Living Without WiFi.

 Living Without WiFi.

 

Just shut off the wifi to your house and see what happens. Unless you happen to have several books already downloaded and open on your Kindle—or a bookcase full of good books to hold in your hand, it makes your life take a different direction. For sure you won’t be sitting on your backside playing solitaire or any other game. In fact, my TV does not even work without the WiFi signal! How is that for limitations. It just so happens that my Kindle is loaded with good books so sitting in the room with Anne was not boring because if she slept, the book kept me company. But if the book had not already been downloaded and opened, nothing was ready to read. That is a major problem for me since reading is one of my major pastimes. And the Kindle makes it so much easier since the font can be adjusted to be easily read. No teeny tiny words to strain one’s eyes, ya know.

 

The young man from Santa Rosa (Pinnacle) Communications got here after 1:30 this afternoon, set up a new router, and waited until my computer was up and catching everything it needed to work. He was in and out in less than 30 minutes!

 

Texting back and forth with my daughter this morning, she assured me that Aunt Caroline is doing great! She came home from the hospital yesterday and is moving around much better than the old woman did after my surgery. She only had the back surgery part and did not have to have her insides removed and then put back in some kind of order, so that may have been part of the difference. But Caroline is also much older than this old woman. Anyway, Jennifer was so happy for a couple of reasons: her patient is doing well for one thing, but her new car had also come in. Right now, it is in the garage, but Gary sent a picture to her. It is called a Lincoln Aviator. It is just plain white, but that works well for her. She will have more than one reason to look forward to getting back home. Of course, she has Gary’s laptop with screens to do her work remotely, so no way will she have time to get bored. She will be doing all the house work, cooking, cleaning, and whatever is needed that Aunt Caroline will not be doing for a while—plus working on the accounts for H&O. Her youngest son has started back to work there for two days a week while he is in college classes. The oldest has only one class now before he graduates, so he may take a couple of weeks off sometime soon and spend a week with me. Having those boys around is so much fun. Just have to remember that it is called a “vacation” for a reason. It’s always tempting to get them to do stuff that the old woman can’t do.

 

Got out and cleaned up the chicken coop this morning. Noticed a few minutes ago that the plastic liner for the top shelf had slid down the back of the shelf, so in a bit that will have to be put back in place and anchored. Had a heavier plastic tablecloth up there and switched places with the liner on the bottom shelf. THAT didn’t work out very well. Not a biggie. The hens have not been laying, but Jenn suggested that the hens might be traumatized by whatever got Rusty Lady. That had not even occurred to me! With the weather getting cooler, they may start laying again pretty soon. Still think a stupid rat snake is getting in there and enjoying some fresh eggs. That alone might get them stirred up, so moved the nests to the middle coop today. It might take a couple of days to let them get used to that, but that is where they laid their eggs before.

Called the nursing home this morning to check on Anne. The nurse who had just come on duty said that she had not been to her room, but on report they said that everyone was fine. My weekly trip will be tomorrow to see how things are going. Erin did not let me know what Dr. Parkey said one way or the other, but my plan is to see if Anne wants to use a walker to get to the dining room for her three meals a day. If her condition is to ever get any better, she will have to be able to get up and take care of herself. Still not sure her confusion is any better, but we will see what tomorrow brings.

 

Have a saddle blanket in my leather recliner. Came in a while ago and found the back pushed back as if someone had been lying down. Think Thompson must have jumped out and pushed it back like that. These dogs are not the least bit spoiled!!

 

Sterling said he had to wear a heavy jacket, a hat, and gloves to do some brush hogging up in Missouri for a friend. He told the guy he needed to get a tractor and learn how to do it himself because Sterling does not plan to keep it up. The guy pays him $250 a trip, but it is real work—not just play. The man said he would have to get Sterling to teach him how to do it. With the temperatures dropping up there, it is not good for old bones, plus that is not easy work bouncing around on a tractor seat. Even our little tractor could provide a major workout for muscles the old woman was not accustomed to exercising.

 

Unless we get rain, mowing is not going to be an issue the rest of this year. The grass and weeds are just crunchy. Guess griping does not help much, but still prefer green grass to the possibility of fires all over the place. What little rain we got helped the weeds to grow big enough to make bigger fires, so Wichita County has another burn ban in effect. At least we don’t have 150 mph winds hitting our part of the country taking out the electricity. Florida and South Carolina might want to trade places for a couple of days—or not.

 

Every time Sterling calls, we talk about something their classes have discussed about the Bible. His men’s class meets on Thursdays, and they are going through Daniel and Revelation a little bit at a time. Would love to be able to listen in on those lessons, but it’s not like a class could not be found in this part of the world. Well, for that matter, many of the books of the Bible have been written about and are available either in books or in articles online. AnnaBeth Graf got me interested in sermons by a minister named Alistair Begg. He seems to stick with the Bible and what it says without trying to make it say something he thinks it should say. That matters.

 

Really do not have any of the latest mess in my mind from news stories. That was another benefit of being offline for a couple of days! A person can’t let something bother them unless they either read or hear about it, huh? Maybe a day a week without internet would be a good thing!

 

May we all be grateful that God has a plan that WILL be done according to His desires. But meanwhile, we can pray for peace and protection. Let us practice love in the way He has shown us.

 

Rest well, my friends. You are loved.