The sorghum is fruiting.
Beans are looking good.
Sugar cane.
The onions have been harvested and bagged.
The challenge
We have a smart TV with apps for VUDU, HULU, and Netflix. We want to watch Amazon Prime, but our TV has a few years on it and Amazon Prime wasn’t a thing when the TV was installed.
The fix is easy. Buy an Amazon Firestick, plug it in, and voila. Amazon Prime. But I have a logic problem with that. Our TV is fully capable of running apps. Why not download an app for Amazon Prime and watch what we want without spending the extra money to buy an extraneous piece of hardware to bypass what the television can already do?
The problem is, my logic isn’t getting us anywhere. Even with YouTube I can’t figure out how to download a new app onto our old TV.
Another rare bird
At the Louisville house.
We put that pelican weathervane on the roof probably twenty-five years ago. Nancy, who still lives in the neighborhood, just updated us with this photo. After all these years, even as the house has changed hands, the pelican still stands.
Galah
It’s a kind of cockatoo that lives in Australia. These are in front of a feeder cam on a lawn in New South Wales. You can watch them live here: https://australianbirdcams.com/evans-head-cam/ if you tune in in the afternoon or evening from the U.S. Otherwise it’s dark because it’s night there in Australia.
Sheltering in place
Lockdown. For weeks. Not that lockdown is all that restrictive for us. We have a house with plenty of room, warm weather and a deck for sitting, a yard for yard work, and a neighborhood with streets and no traffic for walking.
Judy, however, is feeling up to new projects. And what does any new project require? Yes. That’s right. More flowers! And more rocks! Time for some shopping. But with social distancing. Outdoor shopping only.
So we dressed up as stage coach robbers and off we went.
To the plant nursery and the rock store.
It felt good to get out.
And another thing. This week we did something we have never in our lives done before. We replaced a water heater that had yet to make a mess! When we lived in Louisville, Colorado, the water heater, of course, was located in the basement which had no drain. Our early warning system for water heater failure was when we stepped into ankle-deep water. The old water heater here is rated for eight years. It has been in service now for eleven with not a hint of trouble. To honor its fine dedicated service and exceptional performance, we retired it and had a nice new 40 gallon heater installed. Angel, our favorite plumber, came in, kept his distance, we all wore masks, and everyone doused themselves with hand sanitizer after.
Life goes on.