Weekly Musings of the 19th

 So another week, a rainy one with lots of thunder in the distance but the week still flew by.  I did finish up the photos although hubby has a few more to go through.  I tease him that it is because he is older than I am and that is why he has more pictures than me.  Not that I had been working on them longer and adding them to a history of our family blog.  Nope, he is older and that is why - LOL.

We did take a drive to the reserve for our monthly errands.  We actually didn't need to fill the car but we topped it up anyway while we were there.  

We spent the rest of the week pretty quiet and enjoying the cooler temperatures at night.  I really never mind it being hot during the day just as long as it goes below 20C at night so I can have the window open.  

Reading the 2nd book of Anna's story. 

Really a very good read and I actually cannot wait to get to the third book, there are four in this series and each one a treasure.  

I also dropped two of our streaming channels for at least the summer since all the shows we watch are done for the season so down to keeping Prime and Crave/TSN.  Of course there are those free ones such as Pluto and Tubi (which I love to call Tubby - LOL) Our parish also pays for a Catholic streaming service which everyone of the parish can have for free called Formed.  I haven't gotten into that one yet but looking through the basic of it, there are some good shows and documentaries to watch, which I hope to get to this summer.  I kind of wonder if I really will pick up those dropped channels when the seasons start up again in the fall as although there are shows that we like I have gotten to the point that I really no longer mind either way if I watch them or not.  With the services we have we always find something interesting to watch so why not keep going with new things.  Anyway we shall see.  As I get older I do find it easier to let things go that I thought were necessary or important are not so much really.

It was like when I looked at old Amazon orders from before I retired and saw the kinds of books I bought.  What a waste most of them were (the diet ones I mean and there were a lot of those) I would probably have a nice nest egg had I saved the money that I spend on those silly books.  Oh well, lessons have to be learned in the seasons of life one is in.  

Well, that is it for me this week, quiet as it was.  I hope you had a nice week too and have a lovely weekend.

I am actually okay not living in the woods or talking much to squirrels but I just love the expression on her face.  

  

Weekly Musings of the 12th

Good Morning Friends and Family.  Another week in the bag again.  Hope you had fun from time to time during it.  

Heat and humidity made us both realize that it was time to put the A/C in the window for another season.  A little later than last year which is nice.  This time we remembered to pick up a little plastic placemat to put on the top to help the water pouring off the unit above us not go into our continually.  Theirs has run into ours's every summer since we had it and we find a placemat solves that problem without telling them that their unit is a pain to others.  You could fill a bucket with the water that pours out of it each day.  

Tuesday I got the call that my hearing aids were back and I could come in for them the next day and all would be back to normal.  No more headphones for which I am really happy.  When I went in and we chatted I found out that the company fixes nothing, they just replace them.  What a waste and then we got to talking about how on one hand we are suppose to care how much we throw away and yet no appliance or tv today has a repair person that can come out to fix it, everything to fix cost more to fix and less to throw away (hopefully recycle) and buy another new one.  It is the same with hearing aids.  

The feedback thing is kinda there again but I looked things up on the computer and found that feedback can happen if the aids are not far enough in and mic, speaker and output are too close.  So, it might be my placement that causes it to be louder but we shall see in time.  So far that is working.

Tigger said it was too hot and so we got busy getting the air in the window.  The cart we got last year sure made a difference in hubby not having to carry the silly thing far.  First night we found out that although we have it shut off upstairs doesn't shut theirs off and ours was not angled right to prevent the water coming in and getting our curtains wet.  The rain didn't help either.  So, it was necessary to pull it back out and reset it at the proper angle.  

As to the photo purge we are still working our way through them.  I worked with the idea to keep only those photos that we took that I love and with that in mind, purging doubles and the many shots of the same scene meant thousands of photos went into the recycle.  My family was huge at taking photos after church in the driveway with everyone facing the sun and trying not to squint.   Now one or two of those kind of pictures or those with other family, one or two are fine but the hundreds I had, I dumped those.  Most old family pictures are in the blogs that I wrote and have stories about them, don't need the photos just the writings with those photos in there.  I have to say that after purging I cut my photos from nearly three thousand to under five hundred and those are from the 20s to present day.  I think it is coming along pretty good.  I plan on doing a yearly look and purge at the end of every year to keep the documents (which I hadn't cleared out in nearly 10 years) and photos taken that year to a comfortable amount. 

The books that I got into were this one. 

Which is part of the series of ordinary women of the bible.  This one I was really interested in as I always thought deeply about this scripture, the details around the story and this author was very good in writing a fiction of what could have happened.  Sure it is fiction and the story could have been totally different but still it makes one think that - it could be.   Really good read, very thought provoking.  

The next one after this that I got into was the first of another series.  Bookbud deal which made it a good bargain.

It expands on Joseph of Arimathea who gave his tomb for Jesus's body, that perhaps he had a daughter and that there was this story about her and perhaps the apostle Andrew.  Of course, there is a surety that things didn't happen that way but it brought out some great things to think on.  I can't wait to get to the second book as the first was so good.  Really a good read. 

So, that was the week that was.  All good between photos and hearing aids fixed.  

These always gives me a giggle, probably wouldn't remember to say it but it does give a chuckle.

Have a wonderful weekend ahead.

  
   
 

Weekly Musings of the 5th

Hello June and hello friends and family.  June always starts busy as on the first one grandson turned 4 and on the second our DD the 1st has her birthday too.  Birthday greetings sent all the way around for a couple of days.  After that it is back to normal stuff with our newly added things.  

Hubby finished that kit he found at Wal-Mart or as we call it Wally World.  It looks amazing and everything lights up and moves.  

Isn't that something?  He thinks it is no big deal but I know for a fact that there is no way that I could manage doing that at all.  The Ferris wheel turns and the lights change colour.  

We were back to the farmers market again although I am still feeling a little intimidated by it all.  I am always sure I am missing something or in the wrong place.  I am sure as I go more regular it will get more comfortable.  Could be because it is so people-ly and they all seem to know where they are going and what they are doing.  I know it is probably not true but that is just me.  

Lots of photos have been gone through and getting folders down from 400+ to 75 and moving those to new folders that makes it easier has been good.  BTW that is each folder has over 400 to over 1,000 photos in each and I am trying to cut most down to under 100 or less.  Hubby is working on his the same too.  Over the years there were lots of doubles of things or just a bunch taken of the same thing.  

Oh and at the beginning of the week I had to take in my hearing aids to be adjusted as that high squeal is still happening.  They gave me a loaner pair but these are not hooked up to my phone and I sure miss that advantage, now I have to use headphones again in morning walks and such and I got so spoiled with the hearing aids that I find it a bother.  Can't wait until I get mine back again and hopefully the squeal problem will be gone.  

So, that was our week, quiet and puttering but with fun too.  Just started a new book so I will leave that until next week to cover.  

Don't you just love that word? 

Hope you have a lovely time whatever you get up too.