Fridges

This has been the year of the fridges!  First off, our upstairs fridge (on the main floor) started acting up.  It would work fine for a week, and then quit for no apparent reason - only to restart itself after a few hours - just long enough for all the stuff in the freezer to be spoiled!  So, as you know, we bought a new fridge.  Then Kev-Inn's big freezer, which was at his daughter's, quit and he lost a large portion of last year's moose.  Finally (all things happen in three's), Aunt Peggy's fridge started leaking water across her kitchen floor.  After a great deal of trying, Poppa called in an expert who said it would be more costly to fix it than to get a new one.  So we took a picture of Aunt Peggy with her old faithful fridge, which had lasted for more than 20 years..........

The two old girls are looking pretty good hey?  Shortly afterwards, once Poppa had scrubbed the floor all nice and clean........we got another picture of Aunt Peggy with her new toy!

She was quite anxious to get it filled up, and it didn't take long for us to rescue the food from the cooler and get it back into the new fridge.  She seemed quite happy with it and it was nice to see her with something shiny and new!

Early the next week, we took Great-Grandma for an appointment with the eye doctor..........

...and while she was there, Poppa took advantage of the time to go for a haircut, and Squeegie and Taffy waited patiently in the car.

As you can see, Squeegie was a tad bored and Taffy was trying to climb over him to get to me!  You can also see that our weather has cooled down considerably - they have long pants and their jackets on.  Oh well, in another three months we will be heading to Florida!!  Yay!!!  I can picture the villa already!

Yep - my car sitting under the palm trees in the Florida sunshine - can't wait.  But, I digress..........a few days later we had a surprise visit from Uncle Ernie, I caught him with the camera just before he left.  He and Poppa were doing their thing and chatting in the driveway before the final departure.

 Uncle Ernie is doing well and is back to work part-time after a long round of cancer treatments.  We were quite pleased to see him and this picture also shows off his new vehicle!  And - I think I can see a family resemblance between these two brothers - can you see it???

I got some knitting done during this time too...........here is the blanket for that new baby in New York.........showing the edging I had finished up to last Tuesday.

I took this picture in the evening and had two different light sources, which skewed the colour in a portion of the picture - the blue is not the correct colour- but you can see the correct colour in the picture below.  I also didn't take the time to spread the leaves out nicely on the border, I'll do that for the final picture.  I have also started working on the overalls - here is what one leg looks like.

The other leg is commencing nicely.  I work on the lace edging when the TV is boring, and the overalls when I want to pay attention to the TV.  The lace requires looking and counting, the overalls - not so much!

On Wednesday our little grandchildren came to stay for a couple of days with Mommee - and needless to say, the knitting slowed down considerably!  Mommee was looking forward to a break!

We were quite busy for those two days - and we certainly enjoyed the visit!  More details to come soon!