I woke up around 5:30 on Wednesday,
Apr. 4th. I could hear the wind and slight banging outside because
of it. It was odd that I could hear it and then I realized that I’d lost one of
my ear plugs at some point. I figured it was our sign banging and would take
care of it when I got up at a more reasonable time. Then I dropped off for
another hour and a half and got up. It had dropped from 62f last night to a
cool 39F this morning.
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| The water has dropped considerably |
I opened the blinds but wasn’t too
impressed with the idea of going for a walk. I bundled up anyway about to go
take our sign down and I see Bill had already brought it in. Who knows what the
banging was/is, the sewer cap possibly and our stove vent.
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| Like night and day - the difference of what a day does |
Once I was bundled I
figured I’d try a walk. I got down to the corner, to the main bridge, snapped a
couple of photos and by then it had started to snow really lightly but it was
wet.
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| The sun appeared briefly this morning just to tease |
That was enough so I hi-tailed it
back home. Bill and Clem were still in bed so I made my tea and sat down to
catch up on blog comments. I missed reading them yesterday and I can’t even
recall why. It was almost 8:30 when the boys joined me so I took Clem out for
his piddle. Today would be a sweater day for the furry little bum if he were
out for any length of time. It’s nasty cold out there.
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| We bought Bill a 'matching' cup at Bob Evan's Cheers! |
We cleaned up dishes after our grapefruit
and first drinks and sorted laundry. Since we are pulling out tomorrow, this
was the plan Get the clothes washed now and that should be the last time until
we are home in Durham. Should be. This is a new laundromat and totally
different than any we’ve been in. No coins are used. You can either pay by Debit,
Credit or use their Laundry Card.
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| Two new buildings for the Car Wash and Laundry |
A nice attendant could see the 2
bumbling idiots going in circles, not sure what to do and she came over to help
us. She helped me to get a ‘free’ laundry card and then we were able to put $10
on it. You then swiped this at the washers and each machine added as little as
.25 and as much as .50 (depending on the machine size) towards your card and
dryer use within the same day. Once we got the hang of it, it was a pretty neat
way to do laundry. What $ you didn’t use, stayed on the card.
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| My fingers were crossed that the sun won this sky war It didn't |
We did 3 loads for $9.75 (loads are
$3.25 ea) and got .75 worth of free drying. I used 2 large dryers. Our free .50
gave us 20 min. in one dryer so we used our free .25 plus the .25 left on our
card for the second dryer. Bingo! Perfectly, as if we’d planned it, both loads
were done, all things dry. Yay!
Again, we can tell we’re getting closer to home
prices, even in the laundromats but they have to pay for these fancy new buildings
and machines somehow. We didn’t mind, we have clean clothes and we didn’t have
to drive far to do it. While there, Bill nipped around the corner and picked up
a black ink tank and some DEF fluid at Walmart.
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| And look at this brilliance shining in the Suite |
Back home, Bill put his ‘mud flap’
bar on the truck. When I was out this morning, I’d noticed an American flag and
pole had blown off someone’s motor home up the row and was sitting under a
picnic table across the way. I pointed it out to Bill on our way back from doing
laundry so he walked up, rolled it up and tucked it safely by the rv. The guy
wasn’t home and would never know he could have lost it, but at least it is back
where it belongs.
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| Yesterday this was a swimming hole, the wind does have benefits |
Inside, while Bill was out freezing
his butt off, I was preparing bacon and eggs for our lunch. By the time he was
done, everything was almost ready. Once more, Clem needed to go out so I took
him out and down the road. The wind didn’t blow him over this time. Shivering,
we both returned inside and Bill had the dishes mostly cleaned up. What a guy!
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| This was a frightening sky for a while this morning before we went to do laundry We waited at the park until it lightened up, just in case |
Because our lease for Black Beauty is
up next year, we were invited to go back a year early to Mt. Brydges Ford and
see what offers might be available now. We’re doing that on Monday so Bill is
online looking at different/new options so we will be more prepared when we talk
to Al. It saves time sitting across the desk from him if we already know what
we’d like. It will be an interesting conversation so we can decide whether to
buy out or lease.
We sat in our chairs with our books.
I’m starting the Billy Bathgate book that Ron left for me. It will be a totally
different book than what I’m used to so I hope I can latch on. At one point around
2:30 all 4 eyes were drooping and Clemson’s had been shut for quite a while. We
put the books down and it took a ‘ping’ on my phone to wake us up.
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| So as Bill takes care of some paperwork, Clemson sneaks up behind him to get his coat off the chair |
We made a cup of tea and with our
coats on, walked over to George and Suzie’s for our last U.S./winter Happy
Hour. Oh, that’s sad! We know we won’t be seeing them again probably until the
summer. We had a good visit covering a lot of ground again. Time flew by and at
5 Bill and I thought we’d better get home and feed Clemson and ourselves. We
all have to eat.
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| And he got it |
The wind was whipping around and the
sun actually peeked out briefly after we hugged and wished each other “goodbyes”
and “safe travels”. The temperature for most of the day had dropped to a chilly 32F with a windchill of 23F. For supper, it would be easy. A one pot dish of corned
beef, potatoes and veggies leftover from Easter Sunday. I hope by serving
everything hot, Bill might enjoy the corned beef better than my first attempt.
If not, he might have to find something else in the cupboard.
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| So, for those of you who know the four of us you can imagine that it is always fun to prepare for a selfie Here we are prim and proper |
We were eating before 6, our bacon
and eggs at lunch had digested and I was quite ready for a fill-up. I’m sad to
say that my attempt with this supper didn’t do it for Bill. At least he was a
trooper and helped me clean up the last of the leftovers. Graciously, ha ha, he
said that I could eat the other corned beef roast in the freezer sometime over
the spring/summer when he was working at CanAm. I get that, he doesn’t like it.
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| And while I'm setting the camera up, something is going on here arms crossing, hand holding, I'm not sure |
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| And as usual, we end our time together with a whole pile of 'HAPPY' |
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