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Certainly not a particularly exciting day, but we did get out for awhile in the warmer temps, under sunny blue skies. Stopped in to pick up chicken shawarma and falafel to have for dinner.

It's supposed to be warmer over the next few days .. we'll see!
 

It is officially spring and the weather reflects it. I brought the bicycle up from the basement and cleaned the garage floor. Tomorrow will take the snow shovels down the basement and take the gas out of the snowthrower.
 

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My hatred of grocery shopping is well documented here, so when the pandemic hit, I bought another larder style freezer, which meant we now had a chest freezer as well.. as a half freezer on the fridge.
I bought a set of industrial shelving, and created a larder in the Barn for canned goods.. so I could keep away from potential infection in the supermarkets, but the beauty of it now is that I only need to go shopping every 4 weeks.. and even then I only have to get a 1/4 of what I would have bought pre -pandemic since having the extra storage
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I don't mind grocery shopping. It just happened that 4 weeks earlier I bought lots of apples because they were on sale. I ran out of fresh vegetables so I used frozen. Although I'm not a vegan I'd go crazy without produce after a few days. I prefer fresh produce over frozen and rarely get canned food. By the way on the 4th week the apples were still as good as the day I purchased them.
 
This morning a friend and I took her dog to the beach. It was a bit chilly and windy but wasn't supposed to rain. First, I was picking up shells and got splashed by a wave....jeans wet to the knees. Then it started raining (remember....it wasn't supposed to rain....) and we had a long walk back to the car. Then a drive back with a wet dog. We stopped and had lunch out on a deck overlooking the river. My legs were so wet and cold I thought they were going to fall off. Came home and took a nap with a heating pad on my cold, dead, wet feet.

Y'know, it was a GREAT day for all that. I got out of the house, breathed in a load of negative ions at the beach (which raise your mood), got to play with my doggy friend, got to spend time with my friend, had a good lunch (BBQ - yum!) and had a good nap.

The waves were huge, the surfers were out and I got some lovely shells to do crafts with the little 'uns.

Yep, great day.
 
I went and bought a few more groceries, walked in the snow again. Currently making potato salad as I could not find a store bought one I liked. On my walk I found a neighbor’s dog had escaped the fence so banged on their door so they could get their dog. He bites, 😂, not getting another dog bite.

Still got to walk a little more. Got towels folded. All in all a good day as well. Most of my stimulus money is spent, 😳.
 
Relaxing after completing the drain for the new shower. Not an easy job but satisfying to know that slicing 4 feet of concrete & raising the shower base just enough to get the 8 degree drop I needed is done. The right hand base didn't align with the drain so I had to chose the left hand design. That meant cutting a channel from left to right.

Next was to reduce the drain adaptor from 2 inches to 1 & 1/1/2" to fit the drain that was original in our home. Tricky was getting the length, the elbows & sleeves to be exact for for the 4ft. length from base drain to the original home drain.

next is getting the base 100% level front to back side to side. I'm already good since my base support structure is less than 1/8th bubble off 100% level. Shimming will take care of that. I'm in no hurry to get this done, taking my time and getting it perfect is the goal.

Not to shabby for an 80 year old with only the use of one hand.
 
A two coffee morning here, walk with the dog for about an hour. Show off likes to run over the top of the piles of snow , now ice.
Two hours straightening out the wood shed, filled the wood box inside and then cut up and split a whole lot of kindling.
Took a break, into town to catch a couple of stores before they close now home...
Fire is lit, -1 out there now, feet are up. Hot chocolate with a little shot looking at the darkness as it moves in.
A nice day for me, all went well. Life is good here....:)
 
Finally today I got around to replacing the battery in my laptop. I purchased it some time ago in anticipation of that day when the battery would no longer hold a charge, but kept putting it off until it no longer holds any charge at all.

I prefer to do these things myself because it is far less expensive since no jacked up labor charge is involved and I can buy the proper Dell OEM battery at discount prices online, but then I have to take the laptop apart to replace the battery, put it all back together, and test it. That takes about 45 minutes, so I guess it isn't too bad and the money I save makes it well worthwhile.

Tony
 
Furryanimal said:
Had a delivery from Iceland minus the bread,so I went to town and bought stuff I wasn’t going to get,including weed killer which is apparently on the list of essential items...
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Why do you order stuff from Iceland, the delivery time must be horrendous? o_O You obviously have shops in Wales because you can buy bread and weedkiller there so why have the rest sent all the way from Iceland? :ROFLMAO:
 
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On my early walk around 6:45,it was 45 already,no wind was refreshing.I'm wearing my capri pants today
I have my annual eye exam this morning at 9 I'll remember to bring my sunglasses.I forgot to bring them last yr when I walked out of the office,it was really bright outside
The rest of my day take couple walks since its going to be another beautiful/warm spring day here in WNY
 

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