Oct 13, 2012
It came together just at the right time. We have had a weather change. The morning the gasfitter came I was out and that is a good thing. Otherwise we would likely still not have a working fireplace. Remember it was to be a 3 week wait for the venting parts and I found them […]
Oct 08, 2012
While doing the laundry yesterday I noticed that our new Frigidaire washer/dryer are now owned by Electrolux but manufactured in Mexico! Our kitchen backsplash tiles are from Durango, Mexico. I started a new book the other evening, a very interesting mystery. It is called 'The Lost Years' by Mary Higgins Clark so I know it […]
Oct 05, 2012
Can you believe it is already the Friday of our Canadian Thanksgiving long weekend? Time is flying almost as fast as the leaves are falling. Colin and I have no family here so we treat the weekend no differently than most and at this time of year that means work. Today Colin is in Kamloops […]
Oct 03, 2012
Calgary is getting snow showers and we have blue sky and sunshine. It was down to -5C last night with the windchill but we are back up to 14C today. Truly a perfect autumn day. So yesterday the fireplace never got set up. The installer discovered that the pieces he needed ( if you remember […]
Sep 30, 2012
Yes we live on Duck Lake and it is to be expected but they seem to be getting louder and louder as fall moves on. Colin took this shot at 11:50PM, he said the ducks were swarming in front of our beach house. After he took the shot he woke me up so I could […]