General Chat

Hi Everyone,

I finally have five minutes to sit down and write a few lines.

Bob is almost done with Chemo with just one treatment in October and one in December to go. His Hemogloblin is now normal and so is his white count. The only thing that is still a bit low is his platelets so that is why they are doing the last couple of treatments. What a relief for him to have a clean bill of health. The doctor said that he may not need another round of treatment for many years, so fingers crossed.

We have sold our house so I am now in the middle of packing. What a lot of stuff we have accumulated in the last fifteen years that we have lived here! Downsizing is sure hard! I have been giving stuff away all week. I have also put some furniture online for sale.

We have decided to leave Calgary and move to a very small town about half an hours drive south of the city. It will be quite different living somewhere with a population of just over 2300 after living in a city of over a million people. Bob will work at home most of the time and only go in to his office a couple of times a week. I have already talked to the people at a local garden center about working there next spring.

The house we have bought is quite a bit smaller than this, in fact the bungalow is the size of my main floor in this house so we are losing the square footage of the upper floor here. We will still have a developed basement but have a total of 2 bedrooms instead of the 5 we have here. It is a walkout basement so very bright. There are no homes behind us, just a nature reserve and cows. Oh bliss, I can't wait! The houses are set around a square shaped park and only about 25 houses there, very quiet.

I am hoping the weather cools down a bit this week, it was 29 yesterday making it very hot in the house. We don't have air conditioning (do in the new place!) so hot for packing. Of course, I would like to have decent weather for the move, none of that white fluffy stuff for a few weeks, lol. We take possesion Oct 5 but don't have to be out of here until the 9th so have a few days to get everything sorted out. I am hoping that the weather is good as I want to move some of my perennials into the new garden. It is going to be fun to plan this garden, much bigger than I have now. It is 85 feet from the back of the house to the fence, and about 120 feet wide. Yikes, I am going to be busy!

More later,

Love to you all

Teresa

'Eeeeeelo all right ,where's everyone hiding these days?can't all be on holiday surely?.
Well ,been to the dentist ,and both i ,and the missus did well,clean bill of heath,so we decided to go to tescos for a light lunch ,but got sidetracked when we got there [as usual] he eh.We went down the electricals isle and found me printer ,an h p all in one ,wire less and usb ,so the missus and i can share it on both the desktop and laptop £45 each ,so ,anyone wanting a new printer had better get their butt in gear ,at that price they will go fast ,
The other printer is only a year old ,so i will pack it up and take it to a charity shop in the town ,it should find a new home easily working as new.
The new one is now sitting upstairs awaiting the wrapping paper [christmas is coming ] lol.
Must get down the town today ,i need a pair of flight socks from Boots ,can't be taking any chances seeing as i have pvd already.
The packing is half done now ,so we will be ready in plenty of time.
Back later shopping time .Fred

'Ere 'Ow very dare you ,lol,i'll 'ave you know that i still have all my teeth [so far ] and don't intend parting with them till i have to.
Get yourself a terra bit hard drive lass,computerise all your papers and get 'em on the puter where they can't get lost ,he he all you need to do then is keep the really important paperwork leaving yourself tons of room in your pad.
I can offer you an empty greenhouse shortly ,but i need it cleared back out by march ?.lol.
Back shortly,need to get out back for a while ,things to do before going to the dentist ,and then the town Fred

Morning all ,and a special one for Mary the birthday girl ,sorry old friend ,but i didn't pick up on it until i visited Les's and Norm's blog.
Happy birthday ,and hope you are having a great day with the flowers and cards.
Hope everyone is okay and keeping safe ,have to go to town now ,as tomorrow is dentist day for a check up ,can't be getting toothache while on holiday now ,can we?
Catch you all later ,Fred.

WOW Christine... What a lot of luck you have had with your MIL tree.. Really fantastic. and so exciting..Glad you are back on line, as if you are like me you suffered from puta withdrawells.thank goodness for card games on the puta....lol..lol..

Les.. Great to see you here..you seem to be having a lovely time but sorry to hear that Bella is not to well..hope she recovers and is back to her mad self again soon..

Fred.. Bet that power outage must have given you a big shock,,Can just see the relief on your face when you realised that it wasent you that had caused it..heee heee heee...

