Sunday
It was much cooler for my morning walk. I even had on a sweater and was still chilly till I got moving!
I was out of eye drops so I headed over to Walmart to get my prescription filled. While out I did a few other errands.
After lunch, I went out and washed the interior of the truck, then tried to get the bugs off the grille. Gordon came out and cleaned the hubcaps and then washed the outside of the truck. While he was doing that I washed the car. We went out to get some Armorall and some For Sale signs but they were all out of them at Dollarama and they wanted $5.99 at Canadian Tire so we'll wait till we go to Ottawa next week and get some there. Why pay $5.99 when you can buy them for $1.00?
And then, of course....it rained!
Monday
Happy Labour Day!
It was sunny and cool for my walk this morning. I took a different route and walked a bit through the eastern part of downtown. In walking past the Comfort Inn I saw that they have a deck built for outdoor dining. Might have to look into that!
I got one thing done today - I put mactac on the shelf below the bathroom sink. Other than that I read.
We had more rain.
Tuesday
It was raining when I got up this morning however it turned into a beautiful sunny, warm day.
I was up early as we had to go to Ottawa for an appointment with my periodontist's office to have my teeth cleaned as well as one to get our shots for shingles. We got that out of the way and ran a few errands then headed home.
I even got to sit out on my front porch and read for a while today (and listen to my wind chimes). It was just a beautiful afternoon which turned into a really awful evening with lots of heavy rain and thunderstorms.
Today I'm done with eye drops in my right eye which was the first one done on August 4th. It will be two more weeks for the left one. It's been said that the worst part of the cataract operation is the eye drops and I have to agree with that although having someone poking around in my eye wasn't fun either but at least it didn't take long!
Sunday, 5 September 2010
Wednesday, 1 September 2010
Wednesday to Saturday September 1-4, 2010
Wednesday
Today was another hot, sunny day. I did go for my walk this morning as my shoulder is improving greatly. I can't say enough good things about A535! I did notice when I was out this morning that a lot of the green trees now have red leaves. How does that happen when it's been so hot?
I went out for groceries this morning. Thank goodness I took the cooler with me!
When I got back I did some couch time with my book. I got regular print books instead of large print at the library this time for the first time in about 2 years.
Thursday
It was cloudy and humid when I took off for my walk this morning. We had sun, cloud and rain today, a real variety.
We made one trip to Home Hardware this morning but other than that stayed home all day and read or was on the computer. I have a huge amount of stuff piling up to do, one of which is posting all my receipts to my spreadsheet which I have only done once since we moved here. That is going to be a very tedious job.
Friday
It was sunny and humid this morning as I set out for my walk.
The plan for today was to head in to Ottawa, go to Ikea to get some bookshelves to surround our TV then go to my sister's for birthday dinner for Gordon and I. I had a sleep test scheduled at the Queensway Carleton Hospital so Gordon was dropping me off and going back to Margie's to spend the night as I was to be released between 5 and 6 a.m. and it's too far to drive for that sort of timeline. Originally I was going to drive myself but when Margie suggested the birthday dinner, other arrangements were made.
We had a nice dinner at Margie's. Danica had to leave to referee an old timer's soccer match but Nick and Becky and 'Bean' were there along with friends of theirs and their baby.
I arrived at the Queensway Carleton Hospital early for my sleep test, sat and read my book for a bit, then filled out the required forms when the night staff showed up and was given my room and wired up for the night. It's not easy to sleep with all those wires hanging off you!
Saturday
I think I slept about 3 1/2 hours so hopefully they were able to get enough information. I was roused at 5:30 a.m., filled out more forms, called Gordon to come and pick me up and we headed home.
It was much cooler this morning after the rain we had last night and the wind today was almost chilly. This morning was also the first sunrise I have seen in quite some time but there was quite a bit of cloud so it wasn't spectacular. We did stop along the way and took some ground fog photos.
