Sounds like yesterday went pretty well, snatching victory from the mouth of defeat several times, Linn!

I didn't do a lot, motivation has been hard to come by lately, but I did do some. I researched and then bought a chipper (it isn't a mulcher, no way to shove leaves into it, but I mow over those with my my mulching mower, and I'll have to continue to do that). It is a chipper that was on sale with a 25% off coupon at Harbor Freight. I'll have 90 days warranty period to see if the work I need to do will kill it or not.

Some laundry finished, another load going in soon. Right now I'm updating the computer in my son's room that hasn't been on since who knows when. I have a couple of things to do that are best in Windows XP with an old version of Nero that are on that machine - before they started dialing back to the mother ship to check the status of a disk being made into a personal copy (to share with my ex). Anyway, I've also been going through the sea of wires and cables around here and had to dig out a firewire only to find that the old computer doesn't have firewire (at least not on the front, I'll take a flashlight in to check out the back).

I'm going to check the contents of an old external hard drive and then see if it will work with my new BluRay player. I could load it with some of my movies that are on the computer and then watch them in the living room on the big TV instead of in my office in my computer chair. Win 7 doesn't play nice with that old Western Digital drive and I haven't tried it on the Win8 computer because I have a 1T drive to use there. But maybe I can adapt it to another use.

It's a pretty evening and I grilled a piece of salmon for dinner and a couple of chicken breasts to use this week. I resisted picking any more asparagus today, I'll give the bed a few days and pick another handful. My strawberries are blooming now and the chard is growing. All but one of the potato mounds has leaves pushing through. I need to make an effort to dig more beds tomorrow (and it is a fasting day so I may see some weight loss with the low calories and the gardening exertion).

Lurkers, thanks for the advice on equipment safety! Now to adjourn to my chair and pick up my book. Frodo and friends are in the mines of Moria. . .

SRS