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"Don't let yesterday use up too much of today."
Cherokee Indian Proverb

1. Every day my garden looks lovelier. The most of the pansies I planted in February are doing well ... only a few look like this:

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Today's Flowers and Mellow Yellow Monday

2. Molly & Layla watch each other over the fence like this often.

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(you'll see both Molly & Layla in the middle image)
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3. After spending several hours on the phone with Dell's Tech Support on Thursday afternoon, things are looking up. If you missed them & care to fill in the blanks, I shared the details at the end of Friday's post at Small Reflections. The Inspiron 1720 hasn't crashed to the Blue Screen of Death in two days ... hooray!

4. The promised 'replacement keyboard' arrived in Friday's mail (talk about quick) and typing is smooth once again with no sticky keys. Amazing what a relief this is. I'll drop off the old one at FedEx later today or on Monday.

5. As promised, 'Vinnie' from Dell Tech Support called me to follow up ... unfortunately before I'd had a chance to use the laptop much because his Sunday is my Saturday. He'll call again NEXT Friday which should give me time to check things out, get the D-Link router working (or replace it with a LinkSys router) and have Time Warner Cable 'reset' their modem for the 'wireless' connection rather than the 'direct' connection I've been using for a week or so.

6. We've had lots of 'moody skies' and occasional rain over the past week ... but no heavy rains so that's a relief for those living in the areas burned by wildfires last Fall. I enjoyed watching crows gather twigs in the tree across the street as I photographed the changing skies to share in yesterday's Sky Watch and a few more today.

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Camera Critters , Looking at the Sky and Mosaic Monday
(I shared 'goose photos' yesterday at Small Reflections)

7. I enjoyed Friday's 'Windows Movie Maker' class at Adult School. We used the instructor's 'train' images and sounds to create our first one together but we're supposed to bring our own photos to use next Friday so I'll be gathering images together this week. If time permits, I'll play with the first one to see if I can upload it to one of my blogs as an experiment. I hope to use what I've learned to create my own 'inspirational videos' to share in the future.

8. Amazingly (after receiving another 'denial letter' on Wednesday) ... Friday's mail contained an acceptance letter & payment coupon book from United Health Care for my Plan D 'prescription' coverage, so all I need to do now is set up auto pay for it (and my Anthem Blue Cross Senior supplemental plan for Medicare) then contact my former employer for a 'refund' for February's health coverage. Guess it's a good thing I didn't have time to call about this when the denial arrived Wednesday ;-)

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and the lists I've transferred to Happily Retired Gal

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Blessed Be ... and so it is!

Thought for Today
"Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back." Chinese Proverb