Some Errands and Some Memories

The Ridge

On Wednesday, Aug. 27th I woke up around 6 when Bill was in the shower. By 6:30, he was down eating breakfast and I took my time getting up. I don't like to get in his way, distractions at our age mean we forget things. It's happened to both of us.

Good morning!
This was at the bridge in Durham,
while I was waiting in the car for M.

Before I forget, I missed reading a couple of comments from a few days ago so I have now responded and in this post, I will answer a request as well. When I posted a picture of the birthday card I made for my little brother, I was asked for an actual picture of his car. I'm happy to oblige!

Meet the real Ruckus

I didn't have to clean today, just run M into town for his errands. They were even cut short, after getting his water and drug store meds, he needed to return home. No, he isn't doing any better. I offered to get his beer and groceries but he wasn't feeling well enough to hang around. 

Sitting up town, waiting.
It was a slow hour. LOL

So, I dropped him at home and came back myself to have lunch with Gibbs. In the meantime, I went out to do a bit of weeding in the Moonflower garden and snipped the tops off the irises alongside the Bunky. They look so messy once they're done blooming. 

It's a start to all the cutting back
that is ahead of me so bit by bit,
I'll get 'er done.

I did nip back into town to Foodland to get Bill's cookies for lunch and stopped to pick up our Catch the Ace tickets from Jackie. I like her a lot, she and her hubby own Impact Tire, so I offered her a bookmark of her choice. 

Jackie liked the purple flower
because it is a shared symbol for her
Mom who has passed. 💗
She grabbed it immediately. 
I love that.

She was thrilled and picked the purple flower with blue background. I think it was Maebeme who liked that one. 😀 I could go back and check but I'm not going to. Back home once more, I was happy to have access to our printer again. It had taken a nose-dive into never never land.

My entertainer when we walked
down for the mail. 
💕

I printed off the Blue Mountain passes for my sisters and then decided to purge doubles of any pictures I had in my folders. That took me on a whole new adventure. Memories!! Oh, I love pictures of people and events that have taken place over the past years. 

Let's start with our very first
Ridge campout.
George & Suzie, Gerry & Melinda 
and Rob & Pat visited.
They had Sandra & Bill's wedding
that weekend.

Bill got his drone out
This was Aug. 2, 2017

Here come some memory photos. You most likely will not know the participants but Bill and I had fun reliving these times. 

We had a lot of company our first
full summer here.
Megan and Neil from London

with their tent trailer.
That was Aug. 26, 27/ 2017.

Another fun couple came to stay
in our Bunky for a couple of nights.
Brenda and Randy, also from London.

Speaking of Brenda,
this was at a London clothing exchange
at our friend, Laurie's home.
I met Brenda working at the
school board and we became lifelong
friends.

I think you all know who this
lovely lady is.
Pat and Rob were frequent visitors
when it was possible.

This is a special picture
from our first campout
here on the Ridge.

That was the year of the bad rain storm and part of our laneway
was washed out. Gerry and Bill worked hard at moving the gravel
around so they were able to drive out the next day.

The front field is ours, where Bill cuts.
The top of the picture is our neighbour's
field and it isn't supposed to be a pond!
The left of the picture is actually the pond
on the west side of our lane.

One final memory picture today. It is very special too. Bill and our first little bum, Clemson. 

Is this precious, or what?
Clemmy was 12 lbs. at his heaviest.

Back to today, Bill was home shortly after 5. He went directly to the Acreage and had a bladder full of water to transfer into our tank. He grilled bacon cheeseburgers while that took place and it was a yummy supper - of course! 

A good old burger for supper.

We reached a higher temperature today of 19C/67F and only dropping to 13C/55F. We'll enjoy it as it gets cold again over the next 3 days. I hope you're rolling with the heat, cold, wet, dry as well as we are. The plants are happy although my harvesting has slowed down.

A picture from a couple of years ago.
Happy Birthday, Gayle, another older sister.
(she's on the right, in pink)

A sunset from 2017.
Why not, eh?

Thank you for stopping in. It has been a nice day.

I Think Fall has Befallen

 The Ridge

On Tuesday, Aug. 26th it was 6:30 when I got up. Bill was already downstairs, soon ready to leave for work. I was washed, dressed and had my tea ready by 6:50 and headed out 5 minutes ahead of him.

Good morning!
This was our sky last night
before clouds moved back in.

It's a cold day, well, relatively speaking. It is still August, not fall yet, and here we are at 10C/50F with wind and rain possible again today. There was no one at the Mat when I arrived, but a young camper from a nearby park was here for bike races and came in to do his laundry.

This is on my way to town
at 6:50.

Lots of clouds but
surprisingly pretty.
We did get some rain while I was inside
cleaning.

When he left, after really nice compliments to the laundromat AND my cleaning job, Sandy walked in. Wow, that is twice in a week that I've seen him. We chatted briefly, he checked that the 4 machines were repaired and we discussed winter cleaning and who was filling in for me. I have a couple of ladies interested if Ron isn't.  

Maybe Ron cleaned on the weekend,
but I don't think he emptied the lint trays.
They were all full like this one. 😏

I stopped at Battery Pro for water and chatted with Mark for a bit. Back home, Gibbs was happy to have Mom sit with him for a while. However, it was short lived as I had to leave for Williamsford at 10:30. Robin was having guests come in tonight for 2 nights and they are from England. Wow!

The guests from last night,
truly stripped the beds!
Everything was in a pile
by the laundry machines.
LOL
I needed a queen set of quilts/shams
so had to check them all. Only
one set needed to be washed so the rest were
folded neatly and put away.

I was in and out in a couple of hours and home to relax the rest of the day. I did more quilling for a couple of hours and put my stuff away. Bill was home within 20 minutes of me making my afternoon tea. A short but busy day for the two of them.

Bill was trying to snooze beside him
and Gibbs decided to perform.
Look at where he's sitting......
waiting for me to notice.

For supper, the menu was baked pork chops, and a potato for Bill, some keto rice for me and a vegetable. This has been a good day. Some cash in my account as we slide to the end of a week and a month. We wonder where the days go, eh?

So, because it is
National Dog Day,
I played with him.
Look at the tail, constantly
on the move.
faster, faster.........

We reached a ridiculous (low) high of 14C/58F by mid afternoon. LOL I finished the last 3 chapters of my book today so dropped my last two off at Robin's to sell (after she reads them). I have a couple more of Janet Evanovich's books so will start on one of those.

Tasty and filling
= perfect.

Supper was good, we had Chapman's ice cream for dessert.  We cleaned up the non-dishwasher dishes together and after Bill made his lunch, it was time to chill. (with Patsy). 😀😂 We are dropping to 6C/43F overnight so won't be kicking the covers off tonight!

                                 Because it is his day.

                                                  Good night.

Thank you for stopping by and all your lovely comments on our weekend away. It was a great time!