That is a nice little find! I wonder if there is a time period that must be met before the bank contacts you....probably are hoping you died.
I had to do a 4 minute powerpoint for my garden club. Having never done that before, I spend HOURS trying to get the order right and then had to rename all the pics so they would stay in order. It was a very steep learning curve!
What is your powerpoint about? Hopefully more than 4 minutes!

It's about the plants I grow...perennials in the front and some unusual tropicals in back. I was asked to give it last Feb for my garden club, and some from this club came as guests to hear it. Their program chairman asked me in Oct. to give it for their garden club's Xmas program.

I used to belong to this club, but they meet on the same day as my other club that meets at night. I had to give one up, but I still do the horticultural classifications for their flower shows. I was asked to give a presentation to them on "Native and Adaptive Plants of Central Texas" a couple of years ago. I ended it with one photo of my back garden with all the palms.....saying I don't always practice what I preach! That was my first PP presentation and I drove DH crazy helping me get ready for it.

Mine was 45 minutes for the Feb. presentation....and another 15 minutes answering questions. I have lots more pics now, so I'm trying to cull the old ones and replace some....keeping it just under 45 minutes total.... I was panicked because I need DH to set up the laptop, etc. and I thought the program was the same day as he has jury duty.....but all is well....I think...so far....I hope...

That stuff sounds hard. The president of the S.A. chapter of NPSOT wanted me to do a program on gardening for butterflies...well, I had absolutely no idea how to do slides for it, so I didn't do it. Not really a person who gets up and gives talks anyway.

I would have been lost without DH helping me. Now that he's talked me thru the process, I think I could put one together, but it would take a lot longer!
You'd probably be great giving a talk about something you love.

Forecast for tomorrow night here...24°. Groan!

Merry Christmas....supposed to be 30 here tomorrow nite. We had dinner and opened gifts here with DD, SIL. and DGS. O'boy..that was fun. So much better thru the eyes of a child. I cooked a rib roast in salt jacket and we let DGS "crack" the salt coating with a small hammer. He was a hoot! I can just hear him trying to tell his friends that Bubbles let him hammer her roast!
Now we get to watch him open stuff from Santa in the morning at their house. Did I mention Sunday is the first day of spring? Yep..only two season for me....Christmas and Spring. Stay warm.......

I like this thread. It reminds me that this heat won't last an eternity. I just have to remember that! Cooler weather, cold front.....aaaah! But today wasn't so bad, not as hot. I have deer problems today. I was trying to find a cat, so I was outside the fence in front, and startled a little fawn....so cute! The deer have just recently started coming around more often....during the worst of the drought, they just disappeared, and then would come around just occasionally, mostly at night, to munch. But before that, the mothers would often leave a fawn or two on the properrty during the day. Anyway, later I'm outside the fence again filling a bucket with water for them on one side of the property, when I saw the fawn again. It must have come inside through the open gate on the other side of the property and didn't know it couldn't get out that way it was going...saw me and panicked! I opened the second gate and hope it found its way out with both gates open. Mom had already come around looking for Baby once.

You're fortunate that momma deer didn't consider you a threat. A woman here was walking out of her condo in a wooded area. A doe had left her fawn in the bushes near the condos. When the woman neared the area where the fawn was hidden, the doe reared up and beat the devil out of the poor woman. She wasn't even aware of the fawn.

Hmmm....we don't have any combative deer here! I've heard that males can possbly be dangerous at certain times of year, but never had a problems with any at all here. They're just grateful we don't shoot them and that we don't have dogs!

Momma had a fawn up against the side of our house a couple of years ago. The previous owners had a corn feeder in the back yard and I guess old habits die hard.