Brenda Gets Lost in the Blog

2010-11-14T09:19:00.003-05:00

After spending the day yesterday doing my fall cleaning, today I will be recyling some of my over abundance of Sheet sets, comforters, towels, and other household stuff.
Yesterday I tweeted that I was making Chicken Cordon Blue for supper and a wonderful suggestion of garlic mashed potatoes came up as a side dish with mushroom rissoto, Garry already put in his order for my mushroom hunter sauce, but I think the garlic mashed potatoes would make a loverly addition. Thanks Alberta

2010-11-13T15:14:00.001-05:00

Spent the morning cleaning the old fridge, freezer and cleaning out the lining closet. Amazing how much you accumulate over the years. All cleaned up now.

Connected to Twitter

2010-11-12T11:41:00.002-05:00

I have decided to link my blog to my twitter, as it is easier for me to download pictures and post. So let's see how dedicated I can be

2009-02-16T12:57:00.002-05:00

Hello out there in blogland
Finally somthing new to write, I start my new job on Monday, March 2nd. I got the Photo Lab Managers job at the Trenton Wam-mart. I am very excited. I have been waiting to get transfered to the Trenton store for some time now. This is also a promotion for me that's real nice too. I can walk to work now plus I will be making more money. So thats the exciting new news for this week.
I hope everyone is looking forward to Mom's birthday party this fall. I have been checking everyday hoping to find a seat sale on West Jet or Air Canada but I can't book anything unitl I find out wheather or not Garry will be comming. So I will stay in touch till then

2009-01-25T13:09:00.002-05:00

Not too much going on, keeping in touch with Anne about Mom's party. Took a look at plain and train fares, it will cost me the same to travel either way, so I think I will fly out of Toronto, land in Halifax and return the same. I can stay at Candice's on my trip there and back.
Me, Mom and our neighbour Val went to see Bride Wars Friday night, girls night out. It was funny and made for a good evening out. It's our break to avoid the winter blues when it gets too cold to do anything outside. We have an outdoor neighbourhood rink, I think it's about time to get those skates shappened and venture outside.
Catch you all later

2009-01-11T18:15:00.002-05:00

For those of us still in blogland, I posted a few pictures of the wedding dress I started for Garry's sister but never got worn. It was made to fit a size 12-16 but can be altered to a size 10 if need be. I offered it to Melanie, if its not to her taste than I think it might be time to donate it somewhere. It is not doing anyone any good sitting in my sewing room, although it did come in handy when it came time to set up my dress dummy that I got for chirstmas. I am thinking of dressing it with all the creations I have made and keeping them in a album, you never know when I might try out for Project Runway. LOL

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2008-12-25T12:46:00.001-05:00

From our family to all of yours, Merry Christmas and a safe and Happy New Years. Here hoping for good things in the New Years and health and happiness for all.

2008-12-21T09:14:00.001-05:00

Of course we didn't have enough of our own snow, Garry is out doing the neighbours driveways as well. If it keeps him busy who am I to stop him

2008-12-21T08:52:00.002-05:00

A view of the snow storm we are getting from my front door. I was going to take a picture of the house but I was not going out in this. Its too bad you cant actually see the snow falling. It definately looks like Christmas at my house.

Gee I wonder what Garry will be doing today.

This is the view from my bedroom window. We just got the snow cleared from the storm we got on Friday and here it comes again.

2008-12-09T18:43:00.003-05:00

Sorry no pictures of us all dressed up for the theater. We had fun, the restaurant was nice they had prime rib and thats what most of us had. The play Naughty Robin Hood was really fun and naughty. We got home at 11pm but it was worth staying up late for.

2008-11-30T15:58:00.002-05:00

I usually do my christmas decorations the first sunday in December. Steve, Sheila, Christopher and Amanda came to visit on the America Thanksgiving and they will not be coming for christmas and today is the first Sunday of Advent, so I put the decorations up. I also took my annual family christmas photo of the Hawes while they were here. Its snowing here now, so it really looks nice outside now with the decorations and the lights.

2008-11-30T15:56:00.000-05:00

2008-11-26T19:38:00.002-05:00

Looking forward to going to the Stirling Theater in two weeks. This years pantomine is Robin Hood, a romp through Sure Would forrest. Last year was Ponocio and when he told a lie, it wasnt his nose that grew. I think this is our fifth year. We go for supper at Platters across the road from the theater. This year there is 10 of us going so it should be a fun night. I have four extra tickets if anyone is interested in showing up and comming with us. Let me know before I sell them off. Two couples backed out this week, but I am not worried about selling the tickets because these shows are always sold out and I had to buy mine in June. No camera's allowed so I wont be able to post pics of the play, but I will take some of us all dressed up.

2008-11-18T18:55:00.002-05:00

Hello out there for all of you still in Blog land, just checking in. Everyone here is good, mom and I will be going for our flu shots tomorrow. We had a little bid of snow, but nothing stayed on the ground . We did not get anything near what Barrie or Toronto got, it is like we are in a little bubble and everyone around us got hit and it missed us. I am sure we will get our share soon enough. That's all for now, not much else new except that Garry and I are going to be little willi's godparents, SWEET. Thanks Henry for thinking of us.

