visit

A good visit with Richard today. I am happy.  Tomorrow is another visit from Mary and the greats. I am hoping Meg and her two will come as well. Family is wonderful.  
We ordered pizza for dinner. That was easy. Tomorrow we either go to the Keg or we cook. An easy choice from my perspective.

I am having trouble remembering what I did this morning and afternoon. How do things slip away so easily. Let me think on that.
Ray says we did not go out today so it is no wonder i can't remember going out LOL. 

We visited with Richard most of the day and then in the evening we relaxed. Rick and I worked on out laptops and Ray watched TV.

We are on NETFLIX tonight watching episodes of Longmire. We like this show. It is so good to have Netflix and the opportunity to watch a variety of shows we cannot get on regular cable.

I sewed a seam today LOL. It was on the heart top I am making for Eve.This is so terrible, I can't seem to get down to business. I wonder what the problem is with this kind of ennui.

Short blog. Have a nice evening.

did we go out

Yes we did for a short while. We went to Safeway and then to the Crossings. At the Crossing we had coffee at Tim Horton's .  That was all we did today. I still have not managed to get to my sewing machine. Tomorrow? You know when every day is a day off then every day is a Saturday too. So today , this particular Saturday LOL  we did little to nothing other than to shop at Safeway and have coffee. My laptop calls to me all the time and I spend way too much time on it to the exclusion of other things. I absolutely need to leave it alone for a while.  Do you readers have this problem too?

I have a friend in Arizona. He is the husband of my dear deceased friend Gail. So we talk. I am happy that he has remained my friend. He always asks after Ray and Ray tells me to tell him he is okay. It is good that we have not lost touch. Wow I had to make several corrections to this paragraph. Definitely I am not a typist LOL.
It is a good thing I am a decent speller.

I am excited Richard is coming in later tonight. I am anxious to see him but I had better get busy and prepare the room for him so that he can lie down and sleep. He will be tired after that long trip. I hope he took two days but knowing him I am sure he pressed on for the whole day. But I think  Ricky is with him and he can help with the drive. He drops off in Abbotsford I think. Then it is still an hour from there to here.

So that is it for tonight unless I come up with something later on tonight. So check back to see.

dinner

It was an easy dinner but one we like to have occasionally. Simple macaroni with tomatoes and smokies. Boil the water, add macaroni, drain the water and add a can of tomatoes. Boil the smokies on the side. Mustard is optional. Easy right? 

As for today we did not even go out . I just read my e mail, wrote a couple of letters, watched some TV , did a couple of loads of laundry and read a bit of my book.

That is all I did today. Tomorrow will be busier. A day of rest is a good day for us oldies. Ray also just rested today. 

We need  to get out tomorrow and stretch our legs a bit.  
I see Father's Day is coming up next weekend. I think Richard will be here And hope he will keep Thursday or Friday evening clear. Hopefully it will be Thursday. I want to take him and Ray out to the Keg for dinner for Father's Day..

I talked to Adam this afternoon. It was a pleasant chat. The weather there in Louisiana is warm , here it is a bit cooler which is how I like it. I would find it very difficult to live that far south.

I love potato chips and a bag lasts me over a week. But this week I did not buy any  chips so I suffer LOL.  Once in a while I forget to buy any and I won't go out for any. So there you have it, no chips until next week.
We grocery shop once a week so if we miss one week we have to wait for the next one to come around. We do not make extra trips.

I assume that the majority of my readers are women and women of my age. If you are my age you no doubt had children and then suffered from hemmroides (sic) . I do suffer and today they caused me a lot of pain even though my youngest is in his 50s. They never seem to go away. So bad day for me.

I cannot seem to get back to my sewing machine despite the fact that I have a quilt for Eve in the works. This week I will commit to working on it . Check me up on it folks. Even a little bit at a time would be a great idea.

And that is the day for me folks. Have a great evening.

uhuh

I do not feel like writing tonight. First because I was busy and forgot about my blog and  then because it is too late and I am tired. 

