rain, rain,rain

Two weeks have flown by since my last blog, how could they have gone so fast? We are still at our summer place but will be moving soon to town, altho with no snow it is quite nice to stay here.

 

We have lots of wood for our wonderful stove and it keeps us very comfortable. We have had the smoke stack cleaned out so all is OK there.

 

We sure have had a cloudy and very rainy November, so far, the wettest on record but then so have a lot of other places.   I made jalapeno jelly the other day and as I'm still in the imperial mindset the instructions said to use 4 ounces of Certo but the Certo package said 85ml.  Now I had no idea how much that was so called the 1-800 number on the package.  Isn't that what we are supposed to do or they wouldn't have given that nunmber.  The lady who answered the phone  didn't know but after 10 minutes, I can be patient at times, she had the answer for the 2 packages in the box.  She said as they package that material for the Canadian market it had to be in our current table so I suggested that they also include, in brackets, the amount in the imperial.  She said she would do that immediately.   I asked her where she was and she said Texas.   I asked about the weather and they sure would like some of our rain.  Wish I could send an inch of it as our water meter showed 2 inches as of this morning. As soon as it dries , if it does before winter, Don has a grading job as our hill took a beating.

 

Last week we drove to Belleville for me to see the surgeon about my knee and to buy the fruit for the fruit cakes that Don makes every year.   The Dr said he wanted to see me when the pain went away, like Jaunuary.  There is not much pain now but when I get out of a low chair it sounds like a velcro strip coming apart. Hopefully that goes away in time or else I get used to it.  

 

Don had a birthday a week ago and our 4 children and called him  which pleased him very much. I was going to take him out to dinner that night but friends called and wanted us for dinner to celebrate so now we have to pick another time.

 

Don has the fruit cakes made.  3 different kinds. He bakes them in small pans, 3 inch by 5 inch.  He has 28 pans of fruit cake.  They make good Christmas gifts. The  last one he made was a recipe he thinks he made once but that is doubtful.  I never go near the kitchen when this operation is in progress, but had to help this time.   There was far too much fruit and batter to stir so I put on the rubber gloves and with the big pan sitting  in the sink, the table was too high for me to reach, mixed the  concotion and put it in the pans.  From there on he was incharge.  All that is except the oven door.  The door decided to fall off its hinges.  It has worked fine all along.  The poor stove is over 50 years old.  They made them to last then.  A lady that Don bowled with years ago was getting a new stove and asked if he wantes it as she knew we were building a cottage.  She had had it for 25 years or more and wanted a newer up todate one.  Later she said she would have liked to have had her old one back. To put the cakes in the oven required the two of us.  Don to hold the door against the stove as he opened it and I to slide the tray of cakes in and out when done.

Tonight we are having a roast and it is going to cook on the wood stove.  No way do I want to wrestle with that oven door.

 

On November 11th was Memorial Day so we went for the morning service and to the cenotaph and many marched to the Legion.  It had rained hard during the night and eartly morning and while we were in church but not a drop while those who marched to the Legion , marched. Someone was watching .  After we left the Legion it was pouring with rain again but it was dry in here and warm. A great service. AS Don was in the Navy during the war he was decked out in his uniform and looked very sharp.

 

Our 2 granddaughters couldn't think of a thing they needed or wanted for Christmas , what a lucky pair.  The oldest one did say she would like to go to the stage show playing "Wicked".  I phoned and we have 4 tickets for that, That is their Christmas present to them,and us also.  At our age what do we need.  Now my wants are different but my needs??  Won't need much paper to wrap them. The others are a surprise.  If I don't end this soon as it will be a surprise if Don is ready to go to town and I'm not.

Did you know that an oldtimer is anyone who learned to ride a bicycle before it became a fitness machine.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

finally

Here it is several weeks since I last blogged. Pain, loss of energy and too tired to bother. Things are going along much better now.Less pain and I can move the knee,altho it has a clicking sound when I bend it back.  Will see the Dr next week so will ask him why .  Don figures I need a grease fitting but doubt that would help.

 

We had a great Thanksgiving (October weekend of the 9th).  Most of the family were here to helped put things away for the winter. On Sunday we had 14 for a turkeydinner and many thanks to my bevy of girls I didn't have to do much.  The girls also went to an apple orchard and picked apples as well loaded up with all kinds of squash.  The weekend weather was nigh perfect, warm and sunny.  We had rain earlier in the week and rain after but were blessed with good weather.It seems as if it has rained off and on ever since.  We have had a few snow flurries but nothing so far that has stayed on the ground.  We expect to move to town to our condo by the end of the month  providing we don't get a big snow storm.  As we heat by wood and have lots of it  we are plenty warm.  I will probably freeze when we move in as electric heat is not the same but will get used to it.

 

Tomorrow 2 younger people are coming to clean out the smoke stack.  Don doesn't like climbing up on the roof  and I'm glad about that.  Each year sure makes a difference in us physically but then we are a year older.  Thr 9th is his birthday and I had planned on taking him out to dinner but had a call today from friends  inviting us to dinner to celebrate his day on the 9th  at their home.   Will have to find another day.  We seem to have a busy week so it may be next week.

 

Janet, next door pet sits.  She has had 2 different dogs this week so brings them over for us to see.  One is a toy black poodle, so cute and very energetic.  The one she has for this weekend is a Jack Russel eager to go anywhere, anytime as long as it is now.  Our neighbour on the other side has a minature Australian Sheepdog.  It has long hair which is supposed to have a blue tinge when grown.  It is about 10 or 11 weeks old.  It has no tail and from behind looks like a wee bear waddling along.  She named  him  Matilda, naturally. The have another small dog  she found wandering the streets a few years ago , was so dirty and hungry and apparently no one who wanted her so Ann took her in and they have had her ever since.   She is still a bit skitterish but comes daily for a hand out.  I have been feeding her the odd tidbit from our dinner plus a dog biscuit  or two.  We have a large box of those.

 

Dinner is over, dishes done and time for knee exercises. Take care all.