Month: May 2024

Monday (Memorial Day)

It was raining pretty hard this morning, so I disconnected the radio antennas. The lightning was at a pretty good distance. (I’ve made the mistake of handing RF cables during a lightning storm and just missed getting shocked.) Had egg salad and some breakfast sausages for breakfast along with a couple mini baby ruth bars. I turned off and unplugged the one remaining APC 1300 UPS. It draws about 16W which is only about $1.55 / month. While I was taking a nap, I got to thinking I ought to make a list of things I DON’T like to do.

She misjudged the amount of time it would take to run to the Gym, so we went to Longhorn again today. I cleaned the primary filters in the air conditioner by rinsing them with the hose. I ran the fan for a while to dry them out before engaging the cooling. The humidity of the house got up to 68% which I thought was pretty dramatic. We watched another Teagarden mystery tonight before watching Johnny Carson for laughs.

Tuesday

Checked CF and there were no letters. Checked the news, all garbage. I didn’t log onto WW this morning and I’ve not heard from Paul. We got groceries at Wally World this morning, almost $200.00 worth. Helped make dinner today, beef stew looks pretty good. Worked on Sunday service for about an hour and sent several text messages. We watched Teagarden Mysteries before heading off to bed. Not much accomplished today.

I did manage to treat my toes twice today and remember my medicine. It’s just terribly difficult for me to put medicine on my toes twice a day. The nail fungus never really traveled to the nearby toes and it’s terribly contagious. (It sure likes my big toes though.)

3 days after the first photo, I believe the left toe shows improvement…

Wednesday

Still sending messages back n forth to church Live Stream team. I tested my hotspot and got about 30Mbits with a Slate router which is enough. A mango only got about 3 Mbits LOL. She went off to get a bit of groceries that we missed yesterday, and I tossed messages back n forth along with reading the news.

We ended up going to Longhorn’s for dinner and I had Salmon as usual. The Salmon was horrible, it was way too salty and had a tough skin that couldn’t be easily cut. As it turns out the manager chose to serve the Salmon even though it was not properly prepared. The decision is to move to a different restaurant again, it’s always the food that makes us angry enough to stop coming. The Salmon is $24 for us and there’s no excuse to cook it properly EVERY time. We took a nap upon returning home. Time to start planning for church tonight.

Well the Hot Spot test on the Midweek Zoom did not go very well, I have doubts that this will work on Sunday. But I really need to do this AT the park. No messages on CF from the kids, it’s been a minute since we’ve gotten them.

Thursday

Did not sleep well last night, mostly my feet were bothering me. The bottoms of my feet are puffy, like I have socks on even when I don’t. I don’t know if my feet are rebelling against the medicine that I got for my toes either. Sent the cash to my friend’s daughters that are in Germany, they come home next week. We worked on our schedules most of the day. Had left over beef stew for lunch. We declined to assist with Bingo tonight. I did manage to cut the grass that had grown so tall that it fell over. We watched Teagarden mysteries again tonight Con a Con.

Friday

Slept till 06:30 and talked with my uncle for a bit this morning. Checked the news and for letters on CF. It’s been a minute since we’ve seen letters from the Philippines. We’ve not followed the schedule that we spent hours on yesterday, but that was sort of expected. The Silver Focus is on a slight incline, but the oil level was waay over full. We’ll probably do an oil change tomorrow.

Washed all of the Wife’s masks and four of the hoses. I laid the hoses on the dehumidifier to dry the insides of them.

Three attic (Auto Radiator Fans) got a bit of runtime on them this week. They are powered from the six solar panels on the roof that provide about 17Amps of 12VDC.

Consumption points to Smart Home drawing more power than Air Conditioning.

Garage temp sensor went offline, trying to enable DHT power pin in Software to GPIO16. Had to move the power wire from 3V to D0 (AKA GPIO16) and I can now reset the DHT remotely.

Saturday

Did not sleep well last night. Slept in until 08:30, changed MY PAY password that expires in a couple of days. Took a shower and put medicine on my toes

Not sure, but I think I am making progress with them.

We had BBQ chicken legs for dinner and figured out how to use the Insta-Pot to steam the veggies. That works really well because the Insta-Pot will not burn the bottom of the pan when it runs out of water.

