Things Falling Into Place

The Ridge

On Saturday, Oct. 17th it was around 7 when I got up and Bill and I sorted the dirty clothes into 2 loads. I wanted to wash the chair quilts too so that made 3. It was going to be weird not cleaning on the same day, weird but great! 

Good morning!
A pretty sky in the west.

Bill drove me in, dropped me at the Mat for 7:30 and he carried on to give Black Beauty her bath, get propane and fill a water bottle. Once the loads were transferred into the dryers, I bundled against the ch-ch-chilly, frosty -1C/31F and walked to the bank to deposit my cash from Sandy.

The ice on the steps was not nice.
It stayed there a lot of the morning
until the day warmed up a bit and
the sun came around that side. 

When I returned, Bill was in the Mat waiting for me and helped fold. We were back home by 9 with more things taken care of. 

It was a matter of time before
the clouds moved off as
forecasted.

I swapped out the sheets that were on the bed, we think they are for a queen size, just barely covering so now the flannelette sheets are king and will be great to crawl into tonight. Then I had my shower.

I enjoyed the short walk from
the Mat to the bank.
Brisk but good.

Gord messaged at 10:30 that he would be over shortly to install our table and Gibbs greeted him traditional 'Gibbs' style. Aside from the Suite being out of 'kilter' for one reason or another, he made the table installation look easy. I guess he knows what he's doing!! 😉

If I didn't know any better,
it looks like he has a supervisor.
🤭

He left before noon to get the cube van with the table top so we had our lunch and before he returned, Bill had his shower and a brief snooze.

The top picture here makes me chuckle.
He is an Ace working with wood but
give them a hanging file frame and
it puzzled them both.
'Are you okay under there Gord?'

Gord was back around 2:30 and made short work of finishing the job. Oh my! We can't say enough about how pleased we are.

A little time for some chit chat
and a drink together before he left.

We had an hour after he left at 3 to get ready for a steak dinner at the Community Centre for the Durham Hospital Foundation, assisted by some Lion's Club members. We didn't volunteer, well, for obvious reasons. The food was awesome but we weren't sitting with anyone we knew so it wasn't very stimulating. 

I knew it would be awesome
and we weren't disappointed.
Thank you Gord!

It was bright and warmer when
we left for town.

Black Beauty is cleaner and ready.
We stopped in town to pick up my
Durham Fair cheque. Finally. LOL

The first entertainment, a single young man, played through dinner for 2 hours and I only knew a couple of his songs and barely understood what he said in between. When he was done, I wasn't hopeful with the 5 piece band finding how young they were. 

This fellow was talented but not my
type of music. I didn't catch his full
name either time he said it because
his speaking words were not clear.

Too bad but their music was too loud and tunes (?) meant for a much younger generation than us. We left at 8 pm rather than stay and get some dancing in. 🤷‍♀️ 

Dinner was really good!
I ate the whole meal and that
was a big steak, perfectly done.

Hugs from Melodie with a nice treat for our morning travel and a hug from Roz made me realize I'l miss them.

Melodie gave us some muffins
for the road and we'll think of
her with each one!
Yum!

I was disappointed with the entertainment part of the night but just as happy to get home early tonight and enjoy our last evening here with Gibbs. We have just a couple, literally, a couple of things to do in the morning and we're On Our Way. 

The moon looking spooky
tonight as we head up the lane.
Good night!

I hope you've had a great day in the sunshine, it didn't turn out badly at all!

Thank you for your visit. See you down the road!

We're on a Countdown!

 The Ridge

On Friday, Oct. 16th I stayed in bed until 7:30. Before I got up, Mr. Gibbs made sure I received my fair share of doggie cuddles and kisses. Yes, I love you too, little bum. 💕 I made my cup of tea and we just 'chilled' until 9:45.

Good morning!
Dreary as it is. 

Yesterday, I'd reported to and heard from Sandy that I could pick up my October earnings from his shop. It is just across the highway from Baptist Church Road and since we were meeting Donna and Gerry for brunch in Hanover at 10:30, we headed there first.

It was a delicious brunch!

We arrived at Stacked on this chilly, heck no, this cold, damp morning. My body is not ready for such a change in temperature. Remember, Tuesday was in the high 20's/low 80's. That's a fast change. We secured a table for 4 and within 5 minutes, my sister and hubby came in.

What a great picture of
Donna & Gerry!

It was a great meal. This restaurant is only open for breakfast and lunch, 7 am to 3 pm but if you can't find anything on the menu, you might have a problem. 🤭 I had one of my favourite breakfast meals, a Peameal Benedict w/spinach. Delicious! We had a nice last visit before snapping a picture and saying goodbye.

And a pretty good one 
of these two. 🤭

On the way home, we stopped at Impact Tire where Lee slipped out and torqued one of Black Beauty's tires for us. Sorry that I (we) missed a final goodbye from Jackie, we headed for home. Bill loaded a few of our 'junk dump' things in the truck and took them into town and then took a trip in to Robin's to drop off an old mower for Andrew to fiddle with over the winter. Like he doesn't have enough to do! 🤣

A funny picture, yes.
But.....it was a spark of sunshine
coming in through the windows.

Back home, I had Madame IP boil all of the eggs we have in the fridge to make egg salad sandwiches for our journey. Then, we went on our laptops and planned the very first few nights' stops. A couple will be Harvest Host destinations which will be fun. Now that we're down to the wire, I'm getting anxious. 

There were still a lot of clouds.
But nice to see some brightness.

Once I confirmed with Bill that we had nothing else going on today, I went upstairs to watch NCIS New York's latest episode. It was good and then I had myself a nap. I'd woken up through the night with a nasty Charly horse in my lower left leg. Yikes, you all know they aren't fun. It passed but interupted my usual 8 hours of beauty sleep!

Bill and Gibbs dozed downstairs at the same time. A cup of tea when I got up held me over until an early supper. We had leftovers of ribs, rice and cauliflower in the fridge plus I baked the last of the questionable freezer foods. 4 small fish 'sticks' disappeared quickly. 

Lots of food.
Still love the baked onions.
(Nancy, baked in some local maple syrup!)

I had 3 withery apples, a similar green pepper and 6 clementines also. I peeled the clementines and will eat them before we leave and the others went in the compost bin. Supper was good, although we didn't clean everything up. Some cauliflower and some rice ended up in the trash. Enough of that.

Just one more serving of
the carrot cake.
Neighbours didn't get any.
Woops!

We did dishes by hand, as we have for the last couple of weeks. Trying to conserve the water that we have in our tanks by not running the dishwasher. Tonight's entertainment started with Sheriff Country and maybe Survivor's latest after that. 

Then it got really pretty

We only reached 13.8C/57F for a high today and dropping to a cold -1.11C/30F. Brrr, hoping the white stuff isn't going to find us on the Ridge. 🫣🥴

Someone north and east of us
might get 'something' tonight.
Good night!

Thank you for coming by!