Friday, September 29, 2006

Our (no longer) favourite Chinese buffet...

Well, Friday night at the Epicurean buffet - guess it's time to write that place off our list - is it just us, or has the quality really bottomed out...
Maybe it's the staff shortage - the sign on the door says you can get a job there doing just about anything you choose...
I have a freezer full of food waiting to be cooked, and we spent two hours picking through the offerings (100 items - woo hoo) and all we really came home with was lots of gas...
Pepto Bismal - new bedtime snack...
later man, jan

Sunday, September 24, 2006

Morgan - First Birthday party...



So Morgan is now a big 1 and he has more toys...




And enjoyed the cake as expected...



later man, jan

Saturday, September 23, 2006

Thanksgiving - one last fling at the cabin...

Just thinking about how fast Thanksgiving is coming - and how we have to figure out how many are sleeping and eating in the cabin this year - madness - trying to have one last fling and winterize the cabin all on one weekend...
















but Bacon's Haven is so beautiful in the fall... even a just visit to beer creek...
















...wondering if John has fixed the pull rope on the boat motor...
I forgot to ask him - I took this photo this July at high water...
















wondering if the mountain has finally stopped burning ...








I am surrounded by photos of our special place, here at home and also at the bank... It's easy to sit and daydream - fill the truck with gas, load on the food and clothes and don't forget the dog... and let's get going...

sigh, later man, jan

Babysitting for Trish...

OK - now I need a new monitor - this new machine of Trish and Dan's has this big, beautiful flat screen - and the crisp, clean - whew, will I moan and complain when I get home... sigh...

Well, Peter has left with his mum for his first bottle drive as a new Beaver. Morgan couldn't get down for his nap fast enough - you sure can tell when he's ready... He can be grinning from ear to ear and then cry in the space of three seconds. But, oh what a love!

So now what - well Trish has the dishwasher running - all that free hot water going down the drain - so I plug up the sink and search for her Blue Wonder cloth - kitchen window, french door and front room window - all with one sink of hot dishwasher rinse water - if you don't have any Blue Wonder cloths in your house, you are silly, silly :) I could get a job as a distributor for them if I had any sense.

John is at home , hopefully starting to put the stairs on the new deck (the dog can get down, but not back up :) This spring, the boards felt a little springy as I stepped out of the patio door. Our 30 year old decking practically fell apart by itself when I decided it was time to attack it. Only had to pull one nail in three. The way I get John to do stuff is to rip out the old stuff. It's worked so far with carpet, wallpaper, sidewalk blocks and now the deck. So now John is proud of the new decking - that composite stuff, supposed to last the rest of our lives, and the new railing - white aluminum so I can wipe of the bird poop easily (the birds are feasting right now on the masses of berries in the two mountain ash trees hanging over the deck).

Things would move faster at our house if we could focus more tho. We spent almost the whole summer at the cabin so now John has to push for the finish. I was laying new sod last week in the pouring rain, but it was the only day I had so it got done. Could have foregone my shower that morning, I was that wet when I finished. Of course if the greenhouse hadn't run out of sod the day before, I could have done it in sunshine. But that's not how my life travels - certainly not in any straight lines - go with the flow, man, go with the flow...

Boy, you can really get into this diary stuff... certainly faster that writing in my regular journal .. better be careful not to "bare all" :))))

later man, jan

Friday, September 22, 2006

Jan wants to share...

So where do I type - Oh here it is...
and then it jumps when I hit the enter
oh yeah... well there's Morgan enjoying his game with Katie...and here's Peter on his way from the cabin down the path to the beach...
and this is the 2006 photo of Trish in front of the cabin - beginning to be a traditional shot - I must search back for the previous ones and we can compare...

Well, everyone else seems to be doing this bloggin stuff ... so who am I to pass it up... I chose this format because I liked the look of the aussiebeck at blogspot.com that Todd and Bianca have been posting on. So here goes...

I loaded some photo and typed some words...

so now to retire / regroup / and let the whole concept percolate in my grey matter...

and then Phil can give me some hints ?? :) Cause now I have no idea where to go... later man, jan

ps - gotta learn something new now and then to check my sanity :)