Here I am again

Trying to figure out the laptop only this time it is a different one. Harry bought another one off Kijiji that already had Windows 7 and I am only now trying to access and get used to it. I have the blog saved as a favourite so I  should be able to access easier after this attempt. We have snow after snow again here but so far not frigid cold like you folks. I do not know how much confidence I have in security of this laptop. I will have to see about getting something set up. We currently have Kaspersky on the PC. I shall go for now and see if this publishes Ok It would be great if all this works out. This keyboard is missing the M key but touching the little knob seems to works fine. Take care

Too cold for me

I don't want to set foot outside today.  Bad enough that I have to go out tomorrow!  Poor David had to go out this morning to bring our recycling bin in from the curb.  It went out Wednesday evening for pick up Thursday, but wasn't emptied until sometime during the night, last night.  Those poor guys have been working around the clock since Thursday.  The workers riding hanging onto the backs of the trucks aren't well dressed at the best of times.  I imagine they are freezing these days.

I tried to take advantage of no outside appointments yesterday, and try to get some housework done.  David had been blowing snow in the morning and was too beat to help much, so I attempted the laundry, although I can't carry it upstairs.  Then I puttered tidying up the kitchen and the basement.  My cooking these days is accomplished in the simplest way possible.  I just don't have the physical or mental energy to put too much into it.  We had planned on roasting a chicken tonight, but when we checked the freezer there were NO chickens!  Who stole my chickens?  I was sure there were a couple left, but, alas, I guess we ate them all.  So today I'll have to spend a bit of time doing a rough inventory of the freezers.  We bought a bit of meat this month, but I've noticed that the beef has been creeping back into our diets.  Salt as well, so I'll have to monitor that a little more closely.

Today, David plans to make a batch of shortbread.  We have the supplies, and I guess he didn't get enough of it over Christmas, given that he gave most of it away.  Once that is done, we MUST attend to the kitchen floor, so that will fill the day quite nicely.  I'm hoping to get a few minutes in the studio while he is making the shortbread.  I do believe that the sewing is becoming an addiction, as I find myself getting a little anxious when I am away from it for two or three days in a row.  I guess there are worse addictions.

Keep warm ladies!

Baby, It's cold outside....

I thought that maybe if I sang a song I would feel warmer... I think I picked the wrong song.  We have a fire going, and I have my sweats and a blanket on me and I am still chilled.  I thought of having a shower when we got home, but I was too cold.  Tomorrow is supposed to be worse all day...... -46 wind chill during the day.  Jim was going to blow snow, but I think that might have to wait.  I am planning on having a cooking spree tomorrow.  Meatballs, and hamburger patties and stew and soup.  I will see how far I get.  We were going to have chicken wings tonight, but they had food at the legion again.  Homemade bread, ham, home made sausage,  beet buns (bread dough wrapped in beet leaves and cooked in a sauce... really good)  Pickles, and christmas pudding.   Obviously I wasn't hungry when we got home.  We were supposed to work meat draw last night, but with the storm, Carey & Garry offered to trade nights with us, so we stayed home when I got home from work.  I had to stop 3 times on the way home to let the window's defrost.  The snow was blowing in through the vents.  Rrain told me she couldn't even get out of her house 'cause the snow had blown in.  She said she was warm and had food, so all was good.  I agree with her.  I am not going to leave the house tomorrow (unless it is to bring in more wood for the fire.)   Keep safe and try to stay warm and dry!

I bit more of an explanation

I spent more time this afternoon fooling around with the laptop to try a few things. I managed to get onto Google, and then sign into the blog. I was able to write in the title space but then could not make the curser move to the message area. Could be my mistake, or the computer, but it did give a message error on page. I will keep trying. But I think I am actually making some headway???  Really slow though and I find I wait and wait for it to do anything - too used to this desk computer I guess?
Just waiting for the snow to arrive - apparently you folks have sent it my way.  It turned milder today but will be short lived as Sunday and Monday the deep freeze returns. Not much else new around here. Lazy day today with little to show for a whole day spent doing nothing. haha  Maybe tomorrow will be more productive. Take care

