It is a beautiful morning here but a little cool. Temp. was 31 deg. when I got up.  Typical up-and-down weather for Spring.

Laundry today and finish the taxes so not a particularly exciting day to look forward to.

Take care, All.

An old belief (and it seems to hold true)
When the Forsythia blooms keep an eye open for TERMITES.  This is the time That they swarm. If you see them swarming you know they are in the area. Take the proper precautions.

good Morning  RAMMEL and  phyllis and all else that follow. I slept in again I stayed up watching the TV again Late again. we have a beautful bright sunny day 41ºF this morning. Nancy went to take the van in to dealer ship to get it serviced and do some grocery shopping and left me sleeping in. our coumenity dumpster is over full and the neighbor hood dogs has got up on the side and got tome of th trash bags and tor the up and trash all over the yard. so another job to do cleaning up. the trash people are still on strike for some better benifits. I wish we could get the people back we had they done a good job, but theys sold out to these people and retired. Have a good day and a better tomorow.

Lloyd

Good morning everyone! Today's weather is much the same, and it's gray, brown, and slushy out there. Yesterday it dripped and froze all day, and today is likely to be the same. The construction is finishing up to my left and then around to finish the remaining front portion. The screen doors have locks and slides on both ends. The balcony door itself only opens and slides to one side.

Amy, Farrah doesn't care for the noise, but it's the two types of lifts that spook her. Imagine you're taking a nice nap on the cat tree when suddenly a huge purple or black arm lifts up and over the balcony, and two creatures in brightly clad colors hop over! One jump clears the room, and the second is to the closest place to get into or under.

We don't have termites here, the cold weather kills off their colonies, but we do have carpenter ants.

Good Night Everyfriend!  I off to the haystack and tonight there will be company in the stack.  Cooper will be sleeping there with me and he's a cuddler!

I wish you all a peaceful night's sleep and a happy tomorrow and may God bless us, every one!  And may he bless and keep the Ukrainians, too!

Sweet dreams & God Bless from me, too. Wishing everyone a restful night and wake up ready to fire up the day! We have an extremely warm night and Callie decided she wanted to stay outside. Tomorrow night we are supposed to have storms so I will insist she stay inside. The weather guesser I listened to said more like hail, wind & rain rather than tornadoes... but I wouldn't want to stake my life on THAT prediction!

The pear trees are starting to bloom but not the forsythia, Rick. I've never heard that saying before but know the termites do swarm in the spring & just last year I had to have my house fully treated so that will come due again any time. I am going to start slapping all those hands dipping into my checking account!

I didn't get down to the river tonight, phone calls, one right after another & by the time I was ready to go it was almost dark & I really am not sure what critters are down by the river at dark. Tiger won't go down at all except daytime but evening she will sit at the top & wait for Callie and me to come back up. The neighbors have cams that show fox, coyote & raccoons, I don't know if the owls & hawks hunt at night or not, but hear an owl hooting lots of nights. Also have homeless that will overnight under the bridge to the west, the by-pass around the city, over the Arkansas River. Guess they sometimes fish & wander along the river. Stay safe, don't let the boogie men get'cha!

Good morning...

We had a busy day yesterday, Kyle did get his cortisone shot in his shoulder and I did finally get a printer. Not many to choose from but came home with a Canon PIXMA........now to set it up...but it will have to wait. We are off to pick up a part for the drill press in another direction. Theme song is On The Road Again. On Thur we go to the vet in another direction. about an hour away..I figured we might as well get all the travelling done then I can stay home.

Shirley, would love to see a pear tree bloom!! Hope you can share some photos. We saw our first robin yesterday in the city.

Patricia, we had a bitter wind yesterday, sun was out but the wind was cutting. Sounds like it will be really nice and functional when it is all done.

Jane, I think you're spoiling Cooper......or rather making him feel well loved.

Phyllis, tis -5° F here this morning. I hope to hear from our accountant next week on our taxes.

Gloria and Lloyd , good morning..

Better get my travelling duds on.

Enjoy your day  and stay safe.

Good Morning Everyfriend!  This will be a shortie because Cooper is ready for his walk and I'm not dressed yet.