2008-11-01T14:42:00.002-04:00

Candice and Sarah hogging the linelight

Spookies house on the street? Mine of course, I had a fog machine in the pot making smoke every time the kids came into the driveway

Al and Val

2008-11-01T14:40:00.000-04:00

2008-11-01T13:54:00.003-04:00

finally, pictures of our Octoberfest shananakins. The pictures speak for themselves

2008-10-25T15:16:00.002-04:00

Sorry I have been away for awhile. Work has been insane and I havent made time to blog. I have pictures from our Octoberfest weekend but I seem to be having some trouble downloading the disk to my computer. Candice will take care of that for me when she comes home next weekend. Of course I have been busy sewing. I made candice a costume that looks like the one her favorite final fantasy character wears. And of cource, this year I will be Urserlas the Sea Witch. I found this lovely lime green satin that really, what else could I do with it. So next week when I wear it for holloween I will make sure I get pictures of both of us.

2008-09-21T15:16:00.003-04:00

Well, it's been a few weeks. Here is what I have been up to. Took the last week of my vacations for this year. Spent 3 days cleaning the kitchen grout on the ceramic floors and celing them. They look like new. Got one of those H2O mops to keep it looking that way.
I spend 4 days in Toronto with Candice. We went to the \ROM and the Science Center, both were incrediable and I think I need to go again, I am sure there is stuff we missed or didnt spend enough time with the first time out.
My sinuses have been killing me. I cant wait for the first frost. The doctor gave me an antibiotic but it did not work so I will have to go back and get something else. He told me when you blow your nose if it clear snot there is nothing to worry about, but if its green, then thats an infection that can only be fought with and anitbiotics, but the one he gave me did not work so back to the drawing board.
Since I lost the ten pounds he told me to, my liver enzimes have come down, so now I have to stay away from fatty foods. Oh and yeah, I have to excersise more. Apparently getting up to turn the tv on and off is not considered excersise. Other than that everyone here is good. Mom will be coming home soon. It sounded like she had a good time and got to visit alot of people on her trip. Till next time

2008-09-05T19:58:00.002-04:00

Hello in blog land, I tried to email David and my account at hotmail would not let me send it to his email. The next time someone e-mail him, make sure he is ready our blogs and that way we can talk to him and not have to worry about downloading an entirely new account. Then again, maybe we are being sensored, I swear, there was nothing inappropriate in it.
And to Monica, yes I am sure your earliest memories of me is toting around a klennex box. Now its both Candice and I fighting over the klennex boxes. They are saying it has been the worst year to date for allergies in this area, even people who have never had problems before are now suffering from allery symtoms. I guess I will just have to wait it out. I start my last week of my vacation for this year. I get another 4 weeks on my anniversary date the end of January. I will be doing my fall cleaning, the furnace and air conditioning people are comming on Monday, I will get all my latest test results on Tuesday, flower beds on Wednesday, rest on Thursday, and visiting Candice on Friday and science center on Saturday and home again on Sunday and then back to work Monday. So I will be very busy next week.

2008-08-30T21:25:00.002-04:00

I hate alergy season. Sick, sick, sick and did I mention sick. All week, sneezing, itchy watery eyes and all the ache and pains that come with it. I spend the afternoon in the pool. To He** with the pollen. My rose bushes that should be starting to die off for the fall now have three new loverly roses on them. My day lillies that have gone to seed are now reblooming. and while everything looks beautiful, my sinuses can do without. Oh well, a little sneezing for a great looking front yard, maybe the trade off is not that bad.

2008-08-24T08:55:00.002-04:00

Mr sun, sun, Mr golden sun, please shine down on me. Yes finally a day of sunshine, I woke up with my sinuses acting up, they haven't bothered me in quite some time. I took a benadryl and it totally knocked me out, got up at 8, fell asleep on the couch at 10, Garry woke me up at 1 to see if I was going to spend any time in the pool. I went out and fell asleep in the sun, Candice woke me up at about 3.30, Yes I got sunburned, not bad though, came in and Garry went out and go chinese food for supper, fell asleep on the couch again around 6, woke up at 9.30 went to bed and didnt get up until 8 this morning with a headache that feels like a hangover. No more benadryl for me. and yes my sinuses are still bothering me. but i think i will let mother nature take its course today and make sure there are no more drugs in my system before i take anything else. it looks like it is going to be another nice day today, a little cloudy but very humid so i am ok with that, i can still enjoy the pool and this time i wont have to worry about burning an top of my burn.

2008-08-18T18:03:00.002-04:00

more rain, more rain, more rain, and yeah more rain. More thunder and lightning, at least we are getting a good show out of this, and then of course the power outages, thank god for back up batteries. I am sure this weather will clear up one of these days.

2008-08-17T16:55:00.003-04:00

I spend most of my vacation in the pool. Unfortunately it was more about cleaning out the algy from all the rain and less about just enjoying the pool. Just when it seems like th sun is going to come out and stay, we get more rain. I am sooooo sick of rain. we better some pool weather soon. I think I am having withdrawls.

