Binged on a Netflix series that I really liked and Ron hated.

No luck figuring out why the mini split didn’t start. Checked the outside unit for a switch (none) and the circuit breaker box.

Ron made pancakes for lunch and raked the yard for sticks.

I did a small shop, mostly dairy products.

Yesterday I loaded the truck with four big leaf bags and brought them to the transfer station.

Also attended the writers’ slam at the Senior Center and thoroughly enjoyed it.

Tulips are very nice this year, at least the ones that have bloomed. A bunch are either late or got eaten; we’ll know in a month or so.

Productive morning.

My eye exam went very well.

Ron drove us to Rutland to pick up the knitted hat that I won in an auction for Dismas House; they provide shelter and support to people making the transition from jail/prison and trauma.

We stopped at Remedy Hall afterwards so I could pick up the computer for debugging. Then to Spirits for weekend provisions.

Went pretty well – have the TV and phones set up – although I’ve yet to tackle VOIP. Phenomenal customer support person, Erica.

While I was at it, I tried to improve the state of the power cords. More to do.

Changed sheets.

Cooked one of the MyBacon packages for lunch. Very good!

We let poor Jett out by himself. Ben had to give us a heads up.

Many problems with GoDaddy and email account passwords.

Later (10:19): tech support person at Vonage got VOIP up and running.

Ron did laundry. I made a vegetable stew with onions, garlic, zucchini, red pepper and potatoes. Canned soup and cabbage salad for lunch.

We tackled the left side of the yard again, the side that’s been neglected for quite a while from the looks of it. We cut down more forsythia branches, pulled more vine and raked more leaves. I’m very happy with our progress!

Whether it was because of fatigue from outdoor work or something else, after having some stew, my stomach hurt so badly that I almost passed out. Laid on the floor on a pillow; was hot and nauseous.

Jett licked to console me, sweet dog! Ron got me a clean shirt and fed Jett. I felt better afterwards and did a little kitchen cleanup. Watched Watson; good episode!

The high school students from McCann were here yesterday for a couple of hours to do some heavy and much appreciated yardwork.

They mulched the hosta border next to the driveway and the daylilies around the driveway light. They trimmed so many too-tall branches of the forsythia and huge sections of an ugly entangled vine that they half-filled their pickup truck.

Finally, they moved the giant pile of mulch from the front to the back. Tremendous amount of work.

Shortly after they finished, we got a shower of hail then snow. Jett and I were caught in it briefly. He was a good dog while the students were here.

Ron braved the hail and picked up his med at Walmart and did a small grocery shop.

Jett bit Ron on the arm while they were playing fetch. Overexcited, I guess. Second time this has happened.

I’ve been working on a transaction for MRS.

The minisplit overheated the bedroom. This is not the first time. I contacted an online service that connected me to an HVAC specialist. Aside from turning the unit off then on after a few minutes, I haven’t found a solution.

Not all of it but I had to toss half of it after he chewed a beautiful wheat bread that was given to us at the food pantry. Saved the remains some of which was very good toasted.

It was raining hard this morning, some kind of frozen precipitation for a short while this afternoon, then stopped long enough for Ron and Jett to play fetch around 8:30 this evening.

We had clam chowder for lunch and an every human for themselves supper.

Young people from North Adams came by to offer landscaping services. They are coming back tomorrow to spread mulch and trim the forsythia. I appreciate their initiative in looking for work house to house, especially in the rain.

I found and solved a silly problem with a record update in MRS. Had the same fields in two tables. Wrote a transaction based on a helpful online sample. More testing tomorrow now that I’ll have help with yardwork.

We consolidated trash and trumps and Ron brought the lot to the transfer station along with a bin-full of recyclables. He also picked up Peet’s at BigY but didn’t realize that he failed to get the sale price, so I guess we’ll go back tomorrow.

I added a record to my capecoder.com DNS that is supposed to prevent spoofing.

We were outside for a bit doing yardwork, mostly cleaning up the forsythia pruning. Jett was with us and later went out with Ron for fetch. He saw the boys briefly as well.

We had tortellini and salad for supper.

I won an auction for a knitted winter hat which I need badly, and the cause is a great one: providing housing in Rutland VT to recently incarcerated men and women. Looks like a day trip is ahead.

After a busy day yesterday, Jett is lethargic and threw up earlier this morning as I was trying to decide whether to bring him to “school” or not.

We had avocado toast and fried eggs for breakfast. I vacuumed both sides of the living room. Gorgeous day; spent some time outside with Ron and Jett, who was happy to be outside.

Deleted every product to do with this blog from GoDaddy.

Struggled for hours with email. Turns out I’d reached the 10G limit, upgraded to 50G. Got help from three different engineers at GoDaddy. I’m exhausted. Meanwhile, Ron played with Jett and did some pruning.

Stuffed mushrooms and pizza for supper. Very good!

By this time of night, Jett is better. I gave him a chew yesterday and wonder if that upset his stomach.

Yesterday we did the semi-monthly run to the Pantry barely before noon, then Aldi.

As a result, we have piles of produce, bread, eggs and butter plus cereal, cookies, crackers, chips, pizza, ice cream, wine and even some vegetarian bacon (two packages).

We piled the supper dishes, unrinsed, into the dishwasher for storage. I scraped them and ran it full today.

Jett has been outside quite a bit today, first with me for fetch and while I picked up trumps, then with Ron and me while we had lunch on the deck and then playing fetch with Ron this afternoon.

Dishes and taxes done and bills paid, I worked on the forsythia for an hour this afternoon. It was 82 degrees. The section I trimmed looks nice but more to do tomorrow.

We can’t believe that Hegseth quoted a fake Bible verse from a Quentin Tarantino film at one of his prayer meetings. But he did and we saw the receipts.

Yesterday I removed leaves from the driveway border, picked up a few groceries and dropped off four garden tools to be sharpened at ACE.

Today I finished the Mass taxes and brought the packet to the post office. It was difficult to fill out because the instructions use different definitions of income and require that you hunt and peck for embedded worksheets. I must have gone over the numbers a dozen times.

Jett was sick this morning but bounced back very well. Might have been an upset stomach or constipation. He didn’t have the strength to play fetch with Ron this morning but had a good late afternoon/evening session.

Fierce, brief thunderstorm this evening.