Pretty Sure Google Killed My Phone

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May at the farm turned out to be mostly food and hiking along with the Google mess, bothersome doctor appointments and unwelcome visitors.

The Google mess was a total aggravation that took nearly a week, too many hours, too many phone calls and a visit to the T-Mobile store in Charlottesville to resolve.   One perfectly normal day, I watched as my phone did a reboot I hadn’t asked for.  From then on it would not come back to the home screen.  Thus it was useless to me.   I spent HOURS googling what to do.  I did everything suggested and nothing worked.  So I took the phone in to the store where the technician redid all things I’d already done and declared it would have to be replaced.   WHAT??   I didn’t do anything and I have to replace my phone?

The speculation was that google had done an update that went awry.  Thus it was Google’s fault but is there any way to contact google to force them to make it right.  Not that I could find.  So T-Mobile kindly ordered me a new phone, or at least new to me, exactly the same model I’d had,  Google Pixel 6 and charged me $5.   I should have up graded to a newer phone but I really don’t want all the AI on them and was leaving town shortly and didn’t want to have to deal with potential problems in the outback of Vermont.

On to the food.

Most common breakfast:  spinach, banana, oatmeal, flax seed, chia seed, umla, frozen fruit and oat milk.   It really is delicious and keeps me satisfied for hours.

Sample lunches and dinners.   Sometimes I make enough for both meals.

Beautiful skies.

Wild flowers blanket the fields.

The grass has to be mowed.  Not sure why I look so happy about it.

The hiking is always wonderful and better now that I have mowed a path through the grass to hopefully decrease the tick possibilities.

Some days the weather is wonderful and I eat outside at the picnic table.  Other days it is in the 90’s HOT and HUMID and I wonder how that can be in May and if I should have moved north sooner.

But once I went with my friend Pam for Mexican food and margaritas.  Actually hers was a pina colada and even better than my frozen strawberry margarita.

Despite my attempt at heart healthy eating and my daily hikes or kayaking, my blood pressure is too high so I got to wear this gadget for 24 hours.  It confirmed, my blood pressure is way too high.   So now what?

Last post I showed my lovely Peony in bloom.  I put 3 in a vase and and this is how they looked when they wilted.  I think they are still beautiful.

We’ve had enough rain to encourage the mushrooms.  This one is bigger than my hand.

The woods are beautiful.  Wonderful for hiking.

Delicious easy dessert, cored apple slices with nut butter and chocolate granola sprinkled on top.

End of the month wildflowers in the field.

One of my very destructive, very fast moving neighbors that I cannot catch in a Have-a Heart trap.  Here he is brazenly walking into the yard.  Picture is fuzzy because I’m taking it through the window.   I am getting so frustrated I wish some one would shoot them.   They are living under my house and shed.

The thing in Winnona’s air vent is a beginning wasp nest which was much easier to get rid of than the groundhogs.

Time to move away from the heat.  My last view of the flower filled fields on May 28 as I leave for Vermont for the summer.