Adventures of a New Computer

 Spent most of yesterday morning sitting in this chair trying to get my desktop to look like my previous desktop.  So far I have eight sites on the screen.  I am definitely not a computer nerd so it is an accomplishment to get them.  Several of them have the same Google logo (Why?  I don;t have a clue.)  This computer is a HP  Pavilion.  It was loaded with Microsoft browser which, with some difficulty, changed to Google.  I don't know if it is better but I am more familiar with it.
   Several hours yesterday morning were spent in the past.  I plugged in several old jump drives and scrolled through the photos and documents.  It was great fun.  I picked some of best and put them on this computer.  Here are a couple.

Something New

   Remember when I spilled the water?  Remember I thought that I had dodged the bullet?  It turns out that I was not so lucky.  Several days ago the trouble started.  After a long boot up time my screen only showed date and time.  Nothing else.  No response to keys strokes.  The mother board was damaged.  Fired the computer repair shop stated.  Not a good thing.
   Bottom line.  Money spent.  New computer.  Mixed thoughts.
Nice to have new equipment but because my old computer couldn't be started up, the data on it did not follow.  Don't know know if I will ever get it back.  The Office Depot tech had to remove the hard drive so it is understandable that things did not work out as planned.
    I will call Office Depot.  Maybe things can be done.  Maybe not.  Any way it happens, life goes on.

Water and Computers

They don't mix.  So when I spilled my Yeti on my laptop I was frantic.  I wiped what I could, tipped it upside down, removed the battery.  Got Randa's blow drier and blew the heck out of it.   Then I got a space heater and placed the computer in a large cardboard box and aimed the warm air into the box.  The efforts worked because I am typing this right now.   Whew !

Clematis update

   Picked up our new Clematis "Morning Mist" on Wednesday without a hitch.  It will be nice when th and seee public is allowed to roam the grounds again.  The flowers are amazing.  We found a spot for it right away when we got home.  The Clematis comes with an instruction sheet to cover care and feeding and also planting instructions.
    The instructions informed us to dig a hole 18 inches deep, done.  Put in potting soil, done.  Take the plant out of the pot, done.  Cut off the top half of the plant,  done.  What ???  Yup, By removing half of the plant the roots don't have to work as hard to get the Clematis accustomed to it's new home.  I felt awful throwing the top half, with new growth, into the recycle bin, but I guess the garden knows what it is doing.   We will wait patiently for new growth.

Another album

Another great album cover. 1969 for this one.;

Best Album Cover

I received a turntable for Christmas.  Since we arrived home I have a chance to dig out a box filled with vinyl memories.

Song for America

Clematis

Flowers make me smile.  They help make a yard look better.  Grass is grass.  It's nice to have and easy to keep here in the Pacific Northwest.  In the deserts of the Southwest, not so much.  However you can always have flowers.  Desert flowers have all the beauty of Oregon flowers.  Differently, but beautiful non-the-less.  I have put some of the flowers we have enjoyed on our stays in Arizona and beyond.  Being away from home for up to 8 months of the years has kept us from doing much in our yard here in Canby.  \
    This year is different.  It appears we will be Oregon bound for the rest of the year so we have been busy in the dirt.  Planting new. Transplanting old.  Adding new to existing pots.  More changes to come.  A new addition will be a new clematis.  The trellis on the east side of the house has two  small vines with small wine red and dark purple flowers.  Walking around the neighborhood I have seen some large vines bursting with large pink flowers.  That's what I wanted.
    Enter Roberson Clematis Garden in Lake Oswego.  Visited it last year in the fall.  Even then it was amazing.  Made a note to return in the spring summer.  Well, the city has not opened it yet so operations are limited.  You can, however, still buy Clematis from them.  They cultivate and sell types that cannot be purchased at nurseries. ( They do not want to be competing with nurseries.)  So after a phone call and conversation with a volunteer and a visit to clematisontheweb I found the one that we ordered.  We will pick it up on Wednesday.  Kinds sounds like we are adopting a puppy.

This is Clematis Morning Mist.