6:00 a.m.
Coyotes on the horizon.... they're yipping in the freezing morning air. There was a frost last night... but a mild one. The sun will be up soon and the sky looks as if it will be blue. A flock of geese are flying low, calling to each other in their V. They must be looking for freshly threshed grain in the fields....whether they find it or not depends on if the rain of the last few weeks has spoiled the oats that the farmers around here planted last spring for their cattle. Did I mention before, that this is cattle/bison country? Lots of ranches raising cattle/bison.... so what's a shepherd doing in the midst of all this?
7:00 a.m.
Calm... there's not a breath of wind. What a perfect morning to go canoeing.... wish I were on the river now. Coffee and cinnamon toast smells marvelous. The dew on the deck is sparkling brilliantly in the morning sunshine. Not a cloud in the sky. Trip to FSJ later this morning... will be shedding my duties as secretary for the NPSW. That will be good.... I don't think I made a really reliable secretary.... live too far away and winter snows aggravate driving.... shan't miss it.
8:00 a.m.
Dogs stirring... must need to go out. There is nothing more pleasant than seeing a happy dog go streaking out the door first thing in the morning to chase birds and the black cat and then stand with it nose to the air catching scent of what might have been around in the night.... all is right with the world. Ducks go by not too far away I can hear them but I cannot see them they must be headed south. Winter is coming.... I can feel it. Here comes the cat purring around my feet must be looking for his crunchies.... miss Oozle.... I hope he had a good death.
8:30 a.m.
Drip... drip.... drip.... the dew dripping from the roof is sparkling in the sunshine. There are spiders in several spots outside the window... large.... quiet... they wait for their next meal to fly unbidden into their invisible webs. Soon they will hibernate for the winter. The horse is nibbling.... soft lips moving over the ground.... looking for the newly greened grass. Chestnut flanks ripple in the sunshine... no wonder people think horses beautiful.... they are.
8:49 a.m.
Farm life is worth it.... but must go and prepare for the day.... AGM minutes to photocopy. All is quiet in this small house in the north country. But soon it will be bustling with life.... soon it will be filled with the mayhem that is my family. It is good to be surrounded by life.....
Saturday, September 11, 2010
Friday, September 10, 2010
Weather, Dreams And On Goes The Year
Well, I have to say that the weather around here has been totally screwy. The grass is turning green and the leaves have turned yellow, orange, and red. Normally we got long lovely days in the fall where you can sit out and dye yarn in the bright sunshine on the deck but this year the weather has just been gross. For about a month now it has been cool, and wet... I begged all summer for a little rain but it just didn't happen. Now I'm wishing for sunshine. Does that make me a dissatisfied old shrew or is it just that the weather patterns are changing. I have not had my head up my butt for the last ten years and do realize that global warming is a real threat. It makes me anxious just thinking about it. (But don't worry I'm not going to go on an environmental rant right now.)
Teapot took his class yesterday off to the local outdoor centre where they are learning canoe skills as part of their gym curriculum. How lucky is that. Teapot makes an awesome teacher.... I mean I never got to learn canoeing skills when I was in school!
I miss Teapot when he is not around. Last night I put in a terrible night. Thinking that I would be cold without the warmth of his body next to me, I threw on an extra blanket. This was not a good idea. I always have bad dreams when I am too warm at night. And so it came to pass, that all night long I was dreaming about the end of the world and wraiths sucking out the souls of the people who were fleeing before them in terror. I knew I was warm and I had this weird sense that I was dreaming and that it was not real but I couldn't wake myself up long enough to throw off the extra blanket. It was very disturbing. As a result, this morning I am feeling quite off.... I'm not sure my brain and body are on the same page. I just wish it were sunny, that would cheer me up, but it is not, and I look out on the grey skies and the dull sheep and horse and wonder what happened to the lovely days of fall that I was sooo looking forward to.
Last night was Thursday, and we began knit nights again after a four month hiatus. I finally finished those lace gloves that I was working on all of last year. And what's more is, I took back the thumb. (I don't have a thumb on my right hand... and was born that way, for those of you who are new here). So now the gloves are mine. I rarely, if ever knit anything for myself, and all last year I would look at the gloves as they were progressing and positively covet them.... and finally last night I made the big decision to keep them for me.
I don't have the camera, (Teapot took it with him) so this picture of the one glove, taken a while back will have to suffice. They were knit with a yarn that I spun a few years ago and then dyed with Avocado pits. This picture doesn't really do them justice. But it gives you an idea of what they look like..... very Jane Eyre don't you think?
With the temperatures dipping and there being so much rain I am beginning to think of knitting projects. I began knitting two years ago a shawl out of a hand spun yarn from Karaoke rovings.... which is a blend of soy silk and Merino wool. It looked awesome but then I ran out of yarn and so I thought well I'll just order some more rovings and spin it up. Off and on during the winter last year I would sit at one of my secondary wheels and spin yarn for that project. So, now that I have the lace gloves finished I am going to get out that shawl and continue on because I have a great honking ball of Karaoke finished and waiting to be knitted.