So thanks for your patience folks. I will write tomorrow night. Have a great evening.

frustration

Sometimes the computer is beyond frustrating. I am trying to get into life labs to make an appointment and can I do this simple thing.  Not on my life. I keep trying and no luck. I'll try again later in the evening and see what happens then. I am afraid I don't understand why this is happening.  Maybe someone smarter than me can help.The other frustrating thing is : if I go to the office they tell me to make my appointment on my computer. RIGHT! The second option is to go to the office and sit there and wait with all the many others sitting there. And it isn't even for me. it is for Ray. AWWW...  He will not be happy about that.

Another gorgeous day here in Vancouver. It looks beautiful but I do not go out in the sun since I burn. I stopped going out in the sun when I was in my 20s for that reason. Now I am in my 80s and not about to begin sunning now. Maybe I don't even burn now .

All we did today was go to Safeway to drop off a prescription and pick one up.Oh and some bread too. That was the big adventure for today.  Watching the news right now and the next item of viewing is a new direction for Parkinson.s Disease. As it is often similar to ALS I hope it will work for that too so Rick can get help for his ALS.
I had a short nap and have been watching TV ever since. I wish I could get up the gumption to sew but so far it is not happening. I hate this kind of energy gap. Lack of Sap I call it. 
However I can still knit as it does not require a machine just a set of needles and some yarn, I write yarn for American readers but here in my house I call it wool . My mom always called it wool. She knit mostly socks, many pair of socks. I knit them too. They require four of even five double pointed needles and some dexterity to manipulate them properly. Mom taught me to knit at a very young age and how to use the four needles to make socks. I remember knitting sweaters and socks before I was twelve. 

The day is winding down , it is a beautiful evening. I am relaxing for the night.

Have a great evening folks.

reading

under the banyan tree, where did that come from? It is a comment I have read in my travels and it reminds me of when I was a young woman in my teens or even earlier. I used to love to read, still do. I would have preferred to sit in the house and read even on a fine summer day. My mom would tell me to go outside and do something other than sit around the house. So I would go out with my book tucked somewhere on my person , find a nice tree preferably a willow as it hung to the ground. Then I would crawl up close to the trunk , take out my book and read. Not what my mom intended but then I had my own mind. 
I also used to ride my bike right across the city. It was fun going but such hard work coming back. I had a busy life .
Now at my age I still have a busy life. Lucky me!!
Life is meant to be lived not to sit around and feel sorry for yourself. Some like my Richard have a right to feel sorry for themselves but he is so up most of the time. And if not he keeps it to himself. I do admire him so much. Although if he did feel badly and I am sure he does at times I would gladly listen to him and hopefully encourage him.

We did our grocery shopping this morning and in the afternoon we went to the casino. I came home with money to add to my envelope, more than I left with this morning. So good day for me.

We thought about going to a restaurant for a bite to eat but changed our minds and came home for supper. I made a salad for myself and Ray had vegetables and dip that we bought with our groceries. So we ate healthy tonight. But and it is a big BUT I am still hungry. I do not know how vegetarians do it. How do they feel full?

That is all for this evening folks. Have a good one.

Crow Attack

The crows are on the attack. They are dive bombing the neighbours. Must be nest time. Crows always amuse me. They are of the Corvid family along with jays of all kinds. I have  a wonderful book called CROWS. I must read it again. It is so interesting.I wonder if the internet has anything like that to offer. Must give it a try, NOW.  Well it was so interesting. there is a lot of material on the net about crows. Take a few minutes, type Crows into your browser. Fascinating creatures. I really admire them.

We met with Bob and Buzz for lunch and a visit. I took a bag of books for Buzz to read, books I had already read. Buzz snd I chatted and Ray and Bob also chatted. We ladies talk about books and kids and clothes, all the things that interest women. It is great to have long time friends They introduced Ray and me and love was born. That was more than 40 years ago. And we are still together, a good match. Thanks to Bob and Buzz.

After we left them we walked a bit around the mall for some exercise. Then we ruined all that exercise and had soft ice cream. One thing though is good we shared one  dish of ice cream. And it was delicious.MMM

We came home and I had a nap.

