still here

I'm still here - been a while since I posted. Just lazy, I guess.

We had a wonderful visit with our good friends Pam and Terry a few weeks ago. They were here with their RV for several days and we had lots of good catch-up chats. When Pam is in town, it is traditional for the gals who worked at Timminco to all meet for dinner at a local restaurant - our chance to keep in touch with each other and a very nice evening. We tried the new Santa Fe restaurant in Renfrew - it was okay but nothing special - still the important thing isn't the food - it is seeing everyone again! Rick and Terry did a few things to the RV - all in all a great visit and always look forward to the next one.

Rick and I have been kept quite busy over September - busier than my Septembers generally are in real estate and hopefully that will keep up for a while - although with hunting season coming up, things will pretty well grind to a stand still in Renfrew.

I think Fall is my favorite time of year! I don't miss the constant "wrrrrrrrrr" of our a/c's and fans (although I couldn't live without them in the summer-time). But I like it when we have the fireplace going and candles in the evenings. nice! We got a load of wood, but will probably need a couple more face cords to get us through the winter.

I don't have any pictures to add today - my lap top crashed a couple of days ago and I had to buy a new one. I didn't really lose anything - Rick had backed up family pictures not long ago on a disc and all our emails are on gmail, so they don't "go" anywhere. So, losing the laptop was only moderately inconvenient. And the new one was up and running in a very short period of time. Funny how things change - years ago, a computer crashing was the end of the world unless you were dilligent about back things up -and loading new software took forever, now, it's just a minor annoyance. A quick run to Staples, pick out a new one and back home and poof! you're up and running again.

I do have a new Windows version to adapt to - but that too doesn't seem to take much brain power either. too easy.

Our other new purchase was a long-wanted king-size bed. We've been talking about getting one for ages, and finally just went out bought one. We LOVE it!!! - lots of room for us and the cats who seem to think it is their bed and they just indulge us by letting us sleep on it. It did entail buying new sheets - something I hadn't had to do for a while - since when did they start selling "micro-fibre" sheets and what are they??? I think the micro-fibre ones are the remnants of material lieing on the floor in the big garment factories that get swept up and mushed into "micro-fibre" no thanks....I'll stick with cotton!

well that's it, folks - I'll try to blog better (for those who check) but always remember our lives are rather mundane and sometimes there's nuthin' exciting to report!!!