I went to Public Storage to pick up the equipment for tomorrow. It took four trips to load up the van. I looked over my haul after I got home to make sure I had the things I needed. I pulled out a table and chairs along with some plastic for tomorrows outside service.

We watched the last of the Teagarden mysteries tonight before we headed off to bed.

Sunday

Woke at 06:10 and checked the weather, It was supposed to rain at 4AM, 7AM, and 10AM. The weather radar showed all the rain was well north of Atlanta. It was overcast, but the clouds were not heavy enough that I was worried. I was in the van ready to drive by 07:00 after loading the few remaining things in the van. Arrived at the park before the others and there were two guys cleaning the park. I managed to get everything onto a furniture moving cart until one of the wheels fell between the sidewalk and all the stuff rolled off in the grass.

The keyboard player showed up just in time to reload the pile back onto the cart and get it under the pavilion. The weather continued to improve throughout the morning, and it was beautiful by the time we packed up the equipment.

I was totally exhausted by the time got home, shower and a nap were about all I could do. We ended up going to Longhorn on Web Gin Road for lunch. I had a steak since I’ve been eating Salmon for several years now. (I was wondering if my body was rebelling against the 14oz of Salmon every week.) I felt pretty incredible Sunday evening, and that’s unusual of late.

Monday

Cut my toenails this morning, that’s something else I need to build my own daily schedule for. Warmed up my radio and checked in on WW and my uncle. I’m sweating like I have hot flashes this morning. I moved the All.txt file from WSJTX log directory to the desktop in case I have to look up an old call. I left the radio running last night and it logged everyone for about 10 hours. I changed the attenuation of the USB audio interface on the radio to prevent the radio from transmitting a lot of power while it is running autonomously. (Windows randomly reboots while running the radio software and then the transmit key gets locked in TX.) 15M is dead this morning on WSPR, moved up to 12M.

We both have gotten these very small bites on our bodies in the last couple of weeks. I think we need to inventory our bodies and figure out if we’re getting bit at night or during the day. The bites are very tiny, they don’t swell like a mosquito bite. We don’t have the allergic reactions that we get with Ant or Bed bug bites either. (That’s why I think it’s fleas, we’ve had a very wet month or so.)

It’s almost 11AM and I’ve not really got anything substantial done. Nothing new from our sponsored children, we did get a letter in the mailbox the other day. Pulled some more weeds from the back yard, they were going to seed, and I didn’t want any more of them.

We ended up going to Longhorn’s for lunch since the time to make the beef stew was going to push us to 15:30. We took a nap after getting home and I spent a good part of the afternoon wasting my time reading the news. I submitted a review about our meal at Longhorn and checked on the solar charger replenishing the batteries on our two stationary cars. (There are four 10W solar panels on three sides of our fence.)

The Eve temp shows which way the air is flowing, out or in.
The first fans blow air out of the attic, the second blows air into the attic.

I checked the lawn, it can be mowed tomorrow. I also pulled back the solar charger cord from the middle of the yard. It now terminates at the solar panel on the East fence. The plan is to extend that wire to the gate and run the wire from the gate to the cars from here on out.

Found out what happened to LOTW, they had a network intrusion and they are in recovery mode. For now, we’ll have to stick with QRZ to record our QSO’s.

Soup and crackers for dinner while we watched “Aurora Teagarden Mystery: Three Bedrooms, One Corpse (1994)”

Tuesday

Talked to Paul on CW, well sort of. I am horrible at it. Two months ago I could have made at least an attempt, but this morning I just didn’t remember much. Paul said I need to Practice, Practice, Practice.

I pulled a temporary wire from the four solar panels on the fence and made one wire more permanent. I do think I got bit by a spider hiding on the wires. My hand is a little numb and my two of my fingers are a bit sensitive. I’ll know later today if I got bit and where the bite is. That reminds me, I need to take pictures of the sensitive spots to give to the DOC. It’s awfully hard these days to remember protective equipment like GLOVES!

This is the one between my thumb and first finger.

This is the one at the end of my finger, you can almost see the change in color.

Updated our grocery template for Wally World, it contains the isles the items are found in. (In OUR store.)

An Example of a section of the grocery template. We created this template because we were walking back-n-forth working from the recipes to the store layout and spending all morning doing it. Now we glide through the isles and have a full cart in less than 30 minutes. Not to mention that the sundries are all the way across the store! (Now we get those first!)

