Well--Here We Are!!!

The high temperature today was:  65 degrees

The humidity was: 34%

Cool, sunny, breezy.  

The low last night was: 42 degrees

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So, I posted a post Saturday.  Went to bed and before I got asleep, remembered something I had to do on the computer.  I pushed the start button and.......it stuck!!

All day Sunday, no computer.  Took it in early Monday morning.  Tuesday--nothing.  Half of today--nothing.  GOOD GRIEF!!!  I never realized how addicted and dependent I am on this dang, electronic thing!!

What to do in the morning with no computer?  What to do in the evening, with no computer?  I do not like anything on TV in the morning's it appears--good Lord I tried to find something, but da nada!  I do not like The Talk or The View or The Price is Right--nuttin'.  I had the evening computer "no-time" solved.  If there was not a baseball game on, I watched DVD's.  "Babe", "Charlotte's Web", "Hoosier's", "The Iron Lady".  But---what to do during the day and of course, since I was bored and going to bed at 11:00, I woke up early--making the boring day even longer.

So--I figured as long as the computer was unhooked, I would clean all around my desk.  OHMYGOSH!!!  I just moved everything around in here 19 months ago, but you would not believe the dust and the cat hair and the dust and then there was some really dusty places.  So--I washed the curtains, and the windows and I took everything off the book shelves and threw away and packed up and dusted and shined, then I---are you ready for this?  Scrubbed a couple of walls AND--are you ready--I opened up that storage closet and I pulled everything out and I went through all boxes and threw out and reorganized and put everything back, but in less boxes and quite neat and organized.  So--that was Sunday--now what to do the rest of the computerless days?

I can't remember what I did each day, but I tore apart the kitchen, polished the cupboard doors, washed, starched and ironed the kitchen curtains, mopped the kitchen and entryway floor, washed throw rugs, vacuumed every inch of carpeting.  Scrubbed another wall, and the front door, and the front door threshold, and the wall by the furnace and the inside of the broom closet, took my high reaching feather thingie and went over every ceiling in every room---I even cleaned and dusted my doll house and then--I went outside and tackled the storage shed. Rearranged a lot of stuff, put away some stuff, dead-headed annuals, cleaned, scrubbed bird feeders and had to get a new finch feeder because the whole bottom fell out and..........

I cross stitched, started a crochet project, read, visited Pearl, went to the grocery store and finally---today at 2:00 they called and said it was ready to come home!!!   Apparently I now have my fall house cleaning done?

The reason the start button stuck?  It was gummed up with grease, gunk and tar from cigarette smoke!!!  It has sat in basically the same place for 8 years (when I had it built) and, at one time, Fred and I both did all our smoking in this room.  So--they cleaned the inside and they cleaned the hard drive and found a bunch of junk, they checked the mother board and everything else.  $65.00.  Then I had them go in and uninstall a couple of "trial" programs I had on it and could not uninstall--AND they took off a PC cleaner I had on it.  They told me that down loading that kind of thing--a registry cleaner can really mess up the registry and load up a computer with viruses!!!!!  Who knew?  I had them load on the virus protection program they recommended and now--I don't have to do a maintenance "cleaning" that I do once a week.  Total price: 130.08 and I am more then happy to have my best buddy back home and running like a charm.

This is what I observed, as I wasn't stuck in here half the day:

Momma Cardinal in for lunch

Daddy saw her chased her away--see him looking down at her?

This little lady comes way more then I ever realized.

Gold Finch on new feeder.  Sparrow and Cardinal sharing the big feeder

AND-look what came in the mail today. To say I like it is an understatement.  I adore it!!!  I love it!!! and it holds my cross stitch AND my crochet project just perfectly.  The only problem I can see?  I need to put a "bumper"  under the heavy lid or I am going to smash a finger one of these days.  It is heavy!!

 I think it looks okay over there with the other old boxes?

It holds my cross stitch quilt

 Isn't it marvelous--the way it is beat up?

It is even wide enough to hold my large, magnetic pattern holder.

Okay kids--I am not dead--which is a good thing, but when I do die, Pammie has instructions on how to get in here and post a note telling you all that I took my long journey.  It is really nice to know that people worry about me--we never know--we could go to the ER one night and never come out, so.........

Later--Jude