Sunday's FCB concert was postponed due to predicted rain. I know it was wet here all afternoon. I hear that it was dry in many areas north and east of here, although I don't know what it was like at the actual venue. They have rescheduled it for this Sunday, which may actually happen - the weather folk are saying there a chance of rain this weekend ( Read more... )

A followup on last week's rant:

The day after the District Communications person emailed the event flyer, word came down from the conference that *they* were changing their October(!) events to virtual events because of surging COVID numbers. The District peeps (who were already kinda skittish about an inperson event in September), decided that they ( Read more... )

Rattled cages on newsletter articles. Got responses from all four "too busy (moving)", "too busy (work)", "forgot and now on vacation", "ISP is down (email on phone OK; sending attachments not)". So, OK, no articles from those four. Lay out what I have. Point out to managing editor that I have no information on the September gathering. She has ( Read more... )

(in February, who knew?) 3 inches so far, with 3 more expected by the time it stops late tonight. I scattered birdseed on the ground this morning, but it's all covered (or eaten) already. I'll need to put out more when I go out to shovel ( Read more... )

I needed my d$#n cell phone to log into my google mail account this morning. All of a sudden, google decided that it didn't recognise my desktop computer (that I set my google account up on years ago), and insisted that I confirm with my cell phone. Which is a) in the other room because b) cell connection sucks out here. It took four tries to get ( Read more... )

It shouldn't be this hard. I'm trying to find three different (admittedly, somewhat specialty) items, but cannot find them anywhere. And no, even if Amazon has them, I don't want to spend half again as much in shipping ( Read more... )