The week went past and many small projects received attention. “Just living” duties took up much of our time. Here is a recap of the not-so-outstanding week we had.
Auburn Jo had a grooming appointment this week. As the groomer is in New Hampton, about 25 miles from us, grooming takes two round trips – one to drop her off and another to pick her up. I did the first/drop off trip and doubled it up with grocery shopping and a trip to Theisen’s hardware store. Purchases included more cobs of corn for the squirrel feeder and three gallons of paint for the ginger breading of the house. The paint we have been using for trim, Valspar brand, has been hard to find (supply chain issues) so when I discovered Theisen’s had recently received the tint bases required we decided to stock up. We should now have enough to do all the ginger breading (three shades of blue) on the house, regardless of when we get to painting that high up. A large cache of paint is now sitting in the laundry room.
Wednesday I had my annual Type-2 diabetes checkup. As expected, I am a mess. My A1C is elevated and my triglycerides are high. So is my bad cholesterol, a state that has existed since my 40s. The doctor added Glypizide to my Synjardy prescription to see if that would help lower my blood sugar level. That prescription, of course, led to a trip to the Decorah Walmart to pick up my medications. While in Decorah I stopped at the local HyVee grocery store to purchase bottled water and a few more groceries. Since this is about a 100 mile round trip it took most of the afternoon.
Other chores done during the week included lawn maintenance and a trip to the town’s compost site.
Pam had ordered a “work desk” to be used for sewing and craft projects. (She mentioned this in a previous post.) The desk had to be assembled, which was not difficult as the only real job was to attach the four legs and install the drawer.
Pam has already used her new work area and thinks it will be the project work space she’s been needing.
One of my projects was decidedly invisible. One of the web page commands I had used in the past was the “Align” command. This has been dropped from the current specification of HTML, the language used to construct web pages. While replacement code has been published, it was not applicable to the way I had used “Align.” While my pages still worked, future support would vanish and I wanted to update my pages to make sure they would display properly going forward.
It took me several tries and lots of dead ends before I figured out how to make the replacement code work for me. The first page to be updated is the “Cats” page. It looks the same as before as all the changes are “under the hood” and one would have to compare the code behind the page to notice the differences. For anyone who might be interested, here is the original code and the replacement code.
align="left" style="margin: 5px 5px 5px 40px;" border="2"/* Centers photos to left on non-gallery pages. Replaces "Align=" deprecated in HTML4 and HTML5 */
.center1{
display:block;
margin-left:40px;
width:210px;
float:left;
}Knowing readers will observe that the replacement code is a “class” named center1 in a CSS style sheet. The top line, which starts with /*, is a comment to myself indicating why this code was created. Now I need to apply the new code to other pages to update them.
It always is a surprise to me how much time routine tasks take. Coupled with high humidity, warm temperatures, and some rain showers, nothing was done on painting projects this week. Next week I plan to take a trip to our lot in Colorado; it will be a couple weeks before major paint projects resume.
I do have several “around the yard” photo to share this time. While the day lilies are about done, the phlox and other flowers are doing well. Pam spent some time trimming the forsythia bush and cleaning out some of the past-prime day lilies under one of the oaks. The yard is looking good!
Photo Archive
Some “Artsy” Black and White shots.
That’s it for now. Thanks for looking in!
Pam’s Penny
Didn’t I say [last week] it would be too hot to paint outside this week?
I picked up JoJo at the dog groomers (after Himself completed the a.m. drop off noted above). I was disheartened to learn the groomer was quitting; at this time it’s unclear who the vet’s office will find as a replacement. (The vet sponsors the grooming parlor, attached to the vet’s office.) Nuts. It took this groomer three visits to finally clip JoJo as closely as requested -and- this is my second groomer since moving to NE Iowa. I may have to bite the bullet and buy my own grooming supplies for the next grooming period this fall. This does not excite me.
Happy Trails.
They deprecated align???? Oh nooooo! LOTS of work to correct that for sure and “nobody knows” the work it requires as the page looks no different. I’m glad I am retired from work such as this.
The flowers are looking fantastic – blows me away how big the phlox are now.
“Buy paint while the sun shines” for sure. I like Valspar paint. I used it for the first time just recently.
Kind of weird to be back to commenting here rather than being a part of the goings on. Now Vanna bugs Lilly about as bad as she bothered you. hahahaha
Becky:
Thanks for the note. I did not mention that most of the work in eliminating the “align” command was getting the text to float to the right of the photos.
The old code was:
but the new code is a class named “center2” and looks like this:
Seems like a lot more work to get the same effect!
The Valspar is better paint than the Behr in that it covers with one coat where the Behr requires two. Trouble is Pam like the Barn Red of the Behr and not the reds in the Valspar line.
Glad Vanna is taking to Lilly!
Yes, the flowers are doing well. Next up to bloom should be the morning glories.
Its is not quite the same around here with your gone. It was good having you here for a while.
Jer
Hi Jerry & Pam!
Jusst found a card from you that you sent in 2013. Why I still have it I’m not sure, but really glad I found it – now I can get back in touch with you
I see you have moved closer to Wisconsin. Looks like you are doing a lot of work on the house. I love all the pictures.
We are well and enjoying retirement. Now with no jobs and covid slowing down we have time to do some traveling. Maybe we can get together one of these days. It’s nice finding people from school again. I just got back in touch with Mark (Andy) Anderson. He is doing OK, but has some health issues he’s working through. We keep in touch with Larry & Cathy Estenson, John & Jean Warren and Steve (Smed) & Kathy Metzenbauer, and even crossed paths with Micheal (Coopie) Cooper a few years ago.
I”ll keep checking this site to keep up with you. You can find us on facebook. Our phone & email haven’t changed. Hope to hear from you soon.
Dennis & Pat
Hi Jerry & Pam!
I found a card you sent way back in 2013. Don’t know why I saved it, but glad I did, now I can get back in touch with you. Reaching out to friends from the past seems to be what I’ve been doing more and more. I just got back in touch with Mark (Andy) Anderson. He is well, but dealing with some health issues. Aren’t we all. I’ve kept in touch with Larry & Cathy Estenson, John & Jean Warren. I call Steve (Smed) & Kathy Metzenbauer at times, and a few years ago we crossed paths with Mike (Coopie) Cooper. We are well and enjoying retirement. I would love to hear from you. We still have the same phone & email, or you can find me on facebook. Now that you are closer to Wisconsin maybe we can get together one of these days.
Dennis & Pat
Hi Jerry & Pam!
I found a card you sent way back in 2013. Don’t know why I saved it, but glad I did, now I can get back in touch with you. Reaching out to friends from the past seems to be what I’ve been doing more and more. I just got back in touch with Mark (Andy) Anderson. He is well, but dealing with some health issues. Aren’t we all. I’ve kept in touch with Larry & Cathy Estenson, John & Jean Warren. I call Steve (Smed) & Kathy Metzenbauer at times, and a few years ago we crossed paths with Mike (Coopie) Cooper. We are well and enjoying retirement. I would love to hear from you. We still have the same phone & email, or you can find me on facebook. Now that you are closer to Wisconsin maybe we can get together one of these days.
Dennis & Pat
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