Where we’ve been birding since the lockdown

 

 

United States

Spain

Panama

Australia

Canada

Czech Republic

Germany

Japan

United Kingdom

Caribbean Netherlands

Netherlands

Finland

Brazil

South Africa

Latvia

Israel

Kenya

New Zealand

Bermuda

 

A brutal virtual travel schedule, but we’re up to the task.

 

May 8

 

Happy Birthday, Dad.  Born in 1910; 110 years ago, today.  He’s been gone a long time; 52 years; only lived to 1968.

 

He and Mom were there at Travis Air Force Base outside of Sacramento in 1966 to welcome me back from overseas and drive me home to Long Beach in the De Soto.

 

And for our wedding.

 

Happy Anniversary to us

 

Fifty years.  Our golden anniversary.

 

We enjoyed our fiftieth anniversary so much, such a milestone, we couldn’t imagine topping that, so we have continued to celebrate it every day since.  Today the is 1,460th daily anniversary of our fiftieth wedding anniversary (fifty-four years).

 

Morning coffee on the deck, inside if it’s too cool outside (not lately), a daily salute.  Happy anniversary.  Staying golden.

 

 

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.