Month: November 2014

Dad hooked up the old computer to the new monitor and keyboard and I’m good to go, with all my sign-ins and passwords. So I can post again. The old computer, it seems, was not the problem, but since we didn’t pay anything for the new system, I don’t really care. Dad is using the new laptop and I’m happy as a clam with the old computer, now that I can see the monitor again.

I had my first group lessons this week Monday and Tuesday. They went very well. I learned some things that I needed to tweak between the Monday and Tuesday groups – making things easier or getting more material ready, so Tuesday went more smoothly, although the one Monday class was the largest – 5 kids. The others were all two or three. I had fun and I think the kids did, too. The main event was a Jeapardy-type game on music theory concepts. If nothing else, they learned/relearned a lot of material. Then we did some rhythm recognition and some style recognition. And the five person class played duck-duck-goose, because they were done early!

Today I did some of the cleaning for tomorrow, plus made Sherlock’s rice/meat dog food and granola and cookies, as long as the oven was hot. 🙂 And gave the dogs a bath.

We are having steak tomorrow, but with all the other normal Thanksgiving things – cranberries, stuffing, rolls, pie. (I see way too much poultry, what with making Sherlock’s food every 10 days, to get too excited about turkey.) I won a $50 gift certificate for the local grocery store, so I bought everything needed for the day for only about $10 of our own money!

Happy thanksgiving to you all!

It actually ended up being a not-very-photogenic snowfall. But I did take a few shots for those of you without snow. The first three were taken through the screen on the dining room window, which is why they are not very clear.

I got up to no snow at all and checked the radar and it looked like we were right under the whole big system of weather. But apparently it was mostly clouds over us. But, then, about 6:00 a.m., it started to snow that very tiny, almost misty snow. But that stuff still piles up quickly, so it is starting to look significant.

Cameron schools have closed for the day and Bloomer is closing at 1:00 and canceling all evening activities.  It will be interesting to see what Chetek does. Today is the fall choir concert, but that is a rather insignificant activity in the whole school picture. No one would want to send kids home, then have it clear right up, but I’m sure no one would want a whole school-full of kids that can’t get home because the buses can’t get through!

10:45 Update – they announced that the kids will be sent home at 1:00 and that the concert is off for tonight. So I can just stay home and shovel the sidewalk!

We have not been able to pick up internet from the living part of the house, although we have it up in the office, where the computer is. The main inconvenience of this is that when I want to watch Netflix, I have to unhook the router and something else from the computer and bring it, attached to a long and often tangled wire, to the back of the house and plug it in the bathroom outlets. The same thing, in reverse, when I am done. Plus, Dad can’t use the internet on the computer when I’m using it for the t.v.

So the other day, I had a brainstorm. I have perfectly comfortable chairs in the waiting room, and plenty of room, and it is just on the other side of the wall from the office, so the internet would work on the Netflix if the t.v. was moved to the waiting room.

So I did the move today. It involved disconnecting all the wires involved in the t.v., dvd player, Wii machine, video player, etc., as well as unloading everything from the drawers of the entertainment center and moving the furniture around. But I got it all done and hooked up myself. (Dad was gone all day). I just took pictures of all the connections before I unhooked them, then hooked them up the same way when it was all moved. And everything worked fine. Then I moved the dvds from the dvd shelf unit (that has seen better days) into the drawers of the entertainment center, got rid of the dvd shelf unit, and rearranged the living room part of our house, now that it has a lot more room. There is even room for a small recliner, if we happen to find one.

So, movie and Netflix watching will be done in the waiting room and reading and listening to music will be done in the living room. I actually do as much of the latter as the former, so I’m very pleased with the transformation. Dad said he likes it better, too. (And he doesn’t have to figure out how to get the internet to the back of the house, now!)