhone, today was the laptop, next up is the desktop. I had been considering using the Micro Center’s porting service, but Microsoft did everything I had wanted done for free. I spent most of the rest of the day setting up the new machine. Meanwhile, Anne got our new high-tech birdfeeder up and running. We set it up in the front yard for better Wi-Fi. We only had the remnants of last year’s bird seed, so tomorrow after gyro we’ll have to buy some more. Later in the afternoon, we went to the gardens and got some exercise. Most of the Garden Glow decorations are still up and we used them to pose for pics and sent them to the kids.
January Thaw
Today, I wished my neighbor Art a Happy New Year. He responded with, “I did not know that the new year fell in May.” That is what the weather feels like, well almost, it is more April’s weather than May’s if you ask me. In addition to eschewing big boy pants in favor of shorts, I took the RAV4 to a Waterway carwash for a much-needed bath. Cleaning away a thousand miles of salt from it. Other projects included going to Menards for some cedar furring strips to repair the lattice beneath the back porch. I have put Anne in charge of preparing our new solar powered birdfeeder that is equipped with a wildlife camera for photographing birds. A gift from Dan and Britt. She has installed the app and is charging the camera’s battery now. It does not hold all that much food, so my bet is that it will run out of seed long before it runs out of juice. Below are a couple of DIY attempts that I made years ago, using a GoPro, also from Jay.
One Is Not Like the Others
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Incoming!
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Arboreal Activities
Last May, while we were still in California, a tornado struck Saint Louis. Its path came to within a quarter mile of our home. While initially it appeared that little damage had occurred to our house, further investigation discovered that one of our few remaining trees had lost a branch. A hanger was left suspended up high in this elm.
Earlier this week, Anne was sitting on the couch, when she heard the distinct who-cooks-for-you call of a Barred owl. Venturing outdoors, we determined that the calling owl was perched in our next-door neighbor’s Redbud. We haven’t heard it since, but hopefully it will return.