Just received a beautiful bunch of flowers and bottle of bubbly from my daughter in Orange for my birthday..she is a darling...

~~~~~~to Diane and Edith..and JA.... Sylvia How are you ok we hope..

Better go and see what Les has been up to lately..

Lotsa love Mary xxx

now then ,where was i? oh ,yes ,i remember now ,hallo all ,again he he.
All my woes started around seven this morning while i was out in the garden ,with my cuppa ,opening up the greenhouse,Fred opens the door and reaches inside and flicks the switch the light goes on,then goes off ,there is a huge blue flash ,followed by a dirty great bang that rattled the greenhouse glass .oh horror ,was that me ,i wonder ,then turn round to look at the house ,,darkness ,so is next door ,so is next door next door ,so is round the corner,oh mummy ,if i caused that ,i isss going to be as popular as a pork chop at a jewish wedding.
Fred wanders out of the garden with some trepidation ,and walks round the corner to see the one remaining hole from the water board repairs ,again full of water ,and a horrible smell of burning ozone.relief , at least it wasn't me ,he he.
I am still hanging around when the electricty board come round the corner ,they pull up ,take one look ,and call the water board,they arrive ,take a look and they call the contractor,and when THEY arrive all hell breaks loose,culminating in the electricity board telling the water board that they will be billed for loss of power ,repairs to cables and any insurance claims that may arise. and this is passed on to the contractors,there is then much shouting gesculating ,and a sort of free for all ,just stopping short of fisticuffs ,,thought for one moment w w 3 was about to break out ,lol.
Any way ,now i am back on line ,enjoying my first cuppa of the day ,having as yet no shave ,wash or shower ,i am going to get my smelly bod' upstairs to get myself cleaned up .
Too late for dinner ,so we are having a B B Q for tea and i have the chicken strips and thighs marinading in a thai hot ,spicy home made sauce,have taken finger buns and buns out of the freezer for the snags and burgers,and the wife is making a nice side salad with stuff out of the greenhouse and garden,kick off is at 5 sharp ,so if anyone want's any ,get yer skates on ,Fred.

Hi Les'sneakkkkkky,lol,but lovely to see you as always.
Have to agree with Norm J a ,my standby laptop ,a 12 inch acer is a great little tool,upgraded to 2 gig memory,with a 140 gig hard drive ,it is fast ,easy to use,and is pretty lightweight as well,and handles the vodaphone dongle no bother when away and outside a wi fi area.
H P and Dell,now one firm are struggling but acer is an up and coming firm which sells good quality gear at good prices,
hope you tried the cagannon les' the bairns have me make it so often when they come ,i put in an extra kale plant this year to keep up with demand.
Poor Bella ,hope you havn't been feeding her lamb meat ,most big dogs can't handle that meat ,too fatty for them to digest,some dogs can't even handle beef that well ,but they are normally the smaller breeds. You are lucky you got a shower at all this morning,and a coffee ,i diodn't ,but i will tell you the reason for that later ,the page is jumping up and down again ,so i am signing off for now ,before it all goes walkies again ,as it has once already.
Catch you all later ,Fred.

Ha!Ha! fooled ya!! This motel has good internet so am making the most of it. Funny tho...I missed waking up in the van this morning.

JA Norm says to tell you that we have always had good luck with Compaq but he cautions you to buy what you need. If all you want is to read your email, download your pics, and scoot around your favourite sites then a little notebook like an Acer would do and they are cheap....well here at least. But if you want to burn cd's or dvd's ... well then you will need something beefier....does that help??? Son Simon bought a small Acer to take on their travels and loves it.

Fred we were in a restaurant on PEI and they had calgannon on the menue....how cool is that??

Bella's tummy is still a bit iffy so we still have her on chicken and rice. Read on the internet that pumpkin is good so have bought a can to try....not that any of this slows her down!!

Edith I fell in love with the south shore of Nova Scotia...would love to live there. We did not get to see the reversing falls....just not enough time to squeeze it all in.

OK...my turn for the shower. keep well you lot...thanks so much for all the comments on the blog...makes for good reading.

Wow Fred the holiday is getting closer..I am sure the weather is going to be fantastic and lovely and warm..Take a hat as the sun can be fierce..Love beetroot but john hates it, so I by it by the tin and eat it in my salads and sammys.. lol..
Hi Diane,, Lovely to see you have a vege patch also..You and Fred shoud compare notes..
Not much happening here so am having a quiet weekend..Hope all are well and fit..

Lots of love Mary xxx

I spent the rest of the morning after doing the beetroot to trim the hedges for the last time this year ,and now ,we are into getting cases paced for the holiday ,and the first one is ready,1 kilo on the safe side,he he.
Notice the writing is bouncing up and down again ,it really is about time genes got this problem sorted out .
Catch you all later .Fred.

Afternoon Edith ,Diane ,and anyone who happens by.
Someone else busy with the beetroot i see ,but someone could learn to keep their hands from being discoloured if they wore gloves to twist the leaves off instead of using a knife ,ooooops.
however i did make a sort of mistake he he ,which made things interesting at dinner time .lol
I had the beetroot cooked and peeled by 11 oclock this morning and then started the dinner
We decidedon mashed and roast potato with roast pepper and red onions ,with cabbage and baton carrots.
