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.