2008-07-15T20:14:00.001-04:00

A few birthday pictures for those of us who still use blogger to keep in touch. As you can see from one of the photo's it was a surprise party.

2008-07-15T19:59:00.002-04:00

2008-07-10T20:43:00.001-04:00

Best birthday gift ever, worse birthday gift ever. I got a DSL for my birthday and I am addicted and have been playing it since my birthday instead of blogging or updating facebook. sorry guys, between the pool and the game, I will be incognito all summer.

2008-06-29T16:51:00.003-04:00

So much to do, so little time to do it in. At least with it raining all week I did not have to worry about watering my gardens, front and back. We went up North yesterday to celebrate Christopher's graduation, it rained earlier in the day then got sunny in the afternoon. Today we went clothes shopping for Candice for work. We founds some nice tops and a couple of nice summer dresses and sandles, so she is good for the rest of the summer. Next project is for me to make a dress for a wedding on the 2nd of August that Candice and I will be going to in Toronto. It is going to be a big Italian wedding, sound like alot of fun. I suck at getting around to answering e-mails so that's next on my list of things to do on a raining day when I cant hang out at the poolside. Like today.

2008-06-25T19:25:00.002-04:00

mom's latest project. Betty what do you think.

First one to show up get it. LOL

I,m back

2008-06-22T13:23:00.001-04:00

OK, I went a little blog happy today and posted a months worth all at once, sorry, happy reading

relay for life

2008-06-22T13:14:00.003-04:00

just a few photo's , our team raised $5300.00.

I raised $550.00, so thank you to everyone who helped out, our top earner was caroline with $812.00, so she got the $2000.00 matching grant, but it was still no wheres near the top idividual earner. This year the lowerest earned was $7000.00 and the hightest $18,000.00 single. groupt was lowest $23,000.00 and highest $25,000.00. It was alot of fun and we stayed up all night and participated in all the events to keep us going. We didnt win any of them ,but at our age it's hard to win a patoto sac race against a bunch of 16 years old. I would love to see the rest of you try that.

2008-06-22T13:10:00.001-04:00

Back "garden" before shed.

2008-06-22T13:06:00.001-04:00

After shed, see nice beautiful garden, a few more hostas, some daisys, and voila.

2008-06-22T13:01:00.002-04:00

Here is garry's new shed, not sure how the caption on the bottom got so messed up, just ignore it.

blog, blog,blog,blog finally an update

2008-06-22T12:52:00.001-04:00

2008-05-30T20:55:00.002-04:00

Well one more day and it will be Candice moving time. We are taking her up on Sunday and I will stay there one night and take the train back on Monday after she is settled in and all her stuff put away. I should be able to loose those extra pounds I lost and put back on between her
being gone six weeks and losing 8 lbs and gaining back 4 in the 3 weeks she has been home.
The pool hit 66 degrees today a couple more and it will be perfect. If only the sun could stay out long enough for me to enjoy it. I hope it doesnt rain all summer like last year. I really only got in a couple of good weeks of swim time with it going in so late and then all the rain we got in August.
Everyone keep your fingers and toes crossed. I made another towel wedding cake. Garry's niece is getting married and the shower is next sunday in toronto so mom and i are going up with garrys aunt jean anne. This one is while towels with red roses. It\s hard to make for someone you dont really know so I hope she likes it.
A picture of Garry's shed will be comming soon. It should be completed by next weekend. It is comming along really good. The neighbour across the road is building it and he is doing a great job. I will proberly last longer than the house and we might be living in it eventually. He is also going to build a loft in the garage to put all the summer stuff away for the winter so it wont have to go into my basement giving me more space for my sewing room and I will actually be able to park my car in there during the winter. No more scraping off windsheilds. I am really begining to like this guy.

2008-05-19T18:20:00.002-04:00

I had my relay for life yardsale saturday, it went very well. I ended up with $496.00. I had alot of stuff donated from the neighbours to help me out. I had a few large a mini fridge that went of $50.00, a computer and desk that our neighbour from Whites rd bought along with the computer desk for $70.00 and a violin that a guy at work gave me to sell it went for $75.00. It was a beginners model and was only $200.00 new so I was happy for to get what I did. I would not have gone lower. I would have donated it to our adopt a school's music program instead.
So I am well on my way to my goal. The person who gets the most pledges on our teams will get to add the $2000.00 cheque from Wal-mart putting them in the top pledges catagory, so the battle is on. Wish me luck

2008-05-05T19:02:00.002-04:00

When is a bedroom not a bedroom? When it's a solarium. Yes Candice's new bedroom is going to be a solarium. She will be renting the small room for $595.00 a month. The ad read, if all you need is a roof over your head then the benifits outweight the space and she wasn't kidding.
The room mate works 3-11pm Candice works 8.30-4.30 so they will never see each other. The $595.00 includes, everything, cable, movies on demand, wireless internet, washer, dryer, dishwasher, heat, hydro, phone, and the use of the entire apartment, so who cares that the room only fits a single bed, a dresser, and a bookshelf, all she ever has to go in there for is to sleep.
The building is a security building with security on site, 24 hr grocery store. 24 hr library, indoor and outdoor jaquzi and a sauna and a gym. So looks like I have to make some BIG A** curtains to cover her door, since its all glass.

