Only 24 shopping days to Christmas!
PatO: There was a discussion on the radio this morning about Black Friday having spilled over into the preceding and following days and even weeks. Watch out! It will soon by Cyber Monday, to be followed by Giving Tuesday. (Today is Small Business Saturday.) Then it will be When Will-It-Ever-End Wednesday, Thoroughly-Fed-up-with-It Thursday and For-Heaven's-Sake-Enough-Already Friday! etc., etc.....
Lindybird: Hope Tomasz had a super b/day and that you had a good ride home.
OG: No speech necessary to Chat here!
Raining again today. I went down to Ventura to look for a couple of things early this morning. Found them all at TJMaxx after fruitless and overwhelming brief stop at the nearby mall, which was still very quiet that early. If you know Ugg boots, the company that makes (Deckers) them has its corporate headquarters a mile from us just across the freeway - and an outlet store in Oxnard, where things are half price or less. This morning, they had Ugg ankle boots for $14.99 - all in large sizes (didn't need any; didn't buy any). I watched a couple take an entire stack and load them into their car, presumably to sell somewhere else for more money, which I though was a bit rude, but nobody asked me.
Anyway, have a good Sunday all.
Here's the view out of our bedroom window an hour ago:
What a beautiful sky, LINDY. The talk about desks and modems etc reminded me - I discovered, yesterday, that eldest son in law has moved all my OH's documents over to my PC, not just his pictures and has put a short cut icon on my screen. OG wondered about external storage. I think I might have something akin to that. There is a small box with an intermittent flashing light beneath my desk. My son may have installed it. He can't remember but will check when he comes to stay at the end of December.
It's really cold here, and when I took the above pic, the ground beneath was white over. We now have some watery sunshine but its only warmed up to about one degree! Incidentally, the pic I took looks way much more red on my phone than the version which came up when I posted it on here, so actually quite disappointing! OG - Glad things are getting back to normal for you all, there. Can't believe its that long since you broke your leg - how time flies. Hold on, wait a minute, you don't say it was then that it happened, just that it was ahead.... I've jumped to conclusions. Good luck filling in the ghastly form: they can be a nightmare these days.
Rosie did look puzzled by a lot of the proceedings yesterday, but we all laughed as she seems to spend a lot of time trying to make sense of things, and squinting closely at us: goodness knows what she makes of this strange world! She has the most delightful grin when we can make her laugh, and so a lot of time was spent trying to capture it on film. No luck, however.
OG - I worked out how to find out about drives ( don't all clap at once !) Mine goes up to F. It looks as if I've got loads of space available....
Morning all:
Lindybird: What I did was turn everything off, then follow each of the cords from beginning to end and try to not cross them with other component's wire when hooking it all back up. A not entirely successful undertaking. In some cases, there were several feet of 'spare' cable and I gathered them up and tied them neatly, but in a couple of cases that created a pull on the device, tipping it over (and that's not even the heavy cable that goes into the wall, which I finally wedged between the bookcase and the wall to lessen the drag). We're going to be doing all this again too when we put in the new floor in the spring. I just wish my OH would cull some of his books: He has four floor-to-ceiling bookcases in his office that are jammed with books and old files and make it impossible to work or clean in there; no room to swing a cat as they say. Anyway. It won't be long before Rosie will be reacting more definitively to the goings on - so much fun to watch them then! Re your sky photo, I took photos of the fire behind us last week and had the same experience. The flames - even in daylight and with the sun on them - were a startling red, but turned out rather anemic in the photos.
OG: I'm not sure I can remember what was going on in 2010! Maybe a good thing. :-) I usually screw up forms right at the beginning by writing my first, middle and last name in the wrong order for that particular form. Or putting them below or above the correct line. :-( When I went to the Dept. of Motor Vehicles (with a driver's licence notice for that they'd sent me), they made me enter masses of basic info on a computer and I said to the lady, "But I've been driving for 50 years! Surely you have all this info already?" Got a typical bureaucratic response: "ours not to reason why...."
AQ: Do you know if this is a one- or two-story house that's going up? Sounds like it will be going on for a while yet....
Garden is still thrilled to be damp and clean; more rain due tomorrow. Take care all.