Lost Day

Well, nothing turned out today the way we expected. This week has been dedicated to the studio, as we had nothing else planned for the whole week. Yesterday I had put together a small baby quilt top to practice my quilting, and hoped to  do the same today.  But when I reached into the fridge for my juice, I felt nothing but warmth.  Yep, fridge has had it.   David played with it quite a bit and it now is much colder, but it is turned to coldest, and we see the writing on the wall.  So, off we go to look at buying a fridge.  We have been talking about getting rid of the couch in the living room and replacing it with two chairs.  I prefer Wing Chairs ( ?Queen Anne chairs?), and want a specific size, as I have now shrunk enough that getting my feet on the floor is a consideration. So we set off to look at everything.  We also talked about getting a very small bar fridge for the basement.  This is not something we had talked about a lot, but by buying one now we would have something to use in the kitchen, while waiting for delivery of a new, large one.

We visited a lot of stores, and found out two things: firstly, there is no colour anywhere.  Everything is grey, dark brown and dark blue, and secondly, there are very few wing chairs out there. We found one store where we could custom order one, and even have it covered in a coloured fabric, but they could offer no size to suit me.  We didn't worry too much,about the chairs, finally finding two that "would do".  We didn't buy either of them today.  I want to find a chair that I love--not one that 'would do".  There was one that I loved, but it was a side chair like the ones Mom used to have , with wooden legs, arms, and and back support that was upholstered on the front of the back and the seat. I'm still thinking about that one. Functional, and it made my heart sing, but not really practical.

We finally bought a fridge in Sears ( certainly not the first store we visited, nor our first choice of stores), and a bar fridge in Canadian Tire.  By this time it was the middle of the afternoon and we were both sore and tired, but we no sooner got home, than a friend called asking me out for coffee. This is a friend who is going through a very difficult time, so off I went.  By the time I got home, it was off for a nap and then almost too late for supper.  We agreed to each look after himself, in terms of food, and  then both of us sat in a stupour watching couples by Real Estate in Alaska, for almost two hours.

And the day is done, and I never got downstairs.  But, for the first time in months, have been able to blog from my lap top.

Procrastinating?

Today I wanted to try to tidy a bit in the front room - we had taken a few more boxes to the shed and put some of the boxes labeled for the auction trip on Tuesday Apr 8 into the trunk of the car so thought I might have a fighting chance but it hasn't gone too well. I was shovelling and pumping water until about 8 pm last night when the temps started to fall and the water flow started to dry up (freeze up?) so I brought the pump inside so it would not freeze and went to bed. This morning I was greeted with a snow storm - blowing winds/gusts and snow covering everything and blowing about. So far today it remains cold and snowy so concentrated on housework. I guess my heart is not really in it - I've done everything I could to put things off. But I was rewarded as I found two huge chocolate bars from Christmas that were hidden on the coffee table, and... a bottle of Ice Wine so here I sit with a glass of wine on the rocks! I do have a wash on, and I have actually vacuumed so all is not lost.  Harry wants to open the greenhouses to water when he gets up from his nap, so I'll have to motivate myself as that is my job- not desired but necessary!
So I better get back to pretending to be busy. Hope your day is going the same as mine so I'll feel justified haha Take care

And we have geese!

We were down Lagimodiere yesterday, and past the sites where the geese gather--and there they were--huddled down in the falling snow.  Stupid geese!

Robin

First sighting for this Spring this morning in the apple tree at the back of the house. I was so very excited! Windy and coldish but the sun did shine a bit today and thus some melting occurred around the yard. I even started to shovel snow onto the driveway in attempt to see the mountains diminish haha. I just took some time to watch more of The Quilt Show. I find I fall behind so try to play catch up when I can get the use of the computer, and at same time view a couple of the shorter videos on the Daily Blog. So now I should go to bed. The thought of a drink interests me as well, but alas nothing in the cupboard these days. I had a bottle of Kahlua I got a Christmas and finished that the other day - just having a little bit on the rocks every so often I found refreshing! Take care.

To Drink or not to drink that is the question

I must admit that I have stopped for a beer at the Legion everyday this week.  I am soooo confused.  Everyday I think I have a handle on the new instructions and then EMAIL!! they have changed.  On the other hand, my blood pressure was 120 over 80.  It has not been that good in years, so I guess, even with the current stress, things are okay.  Today I timed my cash out.  Yesterday I left it for Shirley and she took 45 minutes.  Today I did it all in 30 minutes including walking to the bank and waiting line and answering some emails.  So my determination is that all the cash out can be done between 4 & 4;30. We were also having trouble setting up a speaker phone for a conference call next week.  The only speaker phone is in Elizabeth's office and we needed  it  on a different desk.  I could not get it to work with the phone jack at that desk.  I talked to a friend who USED to work for MTS.  His solution?...... why not get a longer phone cord and leave it connected where it is and just carry the phone to where you need it.  DUH!!!  Everyone is finding glitches in what they are doing, but it will all work out eventually.  As for me... I had my Rickards Red after work and all is good.

April 3rd, eh?

Why is it snowing so hard that I can barely see across to the yard behind us?
To be fair, we are noticing that the snow piles are getting much lower.  You can actually see well enough to get out of our street now.  And some of the streets that were so badly rutted that they were almost impassible, are now bare pavement.So change is happening, whether we realize it or not.

Cathy, are you surviving?  Have you resorted to strong drink before supper yet? Do I need to send a care package?

Poor Winnipeg

That song was great but poor Wpg seems to be getting most of the publicity about horrible weather this winter - people from other places are taking note . Nice that Toronto has to share with the news as we always hear about their 10 cm snow falls and how they can't cope. Speaking of weather, it is miserable  here today - windy and below zero and snowy. I guess we had our spring the other day? I just went to check the mail and now I'm chilled so made a nice hot coffee and intend to sit for a minute and enjoy. I had to scrap the ice and snow off the windshield before I could drive off. Not nice for April 2.
I sewed a top for a wall hanging, or a table topper the other day. It is only small with only the centre done, but once I put a border on, and then binding after quilting it, it should be very nice. The nicest part is that I actually sewed it and took my time and got my all my tips and corners matched ( mostly all haha). I will try to send a picture on the email as still have not mastered the blog attachment process.
We are still sorting through boxes and yesterday it was millions and millions of VHS movies. Most people do not want VHS anymore, but maybe we can get rid of them cheap on Kijiji?
So off to drink my coffee and then back to work. Take care