Wha-cha-doing?

Our days are pretty much the same.  We spend a lot of time on our computers.

We’ve been working on a few blogs.  I've been looking for new recipes to try, and looking for new crochet patterns.

I’ve been copying all our posted blogs into Word documents.  It’s a slow process but we’ll be glad to have copies if anything ever happens to Blogger.  I’ve already found that some of our earlier posts have pictures missing. 

I have a large stack of old photos that I’ve been scanning.  This is also a slow process and takes quite a bit of time.

 

Mark and I both spend quite a bit of time on a language learning website called Duolingo.  We’re studying Spanish.  I’ve been studying almost 2 years and Mark is going on 3 years.  There is so much to learn.  

You have probably heard the advice that when you get older you should learn a foreign language to keep your mind sharp.  It sounds easy right?  It’s not!  It is hard work.

 I’m still crocheting and have already made 20 afghans this year.

 

I also enjoy sitting out on the deck and reading (when it’s not 100 degrees).

We have this wonderful electronic picture frame that displays hundreds of photos.  I’ve been going through years of pictures to add to it. 

We don’t have a lot of wall space in our house (we have a lot of windows) but we have been doing a little decorating.  You can probably tell we really like to display our photographs.

I like to have a picture to go with the souvenir.

The middle picture shows me with the young lady

that made the blue parrot mask.  (Panama)

Panama and Costa Rica souvenirs. 

Louisville slugger museum.

Back in March we were supposed to travel to Colombia on a birding trip.  That trip has been rescheduled for October.  We study the birds for our trip using the flashcard method.  For our Colombia trip we’ll be learning 400 birds. 

400 Flashcards.

Booted Racket-Tail 

Staying home with a lot of time on our hands has got us thinking of future trips.  I gave these books to Mark for his birthday.  Can you guess where we’re going?

 

We have scheduled a 3 week trip to Brazil for next June.  We’ll have over 600 birds to learn for this trip! 

Mark also spends quite a bit of time on his computer.  In fact, he recently treated himself to a custom built computer.

They thoughtfully included instructions on how to take the computer out of the box.

The instruction manual will probably come in handy.

Do you know what you get when you order a custom-built computer?  

Well, you get an awesome computer that runs high-powered programs like Photoshop in a fraction of the time of even a good laptop. For you techies out there, the computer has the latest Intel i9 processor, 64 GB Ram, a 1TB solid state drive and an 8TB hard drive. Finally, a very high performance video card that is used by Photoshop and its accessories to speed things up even more. (This paragraph was written by Mark, in case you couldn't tell.  The paragraph I wrote said "Well, you get a computer").

Do you know what you don't get? Anything else.  No keyboard, monitor, not even a free mouse. I guess they expect you to use accessories of your liking. 

He has been spending a lot of time printing out the flashcards for our Brazil trip.  It’s going to take a lot of time to develop and print out 400-500 flashcards.  Some of the birds we already have flashcards from past trips.

He also got a new Canon "Supertank" style printer that uses ink tanks and ink refills instead of replacement inkjet cartridges. We have spent a ridiculous amount of money on expensive inkjet cartridges over the years and hope that this is a smarter answer. We'll see. 

 

He’s been doing some maintenance jobs like cleaning out the rain gutters and installing new rubber seals on the outside storage areas in the RV. 

He’s been very busy with consulting work and has spent a few early mornings flying his model airplanes and taking critter pictures around our place.  He hasn’t gotten back into disc golf since his back surgery.

After waiting (and waiting) for information about our summer volunteer assignment, we decided to go ahead and cancel.  

I’ve gotten my vitrectomy eye surgery rescheduled for June 24th.  Between having the number one surgeon in this area and our travel schedule, I was having a hard time trying to get a surgery date.  

We decided that staying home and getting this taken care of is the best thing to do.

Our days are pretty much the same over and over again.  We’re busy and the days go by very fast.

So, what are ya'll doing with your days?

Teri