About a year and a half ago I celebrated a milestone birthday so to celebrate (and prove I wasn't "over the hill" yet) I bought myself an IPod. It's been a learning curve....some parts curvier than others...but overall I'm really enjoying it, especially my Bible Apps. I have one that will actually read the passages to me..as long as I'm hooked into the internet. It is so neat!!!! I actually read along with it.
120 days ago I decided to read (or have read to me) the Psalms...one each day. There's 150 Psalms, so I've got 30 to go. Yesterday's reading went on and on and on...psalm 119 has 76 verses. It's labelled as "An Acrostic in Praise of the Scriptures". What the heck is an acrostic???? Out comes the dictionary (I know, tech savvy people would look it up on the internet, but I still tend to do things the way I learned eons ago). Anyway, an acrostic is a type of puzzle made up of using the first letter of certain words...for example North, East, West and South makes NEWS. Who says you can't teach an old dog new tricks????
Thursday, May 30, 2013
Monday, May 27, 2013
Mother's Day Dinner
Number 1 daughter and son-in-law had us over for dinner Saturday night. She'd been working such long hours the week before Mother's Day she didn't feel like coming over so instead made dinner for us this weekend....it was better late than never and was wonderful and so very tasty!!! We had such a good time!!
She and I also tried to cut some stuff out using her Cricket but couldn't find the cartridge we needed, so that didn't work. Then we both set up our new Windows 8 computers and she showed me a ton of stuff....but then I showed her something she didn't know, so I felt pretty good!!!! At least I didn't look as dumb as I was feeling!!!!
She and I also tried to cut some stuff out using her Cricket but couldn't find the cartridge we needed, so that didn't work. Then we both set up our new Windows 8 computers and she showed me a ton of stuff....but then I showed her something she didn't know, so I felt pretty good!!!! At least I didn't look as dumb as I was feeling!!!!
Saturday, May 25, 2013
Glad we Got Home
Glad we got home before the Skagit bridge got knocked out of commission...we'd been over that bridge several times when we were camping near there last week.
Thursday night my two daughters met me at my church and we attended the Ladies' Spring Tea. They always do such a wonderful job of decorating and making such good food. The speaker/singer was very good as well and it was just really nice to spend some time together.
Yesterday the guys were here and installed a new furnace. Our old one was over 45 years old and gave us really good service but it finally packed it in. The new one is a lot smaller but seems to work well...we'll find out for sure when winter comes. This morning it was quite chilly in the house so turned it on for awhile....so far, so good.
Thursday night my two daughters met me at my church and we attended the Ladies' Spring Tea. They always do such a wonderful job of decorating and making such good food. The speaker/singer was very good as well and it was just really nice to spend some time together.
Yesterday the guys were here and installed a new furnace. Our old one was over 45 years old and gave us really good service but it finally packed it in. The new one is a lot smaller but seems to work well...we'll find out for sure when winter comes. This morning it was quite chilly in the house so turned it on for awhile....so far, so good.
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Out in Our Trailer
We left home about 6pm on Mother's Day and overnighted in Silver Reef parking lot. Next morning we went in and had the senior's buffet before heading to Grandy Creek. Our friends J and E came the next day...they aren't Thousand Trails members but since Grandy Creek is Thousand Trails/KOA, they were able to stay as KOA. We had such a great time with them, doing puzzles, having dinner together and just chatting up a storm! After 4 days J & E left and it was time for us to move over to Mt Vernon for 4 more nights. Got home this afternoon. Yesterday we heard of the long border waits to come back to Canada and we were totally grateful that we're retired and able to plan not to come home on long weekends.
The weather was on again off again...rain then sun then rain then more sun.....any way, we didn't let a small thing like weather get in our way of enjoying ourselves!!!
The weather was on again off again...rain then sun then rain then more sun.....any way, we didn't let a small thing like weather get in our way of enjoying ourselves!!!
Saturday, May 11, 2013
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!
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!
Monday, May 6, 2013
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.
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.
Friday, May 3, 2013
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.
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.
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