Soon to be August

                                                                                 Foggy Hay Field

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I decided this morning I just had to post on my blog. I don't know how many actually take the time to read this BUT I feel so strongly about something and am so frustrated about it, I am going to put my feelings down. I think it will make me feel better to just type it out. Why on earth are people not getting vaccinated? The proof is there....the vaccine works and its safe. Politics aside....why...why...why? Do you not care about other people or are you so darn selfish you don't give a damn? Personally I think that is a lot of it. They just don't care. They just go about their daily duties and don't give a damn about your or yours...or even their own family! Don't they care about their parents and grandparents? Apparently not.

We haven't gotten to hug some of our grand kids or great-grand-kids for months and months. It hurts. The virus should have been pretty much gone by this time but the way it is going it will never go away. The Delta is going to morph into the next version that is going to be easier to catch and more dangerous....and on and on and on! Until people start taking life seriously that is the future of our county. And the world.

We have the vaccine. It is safe... it works. Other countries would love to have what we have....but we are so selfish we don't give a damn. Me Me Me....That is what some of these people think. I actually heard a man on our local conservative radio station ask if anyone knew where he could get a vaccine without giving his name! Why in hell would he care if someone knew he had been smart and gotten his shot? Is he afraid his buddies will make fun of him! Well, stand up and be man and do your duty. Get the damn shot! Be a hero!

I just had to re-do all our masks with new nose pieces because we are going to have to start wearing them again. Actually we haven't stopped. We did start getting our own groceries but we wear masks when we go in. It looks like we will have to go back to ordering stuff. 

Please think about your family and friends...stand up and get the shot. Help your family, your county, your state and yourself. 

The way things are going my husbands heart surgery will probably have to be postponed next month because of selfish people. Who wants to go to the hospital when the virus is spreading like wildfire?

Well, have a good week! I feel better....and will be happy if this rant makes one person think about his life, his family and his neighbors and gets that shot!

July Heat

Wet Grass

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Another month has passed. I am sure everyone is warm enough! We had a heat wave in the Pacific Northwest that was very rare. We don't have air conditioning and have never needed or wanted it until the past weekend. We suffered! My heart was jumping around and I thought I would have to go to the hospital. We ended up and sat in lawn chairs in our tv room which is kind of in the middle of our house, with the ceiling fan and our other 2 fans both going. But there wasn't any cool air to blow around. I had a spray bottle and sprayed us both down quite often. They say that is probably just the beginning. I can't understand why some individuals don't believe in global warming or climate change....whatever you want to call it. We have never, ever had heat like that weekend. We really can't afford to put in air conditioning in our old house so I don't know what we are going to do...just suffer with it, I guess. I can just hope we don't have anything like that again. It was almost 100 ° in our house. 

The arthritis in my back has gotten worse so I am having to limit my sitting at the computer. I wish I could afford to get one of the sit/stand things to put your monitor, keyboard and mouse on but I don't feel I can so I just have to limit myself. That is very hard for me to do. Plus I had to give up my 2 1/2 mile a day walk. Every step brought more pain. I am waiting to get an OK for an MRI to see if anything can be done to help. But it's taking a long time to get that OK!

We have finally begun to go out to do our own shopping. We have both been vaccinated but the Delta variant is in our County now, so we are still wearing masks when we go into a store. Parts of the County are resisting the vaccine. I can't understand that at all but....what does this old lady know?

We found out that my husband has to have heart surgery next month.
After 2020 and all we went through I guess 1 more surgery is nothing! We can only hope and pray all goes well. It is tentatively scheduled for the 16th of August, but that can always change. We have only been to the hospital once since the Covid started and I had to sit in the car in January for 3 hours wile he was treated for high blood pressure. I hope I can be with him before and after.

 My nephew had a liver transplant last week and got through it very well. We are so thankful for that.  He was very lucky to get a liver when he needed it but not so lucky for the generous person that donated it. 

I have to get our masks ironed and the nose pieces inserted back into them. So I will sign off for today. Have a wonderful July and stay safe and cool!

