Today's Excitement Came in a Group of Seven

The Ridge

On Thursday, May 14th I was up at 7 and out the door by 7:20, ahead of my 'co-worker' today. I like to be at the Mat for 7:30 and managed that this morning. There was one new-to-me customer there and we had a good ole chat. 

Good morning!

I've said before that there are more men doing laundry than women, that always surprised me but it must indicate that they are single and live inplaces without laundry facilities. Interesting. Some keep to themselves but most are friendly.

The sky has looked like
this all day. Very briefly
we saw some blue patches.

I stopped for a bottle of water before cleaning so when I finished my job, went to Impact Tire for our Catch the Ace tickets for tomorrow night. We enjoyed the meeting last night but with our 'work' hours pending, didn't sign up to volunteer - yet.

A peek of sunshine just to tease.

Today was dull again but when Bill called at 10, a rare occasion, he said he had a fair bit of sunshine in between the white fluffy clouds. That meant it was coming our way and I was patiently waiting. It is the dampness that gets me, I just feel chilled.

I worked on more earrings and think now I'll do more bookmarks. Waiting on craft sale notices is something else that may take second fiddle to working for Robin. That, at least, is a sure bit of income but we'll see. Self-inflicted intimidation plays a big part in what I choose to do. 🤔

These are the cookies/snacks
that I made yesterday with our pecans.

For lunch, I had a poached egg on toast and it was yummy. These eggs from our neighbour are so tasty, I might be willing to pay a higher price for his for lunches and use store bought for baking. I made a couple of bookmarks this afternoon to send out for an upcoming event and had my tea.

You all remember Miss Piggy?
She is very thin but still among
his favourites.

Gibbs and I walked to get the mail and back. Brrr. The wind just doesn't make the walk very pleasant. I watched Father and Mother Goose with 7 babies come up from the pond. Cutest thing ever when one little one straggled behind. 

When I returned home this morning
the family and a couple of
'uncles'(?) were walking up the lane.

Bill was home by 4:30 and he took an empty propane tank in to the FS:Co op for a fill. He's been watching it for a few days so it has done us quite well. This was #4 that we've emptied. 

Swimming together

For supper, I made a garden salad, cooked a potato and reheated the gravy and pork tenderloin.

Supper was good.

It went down pretty good and we had raspberries and blackberries with homemade whipping crean for dessert. Yum. Berries sure don't last long though, so we finished them up. After dishes, Bill made his lunch and we watched tv together. Here are some videos for you.

Nothing got down outside today, but I did get the bird feeders filled again. Hopefully, we get a bit of a warm up tomorrow, at least some sunshine. The winds were gusting to 16 km.hr today and the Suite rocked a bit. It was a good day though.

            This one is particularly cute. I counted only 6

                      goslings and wondered where #7 was.

             Watch how fast the little guy runs to catch up.

                                          Good night!

                               

Thank you for the visit.

Just Plain Miserable!

The Ridge

On Wednesday, May 13th it was a slow start for Bill. That was nice, he tried to sleep in past 6 but Gibbs had other ideas. It was still better than the 5:30 wake up he's been scheduled on for 2 weeks. I got up just after 7 and my sweetie left at 7:30.

Good morning!
(even though it isn't very nice)

The job is only 20 minutes away and at our friend, Murray's place. That is where we store our vehicles over the winter and a family connection to Mike, the boss. 😉 When he left, it was a dull, cloudy day with rain expected for the better, if not whole, part of this hump day.

Mr & Mrs. visit my feeder
Taking turns, isn't that special?

The pleasant thing is that it was mild when we got up. It just kept dropping all day. Gibbs and I never went out all day, other than him running out to piddle and me to the Bunky to take something out. It was an inside day with heat on to ward off the dampness.

See them both in the picture?

I made more of the pecan drop cookies I'd made the other day. They turned out well even though I had to use butterscotch chipits instead of chocolate. Yum. So, today, I made some of the same and some with white chocolate chips. A nice little snack.

I made more earrings and watched YouTube videos oI had ton tv for the whole afternoon. A lot of nice videos and songs that I am very familiar with. Many Bon Jovi tunes, some Bryan Adams and Neil Diamond. 

I had to re-register for my online mobile banking app and start a new Pedometer-step counter and last night we had to download the OneNote app to sync our previous data. Just nuts but I think we are almost there, back to normal.

An opportunity to
wear my fascinator again.

Bill was home by 4:30 and he delved right into the Wyze security camera issue. My phone still isn't connected but at least he has his working. We left Gibbs in charge at 5:40 and drove into town. A stop at the bank got us cash to pay for our dinner at the Lion's meeting.

The rain hasn't stopped and it is really depressing! It's light but consistent - and it's cold! Only 3.88C/39F, good grief! So, tonight, ladies were recommended (at the last meeting) to wear a hat with a flower or flowers. I was told Friday night. 

It gave me an opportunity to wear my purple fascinator. That fell right in line with their gold/black/purple colours. Not all the ladies followed suit but there were probably 8 flowered hats in the room. The rest had to pay a .25¢ fine to the 'tail twister'. It's all Lion's Club stuff. 😉🤭

It was a good meal put on
by Mamaz Diner in town.

Our meal was Chicken parmigiano, mashed potatoes, carrots, Caesar salad, bun & pie. Bill isn't a fan of chicken, we know that, but with sauce and cheese on it? Well, he ate it but (what's that commercial?) he 'coulda skipped it'. 🤣

We were home a few minutes past 8 to catch the last hour and 10 minutes of Survivor. It is getting tense! This was a crappy weather day but I finished 3 more earrings and that's a positive thing. I hope your day was nicer than ours!

The turbines behind us were
half hidden in the fog.
Good night!

Thank you for your visit.