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Our temperatures are still going crazy:  Next Wednesday it'll be 56°, then a couple days later it's supposed to get down to single digits again.  In times like these, I've often heard people say, "No wonder everybody is getting sick!"

For myself, I do get more aches and pains with weather changes.  But as for contacting colds and flu, I find nothing about the weather affecting my health.  You can catch a virus in any kind of weather, and the virus will make you sick.  When I was walking three miles every day years back, I never let the cold stop me:  I wore insulated Carhartt coveralls and stocking caps and walked in zero weather, unless there was a high wind.  That wind chill can freeze a person!

I had the strangest thing happen to my MacBook the other day:  There was an update ready to install, so of course I allowed it.  When it was finally done, all the saved passwords on Google Chrome had disappeared.  Thankfully, they were all still in place on Safari.  I like Safari, but for some reason there are some vital websites that it refuses to take me to.  So I usually use Chrome.  Anyway, I got through the crisis, and I'm done complaining.

Oh, here's a wonderful thing I discovered yesterday.  If you have a library card, there's a streaming app called Kanopy.  It's free with your library card, and there are thousands of movies and shows there... no commercials!  Cliff and I saw they had the movie "All of Me", so we watched it even though we'd seen in before.  There are independent movies and French movies, languages of all kinds.  We watched one this morning that was in set in Iceland, and we had to read captions to know what they were saying.  

That's it for today.  Have a great weekend.  I intend to.

I'm still among the living!

I'm right here at home and haven't caught Covid yet, but January and February have typically been times when it's hard for me to find anything I want to blog about.  When that happens, and days go by between entries, I force myself to say something, even if it doesn't amount to a hill of beans.  There was a time when I fed the birds in winter and blogged about that, but these days I've lost my concern for the birds.  We watch some television, but there's very little worth talking about there, although I will recommend that you watch "Call the Midwife" and the new version of "All Creatures Great and Small".  I donate five bucks a month to PBS so I can live-stream all their programs.  It's the cheapest streaming app I know of, and worth all the other apps combined.  I don't get Netflix any more because there are usually only one or to shows I like.  I do have Amazon Video, but that and PBS are enough for me.  Cliff doesn't care for streaming and wants to watch without commercials, so we have Directv for $100 a month.  It gripes me to pay so much with inflation what it is, but Cliff worked hard and steadily until he retired, and I'm not going to take his television watching away from him.  

Oh yeah, how about my Chiefs?  I love this short video so much, I've watched it several times.  I can relate to this guy's excitement, because Cliff and I were acting about the same way. 

The Chiefs are a bright spot on winter days.  It's getting so I watch most of the games now, even when the Chiefs aren't in the game.  Cliff told me the other night, "I sure am glad you started watching football with me."

I have a haircut coming up this afternoon, so I'll pick up what few groceries we need afterward.  I'm thinking I'll get that turkey I bought before Christmas out of the freezer and roast it next week.  I have so many casseroles that require cooked chicken, and turkey works great for those.  Not to mention turkey salad sandwiches and turkey pot pie.  I'll just freeze the leftovers in two-cup portions and be ready for all those great meals.

It's only 53 days till spring!