Home again

What fun! Two days at the lake in cold, driving rain! We ended up sleeping in the cabin--more for bathroom access during the night, than shelter. That meant that we had to do a quick and basic clean-up there--including removal of mouse mummies etc. We had to stick around Saturday morning until David's niece arrived, so that he could show her the basics of the plumbing system. Three hours we sat inthe rain, inthe cold kitchen, in wet clothes, waiting for her. I only had one more set of dry clothes tto put on, so refused to get out of my nightie until it was almost time to go. But there were leaves around that I needed for my sunprinting ( sun??) so I was running round, in the rain, picking leaves,in my nightie. We got home--still in the rain--and both slept for a couple of hours. There is construction all the way between Deacon's corner and Hwy 12 and then again from the Ontario border almost all the way to the lake. That was fun in the rain--and DH never slows down below the speed limit. Of more concern was that all of the ditches and fields were flooded. I don't think I've ever seen that much water east of the city. Many of the fileds had been planted and will now be a total wash out. We joke about "lake Elie" when there is overland flooding west of the city, but this looked very much the same--fields of water on both sides of the highway (what I could see over the washed out construction)

Not much new here. No way to get out into the garden. Too windy to bike. Yes, Beth, the two days of rain also involve four days of very high (40-60 k gusts) winds. Something for you to look forward to. Our printer died again on Friday. So Friday, before we left, David was so PO'd that he was off to the UPS Store where he actually paid money to have it packaged up to send to the repair centre. Prior to that he had had a long chat with a nice man in the Phillipines, who told David that, since this was the second time in two months that we have had this problem, they will probably just send us a new one. But, of course, before he gave us permission to send it in there was over an hour on the phone trying to fix the problem from this end. The nice man in the Phillipines also told David that he was in the middle of a horrendous two-day tropical storm with winds over 100mph--so I guess we can't complain.

A meeting this afternoon and then Amber and Samantha over for supper--Jessica is spending the night with the other Grandma. Since I haven't been shopping yet, the menu is a problem--especially since I probably won't get home until around 4:00.