Good Friday was a Good Friday

The Ridge

We woke and got up before 7:30 on Friday, Apr. 2^nd. Bill got up first around 7 and had his shower while I nestled warmly under the covers for another 15 minutes or so. He had nudged the furnace up to 68F to warm the Suite up. Being a holiday, there will be a break today on the hydro/electric rates and we always appreciate those. This meant we could and would leave our infrared heater on since it was going to be a bitter cold day.

Bill pointed out the ice on the pond today
Indicating how shallow this area is compared to the front

The bonus of today was the beautiful blue sky and gorgeous warm sun. A sunroom would be ideal and if you have one, lucky you. We had our coffee and tea together and just before 9, I headed off to town with our laundry. Bill offered to go with me and then we could carry on to Murray’s to get his cargo trailer but I opted out and suggested he leave when he’s ready. I didn’t need his help to clean or to do the laundry so no point in him standing around waiting.

Here is a closer look at where water meets ice

It was easy for both my errands and I was back home by 10:30 with fresh smelling clothes. Pretty soon, maybe next laundry day, I will be hanging our clothes on my clothes line up on the berm. 😉 Today, my fingers would be frozen before I finished, it was only -2C/28F with a nasty biting wind. Bill returned with his ‘baby’ around 11. Inside, before him, I made myself a coffee and had some yogourt to tide me over until noon.

Baptist Church Road

I didn’t have a lot on my agenda today, tossing around a few ideas. I’m going to make the sofa bed up with the clean sheets and ‘maybe’ bring the 2 bags of clothes in from the Bunky. After going through Bill’s clothes and deciding things were pretty decent that we would take them to the auction, I realized that I had a lot of nice things too and if we could get a few bucks for them, why not? Value Village sells them for a profit so it may as well be in our pocket. We’ll try it anyway.

There's a familiar sight

Bill worked around outside for the next few hours but had an egg salad and cheese sandwich for lunch first. He cut some wood, moved some things around in the Hangar and the storage shed and most importantly, made plans for future changes. 😊 Inside, I made my own lunch plate with all good stuff again, doing my very best to eat better.

I shouldn't laugh but it was comical watching the
geese 'walking on water' so to speak
Perfect religious day for it, no?

Watching them land and slide was even funnier

I still have coconut oil once during the day which is a good keto practice but not in my morning tea. I have it with my coffee and that helps fill me up mid to late morning. I keep forgetting to make my bullet proof coffee! I remembered that I wanted to make a cheesecake today so that took up my next hour. Madame IP was happy to help and I always feel good that I’ve made a tasty ‘good for us’ dessert. Using the crushed almonds for the crust is an added bonus.

He backed the trailer in its location down by the Hangar

We need to replace our flag, it's too big for this pole
making it too close to the pole

I helped Bill get his Hangar tv set up with the satellite connection which is hooked up outside the Bunky. Now that the nice weather is coming (it really is!!), he can work away down there for longer with his favourite programs. Together, we opened the sofa bed (not as easy as it sounds with a coffee table and heater to move) and made the bed. It is ready for company, when that is allowed again. I’m so glad he helped me.

Just ready to go in the IP

Once the cheesecake was done, I wrote in my blog and then we sat together in our recliners for a while. He dozed and I read my book. This morning, there was a skim of ice on the shallow end (near us) of the pond. It was comical to watch the geese fly in and go skidding across it. I’m sure they are used to it but I could only hope they didn’t hurt themselves. We did find where Mother Goose had decided on a nesting spot and it is within close view of my camera. Yay! 😊

And the finished product

We watched a couple of episodes of Overhaulin’ with Chip Foose and of all the car shows, I enjoy this one. There isn’t any ‘big shot’ swearing and even though it involves a bit of performing, you know that upfront it is televised for show. I know I dozed myself and fought to stay awake at least for the reveals. In between the programs, I read more of my book and at 6, I preheated the convection oven for supper.

Happy geese swimming again

Chicken strips and fries tonight. Bill cooked the fries in the Fry Daddy and even though late, we enjoyed supper tonight. I was behaving and only had a few fries but we didn’t have any room for a piece of cheesecake and it was too late by the time we finished to eat any later. No worries, it is done and we can have some tomorrow. We emptied the oil from the F.D. into a container to freeze it until garbage day and will use new oil when we next use it.

After dishes, we relaxed for the evening. Not much was on tv so we watched reruns of Highway to Hell and I got more reading done. This was a good day. Bill accomplished a few things that he wanted to and I managed to pass the day doing very little. Well, I did get the Mat cleaned and the laundry done so it wasn’t wasted.

Just looking out across the pond and laneway

I was having difficulty over the past month opening pictures and videos on FB Messenger so uninstalled it today and then installed a new version. That worked so I was happy about that. I’d tried everything else!  I hope you had an enjoyable holiday.

