Thursday, July 14, 2016

Paradise ponders...

Paradise ponders...  Well, I didn't get done with my bookkeeping yesterday – stuff happened!  Mainly the concrete guys.  They didn't finish putting up the forms, but we're expecting them today to finish the job.  Concrete should be poured later in the day.  We hope...

I also got surprised by a large John Deere mower starting to work in the field north of our house (part mine, part belonging to Tim D.).  The alfalfa was beautiful in that field, but six inches or so short of when it would ordinarily be mowed.  I texted Tim to make sure it wasn't an error – but it wasn't.  He's going to be gone for a few days (he's one of the adults supervising a boy's camp), and he figured this was a perfect window of time to get the hay down, dried, and baled.  By the time he comes back, it will all just be sitting in the field waiting for him to store it away.  It sure is pretty on the field right now, and it smells great!  I suspect Scott N. will mow our south field in about a week, after it's reached maturity.

Last fall, Debbie and I upgraded our iPads from our four-year-old model 4s.  That means we've had two used model 4s just lying about while we tried to figure out something useful to do with them.  Purely by serendipity, Michelle H., our friend and house cleaner, mentioned a few days ago that she was probably going to have to buy a new computer so that her youngest kids could do their homework.  She was looking for some advice on a reasonable computer at the lowest cost possible, and had no idea that we had these iPads doing nothing useful.  Problem solved!  She bought a couple of Otterbox cases to preserve the iPads from the depredations of her children, had her son-in-law set them up, and now her kids are happily doing their homework on tablets.  I saw A.J. (her youngest) this morning whizzing about the iPad user interface with no problem at all, having a great time.  It feels good to have found such a great use for those two things...

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