A Few Noteworthies

Here is a really interesting picture from Uncle Shaun's camera......

....how intriguing!  Here is Auntie Colleen's commentary regarding this shot...."When Shaun was out wandering last weekend, he discovered a new species! He was shooting a dilapidated old house out near St. Columbkilles when he spotted this creature on the roof. Now, it may look like a typical groundhog but please... who's ever heard of a groundhog on a roof?" She calls this shot Roofhog - too cute!  We have had a relative of this fellow around our property for quite a while now.  He/she/it keeps trying to burrow underneath our front steps, and Poppa keeps blocking the entrance in an effort to keep he/she/it out.  He is afraid that the critter will undermine the concrete steps and cause a serious collapse!


Here is another nifty picture that I took one day at Aunt Peggy's house.  When I arrived there at my usual time, to prepare her supper - her cousin Tommy was there for a visit.  These two had spent a lot of time together in their younger days - cavorting around doing things that young people did - which included hitch-hiking to The City which was about 85 miles south of where they lived!  Quite an undertaking - a person sure wouldn't want to try that nowadays!  Anyway, here they are....

....still enjoying each other's company!  


Now I wonder what Poppa is doing in that bedroom for the little boys????

Hmmm.......looks like he is measuring for some reason?????


We had a 12 hour power outage the other day.  Someone hit a hydro pole on the highway.  Fortunately they were not hurt - but the power lines that came down were major high-voltage lines which required a lot of careful planning by the Ontario Hydro workers to make the environment safe enough for them to work on replacing things so that power could be restored.  The power went out about 3pm in the afternoon and came back on about 3am the next morning.  Poppa was worried about the sump pump - what with all the rain we've had lately - it was running fairly often.  He got the generator from his workshop and got it up and running.  This gave us the opportunity to keep both fridges cold, the sump pump running - AND - a light so that I could work on socks.  I now have almost seven pairs ready...

.....here are the first six pairs, carefully tucked into a plastic bag to keep them fresh and neat.  About 12:30 I set my knitting aside and went to bed with a flash-light.  Poppa, however, stayed up to watch things.  About 1:00 am he headed up to talk to the workers and inquire about the status.  They told him the power should be restored about 3-4am, and described the accident and the consequences to him.  He enjoyed that part of his night, even though he was getting tired!  Finally after the power came on, he tidied up his cords and put away his generator and went to bed.  After a sleep-in for him, he was still thinking about what that power outage might have affected and went out to check his hot tub...

..........which was just fine!  So we headed off to the donut shop for a coffee.  I took pleasure in this view....

...of the little Lily of the Valley flowers peeking through the railing and spreading their beautiful scent for us to inhale!  We had our minds all set on a breakfast sandwich at the donut shop - only to discover that Poppa had slept in late enough that they were no longer serving breakfast!  So I told Poppa that a bagel would be nice and headed off to snaffle a newspaper for him to read while he sipped his coffee. 

There he is waiting to pick up the bagels - and when he arrived with mine he said "I got yours with cream cheese, is that ok?"  Bless his heart, he has obviously been married to me far too long - it was delicious!


Remember Auntie Denise's new car?  I posted a picture while we were in Florida.  Well....she had problems with it and now has another new car!  Here is the latest edition of "Auntie Denise's Car".

She looks quite pleased and the car is very pretty!  


Please take a moment to participate in the little survey located just above the counter to the right of this blog to help me prepare for the next giveaway.  Here is another glance at that plastic bag full of socks - just to pique your interest!