It may have nothing to do with the dogs escaping from our yard. But Maggie, the bigger one, has been feeling ill. She’s lethargic, makes strange sounds, almost like snoring, when she breathes. and has some swelling in her throat. We took her to the vet where she got a thorough exam. It included blood … More And Now She’s Not Well
We have had dogs for years. When our current pair were younger we put a home made fence around the yard, Maggie, the older dog, soon found a gap under the fencing and crawled through to go exploring. We tried to block the places she found to go through, but with little success. Finally, we … More Escape From [Alcatraz] Al-Dog-Traz
Being under house arrest has limitations. Essentially, as a retiree in the section of the population considered at high risk. that is my situation. But even prisoners need some kind of exercise. There are both physical and mental challenges to help keep us in shape. I regularly find myself doing sudoku puzzles and mini crosswords, … More Corona Exercise
One of the ways we avoid extensive contact with the outside world is by ordering our groceries for home delivery. We have two places we order from. One is our local small food store. We order from them by phone, and they deliver it almost immediately. The other is a large chain store supermarket that … More On-Line Groceries
My wife took out the vacuum cleaner to clean our living room rug this morning. We have a Shark brand cleaner. It says it never loses suction or power. But that wasn’t her experience today. She could see the machine was not picking up anything from the rug. The built in container for dirt is … More Dog Hair! Yucchh!
My children all got together and bought me a special present for my last birthday, a 3D printer. Of course I had to make room to place it next to my computer. We bought another small table. I assembled the table and put it in between the old computer table and a little book case. … More A New Toy
I was planning on writing this installment about the COVID-19 crisis last Thursday. I never got to do it. Thursday afternoon we noticed that there seemed to be a backup from our sewage line into the main bathroom. The bathmat that covered the safety drain line was very wet. My wife put it on the … More Corona – Home Emergency
About 20 years ago the Maytag Washing machine that we brought from the US broke down for good. I had repaired it twice myself (no big deal, just replacing the rubber belt that turned the drum) and we had it fixed once outside home (welding the belt wheel to the drum drive when the screw … More Our Maytag died
Before I retired I worked with computers. I had several jobs ranging from being a simple (or not so simple) programmer through being a project manager and finally a systems manager.Working with computers is not something strange to me. But I must confess that since I retired I have not really written any programs of … More Welcome Back to Hi-Tech
Whenever it is possible we like to have at least one evening a year when we take all our children, their spouses, and the older grandchildren out to a good local restaurant. Of course, an 80th birthday is a great excuse for when to do such thing. We knew our younger daughter would be in … More 80th Birthday – Part 2
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