Seals

 

We went down to get the mail today, on the way I noticed the gas gauge said we had fifty miles left.  I asked Vera if it was alright to run down to Fred Meyer to fill up and she said sure.  As we went by Rocky Point on the way down we noticed lots of Seagulls and I remembered seeing a comment on Facebook about Smelt being in the Cowlitz.  After we filled up with gas we decided since Dairy Queen was right across the street we might as well have a Blizzard.  On the way home I pulled off by the Carnival Market to watch the Seagulls.  Vera noticed some big splashes across the river and then we noticed the seals or sealions diving for smelt.  We saw six or eight where we were parked and Vera noticed some more up by Rocky Point on the way home.

The last couple of days I have been installing a new monitor on this computer.  The old one developed some streaks in high contrast areas and it really bothered me when editing pictures for the blog.  I ordered this twenty eight inch 4K Samsung and boy does it make a difference.  Of course it caused a rearrangement of the desk so I neatened up the wiring while I was doing it.  Our laser printer has been refusing to print Vera's stuff and then it quit doing mine.  I uninstalled all the software, downloaded the latest and installed it.  Then I went through the setup, now we can both use it.  I took the old monitor to the shop to use on the computer out there.  That turned into another major rearrangement so I redid most of the wiring for it also.  Then the computer did not have an analog video output so there was no place to plug the monitor in.  I finally found an adapter in the drawer that let me plug it into the digital video output and naturally now there are no streaks so it must have been something in the analog signal.  Wednesday morning we watched the inauguration until Vera had to leave for bible study then I made a mail, recycling and pellet run.  This week has sure flown by but I was never bored.