another dell tech showed up with a new motherboard for my dead computer and you know what happened? it all worked for one minute and then the new motherboard died! what??? dell refused to send yet another tech and instead told me that they would send a replacement laptop with no warranty. oh well, better than nothing. good thing i was backed up because it was going to be a blank slate. in the meantime, i had bought a brand new samsung solid state drive from amazon and it arrived in the mail and i proceeded to work on the other dead computer, replacing the hard drive and installing windows. that went rather well although not as smoothly as i would have liked. for one thing, i don't do this for a living or even often enough to make it routine. i forgot that it was not a reformat and that i needed drivers for the hardware! anyway, once i figured that out (and i did have the disc with the drivers), things just fell into place and so now i have a practically brand new computer that boots up in an instant. i am very happy about that. and i am still waiting for the replacement laptop from dell but i got an email with a tracking number and it should arrive next week.
my mama duck has not returned and i fear the worst. the boyfriend, however, has come around for bowl feeding.
aurora is coming along really well as far as potty training. we have 100% pee on the pad. not always 100% poop but we are getting there. i can't wait to move that pad and tray out of the salon to the cockpit. her crate finally got moved from in front of the helm station to underneath the salon table on my side so i have to eat dinner with my legs on top of the crate for now. not a problem. as soon as the pad and tray move out, the crate will go in that corner of the boat. the problem is that on a 38-foot boat, there really isn't that much floor space for all this stuff. it would be nice if eventually we could get rid of the pad, tray and fake grass all together and she just did her business on the swim platform and we could simply hose it away with the raw water washdown. we are working on it. it is a LOT better system than what we had with consuelo. now, we don't HAVE to dinghy the doggie ashore AT ALL except for fun long walks. no more early mornings and late nights or bad weather dinghy rides good grief. and aurora herself is growing - she really is a doll.
on our second weekend back, we went for a short cruise to little bay. we had missed that place and this time, NO ONE was around. granted, it was a tad windy but nothing really alarming. we had the whole place to ourselves. we wanted to introduce aurora to cruising, the dinghy and the beach and the little sweetheart just took it all in. we had a great time and it was good to be back to one of our favorite places on the chesapeake.
back to little bay
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| eagle on the beach |
we did not try to force swimming on aurora. she was leery of the wavelets but that may be because she is still so little. she stayed away from the water. she followed us everywhere EXCEPT into the water: video of aurora on the beach
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