2008-04-28T17:50:00.002-04:00

YEAH, Candice got the girl guide job, it will pay her 43500.00 for the year. It is a one year maternaty contract and she is ok with that because she only wanted to put in one or two years and then move on , so this works out great. there is no quilt about quitting. So now it is appartment hunting time.

2008-04-26T11:42:00.002-04:00

Candice's interview went really well, it seemed she was the first person they interviewed because they were not really ready. It is a one year maternaty position and she is ok with that.
It will give her great experience to be able to use for other jobs. It lasted an hour and they even had to get the girl who is leaving to come in and give a job describition because they didn't have one ready yet. Within half hour of her interview they called her and asked for her references. So it looks really good. Lets all keep our fingers and toes crossed for another week. The job would start the beginning of June which means she can finish off her internship get a little break before getting into the real grownup job world.

2008-04-20T10:09:00.002-04:00

As I am taking my patio furniture outside since it was like a billion degress here yesterday, I took a few minutes to check the news and see the snow dumped on our relatives to the West and felt bad for all of you. I was very happy to finaly see some sun and get outside in it. I hope it doesnt stay too long and you see some sort of resemblance of summer soon.
Candice has an interview Thursday with Girl Guides, so I need all the prayers we can get to help her out. Her resume is nothing to sneeze at and she has alot of volunteer experience but a little divine intervention never hurt anybody. I am going to do what Grandmere always did in cases like this and I am going to light a candle today at chruch for her. I know Candice is cringing right about now as she reads this line. I am playing into all the sterio type organzied religious stuff she likes to rant on about. Sorry pooky, but it always worked for Grandmere.

2008-04-15T18:40:00.002-04:00

Inventory is done and over with so stress days are gone now until vacation time rolls around and the office is short staffed and pulling double duty, but for now, back to normal.
We start our store craft auciton tomorrow with crafts items donated for our relay for life team. The auction will run until the following friday and will end with a bake sale. So everything looks like it is on track.
Next will be my big yard sale with the money for that going to my relay pledge form. I hope it is enough to beat Tim because he has been talking alot of smack about beating me out. It's all in fun and the money is going to good cause so I say bring it on Tim.

2008-04-05T12:01:00.002-04:00

It's that time of year again. I will once again be doing the 12 hour relay for the Cancer Society.
The walk takes place \June 20/21 so expect e-mails from my Relay of Life site. Anyone wishing to pledge but do not want to do it online, I can get you the information on where to deposite your pledge. I do not want anyone to feel obligated to donate. I know everyone has busy lives and causes of their own they support so I will appreciate anything that anyone can do for me even if it is just a prayer I last all night or an e-mail of encourgeent.
I do feel though like I have to explain that there is a challenge between myself and the other
Relay team leader. Whichever of us has the most pledges, the other will have to bow down to them and crown them at one of our morning meetings. So you can see I am very determined to win. Work will match anything we can raise as a team so that gives us all lots of incentives to take their money. Wish me luck.

2008-04-05T10:49:00.002-04:00

Hello there folks. I am typing this message from my new laptop. With Candice in TO we have been talking online and my computer, which was Candice's desktop from school is downstairs in the sewing room. I came up one day to get a nice hot cup of tea because my hands were getting chilli down there and the next thing you know, Garry is buying me a laptop so I dont have to be downstairs in the cold anymore. Can we say spoiled!!!!!!!!!!! \I am sure I did something to deserve it.

2008-04-02T18:31:00.001-04:00

DO NOT OPEN THE TWO COMMENTS BELOW
They are spam mail and I am really upset by them.

2008-03-30T19:13:00.001-04:00

More pictures of Candice's fundraiser.

2008-03-30T19:10:00.000-04:00

2008-03-30T18:05:00.002-04:00

This is Candice's fund raiser that me, mom and Nicole went to. I donated a quilt I made for their auction. It went for $215.00. WTF. I figured 50.00 bucks, no, people were there to spend their money and they did. There was this pottery bowl. You know the kind you pick up in a yard sale for a quarter and give to someone as a birthday present. It went of $95.00. I was nice to see though that the stuff that was donated by people didnt just go for 5 or 10 bucks. It some of the stuff looked it alot of work was put into it.
Candice is offically in Toronto. Starts here internship on Tuesday and hopefully by the end of all this she would have made enough contact to get her a job. Of course she could live home forever if she wants.

2008-03-30T17:58:00.003-04:00

2008-03-19T19:28:00.002-04:00

HERE IS WISHING EVERYONE I MISSED THIS YEAR SO FAR A VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY. AND I KNOW I MISSED ALOT OF YOU.

Here is also all the Happy Valentine's Day, Happy St. Patricks Day, Happy Easter, and all the Happy Anniversary's for the year.

This September will be 20 for Garry and I and all I want is for him to take me to Niagra Falls.
I have told him enough times so it's not like he doesn't know what I want.

