My son recently messaged me a Google Meet link to a meeting he was planning to join…
Mom, could you join the meeting to test the mic on my earbuds? I want to make sure they’re working properly.
Yikes! Glad to help… but I’ve never done that before!
(What if I accidentally join the real meeting?!)
It ended well: I was able to give quick feedback - and I didn’t join the actual meeting! (I guess no one shows up early at virtual meetings either.)
Early spring is my favorite time for working outdoors in the yard…
Why?!
No bugs!!
A few days ago I spent several hours raking pine cones, pine needles, dead branches and other winter debris out of our front flower beds. Terry and I managed to fill 5 garbage bins. The next day, 7 more!
Lawn care can wait… It was fun to be working outdoors again!
My daughter and I play the daily online “Wordle” game and share our results. (It’s not really a competition…)
I look forward to the challenge of guessing each days’s five-letter word (in six guesses).
Now I’ve discovered there’s also a Canadian version called “Canuckle” - created by a local Ottawa man.
The first time I googled it, and chose what I thought was the game, I was informed I had contracted a computer virus and needed protection.
I immediately exited that site without touching any links. I always assume messages like that originate with someone whose trying to GIVE me a computer virus.
I googled the game again and this time chose a CTV article about the game, on March 2, 2022, then clicked the link IN the story - and safely arrived at the game - without any threatening messages.
The game focuses on words that are “Canadian.”
(I didn’t know we had enough Canadian words to keep a game like this going!)
I have Type 2 Diabetes and have been pricking my finger daily to monitor my blood sugar levels for s long time now. I do it once a day - early in the morning before I eat or drink anything. This “fasting glucose reading” is a basic measure of how well I’m doing in trying to control my blood sugar levels.
I was recently offered a new monitoring system - an adhesive patch (with a needle) that stays in my arm for 14 days at a time.
I agreed to give it a try.
Here it is on my arm…
I can now use an app on my cell phone to check my glucose readings numerous times a day.
This will give me more information…
But that in itself is a little frightening. In theory, it will help me monitor food and exercise to improve my health…
But what if the information isn’t what I want to hear?
(Sometimes ignorance is bliss!)
There is one slow-moving stream in Ottawa’s Andrew Haydon Park where Terry and I have stopped to watch turtles swimming, on one occasion - and frogs croaking and jumping, on another.
I wonder if there are any turtles around, I commented to Terry as we approached the edge of the stream…
That looks like a rat. I didn’t know rats swam…
Maybe that’s a MUSKRAT!
Eventually it crawled into a hole under the reeds.
When we got home, I googled “muskrats”… Now I’m certain that’s what we saw!
We hadn’t been there all winter long.
It was good to be back!
Most of the snow was gone …
Though there was ice on the river - and on park ponds.
The air was cool but refreshing.
Beautiful any season of the year!!
I spied my first one on a neighbour’s roof a few days ago…
Since then, I’ve seen them in Earl and Mary’s yard - where they can find food and water…
Later a squirrel joined the party!