Yesterday, the sun shone for just a little while and I stepped out on the deck for a nice breath of fresh air. It was then that I noticed a leaf had fallen on the deck and had a great drop of water pooled in the centre.... I had to take a picture....
I looked around me and saw great water droplets on many of the plants that adorn my deck.... I'll leave you today with a couple of those pictures....
Hope you have a fine day....
Teapot took his class yesterday off to the local outdoor centre where they are learning canoe skills as part of their gym curriculum. How lucky is that. Teapot makes an awesome teacher.... I mean I never got to learn canoeing skills when I was in school!
I miss Teapot when he is not around. Last night I put in a terrible night. Thinking that I would be cold without the warmth of his body next to me, I threw on an extra blanket. This was not a good idea. I always have bad dreams when I am too warm at night. And so it came to pass, that all night long I was dreaming about the end of the world and wraiths sucking out the souls of the people who were fleeing before them in terror. I knew I was warm and I had this weird sense that I was dreaming and that it was not real but I couldn't wake myself up long enough to throw off the extra blanket. It was very disturbing. As a result, this morning I am feeling quite off.... I'm not sure my brain and body are on the same page. I just wish it were sunny, that would cheer me up, but it is not, and I look out on the grey skies and the dull sheep and horse and wonder what happened to the lovely days of fall that I was sooo looking forward to.
Last night was Thursday, and we began knit nights again after a four month hiatus. I finally finished those lace gloves that I was working on all of last year. And what's more is, I took back the thumb. (I don't have a thumb on my right hand... and was born that way, for those of you who are new here). So now the gloves are mine. I rarely, if ever knit anything for myself, and all last year I would look at the gloves as they were progressing and positively covet them.... and finally last night I made the big decision to keep them for me.
I don't have the camera, (Teapot took it with him) so this picture of the one glove, taken a while back will have to suffice. They were knit with a yarn that I spun a few years ago and then dyed with Avocado pits. This picture doesn't really do them justice. But it gives you an idea of what they look like..... very Jane Eyre don't you think?
With the temperatures dipping and there being so much rain I am beginning to think of knitting projects. I began knitting two years ago a shawl out of a hand spun yarn from Karaoke rovings.... which is a blend of soy silk and Merino wool. It looked awesome but then I ran out of yarn and so I thought well I'll just order some more rovings and spin it up. Off and on during the winter last year I would sit at one of my secondary wheels and spin yarn for that project. So, now that I have the lace gloves finished I am going to get out that shawl and continue on because I have a great honking ball of Karaoke finished and waiting to be knitted.
Yesterday, the sun shone for just a little while and I stepped out on the deck for a nice breath of fresh air. It was then that I noticed a leaf had fallen on the deck and had a great drop of water pooled in the centre.... I had to take a picture....
I looked around me and saw great water droplets on many of the plants that adorn my deck.... I'll leave you today with a couple of those pictures....
Hope you have a fine day....
Thursday, September 9, 2010
Of Mice And Men
Phone rings!
Ding a linga ling....
Me: Hello?!
Friend: Blah blah blah blah blah. (conversation ensues but I won't bore you with our chit chat.....)
After a while....
Me: Oh yeah I wrote a blog post the other day regarding that very same topic.... if you want to know my views you should read it and I'd love your comments....
Friend: Well how do you leave comments?
Me: You click on the word comments at the end of the post and you just follow the instructions. It's very easy.
Friend: Ok
Me: Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. ( I won't bore you with the remainder of that conversation...)
It was after that, that I noticed a comment on one of my blog posts, but, I must admit, it wasn't what I was anticipating...
Someone has serious issues with...
I sweated for a few days wondering who it could be because it couldn't be my friend.... I looked on the stat counter and found out that the person leaving those "rude" remarks was from Kamloops...... I thought who in the world has mouse issues....
Now, I'll be honest, pictures of mice and the real thing running around your house are two very different things. Regularly my old black cat, who is a great mouser deposits mice on my doorstep as an offering.... or I should say parts of mice..... It's quite gruesome...
But at Christmas time I love my Christmas mice decorations. And pictures of them are quite alright.... Those little whiskery noses are cute.... (the paws are disgusting though)!
Mice do have their place in nature. There are many animals that survive only because they eat mice. Many hawks and birds of prey exist mainly on a diet of mice. Coyotes, though the farmers around here won't admit it.... love mice and eat thousands of them. So in a way we really need mice. It is a good thing that they breed so quickly because all those animals in the wild that eat them would starve.
Anyway, I kept thinking about the person who had left rodent remarks. She even told me to get my EYES CHECKED when I said they were cute!!!! Hmmm.... : (
I began to stew, and Teapot kept telling me to get over it.....he reminded me that not everybody is going to be positive about everything I say..... and he had a point.
