What are you doing today?

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MickaC said:
I posted about the Good Friday......40 days after......weather predict in the thread......what’s the weather where you are, this morning.

‘You’re the first person, I’ve read and heard mention this in a very long time.
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It's a beautiful spring day, sunny and warm. The rain is supposed to start in the wee hours of the morning and last all weekend! Go figure...
 

Overnight, I felt like I was coming down with some cold symptoms so I will take some DayQuil and just relax. My granddaughter will also pop over to check on me and she is a RN who works in an Assisted Living facility so I feel comfortable with what she will say. I am just going to rest.
 
Went to see the Maud railway museum this morning. Maud is a small village, but in the glory days of the railways, it had one of the UK's largest cattle markets with the livestock being transported by rail all over the UK. The old station has been preserved by a group of volunteers and houses displays and artefacts about the railways in N.E Scotland. A separate display outlines the history of the RNAS Longside (Lenabo) WW1 airship base.
 
Since tax day is Monday, I will be doing taxes for myself, my husband, and two of my kids. My kids are going to do their own with my supervision. I want to be sure they know what they are doing. My daughter's excuses about being too busy with schoolwork will no longer be effective.

I want to make my vegan son some teriyaki tofu with stir-fried veg and rice tomorrow. But the teriyaki sauce has to be gluten-free, so I'll see if they have it at Walmart (I get groceries delivered from there). He is experimenting with a gluten-free diet for an unknown reason, and it is making these vegan meals a bit more complex.
 
Good News from Urgent Care, they did a rapid Covid and Flu test and they both came back negative. I just have a Viral Upper Respiratory Infection and need to drink a lot of fluids ,rest and take Mucinex and Dayquil/NyQuil and if the symptoms don't worsen it should be gone in a week or so.
 
It's supposed to be unsettled starting this afternoon. I wanted to get the holes in the backyard filled in. The former owners had a swimming pool and when they removed it, the area was just filled with soft sand and I think their dogs (Basset hounds) dug in it. The guy that mowed my lawn last year said the holes were "dog dig". There's a sod farm that leaves bags of their product by the roadside. It's about 2 miles away. I had to make two trips to get enough in my bucket to suffice, then I stomped on it to compact it. It looks liek good rich soil - it's black. Hopefully any rain will help to further compress it and grass will eventually start to grow. No use putting seed there, wild animals will eat it.

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I have no idea what my last post has to do with What are you doing today. It was early and my eyes hadn’t woken up yet.. 😇

Today I got a few small things done early. Golf cart is being charged, had to throw out our real old robot floor sweeper. Just plain worn out. $100 bucks for a new battery..nope. Added $125 and got one coming today from Amazon. This one has blue tooth and can be use by iPhone or Alexa. Now, just goofing off and thinking about lunch.
 
I had a fab day today. The sun was warm 72 deg , with no breeze... went with my friend and her family over to the fishing lakes near here..where there's an activity centre for the kids, angling lakes and golf course for the grown ups, and a restaurant. We were going to have lunch but it was fully booked, even at just before noon... shame because it has a beautiful view over the lakes, but no matter, we had a stroll around and the younger members had a go with archery and Axe throwing.. see my pics on the forum I've just uploaded... here...
https://www.seniorforums.com/threads/my-morning-at-the-lakes-and-activity-centre-pics.70465/

Later I went into town and got a quick snack at the pub ( picture on the link) .. and then did some shopping, bought myself some birthday gifts.. first birthday since O/h left, so I'll be alone tomorrow.. :(...

I got some new blue suede shoes.., and beige strappy sandals .. ( pics on the link)... some gold earrings , a couple of nice tops . Town was extremely busy , the complete opposite to the lakes... I went into the mall on the off chance I might be able to get my nails done, but the nail salon was packed with people waiting as well, so I'll wait until everyone's gone back to work and school next week and get them done then...
 
Today I had a lucky discovery of an electronic recycle and paper-shred day in the local town, so I happily got rid of a bunch of old cell phones, two old desktop towers, an old laptop, external hard drive, keyboard, defunct printer etc. The recycle people said they would destroy the hard drives, so hopefully my identity doesn't get stolen. I'd been watching youtube videos about how to remove and drill through hard drives, and egads I was stuck at the first step 'locate the screws'. So I am very relieved.

