Sunday 27 October 2019

Bennie may be leaving puppyhood. Maybe.

New happy place
I have a bunch of Bennie photos and I haven't updated for a couple months and Bennie has changed quite a bit OR we've settled into a routine we can live with. I have to admit, I wondered if it would ever happen.

Thursday 24 October 2019

Retirement project - with magnets!

I have a phone wallet I love that uses magnets to stabilize a case with the wallet. It has annoyed me no end that my magnetic Spigen ring won't stick and it seemed like more than a positioning issue. I suspected fun with magnetic polarity but didn't have time to figure out a work around. Now I do!

Wednesday 23 October 2019

Post Election thoughts

Thankfully the election is over and I can stop seeing smarmy political faces interrupting Property Brothers. Now it's time to get to work. There were good ideas floated by all the parties. Can the parties work together or are they too concerned about their base?

Wednesday 16 October 2019

Shiny new things - planned and unplanned

I was doing pretty good budgeting my allowance so I replaced my Galaxy Watch with a Galaxy Watch Active 2. Then I dropped my phone on a rough cement driveway.I wasn't even worried initially because I knew it hit the case edge. It must have hit a stone as it landed the second time. Budget blown

Sunday 6 October 2019

Eating, weight and health

Food - everyone eats it but...choices! The red meat paper highlighted just how difficult it is to get good nutrition research (as well as now the bias that goes with research funding disclosure). A really good overview of the red meat deal is provided by Science Based Medicine.

Tuesday 1 October 2019

Time for a new tree

When we first moved into our house we planted a tree in the front yard. We had wanted a clump birch but a weeping birch was planted by mistake. Weeping birches are not as hardy and ours started shedding big time in the last couple years. We got an arborist to do an assessment - we could take the tree down now or wait 5 years. We decided on now since we were replacing the tree.

Today was the big day!