Last week I mentioned the yellow line on the computer monitor. It pops up now and then but goes away. Yesterday the small screen on the telephone answering machine went blank. The image on the upper right should be on the blank rectangle of the machine. The system still appears to work. I’ve called with my iPhone and it answered. 
A couple of years ago I dropped and broke one of the cordless receivers. I ordered one but it failed to work. I sent it back. Then wondered if it’s base and charger went bad. I sent it back but didn’t bother to ask for a replacement and threw the base away. It could have been the base. The point is, I’m short one of the remote handsets.
I’ve ordered a new system with 5 handsets.
I’ll have to go through the existing stored numbers and key them into the new. This isn’t the tragedy that it sounds. A couple of years ago the telephone folks started requiring a ‘1’ in front of the numbers. That meant keying in all the numbers. I no longer had a manual to know if there might be a simple one-step process. 90% of the people stored there were ones I never would call, places I never called, or dead people. You have likely guessed that Nancy keyed this stuff in over several years. So in a couple of days I will start with a new machine that will have a much more limited and useful caller list.
Interestingly, the new system doesn’t have a screen like the blank one. It really didn’t serve much of a purpose.
Also, mentioned last week was that I carried all the 2024 tax forms into town. They are now done and I just need to go in and pick up all the papers – what I took in and what has been produced.
The office has started doing things electronically and I have created a digital signature. Before, I would have had to make a trip in just to sign my name. This year I don’t. It looks like a Segoe Script font. A refund will go to my bank in an electronic transfer, maybe by March 10th.
I got a Valentine card! It came from 
Jocelyn (Jos) Akins of the Cascades Carnivore Project. Other than student scholarships at CWU, this is one of my other minor donation destinations. 
Part of the text is in the blue box. By 6 weeks they have begun turning brown. By half grown, they are dark brown with some white remaining that varies from one individual to the next.
Weatherwise, western Washington has transitioned from winter to wet. Here we still have a week of winter. Our transition will begin next Friday with a week from Monday (thus, the 24th) feeling like a new season is beginning. In parts of the world March 1st is considered the beginning of Spring. Forecasts are about to start for the DC Cherry Blossoms. Stay tuned.
Keeping Track
on the Naneum Fan
John H.