13 April 2008
So, How Was Everyone's July 4th?
16/04/08 05:43
Last week was eventful but not on the 4th, Doug had his fireworks early.
At work Doug had to do a couple of overnights. It started on Monday when in the middle of the afternoon a guy showed up with a box under his arm. He was from Cisco and was here to replace one of our network routers. Apparently the router had told the Corporate IT office that it was failing. They scheduled a replacement, but never told us. They arranged for the tech to come back the next morning (believe me Monday afternoon is not the time to cut half of the network off). Doug had to go into the office at 2 am and within a couple hours the new router was up and running. Then at 10:30 that night Doug's phone rang. It was work and the router had gone down. He went in and spent the whole night trying to get the box running. It turned out that the unit from Cisco was defective. They arranged for another replacement and Doug got home at 8:00 Wednesday morning. Fortunately, the replacement came in during the day on Thursday and because the router was completely out they were able to replace it without waiting for the middle of the night.
Last week was HOT. OK hot for here. Temperatures in the afternoon were up around 25 to 28 most of the week. It was the pits because that's just when we were trying to get to sleep each day. Along with the heat, it was very hazy. We didn't see the mountains across the water all week. The grey water merged seamlessly into the grey sky. Finally Thursday the heat broke and it dropped into the high teens. Saturday we could see the mountains again.
This week we were setting in the living room when a deer walked into the front yard and commenced to browse on our flowers. We were just saying something about @#$%&!! deer when her fawn came around the corner. It was so small it still had spots. Then a second fawn cane around the corner. True she was teaching her fawns to nibble our plants but they were so cute. We were very feeling very ambivalent about this.
Sunday we got together with Barbara for another movie night. We saw one of the Walking with Dinosaurs series (her choice) and she made tacos. It was a lot of fun. We had taken Geiger over with us to visit the other kitties. He was a bit of a jerk though and we had to keep an eye on him because all he wanted to do was chase the other cats around and show them he was the Alpha male.
We received our US Economic Stimulus check today so tomorrow it will go into the bank. No plan to spend it right away, we are keeping it to help pay for our eclipse trip. I am still waiting for my Canadian return and if it does not come in this week, I'm going to check in with our accountant to see what is going on as Doug had his return before we left on our June holiday.
So that's it from the Island. The pictures are of the deer and Geiger. Just try to convince me his sleeping position is comfortable.
Enjoy.
Marsh and Doug
At work Doug had to do a couple of overnights. It started on Monday when in the middle of the afternoon a guy showed up with a box under his arm. He was from Cisco and was here to replace one of our network routers. Apparently the router had told the Corporate IT office that it was failing. They scheduled a replacement, but never told us. They arranged for the tech to come back the next morning (believe me Monday afternoon is not the time to cut half of the network off). Doug had to go into the office at 2 am and within a couple hours the new router was up and running. Then at 10:30 that night Doug's phone rang. It was work and the router had gone down. He went in and spent the whole night trying to get the box running. It turned out that the unit from Cisco was defective. They arranged for another replacement and Doug got home at 8:00 Wednesday morning. Fortunately, the replacement came in during the day on Thursday and because the router was completely out they were able to replace it without waiting for the middle of the night.
Last week was HOT. OK hot for here. Temperatures in the afternoon were up around 25 to 28 most of the week. It was the pits because that's just when we were trying to get to sleep each day. Along with the heat, it was very hazy. We didn't see the mountains across the water all week. The grey water merged seamlessly into the grey sky. Finally Thursday the heat broke and it dropped into the high teens. Saturday we could see the mountains again.
This week we were setting in the living room when a deer walked into the front yard and commenced to browse on our flowers. We were just saying something about @#$%&!! deer when her fawn came around the corner. It was so small it still had spots. Then a second fawn cane around the corner. True she was teaching her fawns to nibble our plants but they were so cute. We were very feeling very ambivalent about this.
Sunday we got together with Barbara for another movie night. We saw one of the Walking with Dinosaurs series (her choice) and she made tacos. It was a lot of fun. We had taken Geiger over with us to visit the other kitties. He was a bit of a jerk though and we had to keep an eye on him because all he wanted to do was chase the other cats around and show them he was the Alpha male.
We received our US Economic Stimulus check today so tomorrow it will go into the bank. No plan to spend it right away, we are keeping it to help pay for our eclipse trip. I am still waiting for my Canadian return and if it does not come in this week, I'm going to check in with our accountant to see what is going on as Doug had his return before we left on our June holiday.
So that's it from the Island. The pictures are of the deer and Geiger. Just try to convince me his sleeping position is comfortable.
Enjoy.
Marsh and Doug
April 14
14/04/08 05:56
It has been a busy day, actually full of hurry up and wait. Barbara fell on Saturday evening, but we did not know until she called on Sunday. Today I took her to the Doctor's for an initial exam (everything looks fine - probably just pulled some muscles) and then to get an x-ray just to make sure. I left her a little while ago after making her lunch and putting her to bed. Going around to the Doctors, x-ray and just being up was pretty tiring for her today.
As for me, I think I am finally getting over the cold from hell, but the bad news is that I think Doug has caught it, either that or he's trying out for the Olympic Coughing-Up-Your-Lung team..
In spite of all of the health problems we, Barbara, Doug and I went to a couple of garage sales over the weekend. The big one was the Lantzville Fire Department's sale. There are no prices on anything, in fact there was so much stuff there, that lots of the stuff was not even unpacked. So it was fun to dig through all of the bags and boxes. When you picked up everything you think you wanted, you just go to the cashier and make an offer. They accept or make a counter offer. In Barbara's case, the counteroffer was $5.00 less than she offered. It was a fun sale and look forward to going to next year's sale. We actually bought a number of little things - the big item was a new light fixture for the living room. Doug installed it on Sunday and it looks much better than the old smoked glass and gold rods.
Our trip back to Minnesota will be the first week of June. We are planning on leaving after work on Tuesday, June 3. This will allow us to get on the ferry and over to the mainland so we can start our long drive early on Wednesday and plan to head back the next Thursday, June 12. So we will be trying to stop in and see folks as best as we can during the visit.
Well that's it for this week. Take care everyone.
Trees are in Bloom and Spring is in the air
How did all the Minnesota folks like their snow storm over the weekend?
The reason we have paw prints all over our cars - Gieger just loves his adventures in the garage
As for me, I think I am finally getting over the cold from hell, but the bad news is that I think Doug has caught it, either that or he's trying out for the Olympic Coughing-Up-Your-Lung team..
In spite of all of the health problems we, Barbara, Doug and I went to a couple of garage sales over the weekend. The big one was the Lantzville Fire Department's sale. There are no prices on anything, in fact there was so much stuff there, that lots of the stuff was not even unpacked. So it was fun to dig through all of the bags and boxes. When you picked up everything you think you wanted, you just go to the cashier and make an offer. They accept or make a counter offer. In Barbara's case, the counteroffer was $5.00 less than she offered. It was a fun sale and look forward to going to next year's sale. We actually bought a number of little things - the big item was a new light fixture for the living room. Doug installed it on Sunday and it looks much better than the old smoked glass and gold rods.
Our trip back to Minnesota will be the first week of June. We are planning on leaving after work on Tuesday, June 3. This will allow us to get on the ferry and over to the mainland so we can start our long drive early on Wednesday and plan to head back the next Thursday, June 12. So we will be trying to stop in and see folks as best as we can during the visit.
Well that's it for this week. Take care everyone.
Trees are in Bloom and Spring is in the air
How did all the Minnesota folks like their snow storm over the weekend?
The reason we have paw prints all over our cars - Gieger just loves his adventures in the garage