Ice Cream Social, Happy Valentine’s Day! Canada’s Winter

Park Place RV Park

On Friday, Feb. 14^th, I was back to my normal waking hour of 6:30. I guess that means it was a good restFUL night. 😊 I did my stretches and blocking, with Gibbs laying ‘helpfully’ across my neck, before joining my Valentine downstairs. ♥ He liked my card and I liked the box of chocolates he left on the table.

Good morning!
Happy Valentine's Day to you too!

He knew when he got up that there would be no flying this morning so didn’t even bother going to the field for that. I had my tea and cereal and Gibbs and I hobbled around for his walk. That was harder than I thought it would be so went up to the bed to baby the ache. Bill did have a motor to put in a plane, that arrived yesterday, so drove over to Jim’s Hangar mid-morning.

The winds were warm but quite strong from
the southwest all day

This is my helper, Dr. Gibbs.
He adds pressure to my legs while I'm laying
on the block.
💓

Once the pain was gone, I got up and did a thorough high dusting job in the Suite. Norwex has this chenille wand that works wonders when extended on the mop pole system I bought. I climbed up on the 3-step ladder and dusted the ceiling fan off too. Don’t look up while doing that, ask me how I know! Then, I dusted the entertainment centre, coffee table and lower cupboards.

This ceiling fan is the one thing we brought
from out sticks and bricks home.
It was one of our favourite things we'd installed.
If you see ANY dust bunnies up there - I don't want to know!

Getting the central vac out from under the bed is not something I do often since we got the Dirt Devil but today I did. First a dust mopping then a swoop with the vac on both levels left our home relatively clean. For now. 😊 I headed over to the clubhouse around 10:30 to work on the puzzle for a bit and gave it a good old college try, getting a few more pieces in.

You're probably not seeing much difference, but
I do. 

We had lunch together, tomato soup, crackers and toast today. That was a nice change. At 12:30, I went back to the puzzle for an hour. Most of what is left are brown and green pieces so an even bigger challenge begins. Bill and I walked over for the ice cream social that the manager had set up for guests. Sue was under the weather, still, so Bette took up the challenge and got everything set up for us.

Vanilla ice cream, caramel sauce,
bananas and sprinkles! Yummy!

It was a small group, such seems to be the order of this park, but the 11 of us enjoyed it very much. Social was the key as we all sat around, helping ourselves to 2 helpings, for an hour. Thank you to the park staff! It was a warm day but the winds were quite gusty again today.

The sky was pretty when we walked back home.
Clouds do that, don't they?

We reached a high temp of 69F/21C despite the gusts and the sky was blue filled with puffy white clouds all day. 😊 Bill left shortly before 5:30 to go see if anyone showed up for night flying. This was the beginning of their Fun Fly but it was quite windy and odds were against the pilots tonight.

Gibbs and I fought the wind on
our afternoon walk.

When he returns, we’ll have grilled cheese sandwiches for supper. Always a quick easy meal. Tonight, we plan to watch NCIS: Sydney together and I’ll watch Fire Country episodes IF things are done on time. 😊 It has been a good day. Gibbs and I got out for out second walk of the day around 4:30 and I hobbled a bit, anxious to prop my numb leg up when we returned.

I love the colours just before sunset

The west sky was clear but I was happy
to catch the special moment that the sun dropped.

Tomorrow promises to be a calmer day with warmer temperatures still. We’ll take it! My family in Cold Lake, Alberta is experiencing freezing cold temperatures but less snow and in Montreal, QC more snow but not so cold and then in our home province, near the Ridge in Ontario, lots and lots of snow piling up and blowing into driveways. Yeuch! This is a good winter for us to be where we are, I wouldn’t be much help to Bill
with my gimpy self!

Cold Lake, Alberta.
These daytime temperatures are chilling, yet not even the
'feels like' temperatures!
-24C is -11F

Montreal, on the left. My sister there loves the snow
and created a snow angel.
Close to home on the right, Donna's back porch
and a sister's deck out back in the bottom pix.
Good night!

Thank you for the visit.

A Snowy River Walk on Valentine’s Day, Messages in White

Paisley, On

On Sunday, Feb. 14^th my Valentine sweetheart and I were awake and up around 8. I probably could have risen an hour earlier but with Bill still sleeping, I didn’t want to disturb him on a day off. We don't spend much on each other on this day but it has special meaning to us. In 1994, it was Valentine's Day when Bill and I became a couple. It was bumpy to start but bringing me roses sure set the right path! Today, we exchanged beautiful cards and some special little goodies. We sorted our laundry and he carried it down to start wash. We made our drinks while we were down there.

