Month: March 2022

What the heck is going on in the states?

$6.99/gal. for regular gas? We are paying about $4/gal. here, and have been for quite some time. But that is just about half of what you are paying in the states. That is crazy.

I did not think I would voice my opinion about such things, but come on; that is ridiculous. Call, or write to your Congressional representative, and tell them to open up the Keystone XL pipeline, and restart pumping American oil, and natural gas. No one can afford such extreme costs.

The cost of your groceries, for one thing, is going to sky rocket, with truckers having to find the money to pay for their gas. Farmers will find it difficult to take their crops to market, etc., and it will just keep getting worse.

Find out who represents your county, and notify them, frequently, that this has got to stop. And tell them to leave Kamala at home; she is ignorant, and insulting. The world is laughing at the US. What a shame.

Stay happy, stay healthy, stay safe. Wash your hands, cover your mouth, and protect your loved ones.

We have a new app down here called Justo™.

It is a food delivery app that allows you to place an order online, which is delivered to your door whatever day and time you schedule it. I have used it three times now, and absolutely love it.

Mostly, I order eggs, fresh fruit, and vegetables. The first time I placed an order, I order some different cuts of beef; sirloin steaks, coarsely ground beef, and short ribs. I will never do that again. The steaks were so full of gristle we could hardly chew it.

The second time I used it, I ordered, among other things, a bunch of celery. This is what I got.

I do not remember ever seeing a bunch of celery that large in my entire life. I gave half of it to Liz as I cannot think of enough ways to use all of that in a year. I cut off the tops, then wrapped it in the aluminum foil that you can see. It is supposed to remain fresh, in the fridge, up to three weeks. We shall see.

There is a fairly new chain of stores in the area called meatme ™, which sells mostly meat, obviously. They, too, have an app which one can use to place an order, and either have it delivered, or pick it up in the closest store. We are going to try that in the very near future, as well. There are several stores in fairly close proximity to us, so I believe we will have to go to one of them to pick up our order. We are hoping they have more quality cuts of meat, not just gristle. The prices appear equal to what we are used to paying, and if the meat is of good quality, we do not mind paying for that quality.

I think that is about all I have to relay today. Stay happy, stay healthy, stay safe. Wash your hands, cover your mouth, and protect your loved ones.

Today, I spent the better part of two hours cleaning an old(er) keyboard that I wanted to use, now that Ivan has helped me find, and set up my previous MacMini; the last one I used while still in the states.

It was filthy to say the least. Unfortunately, I did not take a photo of it, but I doubt you would have been able to see much of the staining. Now, it is so pretty, clean, and white.

It was fun, actually, taking off all of the individual keys, putting them into the boiled water, with some Dawn dish soap, and cleaning each tab with a clean cloth. I set them out to dry, then replaced each tab to its rightful space on the naked, but clean, keyboard.

I had, fortunately, taken a good photo of said keyboard last night, while completely illuminated, and was able to use that as a guide when repositioning the tabs. I do believe it would have been more than I could have managed, trying to put them all back without a photo. Yikes.

However, as I said, we have the MacMini back up, and running. Now I can print my Google calendar which has all of our bills on it, the payment amounts, on the due dates. I add up the weeks payments, subtract that from our current balance, to get a better idea of how much money we do, or do not have. Always entertaining.

While I pay bills, stay happy, stay healthy, stay safe. Wash your hands, cover your mouth, and protect your loved ones.

Every day, it seems, I learn something new.

The other day, I learned a new way to cut up melons. It leaves so much more of the fruit intact that I doubt I will ever cut it like I always did. Let me show you.

Easy peasy. I suppose there are myriad ways to slice melons; this just happens to be the one I saw most recently. Unfortunately it is not as sweet as I was hoping, but the skin was starting to look a bit dimpled and I did not want it to get too ripe.

Stay happy, stay healthy, stay safe. Wash your hands, cover your mouth, and protect your loved ones.