A New Laptop + #InternationalHyggeDay + #StDavidsDay + #Crafting + A Weather Report

I got a new laptop...

 

 

It's not as amazingly powerful as Kelly's new gaming PC.  But I'm sure you aren't surprised to hear that, since it's a laptop.  But it's plenty powerful enough for me, is better than the computer I was using, and it's a laptop so it's also portable.  And takes up less space on my desk so that my brailler can be on my desk too.  I also made sure to update to the latest version of JAWS (my screen reader software) even though the new laptop does have something called Cortana on it (I think that's how it's spelled) which gives it some basic speech capabilities, as well as the option to use close captions if I was hearing impaired.  JAWS does more, but it's nice to have the backup, and to know that Microsoft are thinking about making things accessible to people with visual or hearing impairments these days.

 

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In other news: February 28th was International Hygge Day.  Well, it falls on February 29th if it's a leap year, but this year isn't, so that's why International Hygge Day was February 28th this year.  Anyway, it worked out well, since it was a Monday, and Mondays have become the closest thing to a day off I give myself these days, so I spent a lot of that day relaxing and reading.  But I also made Welsh cakes, since the following day, being March 1st, was St David's Day here in Wales, but Tuesdays are generally pretty busy for me.  Especially every other Tuesday when I now have a tips segment on a Zoom cooking call on top of the crafting and time with my Dad Tuesdays generally involve for me.

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Speaking of crafting: I finished a couple more craft projects.

Kelly helped me make this little leprechaun hat...

Which then got stuck on this four leaf clover St Patrick's Day decoration:

And I also made these Spring and animal themed gift tags:

 

Plus, while on some of the crafting calls I was learning some new stitches with loom knitting and crochet, and made this little collar with the pieces for Mam's dog Izabel, with the band decorated with some different loom knitting stitches, and a flower made using crochet puff stitch.

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Still no sign of my snow.      We've had a decent amount of wind and rain, though even that's not been as much as it might have been.  I hope I get my snow before it gets too late in the year for it.  Not holding my breath though, because unless we get a late snowfall it's looking like this will be one of those Winters with almost nothing as regards snow.  Several people said they'd send me theirs if they could.  I wish they could.

 

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I'm sure I had some other things I was going to say, but right now I can't think what they were, and I need to publish this.  So, I guess this will have to do for today.  Hope you have an awesome week.