Here I am again all set to do some scanning of some photos and postcards. I am looking for the ScanSnap icon in the array – but I am not finding it. I had it on the bigger computer but not here on my laptop. When we moved recently from our one bedroom apartment on Level 3 down to a studio apartment on Level 1 there was no longer space for the bigger computer and printer. (Happily they are now being used by one of my granddaughters – “it’s not lost what a friend gets”). I will see what I can do in the morning when I can confer with my Tech Adviser. Meanwhile here is an old photo which I scanned previously.

Duchess was my first dog. My father and my sister Ruth and I went to a kennel somewhat west of Boston and we saw an array of dogs/puppies. I remember the location as being quite rural. This was in 1946 or 1947. I was in 5th grade. We chose an absolutely adorable little puppy – we were told it was part Collie, part St. Bernard. We named her Duchess. Duchess was sick in the car on the way home, but I couldn’t have loved her more. She was the family dog through my growing up years.

Do you ever hunt and hunt for a missing item and then suddenly find it in a less than obvious place? That happened to me this morning. The missing object was my alarm call button which usually hangs on a cord around my neck. My husband has one too. Well this morning he had his alarm in place but where was mine? I searched and searched in all the obvious places. About an hour into the morning I saw that my husband in fact had 2 alarms around his neck. How did that happen?? Never mind – my missing alarm was found.

What a quiet day we had here at Assisted Living. Our “celebration” was muted to say the least. I had dinner in the dining room with 6 others – my spouse was asleep back in our apartment. He ate a cold meal on a tray later in our apartment. A quiet afternoon reading and sleeping with an early “light dinner” at 5 P.M. I think there were 4 of us. All sounds rather bleak but in fact I was fine with the “quiet” day. It was a rainy day and I had a good book. I wishI I had some knitting – will try to remedy that tomorrow.

Here in Seattle 2021 just wasn’t the year for a festive family gathering with all the trimmings.

The Pilgrims going to Church in Plymouth

Here we are Thanksgiving Day 2021. Who would have thought we would be spending this Thanksgiving day in an “old folks home”. Maybe it’s just as well one doesn’t have a crystal ball in younger years. Still we have much to be thankful for. A loving family and good care in our advancing years.

We will probably spend this day quietly. I am very happy that I am now properly connected to the internet after our move from the 3rd floor down to the 1st floor. General wisdom says that any move is stressful and this one was no exception. But the “wrinkles” are gradually getting sorted. I even had my newspapers delivered to our new floor today!

The last(?) problem is to get my scanner working properly so that I can share my latest postcard acquisitions with you. Wait for it.

I have so much to write about today it just makes me dizzy not knowing where to start. O.K. Here it comes. First I lost my keys – the keys to my upstairs apartment. I was in the apartment when it happened. I ransacked the place looking for them. They had to be in that apartment somewhere. I enlisted the help of a friend. She looked everywhere several times over. We were on the brink of giving up when……….da da she asked “have you checked your pockets” for the umpteenth time. Duh…..I checked my back pocket – click – my keys were FOUND. There they were in my back pocket. We had a good laugh and a big hug! Did I ever feel foolish – particularly as I had had a similar experience in Fred Meyer several years ago. Oh well.

It’s a new day and somehow I am connected to the internet. Hooray. It is not raining – that is a nice change. There are humming birds at the bush right outside my window. And a friend just delivered a cup of coffee to my “office”.