Monthly Archives: October 2023

Can You Hear My Sigh of Relief?

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I’ve been fighting with my WordPress program all day long. I hit some awful combination of keys and inadvertently made the viewing screen unusable, as far as writing anything. One word would fill up the entire screen. I couldn’t even tell which page I was on, much less where I was on the page.

Of course, the chat help people weren’t available today. I couldn’t figure out how to email them, or to explain the problem in a way an expert could help me fix it.

I’ve worked on it, then given up in defeat countless times today. At least it gave me a reason to brave the heat and strong sun to do more weed tree weeding in my current project area. I would work out there, get overheated and tired and come back in, rest, try to fix the WordPress problem again, then do it all again.

A few minutes ago I sat down once again. I looked across the top of my screen again and suddenly saw a ‘400%’ I hadn’t noticed before. I went up to it, changed it to ‘100%’ and my problem was fixed. Ahhhhhhh!

When I caused the problem, I had been trying to change an ‘n’ to a Spanish ‘n’. I had looked up the procedure and it said to hit ‘control’ then ‘shift’ and then ‘n’. When I did that, I got 99 screens one on top of the other of my email screen PLUS the unusable WordPress screen. Needless to say, this non-technical person will just forego the change in the artist’s name the next time I try to share his work with you.

I am SOOOOOOOOOOO relieved right now! :0)

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Breathtaking Paper Sculpture

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Happy October!

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I’m hoping that THIS month the weather will finally turn fall-like. It doesn’t need to stun me with all colors of leaves on the trees. I don’t have to have all the things I love about the fall – sweaters and hoodies, hot chocolate, videos of dogs or kids jumping into piles of leaves, etc. I would just really appreciate being able to work outside without being warned of heat stroke, conscientiously keeping my outside sessions short, having to take half an hour or more with a cold drink to bring my temperature down after one of these short sessions.

There is something about lowering of temperatures that makes me SO much more energetic. I love to putter around in my yard and my garden, cleaning things up, making plans for the spring, just enjoying the sunshine and cool breezes.

I’ve done one short session in the yard today so far. It is forecast to be 92 this afternoon. UGH. I’ll try to get several sessions in anyway, since we don’t have errands today.

I hope it’s nice where you are. I wish you a happy October.

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One Thing Leads to Another

Our driveway detector went off while I was at the computer. We have TWO detectors. When one goes off, it’s probably a deer in the driveway or another critter. When one goes off followed quickly by the second, a vehicle is on its way up.

I got up to see if it was, in fact, a deer because the last few mornings, I’ve been treated to quite a view of them. Some run right off, but other stop and stare at me as I’m staring at them. It’s wonderful.

This morning I didn’t see anything, but on the way back to the house, noticed my elephant ears needed a bit of cleaning up. I took these pics –

It’s still a bit misty this morning, but this group of elephant ears is blooming the best I can remember. The leaves are way taller than I am. That’s really appreciated this year because my garden was essentially a bust due to the wonky weather we had. It’s good to know that some things really enjoy the highs and lows we’ve had, the storms, etc., and thrive anyway.

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