It wasn't until 1 pm that I got out for the first time
Bill had swapped the position of our vehicles

The snow that was falling last night had stopped sometime overnight and had left a clean white blanket on the vehicles. Bill went out to see if Black Beauty was in a good mood enough to start but no, she wasn’t. Later, when he tried, after the sun was on her for a while, she obliged. Eddie was outside shoveling some of the lane and the front sidewalks so they chatted a bit. He was kind enough to clean off all of the vehicles too. Eddie, I mean. 😊

I'm walking on Water Street and you can see the
back yard of Wes and Susan's place
That pile of snow is from clearing the laneway
I think it has only been maybe 4 times so far this winter

Upstairs, we dabbled on our laptops and although mine seemed to have had a bit of a freeze-up, it eventually came to life. When the laundry was completed, we had our lunch of bacon and eggs with another hot drink and a cupcake. They are good! After dishes, Bill moved the vehicles around so BB was at the back and Ptooties out front. We’ll take her to Durham in the morning.

Let's walk along the river

The sun was out and off and on, and the snow began again. It will be this pattern throughout the day. When we woke up, it was -22C/-8F, which should explain why I waited to go for my walk until it warmed up. By 1, it was a ‘balmy’ -9C/13F so I dressed and headed out. Bill said it wasn’t feeling too bad in the sun and the wind wasn’t too strong so I didn’t need my mad bomber hat today. Instead, I wore my wool ball cap with the muff covering. It was plenty warm.

Quack quack

It was wonderful. I walked down through the campground along the river today. It was actually very pretty with the snow falling and easy walking. I wanted to write something in the snow but it was so deep to get to any clear area that my options were getting scarcer, the further I walked. 

The plows have made it great for walking

You can see how high the banks are here
I'd sink to my thighs if I tried to get over them

Then I realized that it was piled up where I cut through at the gate

So, I either climb, go around or turn back

Just before heading off the snow plowed track, I saw the opportunity. It was still knee deep but at least I didn’t have a snow bank to get through. 😊

with snow to my knees, I trudged (seriously trudged)
shaping out a heart, a lopsided one
I had no pole or stick to write in it though

On the other side of the piled snow, I tried again
using my hand as I walked the outer edges
Not perfect but it says 
B 💓 P

After i got home, Bill went down to the basement to work on his plane and I went out to the garage to work on the puzzle. I was feeling a bit overwhelmed at first, not sure where to start. The puzzle makers drive me nuts. They put the picture on the front of the box but then slap writing on this corner and that corner so you never really get the whole picture. What’s in that bottom corner? Makes it difficult to look for pieces. Some, but not many, include a poster inside. That’s my Puzzle Pet Peeve.

I took a picture of this tree a while ago because it looks like
a raccoon in the hollow
It still looks like it but it also is a pretty snowy picture

Once I got going, I was doing pretty good. I made a cup of tea and returned upstairs. Today, my upper left arm has been throbbing again. When I carried the basket of clothes upstairs earlier, it started. Not that it was heavy, it wasn’t at all, but I guess my arthritis (which I think it is) decided it was time to flare up. Bill rubbed some heat lotion on it for me and I took some Advil. After working on the puzzle, it was starting again so curled up with my book for a while.

Selfie in the snow
Still smiling though

Within my half hour walk, it turned into a blizzard

Ever taken a picture of snow, zoomed in?
I did, to show you what was in my face 😁

At 4:30, I mixed up my recipe for meatloaf. Our Valentine’s supper would be a nice one, with mashed potatoes, veggies and of course, a cupcake. With the meatloaf in the oven at 5, I set my timer for 45 minutes and came upstairs. I went down and started boiling the spuds and choosing what vegetable. Bill will have corn where I have a few choices.

Coming off Water Street

I decided to walk to the bridge 
and loved this little spring (Ridge) reminder

The Saugeen is almost completely covered now

The Teeswater isn't far behind

A close up of the dam, it still peaks my interest

As a celebration of our love (mushy, eh?) and Valentine’s Day, I opened a bottle of wine. The bottle of wine that I found in the recycle bin at the laundromat weeks ago. It is very good! I’m not a fan of dry white wine so added some ginger ale to mine but we each enjoyed a glass together, toasting over the meal. 😊 What a nice supper, the meatloaf was perfect.

Sadly, the little gingerbread men are all gone off the fence

After dishes, I came up to work on today’s blog and we spent the evening together.

The Valentine's cupcakes I made yesterday

A lovely supper if I do say so myself!

It almost looks like a happy face cupcake

This was a really nice day. The clothes are clean for another week and although we had snow at different times during the day, we didn’t get dumped on. I have work in the morning, Family Day, but Bill has the day off. He will likely go with me.

We had a great spot at Borrego Springs our first year
Feb. 14, 2017

Don't feed the dinosaurs!
Good night everyone!

Happy Valentine’s Day to all of you! I hope there was something special in your day. Thank you for popping in!