I decided at the last minute to do some hot beetroot for the dinner too which is lovely ,so ,seeing as i had the potatoes and veg in the steamer already i decided to add four little beetroot to the top tier.
Lets say i have invented a new mashed potato ,ideal for halloween ,lol, DELICATE SHADE OF RED,OOOER.
not to bother ,it tasted the same,anyway .

Evening everyone, hope you are all well, Les still enjoying her travels. Hope you are recovered from you Spider bite Fred, sounded awful!!!!
Been reading all the messages and catching up with all your news hope everyone is well. I've been pickling beetroot this afternoon and have lovely coloured fingertips to prove it, but is well worth it. It is our Village annual "Leek show" this weekend, so my son has been at the allotments with the old gardeners learing how to "dress onions"... well I know how to cook them, but I have never had to dress one (ha ha). It is always a nice time though as the community really pulls together and all the produce is lovely to see, then after the show there is an auction. Plent of broth.....Thats it for now... Bye and take care

Just moving us forward. Edith

Morning Mary ,Edith ,i too am enjoying the Les. Norm Bella trip,so much to see and do ,they are really making a go of it ,lol,and Bella is keeping them on their toes.
We fly on the 27th of this month Mary ,and i am taking the lappy with me ,hoping Sean is on wireless so that i can connect easily,which will also save carting usb cables with me.
Well ,we have had any chance of a summer here,i have never seen a year like it, only a handful[if that] of days where we have been up to 22c up here in the north,
All my summer veggies are now dying back so i will be picking them to store in sand when i come back.
The trees in the garden over the back are lashing around again ,so it looks like being very windy again today,so ,it's a stay in ,do the housework sort of day.
Catch you later all ,Fred,

Hi everyone.. We have had a very mild winter..in fact practically no winter at all..Not that I am sad about that,,I like this sort of weather but just hope it dosent mean we are in for a dry hot summer..
I have worked out how to operate Les's blog..I am quite mad where putas are concerned,,but I seem to get there in the end..It is great reading their story,,but am I right in thinking they went down south into the States and went across America to the east..I thought it was a trip across Canada..did they get lost again,,do hope they bought a car navigator or they might end up in OZ..hee hee hee,,now that would be great...lol

Fred.. Christmas dinner sounded yummy...are you now on a diet to recover..is that holiday out to Sean coming up soon,, should be great weather..Hope he is recovered from the bite..watch your step when you go outside there..dont want you getting bitten..

Edith.. Wander if Les will come home with a kilt..cant see it myself but then Normie might look good in one,lol...sounds like they are having a great time and getting lost in the process..hee hee hee..

Christine,, Hope you get the puta fixed up soon,,bet you have been playing patience in frustration.lol..


Have a lovely weekend all and love to those who havent been here for a while..

Love Mary xxx

Morning all Hope you as well as I are enjoying Les"s travels. My husband and I travelled that way several years ago. There is so much to see and so many events to take part in. The maritimes are magical, the Bay of Fundy with it's changing tide is fab, and the reversing falls even better.
The shops are full of Scottish heritage plus beautiful hand made kilts. Sure hope they get to see it all.
Our weather is getting into fall mode and we have yet to see summer, oh well Christmas will soon be here and we can eat away the sadness hee hee. Hope the rest of you are all well and happy. Fred, has your spider bite
resolved itself? Veronica, Teresa, and all the rest time to let us know how you are. Also took your advice Fred and refused 2 "chores" I am pleased.
Bye for now folks hope to see you all soon. Edith XXXXXXX

afternoon all old Fred is home after the practice Christmas dinner,and very nice it was too [burp] he he ,no tea for badger tonight ,just a cupp'a is all.
I Did warn you edith ,Edith i said ,you will find yourself busier than ever didn't i . A A [huh ,no one listens to old badgers] lol,yes ,you thought you would have plenty of time now to do all your odds and ends ,and hobbies too ,Wroooooong..
Mary ,i will be doing more than that when i get to the bungalow ,lol,i will be watching shade like a hawk AND be checking under my bed at night as well,just in case.
I will have a look at the blog next to see what Les and co are up to now,they are doing fine so far as far as i can see.
take care all ,and enjoy the long weekend Fred

Hi everyone As usual busy bees..

JA I went to Les.s blog and I could only find messages posted by friends..Must be dong something wrong,,will have another go..You all know I am tecno challenged,,,lol

Edith,,Glad to hear that you are ok and so busy,,I agree that retirement is not really retirement..lol,xxx

Fred,, When you get to Seans house give that cat a few lessons on catching mice...not snakes..hee hee..

Have a nice weekend all..

Mary xxx

Morning all. Just a note to say I'm well. A little busy again

with volunteering. Am going to stop saying I'm retired as it seems to be

a magnet for people to ask for help(free gratis) Think I''ll be a great author

or something, painter maybe??Must go, so stay well and see you soon.

Edith

Wake up Canucks missing the most amazing adventures of VP on her blog - so GO and READ and POST, she is missing us all
Phew climbs off soapbox and puts loud hailer down

Seriously, go and have a read, email me if you have lost web addy
~~~~~~~~Badger she would love a visit from you, Mary, Veronica, Michael and Terese as old times and new timers as well and anyone else. It is a great read
Edith hugs and good to read your comments, helps me understand a lot
Angels around pillows all

JA