WAS I A GOOD GIRL OR WHAT. I THINK SANTA FORGOT HIS SLEIGH, OR IS THAT A NEW CAR FOR BRENDA? OH I SO FREAKED OUT. It was parked in the neighbours garage and I kept saying look what Matthew bought Nicole for christmas. Until Garry walked me up to it and it had a little box on with that had the keys and it had MY NAME on it. SWEET.

I hope everyones Christmas is as Merry as mind obviously was.

We got in a day up North before all the snow came. It was a nice day as you see. I thought the scenery would make a nice painting. Hint, Hint, Jeremy. Something to think about

hey look i finally found a minute to blog. after 45 years, i seem to be lactos intollerance and that seems to be what has be causing all my pain and bloating. so now when i want dairy i just have to pop a pill and i am good to go. it has helped alot. but for some reason, i still have a liver infection. so now it would seem that my liver doesnt want to process fat, so now i have to cut back on fat as well as dairy. jennifer at work got me a fridge magnet that says , you cant handle the cheese. i have been putting in alot of overtime, it will come in handy for x-mas, but not much time for the computer. i will catch up with everyone later

Here is my spooky holloween house. The older kids are Val's and Al's twins with the kid from the end of the road and the little one is Kayla. I though mom would like to see them. The big kid on the steps belong to the devil. Pretty creepy looking at night wasn't it. And I had one of those creepy holloween cd's playing. All that was missing was a little fog. Maybe I should pick up a machine while they are on sale.

Jeremy at the train station, come back soon Jeremy.

Hope you love the end results, now we need everyone to judge our pumkins, of cource we can't judge our own, we all think our own is the best.

First we captured the pumkins from their natural habitat and then we gutted them and laughed in the face of contriversy. Ha Ha Ha Ha

Ah, the famous front porch. Thanks to Jeremy's visit, I have another victim to my collection.

As you can see from the pictures below, we had a busy day, it started with a trip to World's Famous Chocolate, then we went to the suspention bridge, you can see a picture of the view from the middle of the bridge, then off the hold up the world's largest tooni, then to a Japenesse resturant for lunch. The lady in the white jacket is our neighbout Nicole. Her and her husband are from the US and he is here working for a couple of years at the paper mill, so we brought her along to show her some of the exciting things to do. Tommorrow we will visit a few galleries and do some pumpking carving. After all I have an artist in the house, I might as well take advantage of it right.

I should have posted these a long time ago. Gord and Peggy McKay came for visit this summer. Gord is Alice's husband, Clarance's brother. They were our neighbour and friends from Barrington Passage. This is their grand-daughter. She is the same age her mother was when we left Barrington. How time passes.

OMG!!!!!!
I can't believe that it has been over a month since I blogged anything, but I have gotten better at facebook. I have been busy with holloween costumes and such so I am very sorry for not noticing my lack of communication earlier.
Everything is good, I go to the Doctor's tommorrow and if this last set of blood test come out clear than that the end of my liver issues. I am keeping my fingers crossed. I have been feeling better since my colonoscopy though, so that's good. At this point I think it's just menopause and old age finally cathing up to me. So to beat it at it's own game, I colored by grey. Yes, I know I said I wasnt going to anymore, but YTH, it took ten years off me. Better , and cheaper than Botox.
I am looking forward to Jeremy comming for a visit this week, I have a few fun things planned. I will let him tell everyone about it afterwards. I don't want to ruin any of the surprises.
Candice is loving her PR course at Loyalist. They did a United Way fundraised last week and made $2000.00 from the class playing Deal or No Deal with the students. She was happy with their results. She has to start planning for another one in May. This one is going to be an Art Show featuring local female artist, so there will be alot of work involved so she proberly have to quite her job at Wal-mart and put all her efforts into this. It looks like she already has her internship with Girl Guides of Canada, at their main office in Toronto and it is looking very good for her to actually get a job with them out of this. But then she can alway change her mind before the spring.
I will try to do better with the blogging, but it is hard with the weather being so nice and the amount of time I already spend indoors sewing, something has to be aside until the cold weather gets here so I hope everyone understand. Until next time.

