The weather forecast for tomorrow is listed as "delightful", so that sounds good.
This week I need to deal with timetable issues, online exams and hiring TAs for September.
Today I still need to deal with Rustle finances and laundry.
Yesterday, Kim and I went to visit Patricia in Extendicare. The staff was really nice and we had a good time catching up.
The wind has been blowing- seeming to be quite strong as it did impede my biking at times.
I have been working on a project to change the drawing software which is taking up a lot of my time.
Amy said that the incoming students had matriculated in the system but I can't pull them out yet. It is pretty early for them to be matriculated so I was surprised, but then I guess nothing is really different.
I went to a Zoom session today that Queen's put on about the 10 year anniversary of the 94 recommendations from the truth and reconciliation commission.
I didn't get much sleep last night but today was Pentecost Sunday so I was on the prayer team. We had a lot of people with some really hard situations that needed prayer.
Then in the afternoon I mowed the lawn and had to clean the mower as so much grass had stuck inside it and started decomposing.
Then did laundry, dishes, made some meals.
Now James is out for a walk and I will try to sleep!
Oriental Peony yesterday
Oriental Peony today
The weather is warming though was overcast most of the day. Tomorrow I am working on wrapping up the timetabling. Hopefully it is not raining so I can bike!
This morning there was a fresh breeze so I hung laundry out and it turned out to be a very nice day. I also hung laundry yesterday.
The Oriental Peony was even more brilliant today
Yesterday, James wanted a particular extension cord for his rearranged room and we found it on Canadian Tire and I purchased it online for pickup. That was a fun experience as I needed to go into the "locker" pickup room. Then I had to put in the code and the locker popped open. A lady was there to help me maybe only because the store is so new. I think the idea is that it is a self serve station. A learning experience.
After that I went to Loblaws that they are renovating and they had all new self checkouts. Instead of 6 they now had about 12 but there was some error in all of them that you needed the attendant to come over to do something to the computer in order to allow you to pay, so that was also different. I'm guessing it was a glitch in the new technology.
The Oriental Peony normally blooms in May but it bloomed yesterday instead- as soon as it seemed almost nice!
Yesterday:
Today! There are still some that have not flowered yet.
James got an idea to rearrange his room and so after I finished interviews I have been busy cleaning while he moves furniture around. Luckily I superglued the vacuum together (a piece had broken off) so it is up to the task of all the cleaning!
I guess it is fitting that the last day of May is as rainy and grey as the rest of it. The oriental peony that last year bloomed a week or so ago does have buds and yesterday it looked like one was about ready to open. It may have changed its mind when it saw the weather today!
This week we got to celebrate my mother's birthday and interview season has begun, this means lots of evenings working!
Hope that you have a wonderful sunny day to celebrate. However the forecast may call for snow. Haha.
Yesterday was all rain (and cold) all the time so I wore another long sleeve Halara dress. This was the dark blue (patriot blue) Breezeful dress. While I am not a big fan of the breezeful fabric as it is a bit crepe-y, it does dry quickly so an advantage on rainy days. The heating is off in my building as it is supposed to be warm outside.
Today I managed to get some walks in during patches of sun so picked up some groceries and went to the dollar store. If the dollar store there were some teenagers that were running around the store acting a bit like hooligans. I wondered if they had store security, but I did not hear them called.
When I was on the back porch cleaning James' soccer cleats, it sounded like there was a dog fight about a street away. It sounded very intense.
Due to the ongoing rain everything here is very green, which is good I guess. But I couldn't bike to work today and the downspout is clogged so I need to get on a ladder to unclog it but would like for it to be dry first.
Because it was cold and rainy I wore my longsleeve off white Halara dress. The material is very comfortable and even though it has longsleeves it was not too hot. It will be good for spring and fall, probably not for summer.
My phone reminded me that on this day a year ago the oriental peony bloomed. I'll have to check on it tomorrow, it was too rainy probably even for it today!
James just woke up and wondered why I was home. He had no idea it was a holiday.
It has been a busy few days.
On Friday I got to see Isabelle's mom for only about 15 minutes before the board left for the Camp Iawah retreat.
We did a lot of work and planning at the retreat.
On Saturday I woke up around 5am but was evicted from my room around 6am as there was a wasp, so I moved all my stuff downstairs and was going to go for a walk before the storm. Before I left Esther came down and asked if I was going for a walk and we decided to go together. She got changed and right when we started out it started to rain. Undeterred we trooped through the woods. We saw this tree half-gnawed by a beaver. The picture is poor because it was both early in the morning and pouring rain. There is no beaver dam nearby so I wondered what the plan with this was. We were pratty soaked when we returned.
At the same time that Esther and I were trooping through the woods, James was driving to Napanee on the 401. The rain was so bad that it ripped up the car's paint job. I had never heard of this before!
Yesterday I was working on AV, it took me a while to get going and miraculously I managed to pull everything together before we started and it all worked for the whole service!
Todd and his family are in Poland so Ben was speaking on Sunday. He was talking about Exodus 15 section where the Israelites are walking in the desert and come to an oasis but the water is bitter and they complain to Moses because they can't drink. Funnily, while Ben was speaking his voice disappeared. Luckily, Dianna had a Gatorade and Ben drank that and his voice sustained to the end.
Today I went and hunted down the missing tests and got all the grades posted today! Yay! Quite a complex maneuver this year.
The weather was nice outside- not hang laundry outside nice enough as it was still a bit chilly - though there was a lot of wind- but nice enough for a tulip to come out. See how long it survives with the bunnies around!
The theme of today was surprise!
I tried to place an Amazon order and surprise, I was no longer able to select my regular pick up location. It is a Canada Post office so maybe they were worried about the potential strike and have blocked those locations from being chosen.
I went to the garage to get my bike to ride to work and surprise a person was in the garage sleeping. I called the police but he had vanished before they arrived. He left some change and a mcdonalds receipt. We added an extra lock to the garage and hope that he does not return.
My TA finished up grading all the tests only to find that the person in charge of scanning them had missed a batch so I will need to go into work tomorrow to try to find the missing batch.
