Exasperation 101

Thursday we headed out to look at another rancher in a gated community.  It ended up being way out in Abbotsford...further than we thought.  The house was nice, I could really see myself living there.  The garage was wide and long enough for the truck, so we tried to pull into the garage...opps ....too low...back to the drawing board.  Good thing we were watching and didn't hit!!!  We like the idea of a rancher rather than a two story but it seems they only built a few of them about 15 to 20 years ago...land is too valuable now and they can get more two-story  homes on less land, so ranchers are hard to find.

Let's go look at motorhomes.  We could trade the truck and trailer in, get a motorhome and solve the problem of finding a place to park the truck.  Went to FraserWay RV, after going in and out of several we found a really nice motorhome BUT there are two slides in the bedroom and when they come in they come over the bed a bit on each side.  If you didn't want to put the slides out, you'd have to crawl into bed from the foot of the bed, not only that, but if the slides were out and it rains, when you bring them in the bed's going to get a bit wet....not going to work!!!

Came home and we're both tired so rest for awhile then decide to go to the casino for supper.  We've got a coupon, so we buy the buffet (it was really good) then after eating we took our coupon and receipt to the card center and they gave each of us a round scratch ticket.  B got $5 on his ticket and I got $50! Played for awhile and ended up losing a total of $3...but still ahead $47, so that was good.

Friday I went and got some lettuce and zucchini plants and got them in the garden but they didn't have any of the squash plants I wanted, so I have to go back in a couple of weeks.  Also played on my new computer a bit.  There's some parts of Windows 8 I really like but mostly it's very frustrating to try and learn everything!!

It's been so nice and sunny all week but now it's raining...oh well, at least it'll water my garden!

Keeping Busy

Saturday we went to our granddaughter C's dance recital.  Our son-in-law and oldest granddaughter were also there but they had to run as soon as the concert was finished because R had a ukulele concert to play in.  By the time we got home we were tired and hot (when summer comes it comes fast and hot!!!) so we relaxed for awhile then I ordered pizza.  B went to get it and we had pizza and beer for supper...quite enjoyed it.

Sunday we went to church.  The sermon was on marriage.  Our pastor's been doing this series and it's really quite fascinating.  He even called all the married couples who wanted a special blessing to come to the front...it was really nice!

Came home and had a couple pieces of leftover pizza and went out to see the house in the gated community.  Nice place, wide streets, lovely private patio BUT the truck is too long for the garage OR the driveway!  Guess we'll have to keep looking.

Got home in time to go to the "date night" they were having at the church (part of the pastor's sermon theme).  There was a video from "Focus on the Family" which was really enjoyable and funny.  Then we had dessert.

Today is time to catch up on some work around here.

Wedding

Today we had the privilege to go to our friends' son's wedding and later to go to the reception.  Everything was lovely. Weddings are sure planned to the minutest detail these days...not like our wedding 40 some odd years ago!  The theme of their wedding was coffee because she worked her way through university by working at a coffee shop making all sorts of lattes, espressos and all the other exotic coffees they serve these days.  Each guest got to take home a little jar of coffee beans and the tables instead of being numbered had a tag with a different kind of coffee drink....who would have guessed there were that many kinds of coffee drinks????  The table we were seated at was "coffee cortada" (or something like that, I'd never heard of it before) and neither had any of the six people at our table.  They played the "shoe game".  A couple from the bridal party asked them questions.  The bride and groom were seated back to back and they each had one of his shoes and one of her shoes and in answer to the question, "who is most likely to......???", they would hold up either "his" or "her" shoe.  It was amazing how many questions they answered with the same shoe!  They seem to know each other quite well. You could tell they had taken dancing lessons especially for the occasion because their "first dance" well done so flawlessly.

We haven't been to a wedding in ages and ages...at our age we tend to go to a lot more funerals!!!  Driving home we got to talking and it seems like the last wedding we were at was our daughter's, and that was over 6 years ago!

Anyway, they're a delightful couple and we wish them a long and happy life together.

New Computer

This new computer is presenting quite the learning curve for me!!!!  I did figure out Skype and how to disable the mouse pad when I use an external mouse...now I can actually type an email without the cursor jumping all over the place...still having a hard time reaching the shift key so I end up with
" \i " a lot.  Sure is a lot more to learn...think I'll have to see if I can find a "Windows 8 for Dummys" book.