2008-03-19T18:56:00.002-04:00

Hey! it's me again. Not much to report. I suppose everyone got hit mega with all the snow this winter. I have never seen it sooooo bad. Last weekend the plow got stuck on our street and had to push all the snow in peoples drive ways so he could get to the end of the road and start pushing the snow to the end of the road. Yeah. this was after Garry, Matt, Al, me , Nicole, and Val did about nine driveways. Garry and Matt used the snowblower and the rest of us shoveled out the cars to get them out of the driveways so Garry and Matt could finish with the snowblower. Lucky for us the drive ways the plow filled were not the ones we did. There is about 5 guys on our street with snowblowers who will help out their neighbour. There are two that do not. But that's ok, because they don't get invited to the town meetings on Fridays.
We all get together and play some cards about every other Friday. It has made the winter a little more bearable. In the summer everyone just sits out in the garage and drinks beer. Of course this year, I will be spending all my evenings in the Pool.
I hope everyone else is bearing the winter as well as we are.
Mom will be home Easter Sunday. Who needs chocolate, I get my mommy back.

2008-02-26T19:04:00.002-05:00

Well it sounds like Team Crocket is well on its way to reaching it's goal. I will pledge $50.00. Let me know who needs on your team needs it the most. If one of you is falling behind on your pledges let me know and that's where I will put it. Of course if you are competing against each other, the first one to answer me gets it.
Have fund and Good Luck.

2008-02-17T15:33:00.002-05:00

Well, it was almost divorce time when I showed up with six, yes six bags of material. We had this sale where all discontinued material was $1.00 a meter. I could not pass up a bargain like that. It would not have been so bad, if I didn't already have 10 totes of material already. But this stuff was nice and I couldn't say no. Garry was not impressed. But I promised him no more, and so the next day I came home with two more and didn't tell him.
I am in the process of finishing off 4 quilts for our craft sale at work for our relay for life team. I also promised one to Candice for her school fundraiser. I have everything cut our and I already have two of them sewed, I just need to cut the seams and wash them.
Not much going on here, just lots of snow like everybody else. Looking forward to Mom coming home so she can help me with all my projects.
This years realy theme is lets put cancer to bed. We have this canopy that we are going to make up like a canopy bed. We are going to put two queen size air mattresses down to make the bed, and that way we can all wear our PJ's to go with our theme. It's not until the end of June so there is alot of time and we already have our theme and costumes so the only thing left is to get pledges. We are having a craft sale at work with everyone on the team donating something to sell and then Wal-mart will match whatever we raised and I am planning a yard sale with the money being used for my pledges. Hopefully, everything goes according to plan.

Blog?Blog? Wait I remember Blogging!

2008-02-02T11:26:00.000-05:00

Some of you proberly thought I forgot how to blog. No it's just been a very busy time for me.
I lost a friend, and the husband of a friend, and found out a co-worker has just finished another round of Chimo and still no good news. So I have been kind of in a funk.
We finished up all the fundraising for Grand Opening which happened in December. All the cheques have arrived and we have started delivering them. People love you when you give them money.
We raised and gave away $21,000.00. We made $3000.00 recycling our old metal fixtures and donated the money to the Boy Scouts for their Re-Forestation Project. We fiqured we raised the money by recycling, it should go back into recycling.

My car is beyond wonderful, great, fantastic, did I miss anything. Great on gas, rides beautifuly,
and has a heated drivers seat, which in this cold weather we have been getting, well, my behind is very happy.

Candice and I went to the Relay for Life breakfast last Saturday. We will be going into it hot and heavy at the end of Februay. Everyone at work is kind of charitied out right due to our Grand Opening so we are all taking a break from fundraising until then.

Candice is moving to TO at the end of March. She will be doing her internship with the Canadian Women Institute. They are like the United Way but for Women's issues. She will be staying with one of Garry's cousins while she is there, because she does not get paid for on internship. The lady who she is dealing with said that during her intership she will be dealing with alot of womens charities and organization and will help Candice get a job. Candice is also waiting to hear from a company call Manifest in TO. They already asked for her portfolio and want to set up an interview. This is who she would really like to work for. They are a PR firm who deal with social issues. They are the company responsible for the Canadian Tire Free Skate and the Tim Horton's free Swim Programs. Thing are going very good for her.

Garry has been digging us out of the snow and the neighbours as well since 6am and he is still at it taking a break now and then. we had 3 feet of snow in our driveway and the ice pellets from last night froze everything solid.

My dryer buzzer just went off. Oh well back to the housework.

2007-12-25T09:58:00.000-05:00

WAS I A GOOD GIRL OR WHAT. I THINK SANTA FORGOT HIS SLEIGH, OR IS THAT A NEW CAR FOR BRENDA? OH I SO FREAKED OUT. It was parked in the neighbours garage and I kept saying look what Matthew bought Nicole for christmas. Until Garry walked me up to it and it had a little box on with that had the keys and it had MY NAME on it. SWEET.

I hope everyones Christmas is as Merry as mind obviously was.