 

Summer Garden Flowers

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JUNE ALMOST GONE

Lady Daisy

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June is almost in our rear view. Hate to see summer go so fast. We are finally getting some warm weather in the Pacific Northwest. I love it here as it is so green and fresh but we could sure use more sunshine. Although they say we are in a drought I don't see it, but that is what they say. I honestly believe that the Pacific Northwest will someday be the food basket for the United States. The lower western states are getting low on water and burning up and I don't see any change in the future for them. The climate is changing! Some people don't see it, but it is happening. If they continue to pave over the Pacific Northwest with cement, houses and apartments there won't be enough farmland to grow food. I hate to see the cities expand out into farmland. I have been fighting that since the early 1990's. A developer  purchased a 550 acre cattle ranch/farm that is to the west and north of our road. He wanted to put in 2200 houses and apartments and golf course. We fought it and fought it. My husband and I started a group that ended up with over 600 members and stopped it in its tracks. After a two year fight. I didn't know anything about growth management when we started fighting it but learned a lot very quickly. I can remember talking to a person on the phone and was overwhelmed. That developer gave up, but he sold it to another developer from Japan. So we fought them for a couple years. We finally gave in on the golf course, which I hated to do. The developer told us the golf course would be a Scottish golf course and they wouldn't be using water to keep it green! Well, I learned that developers don't tell the truth since the golf course is very green and they do water, a lot! That is one reason I do not like golf. Personally I think it is a big waste of farm land. They keep bringing up developing the rest of it and we continue to fight it. I know they are working on an update on our County Comprehensive Plan this year so am sure we will have to start getting involved again. The lasat wekWow....I got off on a tangent there....

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I hope you all got to see your Father's this year. All of our kids showed up for the day. We sat in the shop with all the doors open because it was cooler in there. Had our favorite food nachos! And strawberry shortcake. Our daughter makes fantastic nachos and loves to cook so she fed us! Our son and daughter in law brought homemade shortcake and fresh county strawberries...so we all ate too much but it was great. 

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And after the year we had in 2019 I feel so grateful that my husband is here so we could celebrate Fathers Day. We are still working on managing his heart. I have gone back to good old home cooking with no salt and his blood pressure is doing so well. He had a heart monitor on for 2 weeks last month and we go this week to find out what the results were on that and what we can do to keep it going! But he is doing so well for 85. Works harder most days than most men do. I do insist during this warm weather he works a little less, but he got 2 car repair calls already today. He was supposed to give up mechanic work but so many people just don't have the $$ for the expensive car repair shops. Plus a lot of them don't trust them. They seem to always tell you you need more repair work than you actually do. Or at least can get along without. But they trust my husband. 

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I am still working on updates and making new themes. I have so many made and so many on line I doubt if I ever finish. Especially if Mozilla keeps updating  Firefox. A lot of people are unhappy with the way themes look now. They don't like the clean looking tabs. Personally I kind of like it but I feel bad for the users that don't. They seem to think theme designers can fix it, but we can't. We don't have that much control! But we try.

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Have a super July and I will be back! Hopefully! Love to all!

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🦊 The New Firefox 89! 🦊

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I just updated my Firefox to 89! I love it. I encourage everyone to updater your Firefox.

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It's cleaner and the Home Page is dark and when I right click I get a dark window. It's easy on the eyes. 

SO DO IT TODAY!

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June Updates

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As you can see my blog has changed and I don't like it but I have to go along with the go along! I haven't figured out how to use the new blogger. Someday I will take a day and try to figure it out.

Thought I would let you all know that there will be changes for us in Firefox 89 that will come out early next week. Theme looks will be updated and I guess the Home Page or New Tab Page also. I don't know exactly what the New Tab Page will look like but hope it doesn't change too much. I have all my saved sites that I go to all the time pasted on it. And I have noticed that the background on it is now black...which is something I have been asking for. I honestly don't know if my Dark Night Mode extension is causing it or not but it is dark now...I know many of you have asked for that.

 I would like to recommend a free Office type program. I have to watch the budget to I can't afford to pay for Microsoft Office. I have been using LibreOffice for many years and it does everything Microsoft does. So you can save yourself some money by trying it at least. You can find it at: https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download/.

Someone posted that they had decided to get the vaccine after reading my blog. That made me feel so good. If I can encourage just 1 I will be pleased but if I can encourage more to do so....so think about it. If you have already gotten yours, try to get a friend or relative to get one also. We are not going to get back to normal and actually feel comfortable going out until we have reached herd immunity and have a 75% vaccination rate. If you decide not to get the vaccine, please continue to wear a mask in public. Think about your parents or grandparents. Most of us have been shut up in our homes for over a year. We are still not going into stores until the daily rate gets way down in our County. There are a lot of people in the north part of the County that don't want to wear masks or get a vaccine so they are keeping the numbers up. And they aren't wearing masks in shops so no one is safe. 

 Just thought I would pop in and let you know about Firefox 89 that is updating June 1st. 

 Good luck and have a wonderful holiday weekend.  

