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Andy's
Lymphoma Log
Andy's Nepal Pictures
Andy's Nepal BLOG
June 6 (Sun):
This will be my last entry for a while. I'm going to take a break
as I've grown quite bored with the blog. It's too one-sided as we
rarely seem to hear anyone else's news. And it takes a long time.
Andy will continue updating her Lymphoma Log, and she's got some new
pictures for Tigger's Travels she will post in the next few days.
If you missed the second half of the Las Vegas pictures, click on
Previous Blog Entries.
It's been a quiet
weekend. Yesterday we were so busy that today we rested most of
the day. About all we did today was order tickets for.....
We'd talked about
going several times but the theatre is quite a drive - north of Toronto.
The change of mind has come from a ticket promotion - prices as low at
$35 per person. So now we are going later in the month.
Yesterday, we were on
the go non-stop. As my uncle is now out of hospital and in an
assisted-care home, we went to his house to get a couple things for him,
then needed a couple things from Canadian Tire, but ended up with an
additional bunch of plants from their gardening centre. Then, of
course, they had to be planted, but planting was the next thing on my
list anyway. My seedlings had been outside all week acclimatizing
under some protective clear plastic.
The 4 "barrel"
planters in the foreground are new, so I spent a great deal of time
shoveling dirt from the Big Bag into the garden cart and then into the
planters. Here we have blueberry bushes front left, strawberries
front right, and raspberries. The empty planter will hopefully
host blackberries when I can find some bushes. The other planters
will hopefully produce tomatoes, onions, peppers, lettuce, peas,
cantaloupe, squash, radishes, & eggplant. We'll see what grows and
what doesn't. If I get some of the same delicious tomatoes as last
year I'll be a happy camper!
While I dug about,
Andy was on a mission. To move the newer horizontal shed into
place, we need put in a couple patio stones for the base. Before
we can put in the patio stones, we need to move a stack of wood.
Before we could move the stack of wood, we needed to redirect the
downspout from the eaves trough. This was Andy's mission.
One main problem - can't find matching materials in colour or shape.
After spending a great deal of time searching, Andy came up with the
plan to buy what we can find and paint it to match. So, it's not
painted yet, but she did a great job with the transition.
One of the main
motivators for this change was separating the two downspouts. They
are both at the same end of the house and were emptying very close to
each other. This caused a swampy area. The front, however,
is always too dry, so hopefully this will balance distribution better.
Andy also picked out
flowers and created planters for us.
While she did that I
was busy spraying weeds, trying to keep things looking nice.
Rhodos out the front...
I love our poppies,
but they took a pounding from last night's rain.
And the girls have
been out helping us of course.
The old toilet is
waiting for bulk garbage pick-up in a couple weeks.
We also managed some
pool and sun time yesterday later in the day. Hard to believe it
was so nice yesterday and today we were in our sweatshirts again.
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The Players:
Us = Heather & Andy
Me = Heather
Andy = Andy
Mom/Grammy = H's mom
Mum/Mumsy = A's mum
Dad = H's or A's
Grampy = H's Dad
Ash/Ashley = A's brother
Scot = H's brother
Monica = Scot's wife
Ben = nephew
Grace = niece
Comet and Casper (the girls) = our cats
Everyone else = Valued Friends
Window by Andy
Our 10th Anniversary Body Art
Welcome to Heather and
Andrea's Web Site. Wouldn't that be a boring title? However,
"Points of Our Compass" has special meaning to us:
There is a poem made
famous in a movie, and although the poem, "Funeral Blues" by W. H.
Auden, may seem quite morbid, there were words in it that reached out
and grabbed us, specifically:
"He was my North, my
South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest"
These words inspired us
to engrave the points of the compass into our wedding bands rather than
a date or initials. Add to that our feeling that the other gives
us direction, is our whole world, and finally, don't discount our
craving for, and love of, travel - and there you have our attachment to
the "Points of our Compass".
Outside of work,
Andrea goes by Andy, therefore that's how she is referred to
on this site.
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