A Busy Day Doing Odds and Ends

Doing Errands

In the morning we loaded Flo into the car and went to town. We needed to do a few errands. The first stop was The UPS Store to ship my Superwoman shirt back to Amazon. Next we took Flo swimming at Nolan Creek. She hasn't been swimming for awhile and the humidity has been high. When we got to Nolan Creek she was very excited, she could hardly wait for Larry to park the car. He parked by the restaurants but not the normal spot because it was taken by a fisherman and he didn't want to bother him. Once Flo was out of the car I put her leash on to walk her down a ramp to the creek. Flo was used to getting in the water at a certain spot so she didn't get in the water right away. We started walking along the shore line a little ways and then she couldn't resist not getting into the water. She walked through some gravel and her back paws sank in the gravel. It took her a little bit but she finally got her paws unstuck. She had a great time swimming and exploring. She is still recuperating from our trip to Fredericksburg so she didn't swim long. While we walked around and Flo swam Larry started reading a Jack Reacher novel by Lee Child. The next stop was The Home Depot to return a few sprinkler heads we didn't need and exchange the fertilizer. Once we did this we walked over to Best Buy. Larry wanted to play with a new device called Chromecast made by Google. It's like a ROKU device except you operate it via a tablet or smartphone. After buying the Chromecast we dropped off a book at the Temple Library. Then we went home.

Swimming in Nolan Creek

Rachio Sprinkler System with Cover off

Rachio Sprinkler System with Cover on

Mowing the Yard

 In the afternoon we were busy. Larry installed the Chromecast and then worked on figuring out how to use it. We usually mow the yards on Thursday but last week we were going to be busy square dancing so we mowed the yards on Tuesday. This week there is a high chance of rain on Thursday so I mowed today. While I was mowing Larry weedeated, ran the blower and installed a new sprinkler controller made by Rachio. The Rachio system came via The Home Depot Seeds Program. This system is programmed via a tablet or smartphone and uses information from a internet weather station to decide when to water and how much to water. Larry programmed the system so that if the weather station is predicting more than 1/8" of rain on the scheduled watering day or the next day the system does not water, it also checks the weather station to see when it last rained and decides if it should water or not, really neat. You can also manually turn the system on via your tablet or via your computer. Now we will have to see how well it actually works. While Larry was finishing programming the sprinkler system I took a nap.   

Chromecast

In the evening we used the new Chromecast to stream Call the Midwife, then American Masters: The Women's List. The Women's List was about famous women in the country and their careers and struggles they had to find their own identities. Then we streamed an American Masters through the ROKU called The Boomer List, it was about people born between (1946 - 1964) and their experiences and how they changed the country. We had a relaxing evening.