Taking Care of Business - Heavenly Birthday

The Ridge, Priceville, On

It was 6:30 on Friday, Apr. 17th when I opened my eyes and heard Bill downstairs wiping Gibbs' feet. One, two, three and four. On cue (sometimes even before we get the words out) those feet come up for us to use his paw mitt. 😍

Good morning,
Robin Redbreast!

I remembered where we were, smiled and felt as if I hadn't moved all night. Bill said at one point, I was turned facing him so I guess I did. When I began doing my stretches, something else hurt. Of course! My right knee, or behind it, this time. I'm falling apart, I guess and will be hobbling all day. LOL

This is last night.
He was snoring like an old sailor!

We had our breakfast and then each had showers. Now, I feel like a new person again. 😂 We had a few errands to run so left Gibbs at home and drove first to Mildmay, then Hanover to see Donna and Gerry and get our mail. 

My beautiful sister, Donna
and I pose for a snapshot.

Lastly, just on our end of Hanover, we stopped at Walmart for some milk and got cashback. Next, we picked up Ptooties from storage and wanted the cash to pay Murray. She is stored inside Murray's barn so is well looked after for me and his storage fee is great. Bill will get Jazz next week when we have nicer days.

The drive to Hanover, always
shows us this old barn.
Through wind, storms, rain, snow,
it survives because of the air flow.
🤭😉
Bottom picture, my
Ptooties waiting for me to drive
her home.

Shouldn't say that, today, again, is pretty darn nice. The rain has stopped and we are expecting a high of 21C/69.8F. Nothing wrong with that and ay 1:30, the sun and patches of blue sky appeared! Yay! We sorted through our stack of mail while eating lunch.

The mailbox post needs to be
rebuilt. Bill was the man for the job!
You'll have to wait for tomorrow
to see the finished product though.
Woops!

My boys had a snooze and then we puttered around. You want to rush into things and get stuff done as quick as possible. But, there is so much and one thing always leads to the next and because weather is still a factor, we sometimes try to do too much. 

This is pond overflow along
the edge of the road.
Little minnows and tadpoles
and other creatures were busy.

This afternoon, it was important to get our mailbox down to the road on the post that Bill built a couple of years ago. 2 or 3 years? When he went to add the box, the whole post broke off about 3" above ground level. What the?? 

This picture is right as you go
into the front field.
It's deeper than we thought!
Love the reflections!

It was cemented in and it is pressure treated wood but regardless, it happened. So, with another 10' post, he cut and angled and we 'installed' another mailbox post. It took a while, me hardly able to bend my right leg (LOL) and not much help, but before 5, he had it finished. 

Looking out our door, Bill's
Hangar looks like a cottage on the lake.
Shall we say 'waterfront property?'

We will need to add more dirt from up on the hill here to reinforce it. If that works, we'll skip the cement; it didn't help anyway, did it? I hobbled around and cleaned up many of the branches up here in our main area and cleaned out a few gardens of twigs, dead plants and pesky grass.

All of these branches, fair sized
ones were on my 'dreaded' corral garden.
So, I dragged them down in a pile.
I can gather but not walk too easily today.

At 5, I came in for a tea and since we don't have any chairs out yet, sat on the picnic table. It is gorgeous out there! I did some more clean up after putting a small ham w/mini potatoes in Rosy, our air fryer. She would reheat that in about an hour.

I was expecting a lovely sunset,
which didn't happen.

Bill was busy putting up the shelter for the garden tractor and Jazz, when we brought her home next week. Sometimes it is better to stay out of the way if it is something he can do on his own. For the sake of a marriage, I wait until I'm asked for help! 😂

We have a pretty nice spot
up here.

Supper was very good. You know, like I say, a Sunday night dinner on a Friday. Actually, it is the best home cooked meal I've made in too long. Because we thought the fridge might have needed to come out for the repairs, we have almost eaten everything from the freezer. Shopping tomorrow, methinks!

Supper was very good.

We closed things up outside after clean up inside and relaxed for the night. We're gearing up for another wet day tomorrow so are happy to have accomplished what we did today. A great day!

Today, I'm wishing Mom, a Happy Heavenly 100th birthday. Oh how, I miss her smiles, hugs and sense of humour. So many things I'd like to share with her. Love you, Mom. 

Mom was always the best dressed
lady in her senior's home. 
Happy Birthday, Mom.
Good night!

Thank you for following along and all your best wishes for us. We are happy to be home.

I Think This is the Day!