2007-12-03T18:51:00.000-05:00

We got in a day up North before all the snow came. It was a nice day as you see. I thought the scenery would make a nice painting. Hint, Hint, Jeremy. Something to think about

2007-12-03T18:48:00.000-05:00

2007-11-18T15:36:00.000-05:00

hey look i finally found a minute to blog. after 45 years, i seem to be lactos intollerance and that seems to be what has be causing all my pain and bloating. so now when i want dairy i just have to pop a pill and i am good to go. it has helped alot. but for some reason, i still have a liver infection. so now it would seem that my liver doesnt want to process fat, so now i have to cut back on fat as well as dairy. jennifer at work got me a fridge magnet that says , you cant handle the cheese. i have been putting in alot of overtime, it will come in handy for x-mas, but not much time for the computer. i will catch up with everyone later

2007-11-01T19:25:00.000-04:00

2007-11-01T19:19:00.000-04:00

Here is my spooky holloween house. The older kids are Val's and Al's twins with the kid from the end of the road and the little one is Kayla. I though mom would like to see them. The big kid on the steps belong to the devil. Pretty creepy looking at night wasn't it. And I had one of those creepy holloween cd's playing. All that was missing was a little fog. Maybe I should pick up a machine while they are on sale.

2007-11-01T19:18:00.000-04:00

Jeremy at the train station, come back soon Jeremy.

2007-11-01T19:15:00.000-04:00

Hope you love the end results, now we need everyone to judge our pumkins, of cource we can't judge our own, we all think our own is the best.

2007-11-01T19:11:00.000-04:00

First we captured the pumkins from their natural habitat and then we gutted them and laughed in the face of contriversy. Ha Ha Ha Ha

2007-10-25T18:17:00.000-04:00

Ah, the famous front porch. Thanks to Jeremy's visit, I have another victim to my collection.

As you can see from the pictures below, we had a busy day, it started with a trip to World's Famous Chocolate, then we went to the suspention bridge, you can see a picture of the view from the middle of the bridge, then off the hold up the world's largest tooni, then to a Japenesse resturant for lunch. The lady in the white jacket is our neighbout Nicole. Her and her husband are from the US and he is here working for a couple of years at the paper mill, so we brought her along to show her some of the exciting things to do. Tommorrow we will visit a few galleries and do some pumpking carving. After all I have an artist in the house, I might as well take advantage of it right.

2007-10-25T18:15:00.000-04:00

2007-10-25T18:13:00.000-04:00

2007-10-25T18:08:00.000-04:00

2007-10-23T11:49:00.000-04:00

I should have posted these a long time ago. Gord and Peggy McKay came for visit this summer. Gord is Alice's husband, Clarance's brother. They were our neighbour and friends from Barrington Passage. This is their grand-daughter. She is the same age her mother was when we left Barrington. How time passes.

2007-10-21T18:08:00.000-04:00

OMG!!!!!!
I can't believe that it has been over a month since I blogged anything, but I have gotten better at facebook. I have been busy with holloween costumes and such so I am very sorry for not noticing my lack of communication earlier.
Everything is good, I go to the Doctor's tommorrow and if this last set of blood test come out clear than that the end of my liver issues. I am keeping my fingers crossed. I have been feeling better since my colonoscopy though, so that's good. At this point I think it's just menopause and old age finally cathing up to me. So to beat it at it's own game, I colored by grey. Yes, I know I said I wasnt going to anymore, but YTH, it took ten years off me. Better , and cheaper than Botox.
I am looking forward to Jeremy comming for a visit this week, I have a few fun things planned. I will let him tell everyone about it afterwards. I don't want to ruin any of the surprises.
Candice is loving her PR course at Loyalist. They did a United Way fundraised last week and made $2000.00 from the class playing Deal or No Deal with the students. She was happy with their results. She has to start planning for another one in May. This one is going to be an Art Show featuring local female artist, so there will be alot of work involved so she proberly have to quite her job at Wal-mart and put all her efforts into this. It looks like she already has her internship with Girl Guides of Canada, at their main office in Toronto and it is looking very good for her to actually get a job with them out of this. But then she can alway change her mind before the spring.
I will try to do better with the blogging, but it is hard with the weather being so nice and the amount of time I already spend indoors sewing, something has to be aside until the cold weather gets here so I hope everyone understand. Until next time.

2007-09-10T18:55:00.000-04:00

Hi folks, it's been awhile. Nothing too new at this end. Candice is working once again for Walmart the shoe dept. This time its at my walmart. She got her car and once again I am free.
Weather is getting colder, so not so much pool time, hence the time to blog. Soon as it gets really cold out I will be visiting the bloggers more often. I don't want to waste any nice days inside if I don't have to. So one day soon, I will return.

2007-08-20T13:25:00.000-04:00

Hello everyone out there in Blogger land. Here's the latest.
As predicted, nothing was found during my colonoscopy. The Dr says proberly just some gasteral intestnal thing, watch what I eat. That the problem, I do, I watch everything that I eat. It still doesn't mean it's good for me. No salt and cut back on the fatty foods. Oh boy, looks like the over eaters anynomas club is getting a new member.

Candice has her G2 and will be the proud owner of a 1996, hundai elantra wagon as of this time tomorrow. Insurance is only $132 a month for her, which I think is good for being a first time car owner and having it all under her own name. It only has 94,000 k's on it and it was a one owner vehicle. It is in really good shape and the boys at Orville's where we bought it gave it a really good going over, new breaks, tune up, oil change, safety, and e tested all for $2850.
They even took care of the registration and everything the insurance company wanted as well.
We just have to show up with a cheque and it's all hers.

