All is Well, Fun at the Auction

The Ridge 

On Wednesday, Apr. 9th I was up before 7. Bill asked Gibbs when we came downstairs if he got Mom up early. But, no, it was me who woke him up to get started on our day. 😊 We'd left the furnace on last night in the hopes of warming up the basement and the water tank. That was out of the norm, so it was warmer upstairs than we're used to. Regardless, we both slept well and then Bill informed me that the water still was not yet flowing. 

Good morning!
Doesn't this look like a Christmas card?
It was yesterday morning's picture
looking east.

This was last night's sunset

This was what Bill did yesterday,
only about 10 times!

We had our breakfast, checked the weather forecast for the day and basically watched the snow disappear. Yay! It was a cold night again, -9C/16F, but today would be about 10° warmer than yesterday and that in itself was a bonus! Another bonus was being up before the sun rose so I got a few pictures (too many!) of the sunrise. First one on the Ridge this year. 😍

This was this morning,
much nicer.

Bill went to town to get a bottle of propane filled and 2 bottles of drinking water. When he returned, he got the mailbox out of the Bunky and set it up for mail delivery. What did I do? Well, mostly I stayed inside and did nothing. Bill didn't need help outside and there wasn't much to do indoors. Reading was the order of my morning. Being lazy. I bundled up and went out for a walk down the lane with Gibbs before coming in for my mid morning coffee.

The pond in various areas
has frozen over

Since the snow was disappearing, Bill went out to check the water bladder in the back of BB and the ice that had formed yesterday was still there. Ingenious as he is, his plan of heating it with our electric heater didn't quite do the job. It helped but there was a still a chunk of ice inside. We were able to get some water out of the bladder, enough to fill a couple of pails to bring inside for flushing the toilet and heating to wash with.

Next door, Dot and Gord were having their roof
done.
7 guys and they were done by 6:30.

The best news of the day was when Bill flipped the kitchen tap on and water came out! That meant we were home free since that was our last really, really cold night! We still chose to use up the water he brought in but remained diligent with checking the tap every so often to keep the flow going. 😌 What a blessing! 

Beside Bill's Hangar,
I stepped on some ice and was surprised
at it's thickness in just one night.

Lunch was grilled cheese and then we left Gibbs in charge and took a drive for a couple of errands. First to Priceville post office to start mail service again, second to Foodland in Durham for a loaf of bread and some lottery tickets, third to 6 & 6 Auction site on Hwy 6. The online auction runs from Monday to Friday and we wanted to take a gander around at a few of the items offered. It is always fun to see things in person and we weren't the only ones! It was quite busy. 

Our afternoon drive
Top left corner is one of my favourite trees
before it gets it leaves.

Back home, Bill snoozed upstairs, Gibbs snoozed downstairs in my recliner while I curled up in Bill's recliner and read chapter after chapter of my book. It is so good and I'm so close to the last page! For supper, I fried our bacon, cheeseburgers and warmed the buns. On the side, we finished up the last of the salad (a lot of 'lasts' this week for sure!) and it was a very tasty, filling meal. I can't take the honoured name of Burger Queen here in the household, but my burgers were very good too! 💕

The lot at the auction house was full
of equipment and the building inside was
jammed as well.

Nancy, know any horse people? 😃
BillThere are a lot of saddles in this sale.

We followed her part way up the lane
before she flew off

Bill cleaned up the fry pan and metal utensils while I started my blog. Tonight is Survivor and we'll share that entertainment together. The competitive 'games' always have us on the edge of our seat and the Tribal Council has us biting our nails in suspense. I wonder who will go home tonight!? 

Tonight's supper.

Today has been a bit windy and there have been a few flurries but nothing that remained on the ground. We reached a better high of 1.6C/34F so above freezing at least. It was a good day!

Bill got our mailbox set up

We got rid of a lot of snow today.
Good night!

Thank you for your visit.