It's cold here the last few days...down in the 20s but today it's supposed to go up to 41 and then back down overnight and then up for the days and down for the nights the rest of the week.  There is snow predicted and high winds later in the week.  My lucky family will escape this and be spending tim in Mexico at Daniel's wedding.  Lucky them!

Just when I think this thing is working, it stops.  The keyboard must not be connected properly because it just plain stops typing!  I guess I'll go get dressed and take Cooper out.  You all have a great day!

Amy ---
I have a PIXMA MX920 (or 922) and love it. I've had it for several years.  The software programs that came with it are great and can do so much. I never bothered to set up the FAX feature because FAX seems to conflict with my cordless land line phone / answering set feature.  I can copy a document in a PDF format and attach it to an email and send it using the software provided. That feature came in so handy recently sending documents to the Lawyer. Saved trips to his office. All in all, I would buy another one.

Good printer information from Amy and Rick.  I am getting really fed up with my current printer and am thinking about getting a new one.  I'll check the Canon printer out and see if I can find one somewhere locally.

I received notice from TurboTax that both Fed and State tax returns have been accepted so my taxes are done and filed.  Whoo Hoo!  Also, Turbotax just sent me an email saying that if by chance I am audited they are ready to deal with that for me.  I like that but, don't expect to be audited since it is not a very complicated return and I have documentation to back up everything. 

Cloudy and cool here....but, no snow.  However, we need some rain because we are under "fire alert" warnings.  The woods are dry and the wind has been high.

Take care, All.

Good morning from the Interior, we are definitely in melt mode with everything dripping, overnight freezing, and dripping again the following day. Snow patches in the hills across from me are slowly disappearing.

I no longer have a home printer as I send everything electronically these days with a copy to my external drive with a cloud or CD backup. With my hands the way they are, I would have trouble setting a printer up.

On the road again became....dragin my wagon..
Another  fun filled day ,we did get the part and the owner put it in the drill press for us! Now the press has been delivered to a new owner.

Rick ,thank you for the information. I was surprised when the young lad asked if I needed a cable and asked him did it not come with the printer? Not anymore do they "give" you the cable but I can use the old one from the other printer. I have yet to set it up and may holler for help. Can't believe how cheaply made they are now but the price is high!!

Good afternoon, It is earley butnI am sayin good night now in case I do not get back today ,we are currently at 46º and cloudy. hope you all have had a good day, see you all later.

Lloyd

Amy,
The printers are fairly cheap but they clean up on the ink.

We had a good day but I'm ready for the haystack and I think that's where Cooper has already gone!  We took 3 long walks today...one absolutely freezing one early in the morning, one in sun so bright I had trouble seeing my hand in front of my face, and one in a beautiful, balmy evening.  Three totally different walks all in the same day!

Tomorrow, I have to get up and get cleaned up because my SIL is coming to take me to do a couple local errands and he's coming a bit early so we can go out for breakfast first.  I told him I'm a bit rusty because it's been a long time since I've been on a date with a handsome younger man and he answered that I need my glasses changed!  He is handsome and always has been.  So was his father all his life!

Now I'm off!  I wish you all a peaceful night's sleep and a happy tomorrow and may God bless us, every one.  And may He look kindly on the Ukrainians, too!

Jane, best feeling to have "one on one" with the kids. I've thoroughly enjoyed the times spent camping in CO with sons in the next site but getting to feed them whatever meals we eat in my camper. We know every good place to eat in both of the near by towns, too. 

I need to eat something before going to bed. The rain started about an hour ago & been pouring down. I got the slide put back in on the motorhome & unplugged, did load after load of laundry all day so made a little headway today. I even made some fruit ice, juiced 4 oranges & mashed 4 bananas with about a cup & half of sugar, add maybe quart of water & have to stir every few hours so fruit doesn't sink to the bottom as it freezes. This batch tastes pretty good. Must be needing the vitamin C because the oranges taste so good any which way.

Thunder, lightning, spring rains. I brought a twig of forsythia in, bud finally opened & I am searching for termites, Rick! Only few jonquils bloomed this year.  I've been putting out the peanuts & raisins that got out of date in the motorhome, squirrels are having a feast. So far nary a robin has looked at any of the food, but as I watched out the window a cardinal swooped down & snatched a whole pecan piece from under the squirrel's nose & headed across the yard, think the females are setting on eggs already.

