MY KITCHEN

 My cupboards have been installed but are wrapped because they are still sanding but this is what they look like.  It is the pictures from the kitchen designer at Home Hardware in Espanola.  Love the color and it goes very good with the floor.  Our lights over the island are actually close to wha5 we picked out.  Lots of drawers. We have purchased all our appliances but they won’t be delivered for at least a few months.  I don’t have a lot of kitchen stuff like dishes and pots and pans and cutlery yet. That will all have to be purchased in the future.  I will have an abundance of empty drawers and shelves I am sure.  There is no way that I will ever run out of room in this house!!

MORE PROGRESS

 The guys put some of the floor down up in the loft.  The bathroom half done but the 2 bedrooms plus the closets are done and the sitting area.  I love the floor.  I really didn’t remember what it looked like as my brain was mush and I had cancelled my first choice.  I was going to go grey but was talked out of it by just about everyone I knew.  Even my cupboards were grey ish and I cancelled them. So glad I did.  The new floor is like a sand color - no yellow in it at all.  Reminds me of the beach which is a very good thing.  The doors on on both bedrooms and Jodie’s room has the closet doors up. They have to be painted yet.  White!  Everything is going to be white.  The walls, the ceilings, the trim the stair risers, the closets, all the rooms.  It is a very nice white.  It is actually Beauti-Ton base white right off the shelf.  Easy peasy for the builders.  Same floor throughout the house and same paint color as well.  Still a lot of work to do but it is getting there.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME

 I am 73 today. Going into my 74th year of life on this planet. I find it hard to believe I am 73. I don’t feel 73.  I feel maybe 30 on a good day.  73 on a bad day.  I am feeling better than I have in the past 5 years thanks to a good combination of drugs that finally allow me to have the energy I used to have and not cough for the better part of the day. So I am back to as normal as I am ever going to get.

It was a very good day.  I got my chores done.  Stacey and Andrew and Little Miss Shilo came over for cocktails and dinner.  I messaged with Susan and Joanne.  Got to face time with Susan. Jodie sent me a little video of Charlie and Monty and her singing Happy Birthday to me.  Got some bills paid and now just relaxing.

It was a very good day

WORDLE & CANUCKLE BOARDS

As promised.  Today, I got Wordle in 3.  Canuckle - not so good but I got it.
 

WOW!

 Every morning I play Wordle and Canuckle plus a few other games to get my brain going.  I have been playing Wordle since it came out and Canuckle for the same length of time.  I am not bad if I do say so myself but today I was on fire!!!  I got Wordle in 2!  Just about shit my pants I was so surprised.  I started laughing and quickly showed Rejean the board and then messaged Andrew to let him know the good news.  I start with the same word every day as I am sure others do the same.  I use ADIEU.  Lots of vowels.

I didn’t have time to do Canuckle as we were off to the Sault to do some shopping.  I got home and signed on to Canuckle and guess what.  I also got it in 2.  Either they were very easy or I just had a lucky day.  Sometimes I don’t get the word at all and sometimes it takes all the guesses to get it.

I would have posted the screen shots of today’s games to show you but just in case some of you haven’t done your games today, I didn’t.  But I will tomorrow.

HYDRO FINALLY

 We have been waiting a long time for hydro to come and connect the new house to our hydro.  It has been weeks if not months waiting for them to come.  We were close once but when they showed up, we didn’t have the wire that we were to provide which no one told us about.  Our electrician had to drive all the way to the Sault to purchase it.  Then they didn’t come back the next day as discussed. Then two members of the team called in sick so it was rescheduled for today.  We woke up to a closed highway and -25 weather.  OPP had the highway open but another site had it closed.  Finally a call to the OPP Thessalon office verified it was open but the signage just hadn’t been removed.  After an hour or so hydro was in our driveway.  We now have hydro to heat the house for our poor workers. We did have generators running heaters for the guys.

It is always something…

NORTHERN LIGHTS

 Living up here you would think I have seen the Northern Lights quite a bit.  I can probably count the number of times on one hand.  Tonite, with the help of a Facebook post from The Tunnel Lake Trading Post just about 15 minutes ago, I saw them again.  After verifying the posted picture was taken “right now” I quickly dressed for the -13 but feels like -20 degree weather and stood on my back porch and watched the lights.  They weren’t vivid or plentiful but the shafts of light thru the sky was unmistakably the Northern Lights.  There was a glow of a pale green color in the northern sky and I am sure if I had the proper camera equipment, it would have been brilliant.  I will check later to see if they are still there - once I warm up.

My iPad had some updates last nite and I am unable to access my photos now.  Give me a day or two to ask Andrew to help me fix this.