22 June 2008
Summer Has Arrived!
23/06/08 05:45
The longest day has come and past so now the daylight hours will only be getting shorter from now until December. It is hard to believe we are this close to the end of June!.
The weather oddities from our trip continued only in a slightly different format. On Monday I was reading a book and sort of watching TV, when Doug came into the room and said who ordered the backhoe and dumptruck? I looked up from my book, noticed our cable had just gone out and asked Doug what he was talking about. Well in fron of our house was a dumptruck pulling a trailer with a backhoe on it. The truck has stopped as the backhoe had snagged on our cable wire and pulled it down. They stopped, gathered it up to get it off of the road and dumped it in our driveway and yard. Doug gave our cable company, Shaw a call and said they would send someone out. In the meantime, a passing motorist made a 911 call and reported a cable down. So soon we had the cops and neighbors out front looking at the cable. I ran out, said we had already called Shaw and explained what we had seen. Shaw came out about 30 minutes later and had our cable up in about 45 minutes. With all of the cable underground in Minnesota this is not something I am used to seeing.
Friday we went out with Barbara. She wanted to take us out for dinner to celebrate our 21st wedding anniversary. Yes!, can you believe it, Doug and I have been married for 21 years on June 13! We decided to go back to the Vietnamese restaurant Barbara had taken us to before as it was so good. Doug especially likes it as it has one whole page of the menu dedicated to vegetarian choices and I love their spring rolls! The meal was delicious and we decided we have a new favorite restaurant - the Saigon Kitchen.
Barbara is doing so much better that she is ready to start to drive again. The only problem is that her car will not start. Doug took her battery to charge and replaced it on Sunday morning. The car started right up. Doug jumped in, drove it to the Canadian Superstore and we followed. We did our grocery shopping and the car started right up again so it looks like it just sat too long with no use and the battery discharged. For our assistance Barbara invited us over to waffles, strawberries, whip cream and bacon. We jumped at the invitation and enjoyed a late breakfast.
Once we got home we decided it was time to finally attack the yard. Doug mows and I weed whack. The neighbors were out working on a new deck so when Doug was done mowing he helped haul some of the bricks from the front to the back. Once that was done they invited us over for a drink which turned into more. The neighbor's sister caome over to help so we decided we all needed to get back to work.I did some more whacking and then did some planting as we had picked up some plants from Canadian Tire. I really wanted a hydrangea as I had some back in our Shoreview house. I did not get to planting that yesterday, but am planning to do that this morning once I get our weekly letter out.
For those folks that I had told when I was back in MN, here is the update from my job search. I heard from the City of Nanaimo regarding the job on Friday afternoon. The original job I applied for was a financial analyst which required an accounting degree of which I do not have. However they brought me in for the testing part and then for an interview. Then brought me back and said they were interested in hiring me but as I did not have a degree would I consider a system's analyst job. I said yes and then had to wait as the manager left on holiday and then I left on holiday. During that time they had to talk to the union to see if they needed to repost and also get final approval from the upper management. Well on Friday I found out that upper management decided that the financial analyst route is what they really wanted so no job offer. Darn!
So I guess that is about it for news from Nanaimo. Take care and hope everyone has a great week!
We do not yet have the camera and Geiger refused to draw any more pictures unless he could do a self-portrait. He is already so vain, I did no want that to go to his head so no pictures this week.
Marsh and Doug
The weather oddities from our trip continued only in a slightly different format. On Monday I was reading a book and sort of watching TV, when Doug came into the room and said who ordered the backhoe and dumptruck? I looked up from my book, noticed our cable had just gone out and asked Doug what he was talking about. Well in fron of our house was a dumptruck pulling a trailer with a backhoe on it. The truck has stopped as the backhoe had snagged on our cable wire and pulled it down. They stopped, gathered it up to get it off of the road and dumped it in our driveway and yard. Doug gave our cable company, Shaw a call and said they would send someone out. In the meantime, a passing motorist made a 911 call and reported a cable down. So soon we had the cops and neighbors out front looking at the cable. I ran out, said we had already called Shaw and explained what we had seen. Shaw came out about 30 minutes later and had our cable up in about 45 minutes. With all of the cable underground in Minnesota this is not something I am used to seeing.
Friday we went out with Barbara. She wanted to take us out for dinner to celebrate our 21st wedding anniversary. Yes!, can you believe it, Doug and I have been married for 21 years on June 13! We decided to go back to the Vietnamese restaurant Barbara had taken us to before as it was so good. Doug especially likes it as it has one whole page of the menu dedicated to vegetarian choices and I love their spring rolls! The meal was delicious and we decided we have a new favorite restaurant - the Saigon Kitchen.
Barbara is doing so much better that she is ready to start to drive again. The only problem is that her car will not start. Doug took her battery to charge and replaced it on Sunday morning. The car started right up. Doug jumped in, drove it to the Canadian Superstore and we followed. We did our grocery shopping and the car started right up again so it looks like it just sat too long with no use and the battery discharged. For our assistance Barbara invited us over to waffles, strawberries, whip cream and bacon. We jumped at the invitation and enjoyed a late breakfast.
Once we got home we decided it was time to finally attack the yard. Doug mows and I weed whack. The neighbors were out working on a new deck so when Doug was done mowing he helped haul some of the bricks from the front to the back. Once that was done they invited us over for a drink which turned into more. The neighbor's sister caome over to help so we decided we all needed to get back to work.I did some more whacking and then did some planting as we had picked up some plants from Canadian Tire. I really wanted a hydrangea as I had some back in our Shoreview house. I did not get to planting that yesterday, but am planning to do that this morning once I get our weekly letter out.
For those folks that I had told when I was back in MN, here is the update from my job search. I heard from the City of Nanaimo regarding the job on Friday afternoon. The original job I applied for was a financial analyst which required an accounting degree of which I do not have. However they brought me in for the testing part and then for an interview. Then brought me back and said they were interested in hiring me but as I did not have a degree would I consider a system's analyst job. I said yes and then had to wait as the manager left on holiday and then I left on holiday. During that time they had to talk to the union to see if they needed to repost and also get final approval from the upper management. Well on Friday I found out that upper management decided that the financial analyst route is what they really wanted so no job offer. Darn!
So I guess that is about it for news from Nanaimo. Take care and hope everyone has a great week!
We do not yet have the camera and Geiger refused to draw any more pictures unless he could do a self-portrait. He is already so vain, I did no want that to go to his head so no pictures this week.
Marsh and Doug