The termites are not on the forsythia, they just swarm at the same time - from wherever they are living. If you see one you'll see hundreds. Like a cloud of them.

This will be an early night for me. Eyes trying to shut already. But it was a productive day. Had to rotate an outlet for a new Dehumidifier I bought. The old outlet had the power cord going up, rather than down. The outlet is higher on the wall - about 5' off the floor.So that's fixed. Went through some old stuff stashed in drawers and threw out some and got some ready for give away. But so much more to do.

Good Morning Everyfriend!  This will be a quickie because I still have to throw on some clothes and take Cooper for his first walk of the day and then come back and get a shower and get dressed for my "date" with Craig.  And I think it's light enough to go pretty soon but it's below freezing out there!

I wish you all a good day...better than yesterday but not as good as tomorrow!

Good morning...

I did not want to get up this morning but between crows hollering and Babe hitting me with her paw there was no staying in bed.

Have a few need to do chores then it is install/hookup the printer.

Jane, thoroughly enjoy your "date".

Rick, this printer has only two cartridges and the other had 5  and yes they do clean up on ink! Sounds like you also had a busy day, hopefully you can take it easy today.

Gloria is missing!!

Enjoy your day and stay safe..

JaneS the grimlans did it to me again I had apost all but done and away it went. I was saying you either Have a brighter moon or pole light than we do. Not enough light here to walk a dog. you may fall and get hurt. at our age we can get broken bones very easley. we have a good frind just one year yonger than me in the nursing home recuperating from two broken Hips. easy dose it. seeyou later.

Lloyd

The sun was coming up when I got up this morning but the clouds are moving in. Will be cloudy most of today and "severe" weather is forecast for tomorrow.  My head is already agreeing with that so not a good day for me, I guess.

Hope it is better wherever you All are.  Take care.

Amy,  What brand and model Printer did you get? Two ink cart's sounds interesting. Maybe one of them has multiple colors in it. My Canon has 5 - 3 color cart's and a black, which are a dye composition and 1 Black that is a pigment composition. I believe the pigment is to make a blacker black.

I have finally developed a little incentive to try to get some order in this house. I find it difficult to throw things away that are still good. Then there is some new stuff that was my wife's that neither my son or I can use. I realize there are people out there that could use the stuff but it's hard to part with some of it (attachment).
But I'm also going over MY junk and disposing of things/records I'll never use. Old Medical Plan documents and the like.  Stuff that has just accumulated over the years.

Rick, this is a Canon PIXMA TR7020
 
https://www.canon.ca/en/product?name=PIXMA_TR7020

I have two printers on a Canon and the other for everyday printing a Brother and both have laid down on me. Mind you they are both over 10 years old and don't owe me anything but...I like them. I like old, I find the newer of anything not as well made but I guess I will just have to go with the flow and deal with it.

I do understand getting rid of items that one has attachments to. I need to do that here..
Documents  can be put in the cookstove but somethings I want or need to keep.

Better get at the day or it too will be gone on me.

Craig dropped me off a little bit ago.  We got all my errands done and had breakfast at a new restaurant in town.  I had enough food to bring home enough for tomorrow morning too.  Craig and I talked non-stop about families and  other stuff.  My first job after business school was in the same office where his father worked and since I already knew everyone who worked there because my Mother had also worked there before they moved, it was a good place to go.  We told stories of his growing up years and mine, too.  I think this is the first time that we've spent much time together without someone else along....kids or wives!  I kind of think he enjoyed it as much as I did!

LLOYD, it was daylight here when Cooper and I went for a walk.  We're an hour ahead of you...remember?

GLORIA, congratulations on getting your taxes out of the way.  I wish mine were done!

Now I have to get Emma's birthday present wrapped up and on the way.  She'll be 4 in about 2 weeks!  I can't believe it!

Have a great day Everyfriend!

Finally looked this up. I was trying to remember how many years I have had it, from a Yankee Magazine, must be close to 50 years, my 3 kids were still at home and too young to date.
Enjoy

French Fresh Blueberry Pie

9 inch baked shell
3½ C fresh blueberries
2¼ C sugar
¼ C water
2 TBS corn starch
pinch of salt
1 TBS lemon juice.



