Souvenir Photo Studio, by Al Bourassa

Thursday, May 28, 2020

Thursday May 28, 2020 Movie

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Thursday May 28, 2020

It was kinda neat corresponding on Messenger with two different friends from Okotoks at the same time this morning.

Then I decided to try something different for you today, movies from the back yard, only 1:37 minutes so not too hard to take. I am showing you how quick Tom Thumb feeds and departs, then returns later.

Some of the dogs love to play fight, especially Grigi who keeps my fat Nina in shape. You will see Princesa, Killer and Turi as well.

The bird feeder attracts primarily the Turtledoves and Saffron Finches.

In the sky, I missed getting Ibis and Hawks and Buzzards. Another day perhaps.

It is a bit of an exercise using the Nikon for movies where the buttons are in awkward places but it does take a good movie. The microphone must be super sensitive because I have no idea what all that background noise is. I also didn't feel like you needed my narration.

Hmmm.. OK, Blogger is not allowing a video download for some unknown reason.....

Update - I had to go to the new format that they are apparently forcing on us as of June because it works better on cel phones... I haven't figured everything out yet but I got the new format to download the video. Enjoy.

I may update later, depending on how nice my dentist is to me this afternoon.

Afternoon UPDATE: Yes, I went to the Dentist at 2:40pm and had another 1/2 hour wait. I was expecting drilling and a temporary crown today then a last visit for a permanent crown but that was not to be. He said that to anchor a crown or a large cover would entail a root canal, installing pegs, etc and at least 4 visits. I told him that my last very painful experience with a root canal, and a resultant dead brown tooth made me swear that I would NEVER do that again. So those two options were off the table. There was a third procedure that meant I could not eat anything hard, so I nixed that too. We ended up having a procedure I think he called Rocine, which I assume meant resin, to bond two different amalgams together and rebuild the large filling. I am not only happy with the result, only this second visit and I am done, annd... the bill was only 70,000 pesos or $18.72 USD for the first temporary repair, consultation and this final procedure. I don't think a Canadian dentist would look at my x-ray for that price...

The rain clouds were forming as we walked home and bought some chocolate-covered ice cream cones. We weren't home long and the heavens opened giving us a nice cooling drench.

This new Blog program is a disaster. It just uploade my photos all out of order. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

I hope you enjoy the photos. That was the day’s excitement.

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Somebody is getting wet

It's a neighbour and her daughter

Getting in quickly

Another Lips artwork at the Dentist's

Rainstorm forming to the north

Nice rain out back

The plants need this rain

Wednesday, May 27, 2020

Wednesday May 27, 2020 Banking

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Wednesday May 27, 2020

As I said yesterday, we were starting early, out the door at 7:05am to be in the Tulua Bancolombia bank line-up for 8am opening. We were in line around 7:20 and were already behind about 100 people trying valiantly to maintain social distancing, going around the block. By 8:45 we had made it to the corner and by 9:30 we could see the door. We got in the door at 9:50am but I was sent outside again as they would only see one of us, not both. We were changing an expiring CD in Cristina's name. At 10:30am Cristina got me back inside but still had to meet alone with the Asesor. We got out of there after 11am. After I had seen the lineup, I had told Cristina that we were in for a 4-hour marathon, and I had it almost on the nose. Remember, this is the biggest bank in town.... and it still has such antiquated systems that take forever to do the simplest tasks. It took me 1/2 the time as this when I worked in the Bank Of Nova Scotia 1969-1971, and doing everything manually.... Oh, and Scotiabank basically owns Bancolombia...

From there we spent $110 USD on needed groceries at LA14, mostly my stuff and more multi-vitamins. Then we filled up Lizzie's tank to the brim for under $14 USD on the way home.

The photos today are all with the little Lumix which I still carry in my fanny pack but hardly ever use. It is an OK camera in the daylight and has an amazing zoom capability. The writing on the buttons in some spots are wearing off surprisingly. I have to remember now which is the one I need to view the pics, lol.

I hope you enjoy the pictures. That was the day’s excitement.

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1/3 of the bank line-up going around the corner

Another 1/3 around the corner

Another 1/3 heading for the door

$110 is a trunkful of groceries.

The Lumix did a good job on this close-up shot

Tom Thumb says "Hi"

Tuesday, May 26, 2020

Tuesday May 26, 2020 Connected

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Tuesday May 26, 2020

We are grateful that Movistar actually did reactivate our phone plan today as contracted. Now I have 500 minutes to North America again so I feel connected again. For those who need to reach me in a hurry you need to call 011-57-318-847-1540. We also have Messenger, WhatsApp, and, in a pinch, Skype.

I got mad and reinstalled Netflix and it seems to be working fine again. I was right, the US DEA agent was there at the kill of Pablo Escobar but did not pull the final trigger. This Narcos series is continuing into dismantling of the Cali Cartel. This part is new to me and quite interesting.

I was out back for a couple of photos and Nina was going crazy. My trusty watchdogs at work. I was surprised to see the rear neighbour essentially above the height of my wall, obviously cutting off branches of a tree where his chickens climb and get into our yard. That is a good thing to stop. He is the nut that took down that magnificent palm tree a while back.

We have to be out early in the morning so I did poop patrol at 5pm. It was tough to see because it is clouding over and we may hopefully get a rainstorm. We had a short rain earlier in the afternoon but that only added humidity to the 30C temperature.

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