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July 22 (Tues):
Been having a heckuva time the last couple days trying to get to the
bottom of why we couldn't upload, but all is fixed now. Hurrah!
(bloody annoying tech support people!!!)
July 20 (Sun):
Firstly....Congratulations to Andy, who is now finishing her second
6-month contract and has been hired full-time, permanent as "Director of
Special Projects" for the Blachford group of companies, Canada and US
(H.L. Blachford Ltd., Blachford Corp., Blachford Inc., & Blachford R.P.
Corp.). Way to go hun!
Well, we were cooked
over the last week and we have now been washed for a day and a half.
It was around 30o
all week not including the humidex (which often adds 6 or 7 degrees) and
one day it even got up to 33o.
A couple of those days we had humidity up to 85%, so as you can imagine
we were ready for the rain when it came. I went out in the heat &
humidity yesterday morning with a wet kerchief over my already wetted
head to cut the grass before the rain came. Andy also rushed to
get the sanding and first coat of primer on the trim around the garage
door before the predicted rain. There was a 3" strip of wood added
when the new door was installed, plus we wanted to change the rest of
the trim to white. Before we got to those jobs, we were already
sweating from our walk up the street, which I'll get to shortly.
We'd had a little
sleep in after being out a bit late Friday night at the races with Uncle
Lanny. The Ohsweken Speedway owners have widened the track and put
in all new lights and stands that go much higher.
Tigger also came to
the races, much to Uncle Lanny (right) and his buddy, Larry's, amusement.
Andy made sure Tigger had hearing protection.
After our Saturday
morning sleep-in, we finally made it over to the outdoor Farmer's Market
at the mall. It was about a 10-minute saunter up the road and we
came home with lots of goodies from the fantastic (yet very economical)
selection. In fact, it was hard to restrain ourselves from buying
too much at once as we didn't want anything to go to waste.
I do wish I'd got
some of the organic honey. They also had a large selection of teas
and one booth with baking, which we drooled over but passed on.
Instead we came home with peaches and cream corn on the cob, green
onions, new potatoes, cucumber, peas in the pod, cantaloupe,
strawberries and raspberries.
Then, as I said, we
rushed a couple pre-rain jobs, and about an hour later the clouds came
and an hour after that it was raining torrentially. We really
enjoyed sitting out on the back porch watching it for a while, but then
it was back to work on indoor jobs like 4 loads of laundry and changing
the ceiling fan out of our room for a better one we had. The rain
has since lightened up substantially but continued all the rest of
yesterday and all day today. In fact, it's been rather
Vancouver-like. This morning when we went to Costco, it was
practically misting instead of raining.
Earlier in the week,
Andy, my little yard putterer, got a job done that we are both pleased
with. If you recall, we didn't like the red mulch on all the
garden beds when we moved in, so Andy removed it. Since then the
weeding has been non-stop and Andy finally got fed up with it. So
we decided to try mulch again, but found some black cedar that we really
like as it looks like dark, rich soil.
Doesn't that look
much better? And it smells good too!
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The Players:
Us = Heather & Andy
Me = Heather
Andy = Andy
Mom = H's mom
Mum/Mumsy = A's mum
Dad = H's or A's
Ash/Ashley = A's brother
Scot = H's brother
Monica = Scot's wife
Ben = nephew
Grace = niece
Grama - H's
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.
Window by Heather |