It is exhausting trying to go through and get rid of a houseful of stuff, not sure how I'll be ready in time for the open house in three weeks. But it is exhilarating to have an excuse to throw away drawers and cabinets full of things like old socks and old cleaning products.

I have been thinking I would need to buy a chromebook or laptop to use when I start traveling, but at this very moment I am experimenting typing this using an old wireless mini-keyboard with my Kindle Fire. I need to figure out everything I normally do on the computer and see if just the Kindle would be good enough. So far the main problems are the screen is too low to be ergonomic, and the keyboard keeps trying to slide down off my knees. I don't know what to do about documents or if I can use a thumb-drive somehow with a Kindle.
 
Did the grocery thing this morning.
I was not surprised at the empty shelves.......because of our two day storm, and being Good Friday yesterday......stock didn’t get in Wednesday or Friday, people stocked up for the storm.
I buy skim milk.......none.....got 1%, and there were only 5, 1 gallon jugs, and I got 1, that’s all the milk there was.
No yogurt, a lot of dairy empty, sale items that didn’t ‘t come in.
Bananas.....about 9 clusters, I go two, 10 bananas in all.
Many more things not in.
Stock comes in again on Sundays......being Easter Sunday......won’t be any stock.

All the fun in winter, in Manitoba, Canada...........
BUT it’s not winter......calendar says it’s spring.......😕😣☹️🙁😖.
 
HoneyNut said:
Today I had a lucky discovery of an electronic recycle and paper-shred day in the local town, so I happily got rid of a bunch of old cell phones, two old desktop towers, an old laptop, external hard drive, keyboard, defunct printer etc. The recycle people said they would destroy the hard drives, so hopefully my identity doesn't get stolen. I'd been watching youtube videos about how to remove and drill through hard drives, and egads I was stuck at the first step 'locate the screws'. So I am very relieved.

It is exhausting trying to go through and get rid of a houseful of stuff, not sure how I'll be ready in time for the open house in three weeks. But it is exhilarating to have an excuse to throw away drawers and cabinets full of things like old socks and old cleaning products.

I have been thinking I would need to buy a chromebook or laptop to use when I start traveling, but at this very moment I am experimenting typing this using an old wireless mini-keyboard with my Kindle Fire. I need to figure out everything I normally do on the computer and see if just the Kindle would be good enough. So far the main problems are the screen is too low to be ergonomic, and the keyboard keeps trying to slide down off my knees. I don't know what to do about documents or if I can use a thumb-drive somehow with a Kindle.
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On the few occasions when I have to attach my keyboard and or mouse to the Ipad... I place them on a lap tray

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...and if I'm using just the mouse attached to the Ipad.. I put a table mat on the arm of the sofa, and use the mouse on that...
 
Walked, a bit of grocery shopping. Would have been more but several items were missing. Had the really really rare afternoon nap for much too long. I’ll be regretting that tonight. Another walk. Dinner is over early so planning to watch a movie tonight.
 
Nothing planned. Probably do a bit of gardening and get the washing up to date. Long ago, it was frowned upon to do your washing on Sunday, but our washing machine doesn't know what day it is and nobody here cares about these trivial matters.

The family are here for the spring holiday, so I'm cooking goose for dinner. Some debate as to what vegetables to have with it.
 
Having a bunch of people over for a combined Easter/Birthday thing. Two grandkids had birthdays the 14th and 15th.

My job is the pork roast. I got a 17 pound one from a local butcher, fresh, local and never frozen. I have bbq/smoked it over night. Now it goes in the oven on very low for a few hours. Should be falling apart and well smoked by dinner time. Note it was still dark morning when I took this picture.
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Capt Lightning said:
Nothing planned. Probably do a bit of gardening and get the washing up to date. Long ago, it was frowned upon to do your washing on Sunday, but our washing machine doesn't know what day it is and nobody here cares about these trivial matters.

The family are here for the spring holiday, so I'm cooking goose for dinner. Some debate as to what vegetables to have with it.
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having your goose cooked for washing on a Sunday.... :sneaky::D
 

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