Have a great evening folks. 

Write

I don't feel like writing tonight , it feels like I have nothing to say and nothing of any importance. So here goes nothing LOL.

I had to ask Ray what we did today. He said we went to Blue Cross, up to the mall, had a coffee,  bought some bread at the bakery, went to the pharmacy and then came home.

Tonight we are watching Roots. We watched it several years ago when it first came on TV. It is such a moving portrayal of life for the slaves and the struggle they had to gain their freedom and survive. Even though we have seen it once before it is still interesting. And painful to watch.  Also far too many commercials, good audience for this show so they have lots of them.

There is stuff to do in the sewing room if I can call it that but I am not quite up for it. Try again tomorrow. Oh yes tomorrow we meet Bob and Buzz for lunch. I have been looking forward to that all week. I have some books for her.  Marg reads them , we trade books and then when I have read them I like to pass them on to someone else. This time it will be Buzz. 

I plan to read one of my bools later on in the evening. Mostly I read at that time .Our days are very busy and there is no time to read.  So I read when I go to bed. I like that.

I was thinking a lot of my mom and dad today. No reason for that but sometimes I miss them though they have been gone for a long time.  My brother Peter too has been gone a long time. But I still have my sister Marg, she and I are the last of our original family. We each had children and a new family to love and honour. I had five sons and Marg had a son and a daughter.  So life goes on. 


Have a great evening folks.

now

It is evening now. A lovely cool evening ,perfect for watching TV which we are doing.  it is a show of monks and temples. Wctually we are listening not watching. Ray does that a lot. According to the talk the buddhists of the temple have all been murdered. It is too,too sad. Why? Why would anyone do that to innocent monks who are just trying to live a simple life, foinf no harm only good.

Life here goes on as usual, nothing of consequence. I can't even recall what we did today. Each day passes the same way. Did we go out? Did we have a visit?  Did we eat our lunch in a restaurant? What did we do?      We went for haircuts and for lunch at A&W. We have just started to go there recently as we found that we liked the hamburgers there. Then we just came home for a bit of a nap.

I was working on a quilt for Eve but that entailed taking off a narrow border that I had put on and did not like. So you could say I unsewed rather that sewed. Waste of time but then I have to do what I like so that was how it went. Take it off. I have to think now what my plan is for that quilt. I think it will just be a good border. It may be necessary to go to the store for more fabric. Why with all the fabric I have nothing will work for this quilt. It seems to work that way a lot. I have heard other quilters say the same thing.

Time now to make something for Ray and me to eat. Have no idea what but it is time.

Have a lovely evening folks.

missing

Is my blog missing from last night?  Sometimes I forget to write it or I begin writing and then pop out of the blog to go somewhere else , then forget to come back. Oh well here I am tonight even if there is not much to talk about. I am sure though I will find something.

This is Wednesday but I thought it was Sunday. My mind sure wanders sometimes. Every day is the same so weekends and week days become one and the same. However Ray still knows what day it is LOL.  Of course it is Wednesday , yesterday was Tuesday when I went to my sewing group party. 

Today was a lovely spring day sunny but with a few drops of rain in mid day. I love spring days, warm but not hot. I do not like hot, actually I prefer it a bit cool.

But we had strawberries and whipped cream for dessert. I didn't forget that LOL. 

As for the day I called Adam but the reception was bad and we had to disconnect . I'll call him tomorrow. I there are big storms down there on the gulf. And here it is raining, first in a while. 

We went for haircuts today and then picked up fresh bread. Came home and that was it for the day. Not very busy.

My memory is getting so bad I can't even recall what we had for dinner, not much I suspect as there were no pots to wash.  Ray said no supper just strawberries and whipped cream. Bad boys and girls we are. I still want some real food so will have to think of something to eat.  

I had to take off one of the borders on my heart quilt, the one I am making for our new great granddaughter in Quebec. I must get that finished and sent off before she goes to school LOL.

That is my talk for tonight . visit me again tomorrow.