Monday morning, June 26th
at an early time, Bill’s alarm went off. He was up and at ‘em by 5:15 or so I
presume since when I woke at 10 to 6 he was coming in to kiss me goodbye. Guess
there isn’t much sense in getting up yet. It is a dull, dreary day this morning
so I stayed where it was warm and watched him drive away. You notice how the
more often he leaves, the less I get up? I know he doesn’t expect me too and
that way he can do his own thing without me distracting him.
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| My first job of the day |
By 6 he was gone and I curled up
under the covers for another half hour. It was only 12C outside and 17C inside.
Clemmy was shivering so I put his sweater on to warm him up. I’m not expecting
miracles today from the weather so will just dress accordingly. I have a busy
day planned anyway so it won’t matter.
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| Blue sky to the west |
After my tea and blog reading, I
loaded up the garbage and recycle bins on the back of Black Beauty and drove
them down to the end of the lane. They don’t come until 9 but I like to do this
with lots of time to spare just in case they got an early start.
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| Gray to the east |
I wanted to head into Durham to visit
Mom and Mary for a bit so fixed myself a bowl of cereal. Not my breakfast of
choice especially when I’m not hungry but needed something in my stomach.
After washing up and getting dressed I made
contact with Debbie from our sister’s Painting event. We plan to have her do a
house party while we are together and I needed to confirm the picture, the number
of guests, address and time. All set now!
I headed into town at 9:30 am. When I
arrived at Rockwood Terrace, I parked the truck on the street as I usually do. I
went down the hall to see Aunt Mary first only to find that she wasn’t up to a
visit today. No problem, she indicated that Wednesday would be a good day so I’ll
see her then. That seemed odd but all I could do was inform Rob.
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| This is my reward for spending time with Mom |
Walking back to the west hall, I
found Mom in her room looking through a photo album. As always, she was happy
to see me and gave me a great smile and hug. We chatted for a bit about old
pictures in her album and I suggested we get a 100 pc. jigsaw puzzle out. That may sound childish but let me tell you how hard it is for me to see someone who was excellent at doing 1000 pc. puzzles, to have to do such an easy one. The good news is that she doesn't realize it.
Saying that, last summer and fall she wasn't able to put hardly any pieces in on her own, we had to basically put them in front of her. This is a huge improvement and she loves it! She chose the one
with puppies that I brought her from Aunt Mary’s house. Once we finished the
border my sister, Donna joined us and we finished it off lickety-split. We had
a lot of laughs.
It was another hour before lunch so
we put that one away and pulled out a 300 pc. one. A bit more challenging but
we quickly got the border done and were off and running. Mom enjoys the banter
and Donna and I can tease her and easily make her laugh. At noon, we walked
down to the dining room with her for her lunch with promises to come back in a
day or two to help finish the puzzle.
From there, I left the truck parked
and rode with Donna to Owen Sound. We were on an adventure to Value Village for
their 50% off day. We encountered heavy rainfall a few times during the drive
but luckily it stopped by the time we arrived. We didn’t have to dodge
raindrops on the way in to the store.
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| Even though we were missing a piece, she was still pleased |
We were in no hurry and had fun
shopping individually and together. We tried on and came home with new to us
clothes. This, for me, meant 8 pcs. in, 16 pcs. out. Don’t laugh, I needed to
empty hangers anyway to make room. I have a bag on the go now for our September
clothing exchange!
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| We actually had so much rain, some had settled up on The Ridge |
At 6:00 I warmed up my leftover Beef
sandwich from the restaurant yesterday. It was filling enough and I know there
will be some ice cream or popcorn for a later snack. The rain has been on again
off again and the temperature actually rose to around 18C this afternoon. Now,
at 8 pm the sun is bright and the sky is mixed.
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| Your guess is as good as mine, what that sky is gonna do next |
I settled in to finishing my post and
as I’m writing I wanted to ask if anyone has ever had responses with unsuitable
advertising from Blogger? I noticed a couple yesterday but didn’t think much of
it, just deleted them. Today there were at least 10 more. I sent a note to
Blogger so I’ll wait and see if I get a response, was just curious if anyone on
Blogger had any of the same issues.
I’m very happy with the way today
went, a nice visit with Mom and good shopping with my sister. I heard from Bill
around 7 after he finished a long day at work so the day is a success. I hope
you have had a great day as well. I do believe this weather is going to
straighten up tomorrow.
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| Goodnight from the Ridge |
Thank you for reading. All comments
are welcome!
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