Adelyn and her friend

This is Mary's great niece with a friend who is the daughter of Adelyn's mother's friend. There's probably an easier way of saying that, but the photo sure is cute.

Barbara's Beanster

Barbara says, " I thought you would enjoy this picture for your blog, which shows typical behavior of my Beanster, the big game hunter.  He completely ignores the actual bird on the bird feeder, and instead chases their flitting shadows cast by the sun onto the deck."

Amy & Barry in New Zealand

Amy says:

Hope all is well in NYC. It stopped raining, the clouds parted and oh my what a beautiful place we are in! I feel like Dorothy when she hits the Emerald City for the first time.

 

Yesterday proved that if you hang around and talk airplane on a beautiful day at a little airport just about anywhere someone will offer you a ride. This Dehavilland Beaver is a flying museum piece for a very active warbird museum at Ardmore airport. The pilot was checking out an Air New Zealand captain and invited us to ride along. 

 

 

Sofie in the Hamptoms

Barb says that Sofie's mother says she has no idea what a lucky child she is.

Amy in New Zealand

Amy and her husband Barry are in New Zealand on vacation for several weeks. Amy says: "In multicultural Auckland and not quite on timezone : ) More to come as we get out and about."

 

She says this is the restaruant where the airport workers hang, and it looks like Barry really wants/needs that coffee.

Printer Resurection

When I was printing something on my cheap printer last week, all of a sudden it said that the ink was "depleted" so when Marilyn came today she went to Staples and bought new cartridges, put them in, but it was the same problem. We rebooted a few times, diddled, daddled and did all the things you try. She suggested I google "troubleshoot HP printer" and I did and we found one solution which we tried but it didn't work... I should have kept scrolling because the messages underneath this "solution" was a bunch of folks that said it didn't work.

So I kept scrolling and found some complicated reboot of the ink system and we did that. It was laughable in a way... unplug from the back of the printer. Count to 30. Unplug from the wall socket. I was joking later that if it told you to do this while standing on one foot, we would. So we go through this long process of wiping the printer contacts off with cold water on a lint free cloth, blah blah blah, the insert each cartridge one at a time... blah blah blah... still was being told "ink depleted." I was about to give up as Marilyn diddled and all of a sudden she said "Oh wait, it's never made that noise."

Sure enough the next message was to reinsert the yellow cartridge and she did... and that did the trick. Marilyn said she has no idea what she did to make it work. I was just thrilled when I could successfully print again. I had visions of another bill from some computer geek.

And now I have to brag about something else... two $50 bras for $74, including shipping. The website where I get these bras I like was having a buy one, get one for 50% off so I did that... but then I had a 30% coupon for having taken part in a survey last week. I was surprised (and happily so) when the site allowed me to use both the buy one/get one coupon and the 30% off highest item. When these new bras arrive, I have a bunch of old mangly ones that are getting a proper burial.

And yes, I am stunned that a decent bra, not even an amazing bra, but a totally run of the mill bra costs $50. I still think bras should cost $5 which is what I paid for a good one many many years ago.

So I have a working printer and two new bras en route. What more could a girl ask for?

Milo's Hangover

For some reason, Milo was the life of the party yesterday -- mingling with the guests, allowing himself to be petted, not hiding, etc... and now it's the morning after and this old boy is worn out!