Surprise!!!

Thanks to a year or so of decluttering, I found the handouts that I got when I visited the Chemogo tea estate in Kenya! They had been tucked away in a different place from the rest of my papers, and I had forgotten where they were. Now they can join everything else so I will be able to find them again. I can also scan them so I will always know where to find a digital copy if I want. Actually, in reading up on decluttering, a lot of places recommend just scanning papers. I'm not sure how far I will go with that consindering that I spend a lot of time at work scanning documents, but it is a good idea. Also, the scanner part of my printer seems to work pretty well most of the time (I know I just jinxed it). There are some other issues besides volume when scanning my papers from Kenya. I have a standard size scanner, but their standard size of paper for printing is 8.25 x 11.75 inches (I couldn't find a ruler with centimeters on it) so my scanner does cut off a little of the length of the paper.
If you look closely, you can see 2 places with an X inside of a circle. The one on the right is about where the university was. The one on the left is where we went. Unfortunately I was not able to post the original scan in this blog post because the format that my scans are saved in is not supported by this program, so I had to scan, save, then take a screen shot and save again. Why do we love computers so much? Oh yeah, we don't. Back then, we were all glad that the world's computers didn't go nuts when the year flipped over to 00. Little did we know that the people who hoarded food and toilet paper back then in case the world came to a halt should have just saved it for 20 years when we had a pandemic that brought us closer to that doomsday scenario. Thankfully I have greenshot installed on this computer so I can easily crop things the way I want to, and it saves the images in a usable format. According to my papers, we went there on Saturday, May 13, 2000. Today I scanned all the information I have about how tea is grown.
Since this post hasn't had any colorful photos in it, I'll leave you with a picture of my most recent bobbin lace project. I have finished the weaving (ignore the mistakes in it, it was my first time making this pattern, and the instructions are in German), and starched it. I'm in the process of lifting the pins so I can pull them out. It will eventually be tied together and folded into a star.

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  1. Poppy CrockerJuly 3, 2022 at 12:02 PM

    I'd let you use my scanner if you lived anywhere near me. I have a big one so I can easily scan oversize cookbooks. On second thought, that still probably wouldn't work. You'd never survive the dust in my house.

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    1. Lace makerJuly 3, 2022 at 1:49 PM

      Someone was trying to pawn a backlog of scanning (several years' worth it sounds like) on my department. Before anyone would answer my question about the specialty of the providers on the forms I commented to my manager if I had to work with old, dusty papers I was going to need one heck of a filtration mask to wear. Thankfully they were not for our department, and we are going to stay firm in saying NO if they try to get us to scan them anyway.

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