DH was gone all day long at the property. He sent me a couple of pictures. One of when the guy finished the prep work (it's a 2 tiered wall) and one of the first rock set. Plus yesterday afternoon it started snowing pretty good. We've got a few inches back on the ground now this morning. DH is up at at 'em back to the property. I did not go - too cold to stand around and watch and I'm going to make cookies and wrap presents. I've been waiting for my last gifts to arrive, so I can get all the wrapping stuff out once and be done. Plus, I get to enjoy another day all to myself 👸
We bought some new snow shovels a couple months ago (our last winter one wore out). DH finally got to try it out. One is on wheels and he says it's so much easier on him and does it quicker.
DD said her BF just had some work done on his pickup and now he thinks he has a head gasket problem. He bought the truck used and DD said it's just about paid off. They were hoping it would last awhile longer before having to put at least a couple thousand dollars into it. I think he's had it about 4 years - they have been together 3 years now and he had it then. She said of course now he just wants to get a new (I don't know if she means brand new or new to him used) pickup, rather than get it fixed. It is a 2004, so getting up there in years. But, they were planning on driving that over next Friday, since they have to go over 3 mountain passes and have chains for it, if needed. Now they will probably have to take DD's car and get chains for it to have with them. She has a very nice Ford Taurus they bought new about 19 months ago. I'm sure they will be fine driving it, but they are also bringing their puppy and would have rather not had it in their new car.
I'm thinking of dropping satellite tv (Dish) when we move and just use internet service for tv watching at try. It would save us at least $40 a month or more. DH basically watches two channels. Fox News and Discover. That's it. I watch a few network shows, but nothing I couldn't get via Hulu and I usually watch them on my ipad anyway. I see Hulu has live tv for $40/mo. It includes Fox News, but not Discover. DH prefers watching shows on our tv, rather than his computer, so I'm still trying to figure out if there would be a way to get/watch Discover on a tv via internet. I'm not coming up with anything, unless it's part of your paid subscription. That is my only hold up in this whole plan, how to get Discover. I have access to my mom's xfinity/Comcast account and have xfinity Stream TV on my ipad, but I'm not sure there would be a way to access that via a tv. Maybe there is, that I'm not aware of. He could probably get used to watching Discover on his ipad or computer, if he had to. We also have Amazon Prime Video, included with the Prime subscription I share with DD.
6 more days and DD is here! They will be here early Friday evening until the following Tuesday afternoon.
He CAN watch it on the TV and not the computer. I am not sure of ALL the options, but we use a Roku box and a DVD player to access Hulu, Amazon Prime, Netflix, You Tube, anything on the internet. It works fine. You should be able to get a box to hook up to your tv (it is a wireless something) for under $20. I could not live without it because I don't like to watch movies or anything video on the computer - I much prefer the TV. The quality is as good as the signal (which would be the same on your computer) and the quality of the TV.
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So it's the roku box you hook up to get anything on the internet? (I currently have a amazon Firestick). DH would love that because he has been wanting to be able to watch some pay per view racing he sometimes watches on his computer and would love to watch it on the big screen. I asked my DD if there new "smart" tv gets anything on the internet and she didn't think so. Maybe she is wrong.
DeleteI've never seen a snow shovel with wheels! Makes perfect sense though.
ReplyDeleteWe only have Prime and Sling. The one thing I do miss is Fox news as that is the only news we will watch.
I looked into Sling, but didn't seem to have very many channels and not FoxNews so thought Hulu might be a better choice for us. He'll have that on all day LOL
DeleteI know people who hook their computer to the tv to watch shows.
ReplyDeleteA head gasket is cheaper than a car payment of any kind. My car is a 2000 and will get repairs forever...lol.
Do you have a picture or link for the snow shovel with sheels?
our son used to do that with a laptop. I have no idea how to do it and we only have desktops so not convenient to hook up. Plus I want something that is easy for DH to access. If he has to go through a bunch of hoops and menus he just won't end up doing it. This is the company we ordered the snow shovels from: http://www.jmenterprises.com/
Deleteit sounds like BF is going to trade his truck in for a newer used one. He won't have the money to fix it (I guess it's like at least $2000) until he gets his bonus in Feb and they need two vehicles, plus it's got almost 200k miles on it and probably due to start costing money for various repairs (he just did have a major repair done on it and now this other thing broke). At least he's planning to buy used and not new. Not my money, not my decision LOL.
DeleteYou'll have to let us know how well the shovel works. We have very heavy snowfalls and use a snowblower but this could come in handy for doing quick clean ups.
DeleteHe used it yesterday to shovel the driveway. He really liked it and said it probably took half the time compared to a regular snow shovel, plus it's angled so pushes the snow to the side a bit.
DeleteOne of the first things I dropped when my ex left was Sky TV (cable). It saved me about $100 a month and I never missed it at all. I'm now with Freesat, which as the name suggests is free. It's things like this where we can make the most (painless) savings isn't it. Anna
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