Yesterday I wore my spring coat for the first time. Today it is snowing.
James is part of a team running tryouts this week and he is in charge of jerseys. Meaning that I am in charge of washing said jerseys. Which in general would be fine but the dryer is on the fritz. However, I have discovered that once the dryer warms up, it does not squeal so much. So things have been functional, just occasionally loud.
Back to the winter coat for today!
Things are looking like a winter wonderland. I wonder if the birds and rabbits are confused as they did not get the weather warning on their phones.
Today I am working on showcase details and reviews of project receipts.
On the weekend I did manage to scrub the downstairs bathroom and pump up my bike tires. Now my bike is ready to go, just there is too much snow (that rhymes!)
When I try to leave my house, I never know what footwear to wear out, which means it may be spring.
It has been a busy few weeks as the water heater died and so have been dealing with plumbers and flooring. Not so much fun.
But yesterday Clara was in town and we went out to Kelsey's and hung out for a bit. She and her family were heading to pick up Erika today from Hamilton and they have a rental on Lake Erie and they were having a big family get together for Easter.
Today we had a short service for Good Friday. Sunday will be a big one as we are having baptisms.
James started sorting things in the basement this evening so the basement is a mess.
There was a lot of cleaning needed after all the workmen in the house so I have been working on that.
Maybe this can be considered spring cleaning.
John the plumber came back and tightened the gasket that was leaking. He also fixed the valves that I opened and a lever that wasn't working and showed me the correct levers to use if I need to shut things off in the future. I am still working on drying out the basement.
Getting caught up on email at work and ran a training session. Tomorrow interviews start.
Replacing the water heater only took an hour (I had expected the whole day) and I was feeling much better after having a shower. But when I was doing the laundry I heard some dripping and found that there was a leak in one of the connections from the new water heater. So I went to switch off the water using the lever that the plumber showed me but that didn't work. I didn't want to touch the knobs that he said would need to be replaced but ended up having to. So currently the new hot water heater is switched off and we again have no water. I should have checked more carefully after they finished up, I was just so pleased to have it sorted out.
On Friday, went to Sarah's birthday party, that was a good time. On Saturday and Sunday my goal was to work on timetabling. Today when I went downstairs the carpet was a bit wet and I found that the water heater was leaking. So spent the day trying to dry things out. I tried to turn off the water to the water heater but that valve seemed to have an issue and that started leaking. So instead we needed to turn off all the water to the house. This did resolve the water problem from the water heater. So for most of the day there was no water. But then we needed to turn on the water for a short time to flush toilets and get water. However, then I discovered that there was a new leak at the water source for the house. Now the water is switched off again and there are no leaks from the assorted leakage spots.
The people to fix it should be here at 8am Monday. Let's hope that they can sort out all the various problems.
I did manage to finish the timetabling amid all the extra stress.
Yesterday I wore rain boots and that was the correct choice. Today I wore winter boots and that was the correct choice. The weather is giving a bit of whiplash as spring slowly creeps in.
Today I did some ironing, then went to Rustle, came home for a short time then headed back for a musical evening. Have been up since 4am so hoping for a good sleep tonight!
Today the forecast said the precipitation would begin at 9am. I left the house at 8am and it started precipitating. Within 10 minutes, things were pretty slippery on the sidewalk. The roads were good so I walked on them when I could.
On the way home things were slushy and so I had to walk home with wet feet.
Very different boots were needed at the start of the day than the end of the day.
I did some shoveling in the night trying to clear things off before the flash freeze, we'll see if it was helpful or not tomorrow.
My computer said it was heavy snow but nothing was going on. We'll see what things look like in the morning.
I made it through all of the projects for review, so that is good. I need to do the second course tomorrow.
Tomorrow we have our small group at Sarah's.
I have been seeing a bunny in the backyard by the shed, eating a little bit of the greens through the snow. One time when I was looking at the bunny it went into the snowbank and I was thinking it had a home in the snowbank but then it popped out the other side and I realized it was a tunnel! Today the bunny was again sitting at the entrance to the "tunnel" so I think is quite pleased that there is a place to go if there is danger from above.
I cleared some more ice from the driveway. Hopefully not more is deposited this week!
I forgot to mention on the way home from Sarah's it was dark. Maybe I tried to forget this part as I was walking down Drayton on the way home, I encountered a lady. I encountered her because she crossed the street and put herself in my path. Drayton is a pretty quiet street and very wide. There is plenty of room for 2 walking people not to encounter each other. But she came directly at me while saying "Don't come at me". I was of course not coming at her, I was heading home, she was coming at me. And she seemed pretty angry, though I did not know what about. Maybe she owned the street, though I have walked it many times and not encountered her. At any rate, she apparently wanted to fight me. I managed to dodge her but she continued to call after me that she would like to fight me.
Today I went to Loblaws, did laundry, ironing and made all of Rustle's charitable receipts. Well, the program made the receipts but I had to sign and package them.
Walking home today I was so pleased that it was still light!
When I was walking to Sarah's a large brown chunky bird flew over me- maybe it was an owl!
I can pick up things from the floor without pain now!
Last night I was able to shovel snow as it was pretty light and fluffy.
This morning I changed about 8 lightbulbs. I'm planning to head out to Loblaws in the cold weather. I'll bundle up well.
I have lots of finance things to work on for Rustle and much cleaning to do as the injury kept me off much of the things that I need to do to clean!
I had a physio appointment today and she checked me out fully. First she checked that there were no neurological issues. There weren't. Then she checked for joint issues. Nothing there either. So her final conclusion was muscle/tendon issues which just needs some rest. She gave me some exercises to strengthen muscles around the injury. She also gave me a 10minute treatment on a machine, which felt pretty good.
She also said that she worked out some knots in my glutes.
The end result was that I was walking better after the appointment!
