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Good morning, my friends. I'm happy to say we've banished One Drive from the laptop for the second time. Strangely, there was, for a while, a folder marked "One Drive." There was nothing in it, and anything related to One Drive had been disabled. Still, if we deleted the folder, it would reappear within just a few seconds. Kinda made us wonder why Microsoft wants in tentacles in everything we do. Weird. But you’ll note that was all in the past tense. Mike spent some time watching a video that told him how to delete it completely ...

Good morning, my friends. I'm happy to say we've banished One Drive from the laptop for the second time. Strangely, there was, for a while, a folder marked "One Drive." There was nothing in it, and anything related to One Drive had been disabled. Still, if we deleted the folder, it would reappear within just a few seconds. Kinda made us wonder why Microsoft wants in tentacles in everything we do. Weird. But you’ll note that was all in the past tense. Mike spent some time watching a video that told him how to delete it completely ...

Good morning, my friends. We had such a fun day yesterday. As usual, I took way too many pictures and so I have a lot to tell you. We haven't got a minute to lose, so fill up that cup with whatever your drinking, and let's get started.

Along our way, we stopped at our favorite farm stand and scored some Hass avocados. On the right are limes. They're yellow because they've been allowed to ripen on the tree.

Good morning, my friends. We had such a fun day yesterday. As usual, I took way too many pictures and so I have a lot to tell you. We haven't got a minute to lose, so fill up that cup with whatever your drinking, and let's get started.

Along our way, we stopped at our favorite farm stand and scored some Hass avocados. On the right are limes. They're yellow because they've been allowed to ripen on the tree.

Good morning, my friends. It was a good day for sewing yesterday. Mike was out bike-riding, and I had the place to myself. I could spread out at will. Mike has no problem with me taking over virtually every surface in the RV, but I'm more comfortable when I can tell myself I'm not inconveniencing anyone. So...wanna see what I did?

I started here with these sections of the stars from my previous day of sewing. The first step was to lay them out as they would be sewn together.

Good morning, my friends. It was a good day for sewing yesterday. Mike was out bike-riding, and I had the place to myself. I could spread out at will. Mike has no problem with me taking over virtually every surface in the RV, but I'm more comfortable when I can tell myself I'm not inconveniencing anyone. So...wanna see what I did?

I started here with these sections of the stars from my previous day of sewing. The first step was to lay them out as they would be sewn together.

Good morning, my friends. Now that our slide is working properly, it feels as if we've really entered vacation mode. Of course, when you're retired, you never really get a vacation. Retirement is a full time job. Sometimes, though, it's more worry free than other times. With the slide giving us problems starting on the second day, we were finally able to relax yesterday and enjoy some peace of mind along with our peaceful surroundings.

It was a lovely morning. We wore light jackets, but ended up tying them around our waists for the second half of ...

Good morning, my friends. Now that our slide is working properly, it feels as if we've really entered vacation mode. Of course, when you're retired, you never really get a vacation. Retirement is a full time job. Sometimes, though, it's more worry free than other times. With the slide giving us problems starting on the second day, we were finally able to relax yesterday and enjoy some peace of mind along with our peaceful surroundings.

It was a lovely morning. We wore light jackets, but ended up tying them around our waists for the second half of ...

Good morning, my friends. It was another day of not-much-accomplished, but we had a really nice evening with our friends. They'd invited us for a "Friendsgiving" turkey on Thursday (tomorrow). But then my friend, Deb, was using a dry brine on the turkey, and it looked as if it needed to be eaten sooner. And, no problem. We don't have much of anything going on, so we're flexible. And dinner was wonderful. We haven't seen our friends since March of 2024, and so it was good to catch up. My contribution was this Thanksgiving Slaw. (I ...

Good morning, my friends. It was another day of not-much-accomplished, but we had a really nice evening with our friends. They'd invited us for a "Friendsgiving" turkey on Thursday (tomorrow). But then my friend, Deb, was using a dry brine on the turkey, and it looked as if it needed to be eaten sooner. And, no problem. We don't have much of anything going on, so we're flexible. And dinner was wonderful. We haven't seen our friends since March of 2024, and so it was good to catch up. My contribution was this Thanksgiving Slaw. (I ...

Good morning, my friends. Well...the rain continues. We get periods of sunshine and blue skies, but it doesn't last. And then, we can get a long deluge. It makes planning anything outside impossible. But you know how it is. When the going gets tough, the tough get sewing. That's exactly what I did yesterday. I'm still working out some sort of efficient work flow set up for myself, but here's what I have so far.

The sewing machine is set up at the table, obviously. It's a good spot because I have windows to ...

Good morning, my friends. Well...the rain continues. We get periods of sunshine and blue skies, but it doesn't last. And then, we can get a long deluge. It makes planning anything outside impossible. But you know how it is. When the going gets tough, the tough get sewing. That's exactly what I did yesterday. I'm still working out some sort of efficient work flow set up for myself, but here's what I have so far.

The sewing machine is set up at the table, obviously. It's a good spot because I have windows to ...

Good morning, my friends. It seems we learn something new with each trip. Sometimes we have to re-learn things we've already known. In this case, it was driving more than three days in a row. We shortened our daily distance this trip, but driving for five days in a row was too much. We were both exhausted yesterday. We decided to take some chill lessons from our kitties. Sadie was taking on a zen position on her window hammock.

Good morning, my friends. It seems we learn something new with each trip. Sometimes we have to re-learn things we've already known. In this case, it was driving more than three days in a row. We shortened our daily distance this trip, but driving for five days in a row was too much. We were both exhausted yesterday. We decided to take some chill lessons from our kitties. Sadie was taking on a zen position on her window hammock.

Good morning, my friends. Yay! We made it! It was an absolutely hellacious day of driving, and we were mightily glad to get off the road and out of the truck. For those keeping score, we ranked this as our fourth worst driving day ever. But nobody died, and so it was still a good day.

Before we left Cachuma Lake yesterday, I took a little walk over to see the lake. We could see it from our site, but it was a short walk to get to the lakeshore. Along the way, I spied these pretties.

Good morning, my friends. Yay! We made it! It was an absolutely hellacious day of driving, and we were mightily glad to get off the road and out of the truck. For those keeping score, we ranked this as our fourth worst driving day ever. But nobody died, and so it was still a good day.

Before we left Cachuma Lake yesterday, I took a little walk over to see the lake. We could see it from our site, but it was a short walk to get to the lakeshore. Along the way, I spied these pretties.

Good morning, my friends. What a beautiful day we had yesterday. We were hoping for no rain for our visit to Solvang. As it turns out, it was a mostly sunny day. We got into a few rain showers, but nothing that lasted for more than a few minutes. I was happy enough to see the morning sunshine, that I got dressed and walked over to Buena Vista Lake for a picture.

Turning to the left, it looked like this:

There were a few coots swimming around.

And I took ...