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Ray--Opo

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I'm with you there, Ray--Opo. I've been sleeping in my recliner for a year now. Nothing wears you down like pain & no sleep unless it's traveling on bumpy roads, pain & no sleep. Good & better zzzzz's for you tonight, I hope!!
Thank you, last night was better. I am getting a new recliner soon. ? The new recliner will have lift assist. So it will be safer for me transferring to my wheelchair.
 

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On this day 2020 (part 1): Today was spent exploring Wellington starting with the Te Papa Museum of New Zealand. The giant squid and Haast’s eagle are specimens that get your attention... it’s message about how quickly humans can damage a landscape is obvious from what has happened to NZ in the last 250 years.

We then toured the NZ parliament buildings - their parliament went back into session tomorrow after its summer break. We finished by getting the funicular up to the Botanic Gardens... Wellington is very hilly!
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Beautiful! Did you happen to notice if NZ infrastructure was handicapped accessible? The problem with the Philippines and Rose said also some countries in Europe is there wasn't alot of handicapped accessibility. I would really like to visit NZ.
 

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Beautiful! Did you happen to notice if NZ infrastructure was handicapped accessible? The problem with the Philippines and Rose said also some countries in Europe is there wasn't alot of handicapped accessibility. I would really like to visit NZ.
The public buildings and tourist attractions were good. I got the imoression the government was pretty clued up on accessibility. Zealandia where we were in the evening had good wheelchair access. Even the two star gazing events were easily accessible using the cable car to the station at the top and the paths were great.

Some of the stuff we did definitely wasn’t simply because we hiked in rugged countryside or it involved jumping on and off small boats (we did A LOT of boats!) Kapiti Island would be challenging in a wheelchair. There’s a good path to the top of the hill, but it is VERY steep.

The problem with some sites in the UK and Europe is their age. They just weren’t built to be accessible and are so old that they cannot be modified to be so. We wheeled our son aged about 7 round Paris in a wheelchair with a badly broken leg in a full length cast and people were remarkably helpful. We were pulled out of queues and taken to the front. We even got him up the eiffel tower on crutches.
 

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Good morning/afternoon.
Weather good today it has snowed all day but none of it stuck in spite of the cold.
Doesn't look like Lola has any intention of making an appearance again today and I can't blame him, although I would like to soak him later.
I'm off to buy some sunflower hearts for my birdies now so I'll see you later.
TTFN
 

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We are waiting for a snow storm arriving tomorrow, so I am out making sure all the hatches are battened down. I'll run some errands now because if the snow is accompanied by ice I won't be able to back up out my driveway. While I personally think that putting around town in the sno and ice is fun. It's also a hazard. Oregon is a legal state and I think that is the reason most Oregonians forget how to drive on the ice and sno from one episode to the next.lol Add the big engine and serious loss of traction, not a great idea to go to town.
My church is right across the hiway from me so after the sun comes up I will go to the parking lot and practice spinning donuts and other things that are fun in the snow, but just might be life saving in a certain way, like muscle memory, sorta
 

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Wow. For you aquarium & fish keepers..... i just added a “power head wave maker” to our always murky 20 gallon tank.... and wow! We went from cloudy/murky to crystal clear water. We’ve been struggling with this one tank now almost since we set it up. Two large fish...yes, just two. But always cloudy. Water changes, substrate vacuuming, filter changes.....nothing. Added this wave maker & bam, crystal clear!

 

Ray--Opo

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Cut back the banana tree this morning. One of the dead palms had a new growth in it. Went to the doctors and came home this afternoon. The new growth grew 3 inches. ? I think the tree is giving me the middle finger. ?20210210_162457.jpg
 

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I'm with you there, Ray--Opo. I've been sleeping in my recliner for a year now. Nothing wears you down like pain & no sleep unless it's traveling on bumpy roads, pain & no sleep. Good & better zzzzz's for you tonight, I hope!!
I sleep on a leather couch and have for years. Even an old one is cleaner (allergies). The way they are made gives a back or whatever some comfy support wherever you need it.?
 

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Cut back the banana tree this morning. One of the dead palms had a new growth in it. Went to the doctors and came home this afternoon. The new growth grew 3 inches. ? I think the tree is giving me the middle finger. ?View attachment 317887
That nice, glad it survived the frost. Noticed in a previous picture that there were a lot of trees in that pot. Did you start with one and how long have you had them. My plant had a new leaf coming out when I got it, that leaf has fully opened and another one is already showing. It is still in the house.
 

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Cut back the banana tree this morning. One of the dead palms had a new growth in it. Went to the doctors and came home this afternoon. The new growth grew 3 inches. ? I think the tree is giving me the middle finger. ?View attachment 317887
Yea and it's still green. So it decided to live despite you ?
 
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