I have had such fun with the computer this past two weeks that it is a miracle that the newsletter is getting printed at all. Thanks for all the help in re-sending your information! Some of it was just lost. I had read it and then it was gone forever. Thanks to Allen, the computer has now been swiped clean and newer versions of most programs have been installed. He thought the problem had to do with a lightening strike and the firewire program. I have re-installed some of the stuff I have that he does not use and, I guess (until next time), I am back in business. One thing I feel bad about is that I lost a lot of the historic photos I had been getting ready to share. Back to scanning them in and getting them ready. I just get upset when I have to do the same job over again. I do appreciate all of you sending stuff to me on the myrna@nephitimesnews.com e-mail. I just cannot work with photos on the old msn hotmail site. It is such a process to open them that it takes forever and then I cannot download them, I can only open them. They are pretty well useless that way.
Dad has been busy helping at AnnMarie’s and trying to get the walls up in the laundry room/bathroom here. He has the electric wiring in and some of the walls are up. He is having problems with his wife. I do not want a really low ceiling and some of the furnace pipes, built to grade, would take a lot of inches out of the space on the ceiling. I have told Dad that I would rather live with pipes showing than have a “cave” there. He is working on ideas and so am I. His fireplace is a hit. The gas bill has already gone down quite a bit. I am almost too warm much of the time I am in the family room. That is a new complaint for the “Frozen Myrna” that I usually am. Next up is a decision on what to do about the solar panels and solar water heating system. The big storage tank sprung a leak. We turned the system off and, believe it or not, our power bill went down. Hum! Now what? We are trying to decide what to do and Dad is gathering information. Maybe, now that we have the quick recovery gas water heater, the solar system is not needed.
This has been a stay-at-home month. We have seen some of you, but we have not traveled very much. We did go to the Conference Center with Kimberly, Shawn, Helen and Helen’s friend. It was the conference for national choir directors and we really enjoyed ourselves. We are also taking Siovhan out to supper and a movie tonight so she will know she still has grandparents.
Dad and I also went to the Pink Panther movie. Even though I am not a fan of Steve Martin, the current actor, he did do justice to the part and the memory of Peter Sellers, Dad’s favorite. The critics don’t like it but Dad and I thought it was OK. There is one scene, as usual, that could have been left out. Nothing happens but it is the thought.
We love all of you. We are so proud of the people you are becoming. Thank you. Thanks also for the wonderful grandchildren that it is our pleasure to love.
