Author: lis

I was helping a blind woman out with some things around her apartment, and one of the things she needed was for me to see if I could figure out why she was having trouble with some email and websites.

This is her tablet.  The white dots in the front “read” the content of the message, webpage or whatever, and translate it into Braille, which she can then read. The top buttons are what she uses to type in Braille, and then that is translated into written English.  The top part flips up to a screen that a sighted person can use.

I thought this was super cool.  She found  me amusing.

We went for a walk at the inaccurately named Lone Tree Hill Reservations (there is a lot more than just a lone tree).  This part of the path was more accurately named; this is Pine Alley.

Volunteered at the Acro-Cats show today  https://rockcatsrescue.org/about.  In between ushering and helping Miki the cat play the trumpet (click through to see more pictures) , I got to watch the show.  Of course, I was all the way in the back, so none of the pics came out very well, but I like this one because it just goes to show, no matter how well you train a cat, sometimes they’re just going to say “to hell with this” and leave the stage.

 

Yes, that is a chicken.  Her name is Cluck Norris.  She plays cymbals and tambourine.

Standing by while Miki performs his trumpet solo.

Hanging out with the Rock Cats. (The other cats in the show made up the Jazz Cats.)

 

Praising Miki for being such a good boy.

Tuna cues the audience.

Jax’s favorite thing in the world, the trainer told us, is to sit on this skull.

We went over to East Chop to watch the sunrise this evening, but we were just late enough that we didn’t really see the best of it.  Still pretty clouds, though.

Our host was kind enough to leave us some gift cards to local restaurants.  We used all of them, including one for Back  Door Donuts because, let’s be serious…how could we not?

I was out working in the yard when I noticed this single bloom on the rose of sharon.  There will be more soon, but I liked the sight of just the one flower

After at least an hour of soaking all the keys in soapy water, vacuuming, very gentle scraping, and then putting all the keys back on, my keyboard is looking a whole lot better.

My keyboard, as you can see, was pretty disgusting.  looked even worse when we took the keys out.  But after some time with Q-tips and toothpicks and a vacuum cleaner, it looks much better.
I blame Gandalf.

Last weekend, Doug got out the power washer and we want after a few things with it, including our front door mat.  But it still had lint and cat hair stuck to it, so we brought it inside to vacuum. Before we had a chance to vacuum it, Ferrous had claimed it as his new favorite spot.  I kinda felt bad putting it back outside the door.

One lonely little yellow kernel in a sea of white.