Put 2 cups berries in saucepan with 1 TBS water, sugar and salt.
Dissolve corn starch in ¼c water, add to berries in pan.
Cook over medium heat till thickens and is clear stir often so it will not stick.
Cool a little.
Add remaining berries and lemon juice, mix gently to  keep raw berries whole.
Add to cooked berries, mix gently and pour into baked shell, chill several hours.
Serve with cream. Berries must be fresh and never frozen.

Good morning, we had a slight dusting of snow overnight, but today it's back to the drip, drip, freeze and repeat. This is one of the slowest, latest springs that I can remember, and it seems that way in so many other places.

Gloria, thanks so much for that recipe! I love blueberries!

We've had no new Covid cases in the last three days and no deaths this month, so we have cautious hope that places will start opening again. On the 27th, we dropped from a high to a low rating after 24 months of a total lockdown. If we do start re-opening, it will be done slowly and cautiously.

I have no idea what will happen with this building as everything has been locked away for so long, and no personal contact; all business is done over the phone or by email. When maintenance does come in an apartment, it's a wonder they are able to work, swatched in plastic as they are, even to plastic shoe coverings.

We are no longer kept informed either, as the water has been shut off for work twice now, and when someone called in, they were told that management was aware of it. When I called in one day to report an argument the night before, a man was banging on his door two doors down after midnight, loudly swearing and yelling for his wife to open up. And that it had happened earlier that week, I was only asked if I had called the police.

We no longer have an evening security guard and weren't notified of any changes. Before the pandemic, we had 24/7 maintenance and security. Afterward, it was one security guard each shift, and you called maintenance on a recorded line, and they later showed up. I wonder if they will go back to the prior arrangement?

Well, we both lived! With that I mean the printer and I. Long long ago I hooked up the printers..you know when we were a lot more supple in our joints and   could just pop right up from being on the floor after moves of a contortionist.  I am pleased with it, not as fast as the other printers but then again neither am I. I print a lot of quilt patterns and I do like the double sided printing. Now if this one prints photos as well as the other Canon I will be happy!

Gloria, thank you for the recipe. I am also going to try it with raspberries and maybe strawberries too.

Patricia, they are calling for freezing rain this way and I phoned the vet and told her that if the weather here is bad we are staying put!

I have had enough excitement for one day..

Good morning, know I was not here yesterday but could not find my last post.`                                                Don't know where or from who but I have picked up a cold For over  a week the only ones I have seen are the 2 different CNAs and not  even my son last Saturday. I seldom get  a cold but when I do I am miserable so forgive me if I come in and just say hello so you know I am still alive and kicking.

From someone I have picked up a cold, already on  the second box of  tissues.. Only ones that have been here are 2 CNAs and I don't think it was the one here today but the other one I get 3 days. It has been years since I had a cold so they really knock me out when I do get one.

PATRICIA  all community rooms here are open and wearing masks has been dropped but wearing one would be appreciated, visitors still have to wear one.

AMY  I used that recipe with strawberries and if they are big with the cooking part cut them up, does not work good if they are too big pieces, and THEN I LIKE TRYING TO FIND smaller strawberries for the raw ones.  Works better and tastes better. Of course more of them to clean.

It has been so cold here the last 3 nights- low of 18°, days sunny but only in the low to high 30's. We are supposed to keep the thermostat at 68 but I turned mine up almost to 80 before I started  to get  warm.

Have a good night and hope I make it here tomorrow.

Racing thru but sympathy & hugs for the cold, Gloria!      
     

Time to say Good Night Everyfriend!  I think Cooper has already gone to bed and I'm about to follow him!

I reread my last post and I have an apology to make.  I congratulated Gloria for getting her taxes done and I meant to congratulate Phyllis.  Sooooooo...Congrats Phyllis for finishing your taxes.

I got a lot done today and some of it shows and some of it doesn't.  I already told you about the errands that Craig helped me with and I got a lot more office sorting done when I got home.  I also made some fried corn bread and it was pretty good. 

Now I'm heading for the haystack to catch a few zzzzzs and then tomorrow is another day.  I wish you all a peaceful night's sleep and a happy tomorrow and may God bless us, every one!  And may He watch over the Ukrainians!