Day 2340

Thursday February 29th 2024

Dear Journal:

6:05 and Mister Sam was very unhappy with the state of his food bowl, it wasn’t empty or anything like that, but it was not at a level that he felt was satisfactory. And when Mister Sam is unhappy there will be not rest for his humans, so as much as I was thinking a few more moments of sleep would be good, it wasn’t happening this morning.

So happy leap year to all those leapers out there, sun rise was nothing special this morning but there are only a few scattered clouds and we are expecting a sunny day and a temperature of 63ºF (17.2ºC) not hot, but pretty much on the monthly average. A blessed cup of perked coffee and a warm cinnamon bun makes for a sweet breakfast, as we catch up on the local and national news. Late yesterday we got word that Ernie was able to get their coach running, good news as that was the one task that I was unable to accomplish on Tuesday.

We have visitors coming to the Arboretum today, John & Brenda from Dogpound Alberta (Dogpound is located in the center of Alberta). We first met John in January of 2018, at Plamosa Road on BLM land, we were there to meet up with a younger couple who had a YouTube channel (Driving & Vibing) that we all followed. It was a short conversation that day but Miss Laurie has stayed in touch with them. They are fellow snowbird Canadians that head south every fall to avoid the Canadian winters, they are BoonDockers that have moved around through California, Arizona and Texas and like us have found Arizona to be a great winter home.

We wondered around some areas of the Arboretum as Brenda has some mobility issues so we stayed in the humming bird, eucalyptus, Australian, demonstration garden areas, nice wide level walking paths with plenty of chairs and benches along our route. There were a few plants blooming but we seen many that are at the budding stage as next month is the real start of the cactus blooms as well as the wildflowers that make up the “spring bloom” and with this years rainfall most likely this year will be another “super bloom“. It seemed quite apparent that they are now hooked on the arboretum and are actually boondocking less than a mile up the highway.

We made it back to the coach just around lunch time and Miss Laurie put together a leafy lettuce salad that was perfect on a warm day. I have an Arnold Palmer (ice tea & lemonade) on ice and have kicked back in my recliner catching up on some blogs, thinking that my eyes are getting very heavy and that I may have to have a nap in my chair. Then I remember that for some reason I have not been able to log into “Libby” the app that I use to read my library books using my iPad or phone, and I need some more books so I need to contact some one back at the Library back in Hamilton Ontario. So I fill out a form on the library website and after I submit it I get a message that looked like this screenshot below.

And I remember watching the Canadian (Global) news feed on Monday, something I do regularly just to know what is happening back in Ontario and I remember there being some kind of cyber attack in Hamilton but I thought it was just the transportation system, but now I see it has effected a number of public services in Hamilton. So most likely my email will just drift off to a junk folder some where in a library basement … and this has to have been a serious cyber attack to still be effecting things from last Sunday, oh well onto that wee nap.