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May your May be Magnificent

                                          Glads & Gerberas

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 Happy May everyone. I hope everyone is safe and sound. And you got your vaccine! I can't tell you how important this is. Personally I do not understand why some people are so skeptical. It seems the same people that don't want the shot...want the countries to open up. It is never going to happen until we have herd immunity and that isn't going to happen until everyone has the vaccine. I have heard some untrue stories out there for reasons not to get the vaccine. One was told to me by a family member...that your life insurance won't pay out if you died within a year of getting the vaccine! It didn't take me long to find the truth....it is a false statement that someone out there in conspiracy land figured out would scare people. When you hear these stories and that is what they are, check it out...don't believe it just because someone tells you. Another false story is that there is a chip in the vaccine....not so...and that doesn't take a genius to figure out. And it is so wonderful to hug a son you haven't hugged for almost a year and a half!

Well that is enough of my Sunday morning preaching.

Our rhubarb is thriving again this year. I checked it one day on my walk and the stalks were not as large as my little finger and yesterday they had grown to 4 times the size. You can actually see it grow. If you stand and watch it, the huge leaves actually twitch! So yesterday I made a rhubarb sauce (an old family recipe) and a rhubarb bread. (A new recipe that may become a family favorite)

Spring is finally here and we have had some gorgeous Pacific Northwest weather. I can't tell you how much I enjoy it after a dark, dreary winter. I don't have to put on ski pants to take my 2 mile daily walk. 

 A woman I always run to at Mozilla if I have a problem, sent me an email and said that in Firefox 89  that themes are going to look different. PANIC! At 82 I really hate change and it gets harder to figure out all the changes so I downloaded Firefox Nightly to see how they would look and I don 't think I am going to have to go through all my themes and do some changing. I am "almost" done with the ones I have been updating. I have been in the process of updating for almost 2 years! 

A request I have been getting from users is they want the Home Page to "match" the theme they are using. I have posted many times to the powers that be but haven't gotten much reaction. But I just noticed yesterday that the theme I am using is the Glad and Gerberas and my Home Page was  black which is how I want it. But I don't know for sure if it is a change or because I use Firefox Color to test the themes after I designed them in Photoshop to see how they will actually look that I changed a setting there. Anyway I hope it is something that lasts. I have tried it on my PC and laptop and they are all that way so I am hoping that is a change that users like. My old eyes like dark settings.

Will quit preaching and get back to work. Have a wonderful May and tell your loved ones you love them... 

A Perfect Sunset

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April Fool

Vintage Look for Firefox

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 Happy April everyone....I hope everyone is getting over the winter blahs and getting vaccine in the arms. I can't say I am over the winter blah's yet because our spring in the Pacific Northwest has been chillier and wetter than usual. Which is saying a lot!

We still aren't going out. Except to Doctors appointments. I thought we would start going out with masks to get our groceries soon after we were fully vaccinated but then the local cases started going up soooooo...we aren't. 

Our daughter purchases most of our groceries and I place orders for some but I really miss buying our own. But we both feel so lucky that we have family close that will do this for us. I pay her for everything I have her get for us because I am not going to have someone else "buy" them. She fusses about it but that's just too bad. But I miss seeing new items in the grocery stores to give me some ideas for cooking. 

I wish I had some new and exciting news to write about on this blog but I am afraid it is pretty much the same old same old! I do the same things pretty much everyday...but I don't get bored because I am busy. We have a schedule and we stick with it. I have gotten to the point I dread week ends because we aren't on our schedule!

My husband and I both read a lot of books on our tablets. We get some from our local library and  I am signed up for 2 different places to get an email everyday for a list of books with some free! One is Book Bub:  https://www.bookbub.com/ebook-deals/free-ebooks and the other is Freebooksy: https://www.freebooksy.com/  You sign up for the genre you like and that is what they send. You can get them from amazon, google, etc. I have almost 3000 books in our library. We are addicted to C J Box books about a game warden named Joe Picket and we have gotten to read all 21 in that series from our library. Free! Except for the library taxes we pay!

I get quite a few people that leave me reviews saying they wish that the Firefox Home Page would be dark if the theme they were using was dark. I wish we had the setting to be able to make the home page match the theme but we don't. I have requested from the powers that be to make that setting available to theme designers but as of now, we don't. And I don't really have any power so if that is something you would really like I suggest you make the request on the Mozilla site at: https://discourse.mozilla.org/c/add-ons/themes/110

I would like to wish you all a Happy Easter and a warm, sunny spring!