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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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Paint cache.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other chores done during the week included lawn maintenance and a trip to the town’s compost site. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Some assembly required<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Desk in position<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Pam has already used her new work area and thinks it will be the project work space she’s been needing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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”<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

align=\"left\" style=\"margin: 5px 5px 5px 40px;\" border=\"2\"<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
\/* Centers photos to left on non-gallery pages. Replaces \"Align=\" deprecated in HTML4 and HTML5 *\/\n.center1{\ndisplay:block;\nmargin-left:40px;\nwidth:210px;\nfloat:left;\n}<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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!<\/p>\n\n\n
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Pam’s “Heart” hanging basket <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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The catio<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Phlox in bloom<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Red geraniums<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Pansies<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
Photo Archive<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Some “Artsy” Black and White shots.<\/p>\n\n\n
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Winter silhouette<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Antique door hook<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Lockset missing knob<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Old barn<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
That’s it for now. Thanks for looking in!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pam’s Penny<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Didn’t I say [last week] it would be too hot to paint outside this week?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Happy Trails.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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