Okay, I'm all set. I talked with a representative yesterday morning and regarding hotspot for my phone that I get each month. That won't do since I use a lot more than that in HALF a month! But, with wi-fi, I can actually say I can connect from home, or ANYwhere, with a monthly allotment with my plan and not over use. So, with the help of the carrier's rep, I'm rolling in high cotton - so the saying goes. There is no way I could possibly use that amount of wi-fi's GB in a month's time. Even if Bud [which he doesn't] uses anything with wi-fi to connect to the internet to blog, etc. We also have unlimited data, text, and phone. I just wanted to make everything clear for myself and not come to find we're being charged extra by my faulty knowledge. There is no need to shut off wi-fi. Plans are different all the way around, and different carriers have different options. What works for others, may not work for me.
Now that I got that out of the way, I will share photos [including the hilly scene above, at the beginning of my post] from a river walk the other day when the sky was BLUE. As I type this up on Monday morning, we have another gray, yucky day. But it's a calm, comfortable day. I'm thinking March has arrived by a lamb. Will it go out like a lion?!! I photographed several birds that day at the pond, the river, the drip system and feeding stations; of which photos will be resized and shared on my bird photo blog in the future...
The two of us have been busy doing more yard work. This week, it's getting rid of the winter killed ferns!!! And we have TONS of them. All along the foundations and in flower beds. The biggest "problem" of it all is we need to get on our hands and knees to cut. We can't use the electric trimmer, because the ferns are growing in amongst roses, bougainvilleas, hibiscus, ---don't wanna chop anything down in error, etc. Each fern has to be trimmed out individually. That's gonna take days!!! But, one morning, early, this week, I went to another area with no spring breakers to walk [I haven't been walking nearly enough to satisfy me, but I just can't and not be here to help with yard work]. I went to the river. I took several pictures of the lakes more than I did of birds this time....
Along the river, I walked along the boardwalk and through the trees sweeping the air with the spanish moss while a gentle breeze blew. It was a beautiful morning. Blue sky, new green spring growth just about everywhere I went -no wildflowers yet, tho...puffy white clouds, birdsong, a squirrel chattering away since I was disturbing his sanctuary, ducks in formation flew overhead while a silent raptor [the caracara] glided through the air thermals on the hunt! A lone kiskadee called out a warning. This photo in the paragraph is not the river, it's a feeder channel that flows into the river at the bank behind the boardwalk. Did I mention just how perfect a morning it was? Silence; yet filled with sounds of Springtime along the river bank and in the woods...
