Strange things I don't know how to fix yet on this blog

I hope you missed me as it has been a while since I last posted. We are well and all is good. However, that was not the case with my old MacBook Pro laptop. Would you believe I purchased it in 2012 and it had been a wonderful tool all these years. Unfortunately, lately it did not open certain websites, could not be updated anymore and the lithium battery got very hot when it was being charged. It was time to look at a replacement. This post comes to you from my new 13” MacBook Air, M2 chip. 

 

Let me tell you I had no idea what a learning experience awaited me to start using this new laptop. We use iPads and iPhones as well and after a dozen years with Apple I thought how difficult could it be to use a new device from Apple. Ha, I had to say goodbye to “Word” the writing program I used for decades because I am not willing to dish out $$ for a new version. Also I had to say goodbye to iPhoto and Picasa which had been my tools I used for this blog. There were other applications that are no longer working or are different on this new Mac, but those are minor compared to the above. So new apps replace those lost and I am trying to learn and master them. Life is a learning curve!

 

This Clematis I was going to throw away last fall, so I cut it down to the ground. This is all new growth this spring 

 If you have a garden, you can understand that I had to spend quite a bit of time in the past weeks working on the garden beds planting new flowers, weeding and adding more soil. Again, as I did in previous years, I prepared pots and planted various types of tomatoes, zucchini, peppers, onions and herbs. It is disappointing for me to find that some perennials that were purchased last year did not survive this winter. Perhaps there were too many temperature fluctuations or the zoning was not correct. Oh well.

 

 

Benno was not spared with a problem of his own as he discovered that on the warmest day the air-conditioning on our truck stopped working. Of course we hoped it was the serpentine belt or only the loss of freon, but no, we needed a new compressor installed and since last year those had doubled in price. Ouch! Presently he is reinstalling the anchor winch that he dismantled and serviced on the boat and the same goes for the Webasto hot air heating unit. Also he switched batteries between the boat and the travel trailer. Benno is considering to change the guts of the trailer’s converter charger part over or replace it, that it could charge beside wet cell and AGM batteries future Lithium ION or Sodium ION batteries too. He likes to go Lithium ION or Sodium ION in the near future and the converter is the first step, followed by a DC to DC isolator charger to protect the towing vehicle. This will involve some wiring too. The trailer’s solar panels controller can handle Lithium and need only a program selection! Apparently Lithium ION and Sodium ION batteries have the same charging parameters.

In the house we made a few improvements with added LED lamps in the shower unit, cutting and installing new curtains in the living room and hanging a new picture.

 

 

Last but not least we enjoyed another visit from my sister and brother-in-law and at those occasions our travel trailer doubles as a guest suite. While we were all out for a stroll in the neighbourhood, I showed them the goldfish that were having a feeding frenzy in the Lake Erie runoff creek. I have no idea what they were after.

 

So I hope future blog updates will go smoothly.

 

Thanks for reading my blog!