Connie's Ramblings

Happy Easter!

Finally have our first spring flowers a few crocuses around the yard.

Other news would be that I finally broke down and bought a new laptop. I’ve been complementation getting one for the past year as my old Toshiba Pentium 3 from 2001 just wasn’t cutting it anymore. With desktop computers I build my own… not an option with a laptop so I now have my first Dell.

Owned it less than 24 hrs before formatting the harddrive and doing a clean install within a retail version of Vista Ultimate. Once I realized I needed the AHCI Intel SATA driver during the install things went pretty well. I’m writing this on it right now using the Wacom Tablet and handwriting recognition. Very nice for there laptop- but not sure it is something I’d ever use on any main computer since tin a very efficient typer. Benefit of having to take typing and having wpm drills in high school.

It was beautiful waking up to a white world instead of the constant brown we’ve had lately. We typically get most of our snow in February or March however we do tend to get a few storms November – January. The last few years however, the weather has been quite odd – warm one week, cold the next – casulaty of Global Warming I suppose. This week is a perfect example, Saturday was in the upper 50s and Jon was running around in a t-shrit outside, this morning we wake up to snow…

We didn’t get much but what we did get is wet and heavy so it sticks to the trees and bushes creating the winter wonderland effect which is quite beautiful. Downfall is it is a pain to shovel as it is so heavy… The tractor didn’t like blowing it much either – it kept freezing against the metal and clogging everything up…

Photo of the trees covered in the backyard…

Some leaves left on the Japanese Maple

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