Really?

     One would think I was done with Samsung, but I will stick around and see if they "come to the light". My first experience with Samsung was a few years back, I acquired (got it free) a Samsung smartphone, yesterdays technology still on the market. At the time the Galaxy had been around and was up to Galaxy s3. I acquired the Galaxy Continuum; the first of the Galaxy line. Had some issues with that and went to Motorola for one phones life, about a year and a half; so here I am back at Samsung with the Galaxy s5. Everything was "cool" up till the last update. It never really crossed my mind so I didn't concern myself with the color of the dial screen; up till the last "system" update. It is now a hideous white, no lines separating the numbers. The only color to it is the title line, it is a reasonable teal green. All the rest is black fonts on a bright white background. As I said it is hideous. Through a call to my carrier, and snooping around the web, I found  the way to change this is "install an app". Now I am sure you know as well as I know; a free app will come with advertisements and who wants to buy an app just to change the color of a screen? The ads are, to say the least a nuisance; or am I the only one that clicks open an ad when trying to close a feature or program? So after about 5 install and uninstalls, a bunch of aggravation; I have now downloaded and installed an app just to color my dial pad. In this experience I also found out the "block notifications" with its handy calendar and time setting was removed from the system. I just found this to be true this morning at 3:00 am.  Which is the reason I had to incorporate 2 different apps today.

Random Rainy day post

Its so nice to see a good rain again, too bad its a day late and a dollar short.
I hope your lawn fared better than this one did. Yea, it just needs to be re-seeded, fertilized and maintained, right, well why not knock some dust off the sprinkler? Yea the water bill goes up, but you won't have to reseed, etc, just a fertilizer treatment, with P.E. to keep the crabgrass down in the spring. Pay me now or pay me later sort of a scenario.  
 
all's it needed was a little bit of water. (just some random yard shot, not mine) 
The real kicker here is Fall is the best time for seeding. Spring seeding works but there is too much competition for soil space, (crabgrass and other weeds). 1 you can't use PE; as the nature of the product is to prevent seed from germinating, and 2 you can't use a broad leaf post emergent herbicide until the lawn is more established. 

 


Turfmanlawn.com  With proper watering and mowing habits, this is what you get.