Computer died

I just finished ordering a new laptop computer.  My laptop has died, dead, gone.  I'm going with a Dell this time, giving up on HP.  I've known for some time it was going down.  Wouldn't boot up sometimes, and was so slow,  When I was typing, it was always about five or six words behind me. 

Haven't decided yet whether to take it to Mike and see if it can be fixed.  Our other HP, the one Barrie uses, had a hard drive failure, just a couple of days after the warranty ran out.  Mike talked to HP and convinced them to send a new hard drive, free of charge. 

I did back up the files not long ago, so won't lose much.  But it's a hassle to reinstall programs.

Had a yard full of deer yesterday.  The front gate was open, and they came in, six or seven of them.  Something under the snow must have been really good.

The other deer left, and this poor little guy couldn't remember where the gate was where he came in.  He finally found it.

The magpies are still working on the rib cage of the deer on the ditchbank.