John Koshy: March 2014

Monday 31 March 2014

#Wildlife Skunk in the Backyard

My wife woke me up to say "there's a skunk" ☺

Just one of the many spring time visitors passing through ☺

Sunday 30 March 2014

♪ It's gonna be a bright, bright sun shiny day - Johnny Nash

"Look all around, there's nothin but blue skies

Look straight ahead, nothin but blue skies" - Johnny Nash

Get I Can See Clearly Now by Johnny Nash on iTunes

#FamilyTime Watching Witness

Starring Harrison Ford and Kelly McGillis

Get Witness on Amazon and the song Wonderful World by Sam Cooke on iTunes

Feels like 4°C, the snow and ice are melting, the birds are out, the sound of #spring is in the air ...

... and we are on an early afternoon walk

A robin enjoying the warmth of the afternoon sun

Saturday 29 March 2014

Oh, oh ... time to replace the right brake light bulb in the #Audi A3

Either the quality of the bulb ain't good or there must be some sort of electrical malfunction, because this is the second time I am replacing this bulb in the Audi A3 in five years. I've also replaced the brake light bulbs in the Audi A4

After you open the hatch, inside the car adjacent to the light you'll find a plastic cover which you can lift open with a small screwdriver

Using a small screwdriver gently loosen the plastic bolt that holds the brake light assembly to the body of the car, and then remove the bolt with your fingers

This time I'm going to replace the fused bulb with a GE bulb. Let's see how they perform in comparison to Sylvania ☺

Gently slide the brake light assembly off the body of the car

Gently remove the black plastic bolts shown below ...

... to separate the white portion of the assembly from the red

(Sorry the picture below is out of focus) ☺

That's the fused bulb

Replace the bulb and put everything back in reverse order

Gently push the brake light assembly into the two circular slots on the body of the car without breaking anything

See how to replace the engine air filter and the spark plugs in the Audi A3

#Friendship #Relationship Well here is one reason we enjoy supporting @YoungLife :-)

Thursday 27 March 2014

#Technology Who remembers the Sinclair ZX Spectrum personal computer?

Got this in 1982 from the UK

How exciting at the time, 16kB RAM, CPU capable of running at 3.5 MHz, rubber keyboard, video output was to a colour TV (or should I say television). Programs and games were stored and transferred from cassette tapes, and I even had a printer with thermal paper!

If you think this is a weird computer, just wait a few more years ...

... and you'll be laughing at today's technology

Wednesday 26 March 2014

#Wildlife Bear in the Bow Valley

Several summers ago in the Canadian Rockies, we were slowly driving down the Bow Valley one morning looking for wildlife ...

... when suddenly my wife said "Stop! There's a bear"

We quickly backed up, and this is what we saw

It was turning rocks over probably searching for insects

Here is a short video ...

I wanted to step outside the car to take a better photograph, but my kids wouldn't allow me ☺

"Daaad, you are not stepping out!!"

The faded portion at the bottom of the photograph (below) is the door of the car

Is the bear staring at me?

Here is a painting I did several weeks later on birch bark

Tuesday 25 March 2014

#Technology Hi @Blogger Can this be right? :-)

1769 page views yesterday?

I didn't think anyone would view my blog ☺

The car wash maybe quick but the line up is 10 cars long :-)

Sunday 23 March 2014

♫ #Love is the Seventh Wave - Sting

"There is a deeper world than this that you don't understand ...
... Every ripple on the ocean

Every leaf on every tree

Every sand dune in the desert" - Sting

Get Love is the Seventh Wave on iTunes

#Blessings #Attitude #Gratitude Give a glass of water to someone, and you'll observe three kinds of people

Give a glass of water to someone, and you'll observe three kinds of people:

1. Those who are grateful that they have water

2. Those who complain that there is only half a glass of water

3. And those who are grateful for the glass, and the water ☺

We sometimes forget the blessings in our lives and tend to focus on the problems instead. As for me, I am grateful for life, for everyone and everything HE has provided. After all, nothing belongs to me. HE owns everything!