We ate a full lunch at 2PM and then went home for several hours to take a nap. We came back about 6PM to eat our dessert and celebrate our anniversary.

We celebrated our anniversary at Longhorn’s, friends there provided the flowers.

Headed home and the sun was still amazingly high in the sky for me to work on the lawn. I mowed the lawn that was quite overgrown and managed to lay down some weed & Feed for a section that needed it. I cleaned the underside of the lawn mower and put the batteries on the charger before closing the door.

Watched “Aurora Teagarden Mystery: The Julius House (1995)”

Watched “Aurora Teagarden Mystery: Dead over Heels (1996)”

Wednesday

Got up and quickly checked the news while sipping on my coffee. Dialed up the guys on 2M repeater they were talking about the usual banter. WW is warming up, so I may check-in with them later.

I bought a power supply that is supposed to be Efficiency Level VI and it gets very warm!

Probably a Counterfeit, the company names don’t match and ETL doesn’t have this product in its database. Another fake product on Amazon. I bought a replacement UpBright power supply that wasn’t efficiency level VI, but it had the right voltage and remained cool. I posted a negative review on Amazon, I am NOT surprised it was never published.

Long day today, went to dentist because they were sending me a overdue notice to my E-Mail. The office was locked, but they eventually came to the door and told me that it was a right off. (I didn’t owe them anything). We went to Wally World for groceries, albeit an hour later than we’d planned. Took a nap but then it was 2:30 before we got up and no one thought of what we’re going to do for lunch. Had soup, but then we both realized that we were too full for a large salad at our friend’s house. Church went ok, but I had a terrible time trying to get to sleep.

Watched “Aurora Teagarden Mystery: Bundle of Trouble (2017)”

Thursday

Still groggy, I’ll probably take a nap before going to Longhorn’s for lunch. Sent Jon’s kids their weekend tip a day early since it’s a holiday weekend. Signed up onto LCWO.Net to practice CW, eventually. LOL

We went to Longhorn’s for lunch, they got pretty busy near the end of our meal with all the graduations happening.

Looked into the counterfeit power supply a little more today. The seller’s pictures of the item are NOT of the actual item! The manufacturer in the picture is CHINA YYWW, really! The other thing I noticed is that there is no manufacturer’s part number listed. Just the ASIN (Amazon Standard Identification Number) which is an internal number Amazon uses to identify the item. (Since Amazon started out to be a book company.) I wonder if I can weed out these counterfeit products by looking for the part number. Amazon often lists the seller as the manufacturer, which is probably almost never the case. Further any research to verify certifications will require clear identification of the actual manufacturer and their part number. (I have found several items claiming UL/ETL and they were not.) In the end it required purchasing the item and researching the information on the item.

Started watching “Aurora Teagarden Mystery: Last Scene Alive (2018)”

Friday

Mixed morning, spent a good part of the morning checking the news and taking a nap. I didn’t sleep much at all last night. No radio, texted back n forth with my buddies at work. Not much from Paul either. Nice day, I thought it was going to rain last night, but that didn’t happen. We ended up going to Longhorn’s for lunch and then took another nap after we got home.

3PM and its sprinkling outside, I googled war movies considering it’s Memorial Day and I was surprised at how many recommended movies I hadn’t seen. Of course, Saving Private Ryan, but neither the battle of the bulge or the German battleship Bismark were recommended. (And I love both movies.)

Watched War of The Worlds for a little while she cleaned the bathrooms.

Saturday

Slept a little better last night, but I didn’t get to sleep until midnight. Bands are not propagating very well this morning and I can barely hear some of the stations. We heard from CS yesterday! That is a soul we’ve not talked to since September 2023. I’ve gotten to where I take a bath when my “Flight or Fight” is up, I used to take a shot of whisky.

A pretty good thunderstorm came through and I turned off the Air Conditioner. I was looking at the drain in the lawn through the cameras and noticed one of them had moved?

When I chased it down on the DVR a squirrel had jumped onto the camera moving it. I saw the squirrel testing the eves trying to get into the attic. There is a small hole on the East side of my home that I damaged when I put on the siding years ago. I blocked that hole and nailed it shut today. (Hopefully the squirrels are NOT in the attic, if they are I put a bundle of wire behind the hole to prevent it from eating its way out. In hindsight, I should have done a better job sealing the attic from rodents. I did check the attic at the opening and the attic for signs of occupation and didn’t see anything yesterday.