I am on my laptop but having a few clitches I'll work it out Give me time

Quiet at last

The last week has been quite tiring, with all of the social activities and trying to get to an aquacize class just about every day.  I'm finding that the class sort of knocks the stuffing out of the day.  Thy are either at 12:15 or 2:15.and you have to be there about an hour ahead to reserve a space in the class.  The pool is very small and the class limit is 15.  But they provide a very good workout, and are just about at my level.  One of the ladies told me that the first time she attended, she had to quit part way through as it was too much for her, but I've managed to finish every time so far.  Today was a challenge, as I was well ahead of time, so bought a medium mocha at Tim's before class.  Even though I had almost an hour before class, I foolishly spent the last 10 minutes in the whirlpool and thought I was either going to faint or throw up.  Lesson learned--no more mocha before class.  Somehow, or somewhere, I broke a toe either before or during class today.  Is Somebody trying to tell me something?  Next week will be jsut as busy, so I hope to get some studio time this weekend.

I have been showering both before and after class, then again in the evening.  This is nuts!  So I am making myself a terrycloth cover up, and I'm going to make it  a full shower and hair wash after class.  My skin just can't take all of the showering, especially in this cold weather.

Yesterday, the children joined us for dinner at the casino buffet.  We had a very pleasant meal and chat after.  Even though they weren't busy, the staff were starting to hint that it was time to move on after we'd only been there for almost two hours.  Go figure!  We didn't do anything exciting afterwards though.

I really haven't made resolutions in years. The timing of  this year's exercise classes are more a coincidence than intentional.  But every year ,any of the members of the quilting internet group I subscribe to pick a word toguide them through the coming year.  My word this year is "freedom".  I have refused to accept any commitments of any sort, and plan to follow my own star in the studio, doing whatever I want.  this lasted about two days.  I have accepted a challenge from my Ravenesque group, and have now accepted a challenge from another group that will require me to make a piece of art 2 1/2" by 31/2" every day for the next year.  today is the second of January and I am already two days behind.  Guess that means that I will have some focus if and when I get in the studio over the weekend--and that is one of the tings I had hoped to accomplish in accepting the challenge..

But for the moment, I'm off to bed.  It has been a long and demanding day, with no nap!

Is Christmas gone?

By all appearances here in this house  it is...I spent the day taking down the decorations and packing them all away. It looks very bare now but that is normal and I'll just get used to it.  Yesterday Harry bought an ice maker at Canadian Tire and today I set it up and now have three bags of ice cubes outside in my outdoors freezer. This makes sense actually only because we also bought six boxes of Kcups for our Keurig machine for Lemonade Iced Tea for only 4.99/box. You put ice cubes into a cup and then brew the Kcup - as the hot liquid goes into the cup the ice cubes melt and voila, you have iced tea. Doesn't take much to amuse me eh?
I saw the New Years in, although I was in bed. I was awake at midnight so sang Happy New Year and then went back to sleeping ( or trying to sleep!) I actually stayed up until after 10 pm because I went on line to the The Quilt Show and had a ball watching several episodes. I am glad you told me to watch to the end for an "after set" because I found this every bit as interesting. Several books are promoted in the course of watching a few sessions, and one would like to have all of them, but I am thinking of maybe trying at the Library first. I am enjoying the Show.
And no New Year Resolutions this year - the inspirational saying for the last day of December and the last day of the year said: I stand at the threshold of a new year. May God help me to be kind, fair, and wise in all my affairs. I thought that would be good enough for me to follow without being too grandiose or unrealistic. Here's hoping I can keep up my end of the bargain!
I had to give in and make a Doctors appointment Monday for my bladder issue - now on antibiotics and feeling better than I have over the last two weeks. My conservative treatment just didn't cut it this time, but I managed to go through barrels of cranberry juice and still have lots on hand just in case haha . Well, no trees lights to sit by tonight, so I think I'll find some reading and head to bed.
Wishing all a very wonderful year ahead, and may this blog continue to bring us together even more than as wonderfully felt by me so far. Thanks and Take care XX