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whodat111/susan posted an update Saturday, Oct 23, 2021, 2:20am EDT, 2 years, 7 months ago
Hi Potties - Nice to see signs of life again.
Katie - You're waaaaay more tech savie than I am - I just spent hours on the phone with my printer gurus to find out why it wasn't printing. I ended up taking the printer back to my local Staples where they figured out they had sold me the wrong size ink cartridge. Once that was straightened out all was well. The bad thing for me is not having a paper manual for me to use with trouble-shooting. I've apparently outlived my usefulness. I think my next repair will be a new keyboard since the current one is having issues.
Gordon - I consider that it's already gotten chilly - it's been down in the 40's & 50's quite a few nights lately. It has warmed up nicely during the days so I can still get out in the yard in the afternoons but may not be the case much longer.
I finally got Kermit's emission test today so I'll go by the tag office on Mon. & see if I can get that taken care of. On my way to the testing place I think I saw the new Santa Cruz that I'm thinking about getting. It's a little bigger than my Baja was but it's pretty. The one I saw today was an ugly color - sort of olive drab - but the style was nice.
The only thing exciting here lately was in the wee hours of Thurs. AM while I was watching TV, Irish decided to see if he could burn the house down. I heard a racket across the room & when I stood up & looked, there was Irish watching an electric wall outlet sparking & smoking. Apparently my #1 cat had sprayed the outlet, which reacted immediately & left the curtain smoking with a hole burned right in front of the outlet. A million years ago I worked for an Air Force Fire Dept. so I have great respect for fire in any form & promptly called 911 & asked them if they could send somebody to make sure there was no danger of the house burning down. The nice men came, checked everything out & recommended I have an electrician replace the outlet. I tried to contact an electrician we know but had no luck reaching him so guess I'll start looking elsewhere - got a couple of other small things that need done so will tend to everything at once. Scared the bejesus out of me - 1st time in all the years I've had cats one has done that. If Zac had been able to bring the curio from the old house, it wouldn't have happened 'cause the curio is slated to sit in front of that outlet. Oh, well. The house didn't burn down, my curtain has a hole in it & I'll have a bill from an electrician. Things turned out as well as could be expected, all considered.
Had reason to love our generator last week. When I woke up to watch football on Sat. I heard the generator running. Gave Zac a call to see why the power was out. Seems that during the night a storm blew thru nearby & straight-line winds had knocked over
4 phone poles in the area. Naturally that took out my landline too but used the cell to call the power company & report the outage just in case it was recent. Zac said the power went out between 10 & 11 AM so I called my propane company & asked for a refill ASAP since I had no idea how full my tank was & the generator runs on propane. It was after 1AM on Sun. before the power came back on & I got a propane delivery on Tues. so once again "Genny" saved the day - I had heat, football & all the modern conveniences I depend on. This one use made it worth the cost & it's saved the day several times over the years for shorter periods of time.Hope all is well with Max, Marson & Shelly. Everybody enjoy the changing seasons before the change is more severe.
Later.
Susan