Kestrel,
I'm glad that you are finding listening to the classicals more, and have found the time to do it. 35 years ago, I decided I would give it a try, and really enjoyed the time I spent rocking my so to sleep, while listening to it. I enjoyed Mozart the most, and symphonies.
Nyctophiliac,
I miss your photos with lights around the UK.
Maybe we'll see more of them?
Katherine,
I enjoy your posts. Glad you joined us.
Playing piano, while brewing coffee! :thumbsup:
bykfixer,
Always the clever man
turbodog,
Sunday night, my daughter and I went to a new Brewery, for a change of pace. These poor guys have been trying to open for a year or so, they hurtled one obstacle after another, including building permits, and other town father's obstacles, and one that was not considered. The power company could not supply enough power to them and had to run more lines to the transformer outside their shop, (or something like that). Finally they were ready to open, beer made and all, and Covid hit, and they had to stay closed. They cleaned up the back lot and put in a dozen or so wooden picnic tables with more distance than many places that are doing outside gathering.
Five months in, and we are still enjoying each other's company. Things are good!
Flatline,
I found your ten pounds!
I've been doing a lot more cooking, and eating.
Over the past three weeks, we moved, and did a lot more fast foods, and take-out.
Between the increased physical activity, and not over indulging, I think I lost 5 of those 10, so that's good news, eh?
Archimedes,
Hopefully those man pages are better written now than they were in the late 80's.
Depending upon your programming knowledge, learning how to navigate, and automate Linux or any new language, can be a challenge.
Have fun exercising your gray matter.
The good news:
during the last three weeks, we made a sort of lateral move.
This home has more live-able space, with a four car driveway, but no garage, and less storage.
We plan to be here for four years, and within that time the twins will be driving, so being able to park four cars will be important.
Although the move to this end of town was so the kids would go to the newer of the two schools, with covid, we elected to keep them home and go virtual learning.
This house is laid out better for that, and for my daughter to continue to work from home.
The fact that her bosses, have decided to allow her to continue to work from home was HUGELY good news!
We've met our neighbors on both sides of our house, and they are both friendly, and pleasant. That is also huge. At a previous house one of my neighbors was a real nut case, not good.
Hopefully we are past the accumulation stage of our lives. It seems each time we moved from one house to another we pushed a dumpster amount of stuff out to the curb (and we moved four times). Prior to this move, I kept warning my daughter and her kids, that they have too much stuff, and that THEY are going to have to move it. I'm getting too old for that, and am unwilling. So although they parted with a lot of stuff, IMO, not enough, the move was still stressful, because in part there was so much crap to move. The good news is, the kids are now big enough, that they moved 80% of the stuff. Yahoo!
We still have little piles of things, or boxes of stuff that hasn't found a home yet, but the bulk of decorating, painting, hanging of pictures, and mirrors, installing of new shades/blinds etc, has been done. So that's all good!
I have some electrical to do, but not much. And the BIG thing was to get the attic fan working. It is now on a thermostatically controlled switch. Wow, without that the heat wave of this summer would have been way too much for the AC. The AC is a little undersized due to the addition of the gas powered fireplace family room, which will have a spring loaded dance floor installed. I'm not sure what if anything I will do about that next year. An auxiliary ductless unit may work well. Awnings over the patio doors, and bay window up front, may reduce the heat gain enough. IDK, maybe.
Chauncey,
The lawn can REALLY use your help! The good news, is that my daughter is not afraid of weed killer. My wife would have had me out there hours at a time pulling weeds by hand.
A few years ago, the septic tank was replaced, and the yard torn up. Apparently, topsoil wasn't replaced, and the ground wasn't raked out smooth. I'll probably have to rake in some top soil to level it out... ah... another "one of those things" lol... just put it on the list.
Soooo.... we survived the hurricane/tropical storm without losing power! Lots of trees down, pulling down power lines and almost as many homes affected as by super storm Sandy. We were fortunate, because currently I don't have a generator.
So things are getting settled around here. Started cooking again, and started "face-timing" cards and Suduko, with my Dad pretty much each night again. My sister is with him, now for the past few weeks, which is great, so that he is not alone and going stir crazy anymore.
Thursday, I hope to do a little time on the lake with a previous neighbor, and long time friend. We have some catching up to do.
Oh, and I was one of those people afraid to have a medical procedure done due to Covid-19. I tested positive with Cologuard and finally had a colonoscopy. A few polyps removed, and they tested negative for cancer!
So all in all... Life is Good!!!