The sky lightens
And the sun casts a golden glow on the trees
We thought this cloud looked like a piece of blueberry pie with a scoop of ice cream
After unpacking the car, putting away presents and having breakfast we headed out to see if there were any garage sales. I managed to find a corner shelf that I've been wanting. There weren't too many happening today. It was supposed to rain all day so I guess people decided not to bother. When we returned home we both lay down for a while but I couldn't sleep so after lunch I suggested we start getting the truck cleaned up in preparation to sell.
Somewhere in there I had to have a shower to get all the goop out of my hair from the electrodes. YUCK!
We cleaned all the stuff out of it and Gordon moved that to the basement while I did the best vacuuming job I could with the little shop vac we have. It looks better but there's more to do!
Gordon also hung my shelf and I have put some stuff on it already!
After that it was time to relax and I was able to have a nap while listening to the wind chimes that my niece gave me for my birthday tinkling from the front porch. A very pleasant sound......
Today was another hot, sunny day. I did go for my walk this morning as my shoulder is improving greatly. I can't say enough good things about A535! I did notice when I was out this morning that a lot of the green trees now have red leaves. How does that happen when it's been so hot?
I went out for groceries this morning. Thank goodness I took the cooler with me!
When I got back I did some couch time with my book. I got regular print books instead of large print at the library this time for the first time in about 2 years.
Thursday
It was cloudy and humid when I took off for my walk this morning. We had sun, cloud and rain today, a real variety.
We made one trip to Home Hardware this morning but other than that stayed home all day and read or was on the computer. I have a huge amount of stuff piling up to do, one of which is posting all my receipts to my spreadsheet which I have only done once since we moved here. That is going to be a very tedious job.
Friday
It was sunny and humid this morning as I set out for my walk.
The plan for today was to head in to Ottawa, go to Ikea to get some bookshelves to surround our TV then go to my sister's for birthday dinner for Gordon and I. I had a sleep test scheduled at the Queensway Carleton Hospital so Gordon was dropping me off and going back to Margie's to spend the night as I was to be released between 5 and 6 a.m. and it's too far to drive for that sort of timeline. Originally I was going to drive myself but when Margie suggested the birthday dinner, other arrangements were made.
We had a nice dinner at Margie's. Danica had to leave to referee an old timer's soccer match but Nick and Becky and 'Bean' were there along with friends of theirs and their baby.
I arrived at the Queensway Carleton Hospital early for my sleep test, sat and read my book for a bit, then filled out the required forms when the night staff showed up and was given my room and wired up for the night. It's not easy to sleep with all those wires hanging off you!
Saturday
I think I slept about 3 1/2 hours so hopefully they were able to get enough information. I was roused at 5:30 a.m., filled out more forms, called Gordon to come and pick me up and we headed home.
It was much cooler this morning after the rain we had last night and the wind today was almost chilly. This morning was also the first sunrise I have seen in quite some time but there was quite a bit of cloud so it wasn't spectacular. We did stop along the way and took some ground fog photos.
Ground fog
The sky lightens
And the sun casts a golden glow on the trees
The sun coming up behind the trees
We thought this cloud looked like a piece of blueberry pie with a scoop of ice cream
After unpacking the car, putting away presents and having breakfast we headed out to see if there were any garage sales. I managed to find a corner shelf that I've been wanting. There weren't too many happening today. It was supposed to rain all day so I guess people decided not to bother. When we returned home we both lay down for a while but I couldn't sleep so after lunch I suggested we start getting the truck cleaned up in preparation to sell.
Somewhere in there I had to have a shower to get all the goop out of my hair from the electrodes. YUCK!
We cleaned all the stuff out of it and Gordon moved that to the basement while I did the best vacuuming job I could with the little shop vac we have. It looks better but there's more to do!
Gordon also hung my shelf and I have put some stuff on it already!
The shelf is a good match for the woodwork
After that it was time to relax and I was able to have a nap while listening to the wind chimes that my niece gave me for my birthday tinkling from the front porch. A very pleasant sound......
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