I don't believe we've had any rain since I posted about it last, but we did have a couple minor air quality warnings that didn't amount to much. Mostly in the 'Moderate' category so nothing like what we had a couple weeks ago. It's still a thing and still affecting other areas too so we may get another bad spell, we'll see. Anyway, a few new things happening around here lately.
- A couple months ago we got a new vacuum, a Bissell Pet Hair Eraser, and boy does it get up the cat hair. We've stuck with Oreck for a long time now, but I'm glad I decided to try another brand. This small house, and I still have to empty it halfway through - and we only have the two rugs, no carpet!
- Speaking of the cats, they got a new cat tree same as the old cat trees. Availability of them have been sporadic, so a year or two ago when I saw it available again I ordered another. We had a nice one when they were young that they outgrew, now we're on the fourth cat tree of this type, one of the few cat trees I've seen that I'd say is for adult cats. They've not been as hard on them as they've gotten older, 11 years old last April, so not sure if we'll need another. The old one from the front windows is now the porch cat tree, I disassembled it just enough to put it back together with the best of the used sisal rope pillars as I've done before. The cat's don't care.
- A few months ago my wife's phone, same as mine at the time, bricked. She just woke up and the phone was dead, but luckily and thanks to Amazin we had her another phone late that very day. Since then, my Pixel 3XL has had a couple hiccups. Nothing major, just acting up slightly, and I was due for an upgrade so I got a new Pixel 7A. Now, transitioning to a new smart phone is always a pain in the butt, right? Not anymore. First off, Google pretty much owns me - gmail, blogger, youtube, chrome, fitbit - all that and more. Much of the reason I got us Pixels last time. But upgrading from an older Pixel to a new one is the easiest transition you can imagine. The new phone showed all the same backgrounds, and all the icons in all the same places like it was the same phone. You have to download them again, but they make that really easy, too. I think I'll be sticking with Pixels as long as I have a smart phone.
- But, on September 14, 2022, Google notified me that I had used 50% of my 15GB storage. Now last week they notified me that was up to 70%. How? I've deleted a ton of old emails and drastically reduced the amount of pictures I take since then. Now I will go through my old pictures I have in Google photos and delete everything unnecessary - I'm up to January 2017. I'd always taken many more pictures than needed so I could pick and choose the best ones, thinking it's all digital anyway, but that seems to have caught up to me. And I DO NOT want to have to pay for storage. The alternative is to just not back up my photos in Google, just on my hard drives. Also a real possibility.
- Not a lot to report on the new trail camera yet. I tried giving it a go a few times with no success until I finally figured out the new SD card had a little switch to protect it that I must have nudged after the first use. It's currently out in the garden watching over the pepper plants which have gotten munched on by critters, likely rabbits, due to how dry it's been. The peppers are now caged again and I haven't had any other use for the trail cam yet so I've let it be for now.
- Later this week I have new sandals coming, a new kitchen faucet, and a new baguette baking pan. I found a new recipe for french bread that is supposed to be very versatile and it makes a lot of dough so I expect to have a couple baguettes, some buns or rolls, try my hand at pepperoni rolls, and maybe a round loaf. So a day of baking coming up this weekend.
The garlic will be early this year due to the weather. My wife checked it last weekend and it was almost ready to come out of the ground, so we'll be checking it again this weekend. And the sunflowers are doing good. Well, one is doing great, another not too bad, and two others seem stunted but so far I'm letting them grow to see if anything will happen. I just went out to grab a picture, and it is now officially taller than me! As you see here, the leaves always seem to get a bit droopy in the late afternoon sun, but they always come back. Cheers!
Correction edit: My wife picked all the garlic while I was on my walk this afternoon. I just noticed now!
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Sue bought a new rechargeable vacuum, a hand held one much to my consternation as we have two vacuums already. Three weeks later and she announced it's useless. I'll use it for the car as that's all it is fit for and use the Henry for the house.
Yes, a nice thought but not always good in practice! We have one from Oreck that came in a package deal years ago that plugs into the lighter socket. Not sure if we even still have it or not, it wasn't very useful.
Henry? We don't name them, do you?
That’s the product name, very popular vacuum over here. Perhaps I should name the new rechargeable one Useless Eustace!
I've never yet met a good handheld vacuum.
We have a Bissell carpet shampooer which has given good service. I will have a look see if they do vacuums over here as we will need a new one soon and it's nice to have some ideas in mind.
Mr BW has harvested our garlic too - bumper year, huge cloves!
Ours never get huge, but are good cloves. Not sure if it's the type of garlic she plants or the soil, but it gives us more than enough and has been working for us so I won't question it.
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