The Ridge
OnThursday, Apr. 18th, it was our day to take care of the mostimportant errands. I was up by 7:30 and we had our tea and breakfast together.There is one thing (of many) that we are relishing in here at home in relationto Gibbs. Yesterday, he cracked us up with his Ridge zoomies and it was thenthat we realized how wonderful it is to just open the door and let him out todo his business. đ
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| This morning, I took a walk around the property Sad to see this tree broke over the winter |
We bothbundled against the 6C/44F and wanted to believe that the rain would hold offuntil midnight. That didnât become reality and as I walked around, Gibbs ranaround and Bill puttered around, we were getting wet. We didnât have the strongwinds today which helped in a big way. Bill opened the sheds and outhouseyesterday so today he opened his cargo trailer and the Hangar. Until theweather cooperates, we wonât be moving too much out.
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| Our sheds - very wet from the rain The Hangar on the left My flower garden and Bunky/She Shed on the right |
Bill's Hangar - top
(woops, same pix)
Storage shed and outhouse on bottom
Before 9,Bill had taken the mail box down to the road and then we drove to our regularmechanic to book Black Beauty in for an oil change. That was our firstroadblock. Grey Bruce Fleet no longer does them, their business being mostly onbig diesel trucks. âč They recommended a couple of places inthe area to check out. From there, we drove to Murrayâs to pick up Ptooties. â„
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| These blue spruce trees grow like crazy |
My littleRav 4 waited all winter for me in his barn. Weâll get Jazz, our Yamaha, on thefirst suitable day to bring her home. On the way, we stopped at one of theshops about the oil change but they didnât deal with trucks as big as BB, so itwas down to one more place to try. On the way back, I took Ptooties to fill ourtwo 5-gallon water bottles. A little chit chat with Mark, and then I stopped atBath & Biscuit to make an appointment for Gibbs to get groomed in May.
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| When you see the plane, you know you're at Murray's |
Bill wentto the hardware store in town, to fill our water bladder and then to check outA & E Automotive on the way home. He, thankfully, was able to make anappointment for the oil change before he returned home. We had some lunch whilethe water was being transferred and then we carried on with the errands. Wedrove to Priceville, to the post office, to cancel the âHOLDâ on our mail butthis was our second stumble. They were closed for another half hour.
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| Happy to have my car back |
Okay, weâllgo to Hanover first to Donna and Gerryâs and pick up our mail. It was a fairbit of back and forth, at a time where gas is an absolutely ridiculous price, (itjumped 14Âą overnight), but fortunately weâd left Ptooties with a full tank. Itwas nice to see family again and have a great visit catching up. We left around3 and went back to the post office to take care of business there. That was itfor the running around. Inside, we relaxed until supper time.
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| Our pond |
Our second trip to Priceville
The boysdozed and I read my book. Itâs coming to its end and Iâll have to move on to adifferent author. âč Iâm having so much fun with thesestories. Supper was restaurant fare. I had liver and onions with pepper squashand Bill had fish and corn. There wasnât enough fish for both of us and hedoesnât like liver â at all. We cleaned up, loaded and ran the dishwasher andwatched The Voice together while I worked on my blog.
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| The liver was cooked perfectly! |
Gibbs was cuddling with Daddy after we ate
He has been a good little boy today
This wasa good day and we got a lot taken care of. Hopefully, the rain holds offtomorrow so I can get out to do some raking in the gardens and the laneway. Bill is overjoyed to hear that our chorus frogs are back and in terrific harmony! (sarcasm at its best!) They are so loud! đ On another note, today we wish our grandson, Connor, a very happy 19th birthday!
Happy Birthday, Connor!
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| We didn't see the sun all day...............so it was a surprise to see it preparing to set. Good night! |
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