Ring cameras, Bachelorette, phone calls

And I still have shirts on my be which need to be hung in the closet

Quiet day. Ring camera batteries charged, but two long phone calls and a Skype session delayed setting up the cameras. They are now operative, one on the carport looking at the cat entry & hummingbird feeder, the other on the front porch looking at the door and some of the ramp. Motion detection works. Requires the Ring app on the phone, or on the PC.

Rice cooker made a batch of rice. Dinner was salad then half a bag of turkey stew over rice. Left over half of that, back in a bag to freeze. Packed the rice into about 8 sandwich zip lock bags, in the freezer now.

After dinner, Hgl 90 and dropping. Too much pre-meal insulin. Ice cream helped.

Below Deck was pretty good for a change. Chef came back, and outdid herself. New deck hand is a WIN. Editing was crappy, though.

5 pm went outside to see the planets converge but they are on the other side of the houses and mountains.

The Bachelorette final episode had the obligatory producer-effed-up drama with the emotionally challenged hunk returning from being sent home. The guy who was the best physical match was sent home on account of religious differences. Her family was there to meet the hunk and Zac. Her dad made a special effort to talk her out of it. But she sent Hunk home and accepted Zac's proposal. No After the Final Rose show, for covid reasons.

She will have second thoughts for the rest of her life, I think.

The power foamer turns out to not work with a garden hose, even with the attachement set. Ordered one which does.

Removed the water fountain from the now-former cat room.

Many people reporting receiving the calendar. Bee keeper sister pointed out a mistake. I had labeled a honey bee as a bumblebee. I know better than that. Don't know how my brain farted like that.
Plans for tomorrow:

Waiting for certified letter delivery. USPS.com scheduler didn't work but the QR code on the phone did.  
Do some reading

Quiet day with cats

Forgot to have breakfast. Lots of news online, many of my favorite Twitch streamers were active. Not much on TV except football, FF is my friend. Gold Rush was a rerun. Catfish had an amazingly happy ending - she wasn't catfishing him, she was just too shy to show her face, due to a bad experience in the past. But she turned out to be the beautiful woman in the photos, and she truly liked the geeky guy she had been texting. And now they are dating.

Oak Island was the usual scam, nothing conclusive turned up, but they were all like "wow, that's good stuff" when it really wasn't. History Channel is pouring a lot of $$ down that bottomless pit. Beyond Oak Island was even worse. Minion goes to Utah and falls for some phony graffiti being secret codes from Jesse James, who allegedly was treasurer for a post civil war group which wanted to start a second civil war. The good news is the place is Federal land, so they cannot dig or take anything.

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Interesting dynamic when Ma'am was sitting on my lap and Spook wanted to be there. It ended with neither of them there.

Ordered some groceries from Smith's. Arrived on time, correct items, the only bad was she put them blocking the door until I yelled for her to come back. Her mask was hanging off her ear. And the bags smelled like cigarette smoke.

Lunch was the other half of the turkey stew & rice. Dinner was salad and 3 crab cakes from Smith's. Not very good, mostly filler, and bits of jalapeños made it spicier than needed.

Streamed for an hour, had several chatters. Banned one for being stupid.

The new porch camera worked well, notified me when people came to the door, recorded enough to ID them. Carport camera kept false alarming, but after I adjusted it no more alerts. Should have been some, cat food doesn't eat itself. It also didn't detect the delivery to the back door. I may move the camera back to make it more of a back door cam and less of a cat/raccoon/hummingbird cam.  Or I may add a camera? $$

USPS FAIL- the scheduled re-delivery never happened.


Plans for tomorrow:  
10 am cardiology appointment