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The storm of
the Century, or decade, or year, has left the area.
We had
intermittent showers yesterday which didn’t amount to much but the real storm
started last night after I was in bed. The wind really blew and along with the
rain left a mess of leaves and anything else that was loose and deposited it in
our driveway. I swept up what I could of the mess this morning.
The power
went out during the night but was back on when I got up this morning. We again
had intermittent showers during the day but for the most part the sun was out
by afternoon. My rain gauge has about 3.5 inches in it which is really good as
that makes about 8 inches in the 3 storms we have had in the last couple of
months. Last year we only had about 6 inches total when our yearly average is
about 14 inches.
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Clyda has
some tree dahlias in our side yard which had just begun to bloom before the
storm. They suffered from the wind.
I have been
spending way too much time putting together the Christmas letter and doing the
mailing labels. With my cobbled together computer system, it is a real pain to
get this all to work. It is something I have struggled with ever since I have
owned a PC. Hopefully, I have it under control until next year.
My struggles
with my new Dell 1100 laptop continue. I again spent the better part of one day
on the chat line with Dell support trying to find out why I cannot use Mozilla Firefox
as my browser. They gave up and had me install Google Chrome. I don’t really
like Chrome but at least it works.
I much
prefer Firefox as I have it on all my other PC’s and they are synced so all my
bookmarks show up on any machine.
On another
subject: my long awaited RV repairs appear to be done and I will pick the RV up
tomorrow. It has been since the beginning of June when the RV was last parked
beside our house. It will only be here until the 6th of January when
I leave for Las Vegas with it.
