Welp… the new beast has arrived and is dominating the SE corner of the livingroom… it was a bit of trial and error getting to this point. The delivery/set up guy and his son arrived just past 7am on Friday and quickly got to work hefting the thing out of the back of his truck and into the house. Carm and I could NOT have done it!
Jason got it assembled, but when it was time to install the screen he'd brought the wrong one so this morning first thing we dashed into the city to get the right one. Carm installed it with no problem and then we fought played with it getting it set up… new accounts, wifi connection, app updates, sign in to streaming services (it has YouTube, Disney+ and Amazon Video built in), download the software so that I can cast my phone to the (giant) screen. All regular setup things that went reasonably well although it is SLOW…
I walked on it yesterday for an hour without the screen as it does have a small display of time, distance, speed and incline on the led display. The part that you walk on was super super crazy slippery - it was almost like walking on glare ice - the handles were essential to keep myself upright! My legs are sore today from compensating 😄
This afternoon I tried it out again, this time with the display screen installed. It's got some good features but some of the things are slightly annoying. First, I need to sign in with a password which then takes almost a minute to connect. Casting from my phone works so so - it sometimes lags several seconds which then doesn't line up with the sound that's coming from my earbuds which are paired to my phone. I’m usually playing music and always display the lyrics when I do as I like singing along (poor Carm!). Sometimes it keeps up but other times it freezes. If I leave the casting display to look at stats or even pause it, I have to reconnect which is a series of steps, and this might require a password as well. So pausing to run to the bathroom requires all my media to be set up again…
I'll get used to all the idiosyncrasies and come to love it in time!
Yesterday ended up being a busy day with the delivery at 7am, a quick walk with June from Switzerland, lunch out with Ken & Francine (more about that later), a quick dash to Trudie & Leo's to fix his phone… we got home around 3:30 and got busy changing the tires to the summer ones. By the time we were finished, we both felt terribly sick and had to drag ourselves through the chores - the animals needed to be fed…
I don't believe that we were food poisoned but just not used to that much greasy food. We both had the fish and chips which were good at the moment, but in retrospect, the batter was saturated with oil. Ugh. I should have done what Francine did, which was peel off the coating. The fish itself was good. The fries were okay. We'd never been to this small town greasy spoon restaurant and won't be going back for fish & chips, but maybe we'll try it for a burger.
Chapter 55 Cato and Bailey Are up Early
It seemed to be especially early that Laura and Carm woke up one morning. They did all the regular morning chores and soon Cato and Bailey were playing on top of their cages. They'd only been playing for 20 minutes when Laura jumped up and rushed them back into their cages. Of course they were hungry for breakfast so didn't mind! But they were curious about who could be visiting so early in the morning.
Cato was surprised to see Carm fold up the treadmill and move it away. Bailey wondered if perhaps Laura had walked too much and wanted the treadmill gone, but then two big men brought in another one. Cato and Bailey watched them put it together. Bailey thought it might be fun to try taking it apart! He loved taking things apart.
Once the people finished putting it together they admired the dogs. One of the men told Laura and Carm that he used to show Rhodesian Ridgebacks like Adia! Everyone thought that was a great coincidence. Finally they said goodbye to Cato, Bailey, and Grace and then the house was quiet again, at least until Laura started playing music to walk on her new treadmill.
https://youtu.be/ZzjOE0RnIMc?si=jIFtCs-Phs8GvMN5 (Raise a Little Hell Trooper)
Today we woke up earlyish, took care of the pets (3 parrots and 2 dogs!) then dashed back into the city to pick up the display unit. A quick stop into the MidEast grocery store netted us some pomegranate juice on sale 😀 We don't generally drink juice but this has no sugar added and is considered very good for gut bacteria. Pomegranate and unsweetened cranberry juice feeds specific beneficial bacteria. Back home we dragged all the parrot cages outside to be pressure washed, got the sheets in the washer, installed the display, walked for 30 minutes, took care of the cardboard, and countless other small things - I'm exhausted from 2 busy (for me) days!
I eventually had to make supper but could hardly imagine prying myself off the sofa! So we had canned chili with roasted sweet potato, broccoli, and tofu.
Awesome!
“a beautiful warm almost summer day - shorts & t-shirt”
“sitting on the bench in the backyard”
“dogs excited about being outside”
“new treadmill (this may not quite be awesome yet!)”
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