Madre Returns Home

One week ago this past Friday Madre was discharged from the rehab center. I took a half-day vacation to help her move back to the Madre house, but by the time I got there in the afternoon, she was already settled in. Madre did not want to wait to get home!

Madre still gets therapy three times a week. My sister the ex-teacher helps her around the house, and so do I. The plan at first was for me to return Madre's cat Callie home on the Friday after her discharge; but Madre is not that settled in yet, so Callie gets to stay with me another week or so.

I mowed my lawn for the first time a couple of Saturdays ago. My lawn is as I would expect. In some places, the grass is hardly out of the ground. In other places it is so high I could hardly mow it. After a couple of days I was not satisfied with the lawn. It was then that I discovered that the Fiskars mower I normally use is not cutting at all! I had to use the backup mower, a fourteen-year-old mower from a company that is no longer in business. But it still cuts! The problem is that it cuts too low.

I would like to get the lawn rolled with a heavy roller. Some guy who does lawn work was advertising for rolling work, but by the time I called, he stopped doing it! Argh!!

At work the Windows file/print utility for the library's Macs is being upgraded due to a lack of capability when used with OS X Mavericks. Once the upgrade comes, I can upgrade all Macs to Mavericks. (Yes, I have read about the coming OS X 10.10. No, it will not come to the library Macs anytime soon.)

The Hewlett-Packard LaserJet 8150 is the most durable printer I have ever known. The library had ten 8150s when I started work at the library (as part of its mobile development project) in 2004; it has sixteen of them now; but only this year have the 8150s been in and out of repair, mostly for grinding gears and failed fusers.