The Ridge, Priceville, On

On Thursday, Apr. 16th I never heard Bill and Gibbs get up around 6 or whenever it was. Gibbs didn't want to come back to bed with me so Bill closed the door to the bedroom and they sat together at the bench seating at the table.

Good morning!
Around 1 pm, I was thrilled to see
our Suite coming out to the front.

It was close to 8 when I got up, washed and dressed. Was today going to be the day? We went to bed last night thinking this to be true. Positive thinking, right? We both went inside just before 9 and made a coffee and tea and Bill came out even more positive than ever.

Ready to go to our 'real' home,
Gibbs?

The Suite was done and closed up inside, after a couple of test runs on the slide. Byron did replace a section of the floor under the fridge and cabinet and added some steel platings where the rollers go back and forth. I think I've got that right. Needless to say, it looks like a good job.

We had lunch from the food truck; polish sausage on a bun for Bill and a 2 patty burger for me. They were both pretty good and filled our tummies for the time being. I cleaned up everything we'd touched, trying to leave it as we found it but couldn't sweep the floor. They'll need to dump tanks anyway.

Not much to take pictures of along
the route home, it was raining,
so this is going down the hill into
Durham, 10 minutes from the Ridge.

By 12:45, we were out and it was a treat to see our home coming around from the back. Now, just a matter of time to wait for the painful part. It's probably going to hurt, our estimates are usually way lower than reality but we'll pay it and under cloudy, sprinkling rain skies, we'll take our leave.

Raindrops on the windshield
spoiled this pretty picture.

By 1:30 we were on our way. It was a wet drive home but completely uneventful, just the way we like it. We were pulling into Durham by 4:20 and into our laneway at 4:35. There is soooo much water laying and our neighbour to the west, has a pond across the end of his entranceway. 😓

Durham has one stoplight in the
centre of town.
We turn right here.
Because the wiper got in the way,
check out what Google Photos did for me
in the same picture below.

I don't use it often, but it
has a feature that almost completely
removes objects. I love it!

Our lane is high enough, the guys had it built up when we moved up here, so it was dry but the pond on either side wasn't too far away! When we got to the top of our lane, there were no puddles on the gravel parking area like usual but the fields were wetter than we've ever seen. At least it's not white!

Turning onto Baptist Church Road
then onto our road, Northline.
Fresh gravel is always nice, means
no potholes right now.

This neighbour just purchased this
property this past winter. I'm sure
he is bummed about this mess!
Good thing he drives a pick up truck.

We were sad to see many, probably 10 trees with broken branches. Some are not a surprise but some completely are. There will be major cleanup on the dirst dry day. Bill backed into our spot beside his stoop with mere inches to spare and we were hooked up to power within minutes.

Bill opens our gate, checks the lane
and look at the water in our front field
where he cuts. Won't be doing that for a while!

Dot had previously offered us water for our tank anytime we needed it and today was one of those days. So, we all drove over to get those wonderful neighbourly hugs. Gibbs was happy to see her and Caper and then did the typical 'ignoring' thing that he does. LOL

Lots of branches down on
the smaller trees around our 
sitting area and top of the lane.

We were warm, dry inside, the air was calm and around 14C/57.2F. That's okay, Bill hooked up our Blue Flame heater for the overnight low of 8C/46.4F in case we need it. I'm just happy to be back in our own bed and with our usual surroundings. 💖

The area around Bill's Hangar
is very wet too.
I'm glad we cleaned out so many
areas last summer for brush.
It will look so much better in a few weeks.

I had made sandwiches at noon in case it was late when we arrived here so they served well for our supper with some chips on the side. There weren't a lot of dishes, but a few bowls, cups and silverware so we ran the dishwasher. It has been a while since we've been stable enough to do that.

Over at Dot's to our east, I took these
pictures from their porch. Top two
show our Suite up on the hill.
She missed us all winter, it would be
weird not seeing the trailer.

Caper and Gibbs
get reacquainted too.
"Do you remember me?"

Bill walked to the Hangar - I'm sure he was itching to go reunite with his planes. 🤭😉 I'm also sure it is so jam-packed in there, stored for the winter, that he won't be down there long. I'm also anxious to get into the Bunky/SheShed but not until it warms up some.

 

Here we are until the fall.
Our view looking north down the
lane to our road.
Bill isn't as happy as I am about the
loud chorus frogs but with windows
closed, he'll be able to sleep.
🤭🤭

It's been a good day. We have a hefty bill to pay off but that shouldn't take too long with us working our part time jobs. We're so very happy to be home!

                       I had a larger video of Gibbs going

                                crazy but it wouldn't play. Too big.

                                              Good night!

Thank you for following along on our journey to the southwest again this trip.