Sunday

Slept reasonably well, I did get up twice and had a bit of cereal for breakfast. The wife had some scabbed over bites on her leg this morning. I thoroughly checked the bedding, and I didn’t find any rust stains. I know she’s getting bit, but I haven’t pinned down whether it’s happening inside our home.

Turned on all three of my tablets for this morning’s service and I updating the laptops to make sure they’re ready. I’ll bring two laptops, but I doubt I’ll need them.

I have six tablets each one with a corresponding E-Mail address. What I haven’t figured out is to use 16 or create a new one for 24. 11 is now 13 years old.

MGTOW is exploding in the western world. (*Men Going Their Own Way)
Level one MGTOWs chooses to get involved with women knowing the consequences.
Level two MGTOWs date women, but with no intention of ever marrying them.
Level three MGTOWs won’t go out on a date with women.
Level four MGTOWs avoid women altogether.
Ref:www.westernjournal.com/men-still-need-women-part-one-rise-mgtow-movement/

Monday

We both are still having trouble sleeping. She runs from being cold to sweating even with no covers on. I wake every 90 minutes or so having stopped breathing for 30 seconds to a minute. My mouth is usually very dry and so are my eyes for some reason. I just could not get a head of steam this morning, maybe it’s because I didn’t have breakfast. I am a little tired.

I read (And will re-read) an article published on the Western Journal about Trump’s MEGA platform. It talks about the late 1700’s Cato’s letters laying out where England was headed which is similar to our current path. MAGA’s Intellectual Roots: A Movement 300 Years in the Making (westernjournal.com)

I looked at the air filter on our De-Humidifier, it was severely clogged. (Which is unusual) It has been a while since I checked it, but I’ve never seen it that bad? The coils had also collected a large amount of debris. I took the de-humidifier apart and almost hurt my eye with flying debris. I don’t know what broke, but it hit my face just to the right side of my right eye. I tried a vacuum, but ended up using my hair brush to remove the wet debris. About an hour later the unit was up and running and smelling MUCH better with no mold smell at all.

My eyes didn’t like the ordeal, they were red and puffy. The assumption is the mold growing on the coils ended up getting into my eyes/nose.

We’ve watched all of the “Good Witch” movies, so we’ve moved back onto the “Wedding Veil” movies with Alison Sweeney her favorite Soap Actor.

1. The Wedding Veil – Watched
2. “Unveiled” – Watched
3. “Legacy”
4. “Journey”
5. “Inspiration”
6. “Expectations”

Tuesday

Another night of not sleeping very well, this time I think the cleaning of the de-humidifier was the major contributor. Checked the HAM radio for a little while and the guys were still having trouble hearing each other. Groceries were on tap for this morning, but I found out that no meals were planned. (Just staples) We were going to Zaxby’s, but the salads are not enough to carry us through 5:30. The current plan is to have heavier meals with fixed mealtimes for her braces. Breakfast needs to be pushed back towards 8 from 7, Lunch is also a little earlier at 12 Noon *Versus 13:30. Supper Soup should still be at 17:30. We might need to add a snack at 9PM to help her carry through the night. If that doesn’t work we’ll add Midrats The two days we have to modify those times are Sunday (Lunch at 13:00) and Wednesday’s Supper at 18:30. We are on Week 3 of the Invisalign braces and still figuring things out. They can’t be in when we’re eating or drinking anything but water. We are both used to munching a little between meals so it’s a HUGE change for us.

We went to Longhorns for lunch, I had salmon and she had crusted chicken. We can sort of afford an occasional trip to Longhorn, but it’s about $100 between the meal and tips. I took a nap when I got home, but awoke with my body suffering from lack of oxygen. I have revived the desire to wear a Oxygen sensor and use my cell phone as an alarm to wake me. I also have a recorder to record my breathing on my CPAP. I don’t know of a quick way of catching the central obstruction without a breathing monitor. (The O2 levels will drop AFTER my body has held my breath for about 45 seconds and my heart rate has increased trying to compensate for the depleting O2 supply in the bloodstream. Eventually the heart loses its ability to compensate, and the 02 levels fall sharply afterwards. (Even below 85%)

Supper is soup and crackers and a movie Hallmark channel The Wedding Veil, Expectations. My feet are a little swollen and the undersides are a little on the dark side. I need to start taking pictures and see if they are changing… ? It does feel like I am walking with socks on, even though I am not.