She will now be able to get herself back and forth to school and not have to come in with me at 6.30am when two of her classes don't even start until 10am and there's two nights she is there until 6pm. That would have been too long of a day for her.

It's has been too cold to swim since Thursday and I am having withdrawls. I actually ahve tan and I want to keep it for as long as I can. Hopefully the weather will get better soon. I would like to get at least one or two more weeks out of it before we have to winterize it.

2007-08-13T09:34:00.000-04:00

So as you can see it's finally finished. Yeah and all I have to do on my vacation this week is sit back and enjoy. Candice is going for her G2 licence on Monday, next Monday and then her and Garry will be looking for a car. Her school schedule does not match mine at all so she will need her own car. She put all her money away from working. She took August off but will be going back to work in September, hopfully she will be able to get something at the College but if not there are plenty of other jobs. She just needs to make enough to pay for her insurance and gas. Living at home has its advantages, doesn't it.

Sorry I S*** at facebook. Candice is trying to educate me and I am getting better. It's just I don't seem to have time to even log on the computer, let alone try to blog, facebook and read all my emails. I am sure when the cold weather hits and I can't spend all day in the pool, you will see me online alot more, until them I aplogize for the delays.

2007-08-13T09:30:00.000-04:00

2007-08-04T15:08:00.000-04:00

Hey: My deck is almost finished finally. Just a few finishing touches and only two weeks later.
I will post pictures soon. In the meantime at least I have been able to use the pool. The deck guy made sure there was enough of a walkway to get in and out of the pool and connected the pool ladder for the time being last week. Well as of Friday, Yesterday, The deck is almost completed by the important parts are done and yes the pool is very refreshing on hots days like today.

The Pat Benatar concert was incredable. I was so glad I went and so was Candice, She did all the classics and some from her obscure Jazz album and a few new ones. My ears rang all the next day, but it was worth it.

2007-07-24T16:41:00.000-04:00

I found uncle Dave

2007-07-22T18:18:00.000-04:00

Just got a call from Steven 6:15pm, Sunday, July 22. He will be here in about an hour. Not sure how long he can stay, but at least now we know where he is.

2007-07-22T15:19:00.000-04:00

No news from Dave yet. I don't know if anyone else has been able to track him down. It will be a very long adventure for him by the end of it. It would be nice if shows up some time next week when I actually have a pool. Candice and I went to the beach today, the weather was great. Of course, it couldn't be like this last week when we really needed it.
Funny story about the beach. It was starting to get crowded so Candice and I thought it best to start packing up our stuff before it became overcrowded, and next to us came these two guys,
set up their giant size umbrella, and we looked at each other and said, oh my god, look at the size of their PICNIC BASKET. Yeah, that's what we noticed. We started laughing and I'm sure they had no ideal why. As we were leaving, wife and kids showed up to eat all that lovely food.

Where's My Pool

2007-07-21T08:27:00.000-04:00

Day one. Nothing happened. The deck guy could not get the machine to remove the sod, so he will have to come back tomorrow morning. So that puts the pool guy a day behind as well. Keeping my fingers crossed.

Where's my pool, or at least my back yard.

2007-07-21T08:24:00.000-04:00

Day two. The deck guy finally shows late this afternoon, but now the pool guys can't come in until tommorrow. Already two days delay.

2007-07-21T08:22:00.000-04:00

Day three and everythings looking up. I'm told that the water guy will be arriving at 4pm to fill my pool. That gives it two days to warm up before the last day of my vacation.

2007-07-21T08:20:00.000-04:00

Day 3 continue, well one of the guys did not show up today, so it looks like another days delay.

2007-07-21T08:15:00.000-04:00

Day 4, it's raining, it's winding, so no work today.

2007-07-21T08:14:00.000-04:00

Day five, looks nice doesn't it, but it was raining this morning and now that the sun is up, it's too winding to finish the job.

2007-07-21T08:12:00.000-04:00

Day 6 and hey look, there's my pool, or at least parts of it, as you can see, no rain today, but then again it is saturday, so I am not expecting anyone to show up today to try to complete this mission.

2007-07-21T08:07:00.000-04:00

Look at this, friends sitting on my front steps.

I think I will do the neighbours next. One a week that should get me through the summer.

This is Jennifer from work and her boyfriend Paul.

2007-07-16T12:08:00.000-04:00

Hello Everyone left in Blogland
Well I no longer have to worry about my dilema of landscaping for the back yard. Garry took care of it for me. We are getting a 27' above ground pool and a wrap around deck which will add another 3-5 feet depending on the front or sides. So there's no room left in the back yard for anything else.
It is going to be great. It gets really humid and sometimes unbearably hot in the summer, so this will take care of that. The guy was suppose to be here this morning to remove the sod and lay the gravel, I haven't seen him yet. I had to leave for about half and hour and when I came back there was a dolly and a wheel barrel in the back yard, but no guy. Hopefully he shows up some time today. Anyway, go other things to do. Got to go. Later

2007-06-29T18:01:00.000-04:00

Remeber that cement slab that's suppose to be a shed, well as you can see , no shed.

