It was in the low 30's when I woke this morning, causing a pretty heavy frost overnight. We set the furnace a little higher than normal last night since it was so cold, although I had to turn things up quite a bit this morning to take the chill off downstairs.
There was not even a thought between us of walking this morning. The weather is supposed to take a change for the better so hopefully we can start up again this week. Before leaving for the garage, Dean went out to hang the hummingbird feeder on our back window where we can both see it from our chairs. It's still a little cool out, but I decided to try it since there have already been sightings within 30 miles of us both to the east and west, as well as several areas north of us.
Today was a very frustrating time for me working on the blog post. I could not get any pictures to post to the blog. The pictures I took with my phone would not upload to google photos. I tried several things throughout the day. They finally showed up in the photos on Google Photos, however when I selected the ones I wanted to go in my April 2020 album, the picture itself would never show up - just a gray space. I restarted my phone, my computer, and even tried to post the picture directly from my phone but that did not work either. I finally turned the computer off and left it for awhile. When I came back to it later it still would not bring the pictures up in the album, and I still could not get the pictures to post from my phone. This morning (Sunday, April 19) it worked as if nothing was ever wrong with it. Has anyone ever had a problem like this?
My phone also gave me fits yesterday. My son and his wife are in the process of going through items they own...what they want to keep and items they want to get rid of before they move to their new home in 2 weeks. They created a Facebook page where they provide a picture and the price for items. I was looking at it to see if there might be anything we wanted. I could scroll down maybe 5-7 pictures and then it would not go any further, with a circle arrow just sitting there spinning at the bottom. I restarted my phone numerous times and it remained that way. I finally had to use Dean's phone which worked fine. I would think it was a Facebook problem but it worked fine on Dean's phone.
I spent quite a bit of time messing with it. I had already cleared the cache from the apps on my phone a day or two before, but I did it again. I have quite a bit of gigabytes remaining on my phone, so that was not the problem. A mystery!
Between that and laundry I kept myself busy most of the morning. Shortly before noon I was thinking about lunch, when I remember I didn't have any more lunchmeat. I had planned to call our grocery store here and have them slice a pound of it for me, but forgot to do that with the photo issue I was having. I started going through the pantry trying to find something else to fix. I had bought a box of Zatarain's "Dirty" Rice a month or so ago. I decided to try it today. It said to cook a pound of ground meat (hamburger, sausage, etc.), then add the rice to the meat with 2.5 cups of water and let it cook for 20 or 30 minutes. I didn't use a pound, but added about 1/4 pound of sausage that I froze awhile back, and about 10 minutes before it was done I added a drained can of red beans, and a cup of frozen corn. Dean had to wait a little longer than normal to eat, but we both thought it was pretty good. Good enough we had seconds. It is something I would buy again to have on hand. There was enough left we can have another small helping each.
Dean did want a couple of things Marc was getting rid of, so we drove to Parsons after lunch to pick them up and pay him. They have spent their weekends packing things up and going through the house and his shop. They have one more weekend to work on it before they move on May 1. We told them we would be glad to help them anyway we can.
On our way out of town, we decided to stop at Walgreen's to see if they had any toilet paper. Nope! It's just crazy how difficult it is to find it. We are still good, but I don't want to wait until I really need it and then can't find any.
As I was looking at the pictures I want to scan to Google photos yesterday, I was reminded that several of the packages have a CD included. When we were at the garage the other day, Dean commented on an item he found - it was a CD reader that could be plugged into a USB port on a computer. I'm not sure if it will work on my Chromebook, but we decided to go to the garage and get it. Hmmm...we went through box after box, and could not find it. It was frustrating to say the least! It was getting quite warm in the attic portion of the garage, so we left after spending nearly an hour looking for it. I now remember one place we did not look, so we will go back tomorrow and check it out. Hopefully, that will be where it is. After all of our searching I sure hope it works!
It reached the upper 60's yesterday - I think 68 was the high. What a gorgeous day it turned out to be. Dean grilled a chicken leg and thigh on the grill, along with sweet potatoes. I heated up some carrots inside and we had a wonderful dinner this evening. Other than looking at Marc's Facebook page I haven't been on Facebook much at all, so I enjoyed looking at different things my friends have posted over the last several days, and I did not seem to have any problems with it tonight. One item my friend posted was of a woman sewing masks for people for the Coronavirus pandemic. I laughed so hard I could have cried. It is on YOUTUBE and is titled DIY Face Mask Tutorial With Kay. Check it out if you need a good laugh. I had tears, and my neighbors probably wondered what was going on if they heard me.
Around 8-8:30 or so I said to Dean, I wonder how Logan (our grandson in the Navy) is doing. A short time later Dean said, why don't you call him, so I did. He didn't answer but about 15-20 minutes later he called us. Talk about a way to end a wonderful day! It was just so good to hear his voice and to catch up with him.
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Today we are so thankful for the sunshine!
It sure is frustrating when electronics don't work as expected. And then to search for something for over an hour. Insult to injury. Oh well, the day ended well with a phone call. At least phones still work:))
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