Sunday, July 30, 2023

room progress

 Rustle went well today. I was hosting. Then came home and watched Elevation. Then spent a lot of time cleaning the downstairs bedroom. When James got home from golf and his camp meeting and had his dinner he started his work on putting the room together. It is coming along!

Saturday, July 29, 2023

planning to sleep well tonight


 Woke up at 5am. Cleaned the bathroom. Hung laundry but it didn't last too long as it started to rain around 10am. Did lots of loads of laundry. The main task today James and I worked on cleaning out the downstairs bedroom. It is almost clean now. One more day of cleaning and he should be able to move in. Tomorrow am hosting at Rustle so it will be a busy day!

Thursday, July 27, 2023

boots




 There has been a little rabbit hanging out in the backyard and it has white feet and white paw hands so I called him "Boots". Today Boots expired on our driveway. A sad day for me as I miss Boots.

A good laundry drying day.

Lots of emails and working on a report on the groups from last year for the second year people.

Tomorrow I have to set up the interviews for Monday and get contracts into Finance. No time for email tomorrow. Haha.

James and I are working on clearing out the bedroom in the basement as he has decided he wants to move there.

Made a Japanese stir fry. I was a bit worried when I started as I clearly hadn't read the ingredients before I ordered it as it had both sticky rice and snap peas which I try to avoid both. But it turned out well. I did a better job of getting the stringy bits out of the snap peas which made them turn out much better and they fried up quite nicely.

James went to the counsellor today and said it went well.

Monday, July 24, 2023

Million dollar smiles


 Building a playground for 2 little girls with our egroup.

We also packed meals for people in countries in need with kids against hunger: https://www.kahcanada.org/ 

Nice to see them all in person again!

Sunday, July 16, 2023

Quick spirals




2 days of summer orientation so only 1 day to catch up on household tasks. 

This morning went to Food Basics, then to Rustle, then to Shoppers. Have done 3 loads of dishes. 1 load of laundry. Made James spicy steak and a large pot of soupe.

Thursday, July 13, 2023

Drips



 James' sink is broken as whatever connected the drain of the sink to the pipe below has rusted away.

Today I had the day off as I'll be working Friday and Saturday for summer student orientation. I did my annual trip to the Cat mall. I walked there having to avoid storms. The walk back saw some interesting cloud formations. The pictures aren't mine but captured the cloud formations well. I used up some old gift cards and got some good deals!

Saturday, July 8, 2023

Lake Ontario Park

 Woke up early so went to Lake Ontario Park before the crowds.

Baby ducklings:



White squirrel




Then I went to Food Basics and Shoppers. Then I needed a nap!

Friday, July 7, 2023

snail among the pom poms

 



Last weekend I was on the hunt for fudgsicles for James. Food Basics apparently doesn't have them, which was a surprise to me. Loblaws did have them and he was happy again.

On Monday I biked to Metro and there were feces smeared outside on the walls. They also didn't have what I was looking for so it was a bit of a wasted trip.

On Tuesday I loaded the students into their classes and Wednesday sent the notifications. This meant my email got behind. Hoping to catch up on that today. 

Enjoy the snail among the pom pom flowers!

Saturday, July 1, 2023

moderate

 After some trials I have found when Environment Canada says that the air quality is moderate, it is still fine for me. So I walked to Shoppers and have been hanging laundry on the line. Despite the weather being "smoke"

Yesterday I biked to the police station as I needed to get a vulnerable sector check (we all need one every 3 year at Rustle for our insurance). Luckily, I passed :) James likely needs to get one soon as he will be coaching children.

I got my hair cut yesterday and the lady was quite absent minded. She asked me twice what I was doing for the weekend. Then when she was finishing up she asked me how many inches I wanted off (which I had told her at the beginning. It all worked out ok, I think.