IT HASN'T OCCURRED TO ME YET

Andrew popped over Sunday evening and finished refining my Eastlink TV provider's 'stand by' problem.  Although my newly installed SiriusXM channels play continuously with no standby interruptions, my Eastlink channels were still going into 'standby mode' ever two hours.  To solve this problem, Andrew hooked up an 'Apple Box' gizmo that I had recently purchased and this has basically turned my smart television into an even smarter, Apple Television.  It was no easy task, having once again to use passwords, verification numbers, my iPhone, and even my laptop.  But Andrew, very methodically and patiently worked through each step and challenge along the way.  With all the trouble I've had in this past year and a half with passwords and stuff, I never thought we'd make it.  But luck was on our side, and the passwords I entered for SiriusXM, Eastlink, Apple, and Microsoft, all seemed to somehow magically work.  I could hardly believe that they did.  Instead of me just sitting and watching Andrew do everything, he had me operating the new Apple remote for much of the whole operation, which probably took well over half an hour to complete.  So, it's a different way of doing things now with the new Apple system and remote.  But, by golly, I'm getting on to it, despite my continuing memory challenges.  Andrew has also offered to come over and install Amazon Prime (movies) and YouTube.  Incidentally, YouTube is one of my Aunt Jean's favorite things on her TV way down there in that Sarasota, Florida place.  So, again a big thank you to Andrew for all his patience, his wealth of knowledge, and his time in helping with this overall TV problem that I had been enduring for quite a while now.  I marvel at his calm demeanor and ease in working through what seemed to me to be one big huge schmozzle of mind-numbing techno stuff. 

 THE WHITE BOX ON THE LEFT IS EASTLINK'S EERO BOX AND THE SMALL BLACK BOX ON THE RIGHT-HAND SIDE IS THE APPLE BOX....IN BETWEEN IS A LONG BLACK BOSE SOUNDBAR

With a full Moon scheduled to rise a short time after 10 p.m. Sunday night, I slipped out to my night sky spot and took a few photos.

I skipped my walk this morning because I had a few household chores I wanted to wrap up before the Inspector General arrived later.  Vacuuming, dishes, laundry, and some dusting.  Outside, I fired up the leaf blower and blew all the peanut shells off the front porch and deck that had accumulated from my little Chipmunk Pals, leaving them behind.  Of course, it hasn't occurred to me yet that if I didn't feed the little monkeys peanuts out there, I wouldn't have that messy problem.

 A ROW OF OSAGE ORANGE TREES ALONGSIDE THE ROAD

Woodsy rolled in somewhere around 1 p.m., and luckily, the house and I passed inspection with barely a shaky quiver on my part.  All was good, but of course....why wouldn't it be.  It didn't take us long to saddle up our E-Bikes and head on into Bayfield on this sunny, warm, but windy cool Monday afternoon.  We stopped at the Shop Bike Coffee Roasters for coffee and sat outside along Main Street.  It was chilly in the shade.  From there, we headed for the south end of Bayfield to a mobile home Park called, Paul Bunyan Lakeside Resort.  After a ride through Paul Bunyan, and with the wind blowing from the northwest, it was a long and sometimes quite chilly ride all the way back home.  Probably about three miles.  But, it was okay and just nice to get out on the bikes and get some much-needed leg exercise.  And, keep in mind that these are E-Bikes, which means one does not have to pedal if one does not want to.  The bikes have battery power and can be pedaled manually, or power-assisted while pedaling, or full on power with no pedaling.  We always ride with the 'power assist' on, so sometimes our legs add the power, and sometimes the bike's battery supplies the power. These E-Bikes are somewhere between a manual bicycle and a motorcycle.  And, by golly, I have now had experience with all three.

 PARKED IN FRONT OF THE COFFEE SHOP

I think Aunt Jean, who will be turning 99 in about six weeks, is mixing it up in Sarasota Florida's manic traffic chaos again.  Aunt Jean's best friend Pat, somewhere in her mid-eighties, fell and broke her hip and right wrist last week and is currently hospitalized, and possibly staring down the barrel of a lengthy re-hab.  She offered Jean the use of her car while she is recuperating.  This will enable Jean to still go a few places on her own, like her hairdresser, and the bank, etc.  Aunt Jean does not like having to depend on people to do things for her.  Hmmm, that seems to run in our family.  A friend of Jean and Pat was going to drive Jean over to Pat's place Saturday morning for Jean to pick up Pat's car.  I haven't heard anything different since Friday night so I'm assuming Aunt Jean has been out there in that Sarasota traffic showing the young folks how to drive.  She is an excellent driver, by the way, because Kelly and I rode with her a few times, nearly a decade ago, when we twice decided to drop in to see her either on our way to the southwest or on our way home.  I think I posted some pictures of that about three months ago or so.

 THERE ARE TWO PLANETS IN THIS iPHONE PHOTO...JUPITER ON THE FAINTER LEFT AND VENUS ON THE LOWER BRIGHTER RIGHT

Al's Music Box:: Under The Boardwalk by The Drifters.

GROANER'S CORNER:(( A couple in their nineties are both having problems remembering things. During a checkup, the doctor tells them that they're physically okay, but they might want ton start writing things down to help them remember. Later that night, while watching TV, the old man gets up from his chair.'Want anything while I'm in the kitchen?' he asks. 'Will you get me a bowl of ice cream?' 'Sure.' 'Don't you think you should write it down so you can remember it?' she asks. 'No, I can remember it.' Well, I'd like some strawberries on top, too. Maybe you should write it down, so's not to forget it?' He says, 'I can remember that. You want a bowl of ice cream with strawberries.' 'I'd also like whipped cream. I'm certain you'll forget that, write it down?' she asks. Irritated, he says, 'I don't need to write it down, I can remember it! Ice cream with strawberries and whipped cream - I got it, for goodness sake!' Then he toddles into the kitchen. After about 20 minutes, The old man returns from the kitchen and hands his wife a plate of bacon and eggs. She stares at the plate for a moment and asks, 'Where's the toast ?'

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- What do you call a four-foot-tall psychic that escaped from jail? A small medium at large.

- If Shakespeare were alive today, he'd write Oil Wells that End Well.

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An elderly woman had just returned to her home from an evening of church services when she was startled by an intruder. She caught the man in the act of robbing her home of its valuables and yelled, "Stop! Acts 2:38!" (Repent and be baptized, in the name of Jesus Christ so that your sins may be forgiven.) The burglar stopped in his tracks. The woman calmly called the police and explained what she had done.

As the officer cuffed the man to take him in, he asked the burglar, "Why did you just stand there? All the old lady did was yell a scripture at you." "Scripture?" replied the burglar. "She said she had an ax and two 38's!"

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