Candice and I put together a little trellis with the bench and some vines. it turned out really nice.

and of course, theres a nice little garden. some lettuce, chives, pepers, onions. basil. and of course the spinach. you cant see it the bunnies ate it.

and then theres my swing and gazebo.

so the yard is starting to fill up nicely.

2007-06-29T17:59:00.000-04:00

as you can see I redid my front flower bed again.

I'm really happy with it this time, it has more sematry and lots of green and not so much dry bushes so it will not look dead over the winter'

2007-06-29T17:57:00.000-04:00

My roses are 3 years old now and doing great. see the not so dead hosta next to it. it was suppose to be dead, i didnt have the heart to throw it out so i replanted it here and look what happend. a miracle.

2007-06-29T17:55:00.000-04:00

my front step. notice how i dont have anyone sitting on them. they are getting lonely

2007-06-27T17:16:00.000-04:00

My relay team, at 5am the next morning

This is the only picture I can get on right now

I am experiencing technical dificulties again!!!

2007-06-27T16:52:00.001-04:00

hey look what finally figured out. Hope everyone likes the pics.

2007-06-27T16:43:00.000-04:00

2007-06-25T18:31:00.000-04:00

Hello there, I'm back\
I know it's been a while but I have been very busy. Now that all my external obligations are completed, I can spend some time cathcing up on blogging and perhaps even figuring out how to use facebook. As for the pic's of Candice's grad, I still don't know why they won't post. Candice was suppose to try for me, but I have kept her pretty busy helping me with all my stuff.
Girls Guides are done, My Cancer relay for life is done, inventory is over with, now I only have one more project on the go. I am finishing a quilt for a girl at work. Her mother in law started it and got too sick to finish. I only have to quilt the top to the bottom and its done. Her mother in law died and it would be a nice reminder for the granddaughter she started it for. As it turned out the Mother in law tried a little bit of everyting and her house was quite the challenge. Mom and I took a trip out on Sunday and left with a car full of material, batting, books and she wants to know when we will be back to get some more. While we were there, we found another quilt for another granddaughter the sister of the other quilt , that did not get quite completed so mom and I are going to finish that one as well.

Well our relay went really well. Our teams combined raised $5500. Not too bad. If we had remainded as one team and not split into two, this would have been the third highter coporate donation made. The second hightest was $7500 and one member of that team raised $6800 of that herself. She was the second hightest individual donation. the hightest was $14000. Yes thats 3 zero's at the end. Can you imagine raised that must alone. That's almost triple what our whole team did. It was good night and I will definately do it again next year. Planning will begin in January.

I will be without a computer for the rest of this week as I am taking this one in to get dumped.
I had Candice transfer all her stuff to an external modem so I can clean it out and start from scratch and put all my stuff in so I won't have to wait for Garry to get off the computer anymore to do pictures or printing. It will all on this one. So then I will have no more excuses. Looking forward to being back permanently this time.

2007-06-02T19:24:00.000-04:00

Trying to post pictures but having a hard time. I will try again tomorrow. If I can't I will get Candice to put them on facebook. I cant quite get the hang of it yet, but then, I haven't really spent much time on it. sorry

2007-06-02T19:18:00.000-04:00

Photo's of Candice's graduation

2007-05-21T18:22:00.000-04:00

For those of you still blogging, sorry I have not been on for awhile. It's been a busy time for me.
We are heading into inventory and I had to go do inventory prep to 3 of our stores. Napanee took 3 days because they have been open for 18 month and this is their first inventory and they did not get a new store review so I had to go through every report for the past 18 months. Trenton and Peterborough only took 1 day each.
My colonoscopy has been delayed, the hospital had ventalation problems in the OR so they cancelled all surgeries. I have to wait to reschedule. I have been feeling alot better though, so maybe by the time they get around to doing it whatever was there is gone and this will be the end of it. YEAH.

For those wanting to pledge me on the Relay for life but does not want to do it online, let me know how much, I will cover it and then I will call and give you my banking information so you can just deposit it directly. I have however reached my goal and Candice's as well. Yes, since I volunteered Candice to participate, I told her I would get her pledges. Both Candice and I got $50.00 each in pledges and walmart will match that, plus we raised an additonal $1000.00 as a team. We have two teams and each will donate $2000.00. So between the 20 of us we raised $2000. and walmart will match that giving us $4000. for our walk. Not bad. We are still collecting pledges so we will pass that number by our walk night in June.

I have updated pictures of the backyard and the front yard. We did a little re-working. I exchanged my swing. The one I got last year, the plastic screws that hold the top on melted and I could not get replacements, so I exchanged it for a new swing. I had the receipt and it wasn't even a year old. I like this one much better and I only have to pay $20.00 more. The screws for the top are metal on this one and this one turns into a hammock if you want.

Candice planted a small garden, I took pictures of that too. I should be able to get them downloaded soon.

I am going to attempt to go onto facebook and do something, anything.

So Alberta is right, I no longet get lost in the blog, but now I have to start all over again with facebook.