Wednesday

Listened to the WW Net, Uncle Paul is also listening. They don’t seem to have the issue reaching each other this morning. I had a dickens of a time getting to sleep last night. I had general pain everywhere… I took a bath and a couple Tylenol and finally got to sleep about four this morning. According to the O2 sensor, I slept pretty good after that. My tinnitus tells me that I did go low on oxygen, but it wasn’t on the graphs.

Thursday

Slept better last night, I didn’t get to sleep for several hours but I did manage to sleep soundly after 02:00. The O2 sensor did yield an improvement over earlier this week.

You probably cannot tell from the picture, but I am laying on a pillow that’s pushed up above my shoulder. The pillow is on a “Wedge” raising my head well above the bed plane. My head is held back from falling forward by that brown couch pillow. Keeping my head from falling forward is a HUGE factor in preventing my central obstructions while sleeping.

Friday

We’re still working on our Invisalign braces procedures, we have two days that need a different schedule. Gym days and Wednesdays shuffle the times we eat dramatically. We had to come up with a schedule that kept the braces in as long as possible.

Spread Weed and Feed on the back yard to roll back the tall weeds today. It’s going to rain for the next three days. No letters on the CF website today. Pulled a copy of the pictures on my phone onto the network NAS. We cleaned eight of my Wife’s masks and four tanks for our CPAP machines tonight.

We watched “Aurora Teagarden Mystery: A Bone to Pick” which is the first film in a long series of movies on the Hallmark Channel.

Saturday

Listened to the WW Net while I glanced over the news. I made a couple of contacts on my radio before turning off my radio. Log of the World is still down, and it’s been a week! Breakfast was 2 hard boiled eggs and about six breakfast sausages. I need to get onto cleaning our CPAP stuff we are short of hoses. I cleaned four more tanks and one hose for my machine. We’re down to one remaining clean hose and four new ones. Pulled a backup copy of the wife’s pictures on her phone onto the NAS.

We worked on a schedule for Sundays, balancing eating with our gym/church schedule is becoming a challenge. She cannot go four hours without eating and they want us to keep the aligners in for 22 hours a day.

Drying the inside of the CPAP hoses using the dehumidifier!

We did four of the 20 hoses tonight. I’ll try and do another four hoses this week. Took another nap and we watched another Teagarden mystery before spending a minute planning our meals for next week.

I got my DMV plate renewal for the van. I’ll need to do emissions test soon since my birthday is early in July. I got lucky with the blue Focus, it ran good enough to pass emissions testing. (They didn’t even check the gas caps last time, that was the major failure.)

We watched “Aurora Teagarden Mystery: A Bone to Pick” which is the first film in a long series of movies on the Hallmark Channel for the second time LOL.

Sunday

Had a bowl of cereal for breakfast this morning. We are trying a new schedule for Sundays with her Invisalign aligners.

We had to change the time of driving to church, we arrived too early.

We watched “Real Murders: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery” which is the second film in a long series of movies on the Hallmark Channel.

We spent the evening working on planning our meals for next week. Once the meals are chosen, we build a grocery list for Tuesday’s run to Wally World.

Monday

I’ve decided not to put the huge list of items on this page from last week. I’ll go back and reach for things I can accomplish this week and post just them.

I didn’t sleep well last night, and I stopped breathing several times which resulted in me being rather tired this morning. I did have a couple boiled eggs and breakfast sausages about 4 this morning. My eyes are puffy which may explain why my nose is stuffy. I need to get some more rest if I am going to get anything accomplished today. I called Coast Dental; they are only taking emergency appointments. It may be necessary to drive there. My weight is 210, which is headed in the right direction. (It also means that I will have increasing issues with my CPAP.) K will be going to the Gym at 9:10 and she has not made a grocery list for tomorrow. I did manage to replace the memory card in the silver dash camera before K left for the gym.

