Our Lives

Arizona, 83 degrees right now, sun shining, birds singing, breeze blowing, windows open…

Life is good.

Anyone that has known me for very long knows how much I love hummingbirds.  They would also know that I once rescued one that I found buried in a huge pile of boulders in MI.

Well, God granted me that privelage again today.  I heard a crash into one of our windows and saw a bird falling to the ground.  I went over to see if it was lying there or if it had gotten right up and on its way.  To my dismay, it was a tiny little hummingbird lying on the ground, not moving.

I ran outside and picked it up - took it to the sofa on our patio - laid it down and went inside to get an eyedropper and some hummingbird food I always keep in the fridge for my feeder.

I grabbed a soft towel, because it is really cold outside right now and began to try to feed the stunned bird.  At first it just looked at me unable to move, but it was blinking and breathing (very fast).  I kept offering it the food. Finally it started to drink a tiny bit, still barely able to move.

After a few minutes of eating and resting, the hummingbird was standing up a little and drinking.  Then all of a sudden, he was strong enough again, and flew right out of my hand and into the tree!

Looking at this tiny little helpless creature, all I could think about was how beautiful these birds are.  God has put some of the most beautiful creatures into these tiny little packages… imagine the love he puts into every living creature - not just us…. 

Thank you God.

Talk about a high stress day!  Yesterday was horrible.  I hope I don’t have a day quite like it EVER again.  The following computer escapade took up most of the day.  I won’t even go into the rest of the horror that had nothing to do with my computer!  : # 

My Norton had expired so I renewed the subscription at the end of Jan.  Since then, my computer performance had been quickly declining, until Wed when my mouse wouldn’t work properly.  Then I couldn’t get my browser to work properly (especially Facebook). 

Everthing I tried to do was an effort that I didn’t have in me.  So I got on the blogs to see what all the error messages meant and discovered that they were all a result of Norton bugs.  So I tried all the temporary fixes they recommended to no avail.

My next step was to call Norton and get a refund.  Which they gave me.  I then uninstalled Norton.  Now for anyone of you who have used Norton, you know that the normal uninstall method doesn’t do the trick completely.  To completely uninstall, you need to use their online uninstall tool (which they claim you don’t have to do). 

After I uninstalled it on my own, I went to their website to use the tool (which I found the url from a tech blog).  It still had a ton of files it found and uninstalled.  But wait, I’m not done yet…

Then I had to purchase a registry cleaning software to get rid of all traces of Norton completely!  Who do you trust?  I found one that is MS certified and McAffee certified.  So my registry had 587 files to fix.  Not all Norton, but I suspect most of then were.

Some of them were Itunes… but I digress.  So I cleaned my registry.  Then I got online through an account for McAffee I had created for Katies computer.  I was able to purchase a license for mine for $2.50!  It’s only good until May when her’s expires, but then I can get three licenses (Mine, Kates and Jay’s) for $45.

Norton was $60 for three licenses.

So for $29.95 for the registry clean up and $2.50 for the McAffee, I am in great shape.  My computer is running better than when I took it out of the box!  Yeah……

Wow, the Cards really held their own against the Steelers.  That Fitzgerald is awesome!  What a game!  Almost…..

There’s always next year.