Nice to see your post Peggy. Glad you are enjoying Kino Bay. And glad to see you posting frequently, Lyn. Barbie, great good idea to get rid of the carpet. I like the just stain the wood option better. Maybe your real estate agent should get some other agents to pressure the HOA about the 9 month rule. That rule is crazy anyway. You would think they would encourage people to stay year around or snowbird if they want. Shelia, my neighbors love my decorating projects. I don’t hear from all of them of course, but others have thanked me and said they enjoy it if I happen to see them. But I think everybody enjoys it. I do have a little fan club of sorts, LOL
Yesterday turns out to be an interesting day. Got my errands done and came home Intending to work in my Damond painting, My magnifier kit came, but after fooling around with it, decided not to keep it. The Diamond Painting canvas has a bit of a shine on it and the LED light was reflecting back at me and I couldn’t see the pattern symbols. I have a similiar glare issue with my overhead lights at my kitchen table, but can move the canvas to eliminate that in the area I’m working on. Plus they won’t fit over my glasses that good and are a bit heavy. As to magnification, wasn’t a lot of difference, But probably because I have cateract lens for both eyes and a bifocal in one lens, so they distorted the magnification. I came up with the conclusion that a light board underneath my canvas will work better. They are designed for that.
But the biggest issue I discovered was that although my emails are coming in, I couldn’t send any out. So placed a call to Spectrum. Nice advisor did some checking, couldn’t find anything wrong, so suggested I talk to Apple. They just sent a new update couple days ago and sometimes that can mess things up. Gave me the number to call, so did that, but they were really busy and after awhile on hold, decided to heck with it. Time for supper. After I got thinking more about it, felt it was Spectrum issue so called Spectrum again. This advisor got into it more than the previous one and gave me a new password. Unfortunately nothing helped and he too suggested I contact Apple. But he sure was helpful and did everything he could. Back on phone to Apple, this tine held on for probably 20-30 mnutes and connected with a very nice advisor. Told her my issue, she asked for some Info, got on screen in my IPad and walked me through some different things to try. Finally we both decided that maybe it was best to delete the email account and reinstall it. Viola! Told her it was too bad we couldn’t open some champagne celebrate, but she said she still had 5 more hours to work yet
She was so knowledgeable and patient, it was a pleasure working with her. Same for Spectrum. So that was the extent of my day. Frustrating but happy ending. Did get a dog walk in though.So, today I am goig to run the vac, do some dusting and work on that painting. My neighbor and I are learning so much. There’s a ton of info and tips and tricks online. I’m going to order another one and I might get one of my photos made into one. Will take a break of course to walk dogs and I want to drop the burlap sides down on my shrub covers too, Keeps them from getting weighed down by wet snow. Forgot to do that when we had the snow this week, but it’s melted off now. Supposed to have some wet slushy snow tomorrow. Not much though.
Sun is shining, day has broken, time to get with it. Have a nice day all,
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