I did manage to make an improvement to my sleep therapy with my O2 sensors. I can connect my phone to the sensor and it will alarm if the O2 drops below the threshold. (It also wiggles my finger, but that doesn’t always wake me.) The Delema is that my heart will compensate for the breathing FIRST. Then my O2 levels will drop, I almost need a heart rate monitor too. The O2 device does not alarm on heart rate. BOO

Well, I am awake enough to make progress with my teeth situation. But I need a shower and get dressed before I head out to their office. K is home and we have a little time to go to the Dentist office and get our lunches. We received two letters from Dahabo and one of the letters was written by her!

Drove to the dentist office and they were closed, lights off! The office hours didn’t say anything about being closed on Mondays. I called another office and they said the office was still open for business, but might be closed for today. The plan is to go there tomorrow morning. The phone number said “Thank You, Good Bye!” when I called it twice today.

We cleaned K’s Invisalign braces again today, it’s a bit of a process that we’ve decided to do on our evening meal. I created a page in her procedure book for the entire process of cleaning them.

Dinner tonight is Progresso Soup and crackers, then another Good Witch movie before bed.

Tuesday

Slept horribly last night because I decided to have a cup of coffee around 9PM. (Really BAD idea.) Slept in this morning until K woke me before going to her Dr. Apt at 9:15. I created one more page for her Invisalign braces for the morning / afternoon and sent a copy to T. I called the dentist and got an apt Thursday morning for a filling and K has an apt this afternoon for her crown that fell out.

Eggs for breakfast, I am out of breakfast sausages. I had a bowl of SMW to supplement my diet with a little fiber.

Picked up Zaxby’s salads for lunch. There’s not enough time to get much done after we eat our lunch. We put the tubs in the trunk in the hope of getting groceries, but that ended up being pushed back another day.

We went to the dentist, but we waited over an hour to have them put her crown back on. We’ll not put the Invisalign braces back on until we’re sure that the cement has hardened. She enjoyed the popsicles and ice creme bars while she can have them.

Spent a few minutes organizing her procedure book, we’ve added so many pages that they need to be divided into sections. There are plenty of tabs available, we might have to rename a couple of them.

Watched the “The Good Witch Destiny” and setup the next one which is “Halloween”. It’s strange on Amazon, if you look for a movie with the complete name it still takes several pages of scrolling before finding the correct movie. I have to believe that is done on purpose to promote movies they want us to watch.

Wednesday

Making a backup copy of my mailboxes onto a USB drive, they are terribly LARGE! I may try to compress them, it’s mostly text that should compress well. I tried playing back my DVR, as usual it refuses to play a video that was recorded. I think the playback fails because there is so much UDP traffic on the switch. Checked in with Jeanie on the WW Net this morning, the band conditions are not very good. They’ve been inconsistent all week this week. Took a shower and we need to get groceries this morning.

Went to Longhorn for lunch, we had Salmon meals this time instead of salads. Sent a friend $200 for his kids that are going overseas, and we picked up groceries at Wally-World.

We took a nap and then read the scriptures for service tonight. We picked up salads at Publix and had our dinner at a friend’s house before participating in Wednesday’s service. Watched the Good Witch Halloween for our evening after church.

Thursday

Didn’t eat breakfast, headed off to the dentist to get some teeth looked at. I am not totally convinced that my teeth are fine. But the cleaning went really quickly and no warnings from the dentist. Next apt is in 3 months, the 8th of August.

Had dinner at Longhorn, meals this time I had Salmon, and she had a steak. The long story about our meals is that with the Invisalign appliances they are not easy to remove, and you have to wait 30 minutes after eating to put them back in. We’re thinking of increasing our meal size and having just 3 meals a day again. (Which changes everything about how we’ve been eating.) A salad for lunch is not enough to carry us until supper without some starch in the meal. (We’ve been getting Zaxby’s salads every day for $22/day). We’d also like to manage the number of calories, eating a meal with an entire bottle of catchup is also not desirable. Being seniors, we don’t want to spend a great deal of time throwing 20 ingredients together to make a meal either.

We came home and took a good long nap. Moved the cars so we can take the garbage can out.

