Mom and I made it safely back to Shaunavon on Sunday, and things have (as usual) been crazy-busy since.  We had a small Family-Only Birthday celebration for The Teenager (notice the upgrade) on Sunday evening, and on Monday one of his closest friends came over for a trip to Swift Current for a fancier Bday supper and a sleep-over.  IE: A stay- ( Read more... )

      The French Bread that I was making today came out beautifully!  It actually rose a little too much, but otherwise it was perfect; the texture and flavour are exactly what I expected, and it's taking a lot of will-power to not scarf down the entire loaf!  ;)  What surprises me is that French Bread is actually a more simple recipe than typical ( Read more... )

I replaced another three electrical outlets in the house today.  Again, I really have to question the thinking of whoever did the original work here; Most of the outlets are upside-down, and the outlets on all of the exterior walls have their boxes filled with expanding insulation foam to keep drafts out.  That not only makes repairs ( Read more... )

      Wow ( Read more... )

Another month has gone by, and again I must ask "Where did it go?!" Hard to believe we're at the last few minutes of November 2009. As has been the case for pretty much the entire year, the month has flown by with lots of things happening and being done, and yet feeling like little if anything has been done ( Read more... )

 
     For the first time in I-can't-remember-how-many months, I'm finally working on my main desktop computer instead of my laptop.  The big 19" screen is certainly easier on the eyes than the laptop's little 15" screen.  It's amazing to think back and realize that it wasn't that many years ago that a 15" screen was considered pretty huge.  Either ( Read more... )

...  more on that in a moment, but first:

Monday was a quiet day, in more ways than one; It was a great day outdoors, and that meant that the ladies who normally show up for their Senior's Bowling on Monday didn't show up.  They had told trixstir  before that in good weather, they'd more likely be working in their gardens.  That's perfectly ( Read more... )

Dangit....

It's early Monday morning, and the weather forecast for the area is not good.  Yesterday had looked like it was going to be a great day; The weather was cool, but well above freezing, and the sky was clear and blue.  Mom and I went up to the house and finally got all of the work there finished; The hardwood floors have been polished, ( Read more... )

     Well, finally!

I got the last of the connections for the generator hookup done this afternoon, hauled the generator over from the quonset, and tested everything.  I'm very pleased to say that everything worked perfectly!  No blown breakers, no sparks, no screams of panic...  :)

It's a small system: One 15-Amp 120-Volt circuit for ( Read more... )

Well, here we are on Thursday night. Mom and I had planned to be back in Calgary a couple of days ago, then it was going to be tomorrow at the latest, but now it looks like it will be Saturday. I had actually planned for it to be tomorrow and the truck and trailer are ready to roll, but the weather looks like it might cooperate and I'd rather ( Read more... )