Hi folks, it's been awhile. Nothing too new at this end. Candice is working once again for Walmart the shoe dept. This time its at my walmart. She got her car and once again I am free.
Weather is getting colder, so not so much pool time, hence the time to blog. Soon as it gets really cold out I will be visiting the bloggers more often. I don't want to waste any nice days inside if I don't have to. So one day soon, I will return.

Hello everyone out there in Blogger land. Here's the latest.
As predicted, nothing was found during my colonoscopy. The Dr says proberly just some gasteral intestnal thing, watch what I eat. That the problem, I do, I watch everything that I eat. It still doesn't mean it's good for me. No salt and cut back on the fatty foods. Oh boy, looks like the over eaters anynomas club is getting a new member.

Candice has her G2 and will be the proud owner of a 1996, hundai elantra wagon as of this time tomorrow. Insurance is only $132 a month for her, which I think is good for being a first time car owner and having it all under her own name. It only has 94,000 k's on it and it was a one owner vehicle. It is in really good shape and the boys at Orville's where we bought it gave it a really good going over, new breaks, tune up, oil change, safety, and e tested all for $2850.
They even took care of the registration and everything the insurance company wanted as well.
We just have to show up with a cheque and it's all hers.

She will now be able to get herself back and forth to school and not have to come in with me at 6.30am when two of her classes don't even start until 10am and there's two nights she is there until 6pm. That would have been too long of a day for her.

It's has been too cold to swim since Thursday and I am having withdrawls. I actually ahve tan and I want to keep it for as long as I can. Hopefully the weather will get better soon. I would like to get at least one or two more weeks out of it before we have to winterize it.

So as you can see it's finally finished. Yeah and all I have to do on my vacation this week is sit back and enjoy. Candice is going for her G2 licence on Monday, next Monday and then her and Garry will be looking for a car. Her school schedule does not match mine at all so she will need her own car. She put all her money away from working. She took August off but will be going back to work in September, hopfully she will be able to get something at the College but if not there are plenty of other jobs. She just needs to make enough to pay for her insurance and gas. Living at home has its advantages, doesn't it.

Sorry I S*** at facebook. Candice is trying to educate me and I am getting better. It's just I don't seem to have time to even log on the computer, let alone try to blog, facebook and read all my emails. I am sure when the cold weather hits and I can't spend all day in the pool, you will see me online alot more, until them I aplogize for the delays.

Hey: My deck is almost finished finally. Just a few finishing touches and only two weeks later.
I will post pictures soon. In the meantime at least I have been able to use the pool. The deck guy made sure there was enough of a walkway to get in and out of the pool and connected the pool ladder for the time being last week. Well as of Friday, Yesterday, The deck is almost completed by the important parts are done and yes the pool is very refreshing on hots days like today.

The Pat Benatar concert was incredable. I was so glad I went and so was Candice, She did all the classics and some from her obscure Jazz album and a few new ones. My ears rang all the next day, but it was worth it.

I found uncle Dave

Just got a call from Steven 6:15pm, Sunday, July 22. He will be here in about an hour. Not sure how long he can stay, but at least now we know where he is.

No news from Dave yet. I don't know if anyone else has been able to track him down. It will be a very long adventure for him by the end of it. It would be nice if shows up some time next week when I actually have a pool. Candice and I went to the beach today, the weather was great. Of course, it couldn't be like this last week when we really needed it.
Funny story about the beach. It was starting to get crowded so Candice and I thought it best to start packing up our stuff before it became overcrowded, and next to us came these two guys,
set up their giant size umbrella, and we looked at each other and said, oh my god, look at the size of their PICNIC BASKET. Yeah, that's what we noticed. We started laughing and I'm sure they had no ideal why. As we were leaving, wife and kids showed up to eat all that lovely food.

Where's My Pool

Day one. Nothing happened. The deck guy could not get the machine to remove the sod, so he will have to come back tomorrow morning. So that puts the pool guy a day behind as well. Keeping my fingers crossed.

Where's my pool, or at least my back yard.

Day two. The deck guy finally shows late this afternoon, but now the pool guys can't come in until tommorrow. Already two days delay.

Day three and everythings looking up. I'm told that the water guy will be arriving at 4pm to fill my pool. That gives it two days to warm up before the last day of my vacation.