In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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Did you ever try that monitor yet, Brenda?
I've been mostly working on some finishing touches after getting a nice huge external hard drive to make double backups of everything that is important to me and work I've done in the past. It's kind of insane how cheap those things are getting for the amount of storage you these days. Still... more than I really care to spend right now, but a lot of my work is HUGE in file size and having at least two backups of everything with even 3 or 4 of the smaller mostly text based and coding/scripting work is going to be one less thing constantly nagging at the back of my noggin.
I managed to scrounge up an old 2GB SD card for an old defunct smart phone and it's now the best MP3 player I've ever had for when I'm doing work around the house. Even found a 2nd one to put more music on if I can find more of my old music or see if my brother still has copies of all of that. Another 16GB drive was repurposed for my tablet that I take all the photos and videos of my work with, doubling it's storage. I verified that my car radio will take up to 32GB on thumb drives, so now all I have to do is buy one of those new super low profile 1/4" nub drives so I can plug it in and not worry about accidentally smacking it while I'm driving. The radio is so cheap compared to my old one that I think the drive would survive and it would be the radio that broke if that happened.
I've still got to back up all of the notes I've written over the last few years that I feel are still important. I know that in two of those I have gutter lengths that I'll need and I'm hoping that my memory serves me right and that I got the same lengths when I measured with a friend a few years after I measured them alone the first time.
I also managed to get a distributor to mail us new parts on the scooter my brother got a few months back that broke. I had his back 100% on getting that and was ready to argue with my dad about it if he said no. It turned out he didn't, but he basically said he was washing his hands of any responsibility and didn't think it was a good idea. That first day he drove it to WalMart and back he called me up and said it was the first time in his life that he really felt independent and I knew I made the right decision.
Until it broke...
I know my dad wouldn't say it, but he felt a little bit of justification there. And, true to his word, he put the replacement duties on me. (This is very unlike him, since he is excellent getting things done for my brother otherwise).
So I was left with a 100% made in China unit with what I thought would be a dodgy retailer in the US selling through another online outfit that explicitly stated not to deal with them and to contact the distributor directly.
To my surprise and my delight, not only was the process of trying to explain which parts were broke without any catalog giving us any part numbers (using pictures I had my brother take), but the replacement parts are already in the mail.
Next time I'm going down with my dad to install it myself. My dad is still leery of The Coomph, so we won't be staying overnight (which would in any other case be a deal breaker for me because it means about 10 hours of driving in a car in one day), but this is important enough to me that I'm not going to put it off until an overnight visit happens again.
I found a leak in my roof last night. I caught it after the rain, and I don't think it was much because even though the wood below it was wet the pipe entry where it must have come in was dry as was the pipe itself. I've got a bucket under it now and I'm going to have to monitor it the next time we have a heavy rain to figure where it's coming from. That roof is scary and I want to know exactly where I'm going when I go up there to seal it in.
Maybe I better just knock down all the drywall up there and finally figure out what is going on behind the scenes once and for all. It&
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Cancer?Yes, I imagine that culd occupy her thoughts.
I hope herhusband's treatment is successful and that he does well.
In the meantime, I hope that she DOES pass along her Mah Jong duties tothe next person in line.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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Yes, she told me on the phone a week ago or so. She was checking on me then and I just happened to see her and her young granddaughter out today.
I don't know. On the phone she said it was in his spine and effected one leg. He's had surgery for it and radiation on his spine. Now, he is taking the chemo pills. So its a matter of wait and see. She said he's a little stronger now than he was. He has a walker with 2 wheels, I would imagine he is walking the halls of their apartment building which would be good for him. He's over the age of 70 that much I know also.
I hope so too. Which is why I am wondering about taking a wander over to the centre or emailing or phoning them.
Believe me looking after someone with cancer is not an easy thing. You have a lot to juggle with keeping all their appointments in line and meds.
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Did you ever try that monitor yet, Brenda?
Do Right, Be Right. :)
No, I haven't Jack. Wanted to wait till I was out of pain which I now am. So maybe over the rest of this week I will. I've been staring at it and thinking on it.
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Glad you're feeling better.
No hurry. Whenever you get to it. 
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Glad you're feeling better.
No hurry. Whenever you get to it.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Me too. It's nice to be able to move and bend down without pain.
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Also my brother left a message on FB today. The lady that hit him last year is now getting to experience the BC justice system. His hit and run case in the courts.
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Need sleep.
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Well, while I was out I went to my local senior's centre to see what is happening. The lady at the desk said they are closed officially until October and then they will see.
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Oh the last few days have been busy busy busy!
I managed to get out my usual three bins of greenwaste out to the curb, altho this was an "easy" three bins because two of them were from the five lima bean towers that were so tangled that I took them down. I had let them run rampant for three years, they were SO overgrown that all of the leaves except outermost ones had died and gotten black mold for lack of sun, and they had rambled all over the climbing roses and the brick wall. Plus it was SO huge it was impossible to harvest. I never expected them to be so robust! I did leave one lima bean tower, severely cut back, with the idea that it will produce more beans for planting next year.
DD and I (mostly "I") have been steadily working on the pollinator garden; it has been spaded and raked smooth and is ready for planting. Once that is done, I REALLY need to turn my attention to the front yard!
We mounted the benchtop on the brackets, and dug ut all of the electrical supplies that had gotten scattered around because the next step is to wire outlets back in.
In the meantime, we've been inundated with zucchini. I think we'll be eating zucchini nearly every day of the week for the summer.
My first attempt at something other than plain zucchini was something like "zucchini parmesan" - we had a couple of really big zucchini that I cut into about 1/3" lengthwise slices, nuked 'em in the microwave until they got soft, them dipped them in eggwash (egg, flour, parmesan, salt, garlic powder) and dredged them in a flour/parmesan mix, pan sauteed until gold brown, then topped with cooked ground turkey and mozarella.
Now, you could go two ways with that: cooked ground turkey, tomato, basil, and oregano; or the alfredo way. I'm allergic to tomatoes and DD doesn't like them, so I just stirred a packet of commercial Alfredo sauce powder into the cooked ground turkey, and then topped that with mozarella.
I really can't taste anything, but I think it came out OK because the family liked it.
For the next few recipes I'm going to try zucchini "noodles": one day stir-fried with red pepper and basil and fish sauce; the other day stir-fried with Caesar dressing-marinated beef and onions, with a Greek-style salad on the side.
Family is certain they will "never" get tired of zucchini.
HA!
I can't taste them, but I'm already tired of them!
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
#WEARAMASK
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