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!

       

Weekly Musings of the 22nd

 

Hello family and friends!  Here we are at another week's end.  Just a few things this week but one that is kinda fun.  Of course, Monday was Victoria Day so we stuck around home although I did walk over to attend the morning Mass.  I like to do that when the time is changed to 10, I can make that time but anything earlier is pretty tough - LOL.  

So, Tuesday became errand morning and a pretty fine was it was although there is a funny tale about it.  I got the notice that my prescription was ready and as I was making my grocery list I wondered if I should write it down to pick it up as the pharmacy we use now is at the grocery store and an easy stop by.  Silly me said, nah I don't need to do that, I will remember.  Famous last words.

We did all the groceries, paid for them and as we loaded them in the car, I remembered the prescription and that I totally forgot about it.  Hubby stayed at the car as I dashed back into the store and hurried to the other side of the huge store to pick up my order.  Should have known better... always write things down.  The good thing was at least I remembered while we were still at the store and not all the way home.  

One thing we do as a couple since we are both so tough to buy for at anniversaries, birthdays and Christmas is pick a large ticket home item and that is our present to each other.  Sometimes the idea comes early in the year to us and other times it is later in the year.  This time it came early when once more our 2013 vista computer couldn't do one more thing.  The poor old thing has really done well and given it's all and we cannot say that we haven't gotten our full money's worth from it.  So our anniversary/birthday/Christmas gift this year was to get a new computer.  We went to the nearby Staples so I could show hubby what kind I really liked and it turned out it was on sale for one more day.  Well... we got it. 

Setup was easy and I am slowly working on it being more easy for the two of us to work on it.  Remember when you bought a computer and it had to go in the back for a couple of weeks while they set everything up?  Then you would come back to pick it up and could only then plug it in and use it?  Sometimes a guy had to come over to wire it into the internet and do the set up because  you couldn't possibly figure it out? Now you take it right away, it finds your internet and walks you through set up.  I do like Windows 11 for home, it is a lot more user friendly than Windows 10 (on hubby's laptop) ever was.  Our old faithful computer has now moved to hubby's room where he uses it for music, games and minor internet stuff.  Since his laptop became such a pain in the butt, we cleared it up and are recycling it and this one will take it's place.  At least until it will no longer turn on which could be years down the road considering how long it has lasted so far.  

The old vista one could not be used on many secure websites as they would block old programs as unsafe.  Now we can go to those sites once more, the store clerk said that banks would be doing the same soon and old vista wouldn't be able to go there either.  

So, that was the rest of the week tweaking and setting up and adjusting things.  Hubby did the same in his room so it would be easier for him as well.  He loves the new set up and I am loving the new computer.  

Reading-wise with all the computer set up I only got to one book.  It is the second one of the series.

These were a Bookbud deal and so worth getting.  It is a good read, I don't think I would have picked them up if not for Bookbud but for that price they are worth it.  

These are set during the time of St. Paul's travels and the people he met and spoke to.  How their lives were changed and what the times were like then.  

And that was our week that was, today we are off to the reserve for the monthly fill up and I am hoping that it hasn't gotten silly busy after the local news just had to do a story of the savings of filling up at the reserve.  Anyway, a few errands and then back to puttering here once more. 

 Have yourself a lovely weekend and new week ahead.