We LOVE our new dual zone electric blanket, but it needed a few changes. The controls are difficult to adjust in the middle of the night. We learned several lessons from the heated throws, a gentle warmth is all that’s needed. The heated throws were about 110 Watts (High) and constantly turned themselves off. That was WAAY too much heat and we’d get cold about 4 in the morning especially if the power went off. I started with powering the throws with 24Volts Battery power (5W) and that was not enough to offset the heat dissipated through the material. I bought 28V power supply that actually put out 29V (7W) and that worked quite well. The new electric blanket has two sections, each section is about 120 Ohms (100W) max. (One for him/One for her) The 29V (7W) was enough for me, but not enough for her. I ended up putting a 7W throw on top of the blanket so she could vary the amount of heat. In the end that caused her to be chilled when it was just the blanket and sweating with the throw and the blanket. I bought another power supply that was supposed to be 36V and it was actually only 34V (10W) for her side. So tonight, I have 7W on my side and she has 10W on her side, hopefully that will keep both of us comfy! I added one more feature to our electric blanket, it automatically turns itself off during the day.

Watched two “The Good Witch” movies Secrets of Grey House and Spellbound.

• The Good Witch premiere 2008, Hallmark, Watched
• The Good Witch Garden, 2009, Hallmark, Watched
• The Good Witch Gift, 2010, Hallmark, Watched
• The Good Witch Family, 2011, Hallmark, Watched
• The Good Witch Charm, 2012, Hallmark, Watched
• The Good Witch Destiny, 2013, Hallmark, Watched
• The Good Witch Wonder, 2014, Hallmark, Watched
• The Good Witch Halloween, 2015 Hallmark, Watched
• The Good Witch Secrets of Grey House, 2016, Hallmark, Watched
• The Good Witch Spellbound, 2017, Hallmark, Watched
• The Good Witch Tale of Two Hearts, 2018, Hallmark
• The Good Witch Curse from a rose, 2019, Hallmark

Put my nose device on and we headed to bed. My feet need some TLC and my muscles are hurting for some reason.

Friday

Didn’t get a lot of rest last night, but I should be able to get in a nap today. Had two boiled eggs for breakfast while I read the news. I took a nap while she went to the gym this morning. We both took a quick shower before heading out to Longhorn’s for lunch. I got my CAT scan accomplished then worked on the back lawn for a little while. (I should have worn sunscreen!)

Had soup for dinner and spent a good while looking at the solar storm hitting the earth this weekend. Band propagation wasn’t too bad this evening. Watched Good Witch Tale of Two hearts, there’s only one movie left.

Saturday

Heard WW try and get onto the band this morning, but apparently, they abandoned the net today. Talked with my uncle for a good bit, he couldn’t get anything on his radio. I was able to make some local contacts KY and NC, but the longer-range ones were collapsing very quickly. Worked on cleaning off the kitchen table, it gets cluttered pretty quickly. I am getting tired of logging in these Longhorn surveys.

Need to get some more socks, she’s at Target and they should have them. I need a nap, I’m too undecided this morning.

She’s back home frustrated about not being able to find the clothes she wanted at Target. We went to Longhorn’s for Lunch and back home to put her aligners back in. Then back to Lawrenceville to work out the 2nd of June service, then back home to rest. We really need a schedule for these aligners, she cannot go without eating during the day more than four hours. Best thing we’ve come up with is about four hours between the four meals. 7AM, 11AM, 3:30PM, 7:30PM. If we take a little off the 30 minutes after a meal it just might work.

Sunday is going to be interesting. Morning service starts at 11AM so we’ll have to postpone lunch until 12:30 and our snack at 3:30 will probably be more like 4PM.

Sunday, Mother’s Day

No Longhorn’s today, it’s going to be PACKED. I’ll try and talk to mom this morning. My phone is currently on the charger, it was down to 13%. I sent mom a text wishing her a happy Mother’s Day already. I didn’t sleep well last night. We’re still trying to figure out the sleeping and eating arrangements with the Invisalign devices. I think we’ll need to eat four times a day, but she’s thinking only three. Church this morning is at 11, we’ll drive there about 10:30. I’ve already cut up the sweet potatoes for lunch, we’ll add ham and frozen veggies. (I should be able to heat the veggies and cook the sweet potatoes at the same time.) Jessica and Jeff are at a baby shower, so we’ll likely be sitting alone today. WW Net was a bust as the propagation is still bad.

We’re now three weeks waiting for the Estate Taxes to be done. We could owe as much as 7K and as little as $100, I just don’t know. The risky part is that the Estate Lawyers took their fees out of the pre-tax dollars and then didn’t take the taxes out of the IOLTA before giving the remainder to the heirs. (I should have been able to hold it and distribute it myself.)