Weekly Musings of the 3rd

 

What a hot, hazy, humid end to June and start to July.  Canada Day saw storms moving through the area, we had high winds and a bit of rain but Ottawa got hit really hard and had to cancel the evening show and fireworks.  They had 100mm of rain with flooding in many areas and lots of power outages as well.  

This triple H is suppose to last at least until Sunday and our little A/C unit is working overtime each day.  

This week also meant the beginning of the replacing of the sidewalks which, of course made it challenging going in and out of the building.  From our balcony the fun part was watching people who either wanted the workers to let them in the building (where they didn't live) or walking exactly where they were trying to work. 

The first two walks are having the finishing part done today and I am sure that means the front will be the next one.  After all the walks are done they are going to replace the parking lot too.  Should be a fun time but certainly really needing doing this year, there are way too many potholes now.

Had the chance this week to catch up with my sister and chat about life in general and solving all the problems of the world - LOL.  It was great to get the chance to just sit with her and video chat.  I think back on the long distance phone calls after 6 or on weekends and not seeing the person or writing letters if they were overseas because phoning and the connections were just too difficult and now we can sit and chat with video and not worrying about the minute costs and see the loved one.  That, I thank Meta for too.

I still kept to my morning walks although still hot I was glad to walk as early as possible to be out of the full morning sun.  As well, hubby's pictures are finished the clearing, sorting and naming as well as my Pinterest has been deeply cleared out from over 5,000 to under 100.  I am sure the collection will grow again but I am planning on purging each summer in the future to keep it from getting silly again.   

As I stayed out of the heat I am enjoying the 3rd book of the Anna series

Another powerful book and I cannot wait until the 4th one comes out next year.  

So, that was the very quiet week that was and I must say I hope we get to open the windows at night once more next week.  Keep cool everyone and enjoy the weekend.  Happy 4th to my American friends and family.

That's me - ROTFL

Weekly Musings of the 26th

 

I don't care if the media goes on and on about how wonderful soccer is, I find it boring and the players over dramatic.  I mean come on, you fell down, get up and stop pretending that you are deathly injured.  

Anyway, after clearing out all my photos and making sure all of them are labeled with names (lesson learned from grandparents and parents who didn't put names on any photos) I was looking at my Pinterest account.  How on earth did I manage to make over 20 board (some kind of the same) with nearly 10,000 pins saved, which since there are so many I no longer look through.  Time to get clearing that out.  

 As I looked through and thought about it, I do use Pinterest nearly every day for different things but I always do a search on the homepage.  I rarely look in the folders that I already have so why on earth am I keeping them all there.  

By the time I am through there will be a lot less saved on various boards.  Less boards too ;)  

Anyway, this week has been some reading, some gaming and some purging with some errands including getting my hair trimmed once more.  Hubby has a summer cold so that kept things pretty quiet.

Hope you had a lovely week.  This weekend we are celebrating 13 years since I retired and we moved to Simcoe.  

I made this collection a year after we moved in and one more three years later and those of you who have kept up with the blog know that through purges and other things the place has changed completely again since this last video 

 Have a lovely weekend and week ahead and see you in July :D

Weekly Musings of the 19th

 So another week, a rainy one with lots of thunder in the distance but the week still flew by.  I did finish up the photos although hubby has a few more to go through.  I tease him that it is because he is older than I am and that is why he has more pictures than me.  Not that I had been working on them longer and adding them to a history of our family blog.  Nope, he is older and that is why - LOL.

We did take a drive to the reserve for our monthly errands.  We actually didn't need to fill the car but we topped it up anyway while we were there.  

We spent the rest of the week pretty quiet and enjoying the cooler temperatures at night.  I really never mind it being hot during the day just as long as it goes below 20C at night so I can have the window open.  

Reading the 2nd book of Anna's story. 

Really a very good read and I actually cannot wait to get to the third book, there are four in this series and each one a treasure.  

I also dropped two of our streaming channels for at least the summer since all the shows we watch are done for the season so down to keeping Prime and Crave/TSN.  Of course there are those free ones such as Pluto and Tubi (which I love to call Tubby - LOL) Our parish also pays for a Catholic streaming service which everyone of the parish can have for free called Formed.  I haven't gotten into that one yet but looking through the basic of it, there are some good shows and documentaries to watch, which I hope to get to this summer.  I kind of wonder if I really will pick up those dropped channels when the seasons start up again in the fall as although there are shows that we like I have gotten to the point that I really no longer mind either way if I watch them or not.  With the services we have we always find something interesting to watch so why not keep going with new things.  Anyway we shall see.  As I get older I do find it easier to let things go that I thought were necessary or important are not so much really.

It was like when I looked at old Amazon orders from before I retired and saw the kinds of books I bought.  What a waste most of them were (the diet ones I mean and there were a lot of those) I would probably have a nice nest egg had I saved the money that I spend on those silly books.  Oh well, lessons have to be learned in the seasons of life one is in.  

Well, that is it for me this week, quiet as it was.  I hope you had a nice week too and have a lovely weekend.

I am actually okay not living in the woods or talking much to squirrels but I just love the expression on her face.