Apr 20, 2020
How to watch ‘Leisure Seeker’ and a bit of this and that
Loved all the responses to the movie ‘Leisure Seeker’. More on that in a bit. Took a long while to figure it out.
I have decided to make my knee my number one priority in my life which means no matter what I do, my exercises twice per day as requested by Octavio ( gosh I miss him – and I worry about him ) and a good fast paced 30 – 40 minute daily walk is imperative. I looked in the mirror the other day and one knee is a few inches higher than the other. Obviously my body is out. Perhaps that is why I am having so many knee problems. I have had to cancel my Edmonton chiropractic appointment booked for mid May and I did get a full refund for both my airfare and my hotel. However that does not help me. Hopefully soon I will be able to see even a local practitioner. But at the moment they are all shut down. Colin’s lady works for him but not so much for me but she does help a bit. Since we were rear ended in Las Vegas in early November I have not been the same. Ninety percent of the time when I turn my neck to the right I have a shooting pain and often see stars. With some experimentation I have discovered that sitting at my desk for long periods, over two hours, is the source of my knee pain. I am trying to sit in the recliner and use the laptop for general reading and emailing but all my work files are on the desktop 🙁
This was only our second time out to a grocery store but we found that most were observing social distancing.
Today we went out for the second time since getting back home on March 26th. I am making menu plans for a few weeks ahead so that if I need something extra for meal prep I can pick it up for a few weeks at a time. It is impossible to take photos while wearing a mask and gloves and keeping clean what needs to remain clean. We each try and keep one hand clean which means that it has not touched anything but the car door handle or the credit card. It also takes both of us to use our dirty hand to open a produce bag.
Seriously, each of us only using one gloved hand would have made a great photo.
We could not get raisins nor Red River cereal today a Save On Foods. However they did have baking soda which we could not get before and they have two types of yeast which I understand is like gold. The main purpose of our trip out of the park was to drop ( we had to use a mail slot as the office is closed to us ) some signed papers and a cheque to our lawyer to complete our year end. I need that before I can complete ( well I actually have not even started 😯 ) our year end and tax payment. The other stop we made was to the local provincial liquor store. There were only two others in the store. I was shocked that our favourite day to day wine here at home was out of stock 😥 We prefer different brands of wine in Mexico. Once home I called the main store in Kelowna which was also out of stock of the Painted Turtle Pinot Grigio and ordered two cases. State by state they are going dry in Mexico. So just in case, I am going to stock up just a wee bit.
I am planning on sending my final donation amount to Dallas on the Isla in a few days. This is a good time to please donate $10.00. I do mean that seriously. Ten dollars here and ten dollars there makes a wonderful donation.
This what each package contains, one kilo each of rice, beans and flour plus pasta, tomato paste, one litre of oil and of milk plus fresh veggies. Costs are approximate and run at 200 pesos/$8.32 USD/11.77CAD per package. This will help the average family for 1 – 2 weeks plus the fresh fish that is being handed out. There are also others helping out with food in the Colonia.
A woman in the Colonia receiving her despensa or package of food from Rocio and Dallas. Yes that is her home behind her, her arm is in a sling and she had no shoes.
After 40 minutes I gave up and handed the task of finding the movie ‘Leisure Seekers’ for us to watch to Colin. Amazon Prime was not our friend and at one point said that we needed a legal Canadian address for our credit card 😯 There are some suggestions in the comments from last nights post worth your effort if you are in the USA. I have no idea how Colin came up with this, but for my fellow Canadians, You Tube is the answer.
A very good price to watch this movie. However Colin started to watch the movie to make sure that it worked out on our TV. Once you start to watch the movie you only have 48 hours to finish the show. However once you pay for the movie you have a full month to start to watch it but once you start to watch you only have 48 hours to complete the film. Guess we will have to watch it tomorrow as I am not in the mood to see it tonight.
Gandhi never had enough time in our world to share his wisdom.
I want to address a few comments here ( 9 PM and we have not started dinner yet and in the essence of time), thanks for your understanding. Marlene, I get over 200 emails per day and I was referring to incoming emails as we were driving every day. I did read the easy ones and responded and deleted many, but there were many that required my detailed input with time involved hence the back up of emails. David, I loved your Northern lights story. Brad thank you for going above and beyond. Carol, I hope that you can find the movie to watch. Rick, Karen and Living on the Cheap, be sure to check out You Tube. The rest of you, I think you should be covered in the above. Sorry but my eyes are crossing and blurring. This is what I consider an easy post to write but it still took over 90 minutes to put together. Love you all and please stay safe.
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Hi you 2
just wanted to let you know we are back in Canada since
Sunday
Have everything working now, supposed to snow today, left some awesome weather
All the vegetables that Dallas and Rosie are handing out came from us day before we left
We bought several hundred pesos from Maria Cardenas and donated for the hand out, potatoes, onions, carrots and tomatos….2 fold helped out 2 causes
they were very pleased with your fund raising efforts
hope we can get over this pandemic soon…..in isolation till May 1st…….awesome neighbours helping stock out fridge
talk to you soon
So glad that you are finally back in Canada. Nothing like leaving it until the last minute. What a brilliant idea, you certainly made those pesos count over and over, good for you. Enjoy your time in jail – but snow!!!
So glad to see what they are handing out foodwise, very thoughtful indeed. We’ve rented 1 movie previously on youtube, it worked well. Sorry about your neck – I don’t think any of us appreciated our chiropractors/dentists/hairdressers/dog groomers until this happened. I bet they won’t all open until N95 masks are widely available to the public as well as them. I think I am going to have to take Mom for a drive (both with our masks) as she is getting cabin fever bigtime….I just need to figure out how to do that safely.
I think that you are doing the right thing by taking your Mom out. Likely she really does need a mental break. Knowing you, you will figure out a safe way.
I think you are smart to make your knee a priority 🙂 We watched Leisure Seeker a while ago and loved it. And I was able to get some packages of yeast at the grocery store the last time I was there but not a jar, I didn’t realize it was such a hot commodity.
Going to watch the movie tonight with a special dinner. I met a lady today from across the road who told me she went to three stores to find yeast yesterday.
Hi, Contessa! Glad to see the food packages that are going out. I feel embarrassed by what 2 weeks worth of groceries consist of for my family. Can I still send more money thru PayPal to Dallas?
Yes you can still send a donation to Dallas thru PayPal. The more money we get the longer we can keep feeding families. I really appreciate your effort to help. I intend to eventually post how much I have raised plus more photos. Thank you for your second donation.
Mil gracias for helping out.
The Leisure Seeker is a good movie. A bit different, but good. Take care, Diane
We really enjoyed watching it. I hope that we can be like that at the end, make the right choices when the time comes.
I watched “Leisure Seeker” on Amazon ($3.99 rental) and very much enjoyed it. A feel good film. Thanks for recommending it!
Welcome to the comment section of my blog. lovely to have you here. So glad that y enjoyed the movie. We certainly did.