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.

 

Weekly Musings of the 29th

 Good Morning Friends and Family.  Another week in the rearview mirror again.  We shook up our routine this spring so we got to do a couple of things that had slipped away.  Monday we kept as our home puttering especially on this new computer.  There are so many things that come along and need to be worked out but I am having a lot of fun with it all.  

Hubby and I decided to finally get to work on our photos that we had been meaning to get to... well... since we moved here when I retired.  Especially the cleaning out of pictures, we all know we don't need 30 pictures of a kid wearing the same outfit just with different expressions.  Picking the best one and dumping the rest.  I got some kids pared down from 800 pictures to nearly 100 and who knows that might go lower in the end.  Every person involved in our family photos has a copy of every picture so we don't need to keep them all just in case and if we are no longer looking through them as the file is too big why bother.  Older pictures are in old blog posts with explanations or stories so they have been sorted from when mom past, no need to keep those of people neither of us know who they are either.  So, that is kind of ongoing.  

Tuesday had a light grocery list because among shaking up my ocd routine was to let go of meal planning and letting hubby suggest too, doing it together.  Making a list of what we are out of but allowing spontaneous choices too.  Wednesday off to Tim Hortons, a place we stopped going to years ago, not because we didn't care for it but because it was easier not to go.  I think that is how people slowly get stuck at home, not because of anything physical but because it is easier not to.  I know we have to stop that because it is so easy to slip into 'can't be bothered' and then years slip by with nothing done.

 Our town has a farmer's market every Thursday and when we first moved here we went only a couple of times but then house chores took over and we didn't get there anymore, it as before became easier not to go. 

https://simcoefarmersmarket.com/

What an eye-opener I had.  As I walked through the market so many things had changed and even got better.  It has been in the building close to the street before and that was tight and kinda dark but now it is under the grandstand with more open air stalls too.  We wandered around taking everything in and making future plans to come back here each week. 

Odd errands on Friday as it fell that way and house chores for Saturday when I am not a fan of doing any shopping then anyway.  

Another funny story about that when we first moved here no one did their laundry on Thursday so we decided that was the best day.  People began thinking so too and especially one lady who loved to use all the machines even if it meant putting a handful of clothes in each machine.   So, Saturday I found was very quiet and Thursday seemed like everyone wanted to do their wash, that was when we decided it was time to change up the days for this kind of thing.  It was quiet when I went down and used the machines.  When I came back to pick up my dry.. who was there... filling up all three machines????  You guessed it, there was her smiling face with her full basket loading up.  I swear I am not changing again for awhile.  How she knew we were doing laundry on Saturday I will never know but we shall see.  - LOL

Remember this.  I saw this and thought.  Funny how the youngers think we were so bad at filling the dumps and yet.  We had 25 year warranties on our appliances and they still lasted longer than that and we had repairmen who came to fix them.  Now these smart ones break and you have to toss them and get a new one and no one expects them to last beyond 10 probably less.  That includes the televisions that may be flat and hang on one's wall but when they break, you can't get them fixed all you are told is to toss them and get a new one.  

They did work forever.

Well, that is this week and I wish everyone a lovely weekend whatever you get up to, especially if you are Pootling.  

P.S. Found that spice blend at Wal-Mart here in our town that Paula mentioned.  Thanks Paula it is really good!