Had an appointment with a travel agent this week.  We have a milestone anniversary coming up and thought a River Cruise might be a good way to celebrate...MAN ARE THEY EXPENSIVE...so not sure what we're going to do.  When we came out of the travel agents, we discovered we had a low tire so called BCAA and got it pumped up but now we have to get that checked out.

Yesterday I phoned a friend and she sounded so good compared to how she's been all winter.  The reason for her sounding better is that they sold their house and bought a rancher in a gated community. B and I have thought about doing that but we want to find one with RV parking.  My friend's real estate agent has such a place listed and they're having an open house on Sunday, so guess where we're off to after church on Sunday????  Then when we get home our pastor has been doing a series on "love, marriage, sex and singles" so he's arranged a "date night" for the couples in our church...knowing our pastor, it's going to be interesting!!!

Between computers, travel plans, and thinking of buying and selling and moving, I tell you my brain has been working overtime!!!

My computer was delivered.  I plugged it in and was doing fine till I tried to connect to the wireless internet...couldn't find the right spots to click on so phoned my friend.  We went up there and it was a learning curve for him as well since he's never worked on Windows 8.  We did get some things figured out and now I find I have to also get used to a new keyboard...keep hitting the wrong keys and have to really look for things like the delete key!  I did figure out Skype and talked to my cousin and I've set up some "favorites", so I think I'm doing quite well!!!

Yesterday we went to our oldest grand daughter's ukulele concert and it was fabulous!!!!  She and her dad (he works on the sound board for the concert) had to stay for the evening concert so our daughter and the other 3 grandkids went back to their place, ordered Chinese food and had a feast while we visited.  My sister had given me some clothes for the youngest and C had so much fun trying on all the clothes...she was so impressed with them!!!

Long time of not Blogging

The last 2 years have been crazy around here.  Things have hopefully settled down and now I'd like to see if I can get around to blogging again.  I really enjoyed it at the time so hopefully will again.

Recap of my life for the past two years:

We're still getting out in our trailer and enjoying our Beachwood and Thousand Trails memberships.

Mom had lung cancer and I ended up spending a lot of time with her...talking, doing her shopping, cooking, meeting with home care nurses...anything I could do to make her life easier.  She passed away eight months ago and I still miss her terribly.  It's been quite a job cleaning out all her earthly possessions and it's made me realize that I end up "collecting" just as much junk!!!  Got to make things easier for our kids when we go so I've been on a campaign to de-junk....got a feeling it's going to take me several years!!!

My laptop computer was giving me problems so a friend cleaned it up for me but it's still not working right so I ordered a new one.  Of course I don't know too much about computers so he recommended which one I should get.  I ordered it and have been tracking its travels to me.  I should get it today.  In the meantime my cousin's son-in-law asked if he could look at my old laptop and he did all kinds of stuff to it and hooked it up to an external monitor and it's working really good right now...still looking forward to my new one though.

Time to Get back to Blogging

So much has happened since my last blog!  Both hubby and I had milestone birthdays...so now I'm really feeling old.  I had a really nice birthday EXCEPT....hubby got a "charlie horse" in his calf muscle the morning of my birthday and it just wouldn't go away, in fact it travelled up into the thigh muscle.  Then he had 3 days of fever and chills (which we thought was lack of sleep and dehydration...especially when I made him a couple cups of hot water and honey and the chills stopped).  Got him into our doctor...our doctor is so special...you can phone him and actually get in to see him that day!  The Dr. thought it was muscular BUT...it could be a blood clot so if the leg swells up...get him to emergency...in the meantime take these heavy duty muscle relaxants.  A few hours later a rash appears on his leg where he'd been rubbing A535 and/or Aspercreme...reaction???  sounds logical!  Leg definately not getting better so it's off to emergency where after 3 hours he was told he has shingles and he could get some anti-viral meds but they may not do any good since it's been over 3 days since the rash appeared.  The pain will probably last another month but could last a couple of years or longer...that's not good news!!!!  We got the meds anyway, he took them and now he's SLOWLY starting to get better...at least now he can stand, sit or lie down for more than 5 minutes at a time!!

Yesterday we went out for the day and stopped at the casino which has the $2 buffet.  It was so nice to get out of the house, but today he's really tired and sore.  I am so looking forward to the time when he will be well enough for us to hook up the trailer and take off...everyone else we know is off travelling and we're stuck at home!