And the sun gets ready to say Good Night!

Thank you for your visit!

Spring, Winter, Spring, Winter, April Roars In

The Ridge

Thursday, Apr. 1^st arrives with a flourish, just not a lamb-like one. I know that idiom is for March but I’m hoping it will work for this month as well. The snow was 2 hours late arriving, from what our meteorologist told us last night, but she was bang on for when it stopped. We were up at 7 and by 7:15 the sky was white and by 7:35, so was the ground. Good grief!

Snow started at 7:15, hot (cold) and heavy

We sat and decided we’d be ‘stuck’ inside today with the freezing temperatures while drinking our morning brew. We read blogs and discussed the day. Outside, by 10, the snow had stopped and the winds moved in with ‘gusto’ to take it away. We didn’t figure it would stick around long as the temperatures go up from here on in, at least to normal expectations. My brother, Michael, in Cold Lake, Alberta is sending his 14C/58F our way. 😊

We found cords that needed to be tested
so we could decide if we needed them
I just sat and enjoyed the view 😍

Bill had some purging of his own to do so worked away in a couple of cupboards, in the living room and in the bedroom, getting rid of a lot of loose cables and connecting cords from past electronics. Why we keep stuff like this “maybe we’ll use it”, I’ll never know but we do it anyway. I discovered, in my rummaging, my old MP3 player. I used it a lot back in my working and walking days in London but it quit working a few years ago and got tucked away.

Goodbye little mp3 player

I tried a few different things with it but it has ‘retired’ too, I guess. Out it goes. If I ever want another one, I’ll buy one. We had a few phone calls on our list for today so took care of those throughout the day, leaving messages for most. One important one, well, they were all important, was to Murray who is storing Bill’s cargo trailer. He’d like to get it out tomorrow morning and get it home here on the Ridge.

Bill started a bit of gravel spreading but it is
pretty hard at the moment

The snow started up again at 1:30 along with the winds so we don’t expect much accumulation this time. We’ll see, it looks to be blowing straight across from north to south. This does make the Suite a bit harder to keep warm, with all the windows on that side facing out, but we seem to have a handle on it. Still no regrets for coming home when we did. 😊 I’ve texted back and forth with Jamie and hope to see him on Sunday for a bit.

We had breakfast of bacon and eggs for lunch and that went down well. For supper, I’ll spruce up the dry sausage casserole somehow so that will be relatively easy. After getting my blog started, I had my shower and walked out to see what Bill was up to. He had spread a bit of gravel to see how hard that would be and then we both came indoors to the warmth.

The snow was starting to disappear by noon

It was around 2 when Bill went upstairs to purge clothes. I found my blanket, my new James Patterson book, ‘When the Wind Blows’, and my chair with no intention of moving very far for the next hour or two. Bill doesn’t think the mail lady stopped so I don’t plan on going out even for a walk to the mailbox.  I wasn’t in my chair long when Bill indicated that he wanted some help (opinions) upstairs so I went up on the bed and helped him choose.

This was a good start!
Instead of donating, we're going to take them to BizyBee Auctions
along with some tools and some of my recently purged clothing

He was doing well; the shirts were piling up and the space in his portion of the closet was opening up. He finished that section and will work on another area tomorrow.ish Later, when we sat in our chairs, I had a tea and Bill had a Zero Coke. He’d barely finished it and I heard him sleeping. Literally, within 20 seconds. When I told him later about how quickly he dropped off, he agreed. “I was tired, all that emotional sorting upstairs”. Now THAT was a good one!

The snow is almost gone and look at that beautiful sky

I got well into my book and I’m enjoying it a lot. At 5:30, I got the leftover casserole out of the fridge and blended some soup and cream. With that mixed in and carrots on the side, it tasted much better to me. It was more like a stew by now so Bill had toast with his and at least that finished it off. We had the last of our caramel custard for dessert and had dishes done by 6:30. The news isn’t good here in Ontario. Well, depending on how you look at it, I guess.

Supper was pretty good

Our Premier Ford has announced a 3^rd province-wide lockdown starting on Saturday at 12:01 am. Darn!! I’ve never agreed with the total lockdown, especially now that all venues know how to deal with business in a safe manner. I don’t believe that the new cases are as a result of them being open but again, it is from certain reckless individuals in over-populated areas. This is just my opinion. Ontario will be locked down for 28 days. ☹

Bill was off today; they finished their job yesterday and won’t start a new one until Easter Monday. I will be going into the laundromat on Good Friday and then off for the weekend. I’m not sure if I’ll revert back to every other day or stick to week days only. I’ll talk to Jamie but I’m sure he’ll leave it up to me. The sun came out around 5 and the snow has pretty much disappeared. We are all ready for spring to return.

This one isn't a memory
I just think us Ontarians all need a chuckle today

good night!

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