Yesterday, I was looking at the stat counter again and I noticed that the Kamloops commenter was coming back regularly and it was then that it dawned on me that the unexpected comment came just after the phone conversation that you read above..... well, being the "awesome sleuth" (smirk) that I am, I started to think about the person from Kamloops..... hmmm... my server says that I come from Calgary,and Red Deer most often..... but occasionally from Edmonton and I am nowhere near that..... so possibly the Kamloops person was not really from Kamloops, maybe it was just her server routing her through there...... hmmm!
Phone rings......
Ding a linga ling.....
Me: Hello?!
Friend: Yadda yadda yadda yadda (further conversations ensue.....).
After a while I get the guts up to ask.....
Me: Did you ever leave comments on my blog.....
Friend: Yes?!!! Sure you answered them....
Me: (dawning light coming on in my head) Ohhhh! That was you!!!!
Friend: Yeah! I figured you had to know...
Me: (with relief in my voice) Right! You're the one with rodent issues!
Friend: Well you know I hate mice....
Me: But you're coming up as someone from Kamloops....
Friend: I am...?!!!! I'm the lady from Kamloops... ha ha ha ha ha...
Me: You gave me quite a turn.
I must say that I got off the phone and had a good laugh over the whole misunderstanding.....
So to my friend who has rodent issues....
But never, ever, ever, tease your friends about them..... ; )
I know... I know..... "I'm such a brat!" : )
Ding a linga ling....
Me: Hello?!
Friend: Blah blah blah blah blah. (conversation ensues but I won't bore you with our chit chat.....)
After a while....
Me: Oh yeah I wrote a blog post the other day regarding that very same topic.... if you want to know my views you should read it and I'd love your comments....
Friend: Well how do you leave comments?
Me: You click on the word comments at the end of the post and you just follow the instructions. It's very easy.
Friend: Ok
Me: Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. ( I won't bore you with the remainder of that conversation...)
It was after that, that I noticed a comment on one of my blog posts, but, I must admit, it wasn't what I was anticipating...
Someone has serious issues with...
I sweated for a few days wondering who it could be because it couldn't be my friend.... I looked on the stat counter and found out that the person leaving those "rude" remarks was from Kamloops...... I thought who in the world has mouse issues....
Now, I'll be honest, pictures of mice and the real thing running around your house are two very different things. Regularly my old black cat, who is a great mouser deposits mice on my doorstep as an offering.... or I should say parts of mice..... It's quite gruesome...
But at Christmas time I love my Christmas mice decorations. And pictures of them are quite alright.... Those little whiskery noses are cute.... (the paws are disgusting though)!
Mice do have their place in nature. There are many animals that survive only because they eat mice. Many hawks and birds of prey exist mainly on a diet of mice. Coyotes, though the farmers around here won't admit it.... love mice and eat thousands of them. So in a way we really need mice. It is a good thing that they breed so quickly because all those animals in the wild that eat them would starve.
Anyway, I kept thinking about the person who had left rodent remarks. She even told me to get my EYES CHECKED when I said they were cute!!!! Hmmm.... : (
I began to stew, and Teapot kept telling me to get over it.....he reminded me that not everybody is going to be positive about everything I say..... and he had a point.
Yesterday, I was looking at the stat counter again and I noticed that the Kamloops commenter was coming back regularly and it was then that it dawned on me that the unexpected comment came just after the phone conversation that you read above..... well, being the "awesome sleuth" (smirk) that I am, I started to think about the person from Kamloops..... hmmm... my server says that I come from Calgary,and Red Deer most often..... but occasionally from Edmonton and I am nowhere near that..... so possibly the Kamloops person was not really from Kamloops, maybe it was just her server routing her through there...... hmmm!
Phone rings......
Ding a linga ling.....
Me: Hello?!
Friend: Yadda yadda yadda yadda (further conversations ensue.....).
After a while I get the guts up to ask.....
Me: Did you ever leave comments on my blog.....
Friend: Yes?!!! Sure you answered them....
Me: (dawning light coming on in my head) Ohhhh! That was you!!!!
Friend: Yeah! I figured you had to know...
Me: (with relief in my voice) Right! You're the one with rodent issues!
Friend: Well you know I hate mice....
Me: But you're coming up as someone from Kamloops....
Friend: I am...?!!!! I'm the lady from Kamloops... ha ha ha ha ha...
Me: You gave me quite a turn.
I must say that I got off the phone and had a good laugh over the whole misunderstanding.....
So to my friend who has rodent issues....
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| You can knit 'em! |
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| You can eat 'em! |
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| You can laugh at 'em! |
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| You can have coffee with 'em! |
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| You can go to church with 'em! |
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| You can even get drunk with 'em! |
But never, ever, ever, tease your friends about them..... ; )
I know... I know..... "I'm such a brat!" : )
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
I Think I'm Going To Miss It
Level 3.....
I have only one sample left to spin. Boom chakalakalaka boom chakalakalaka boom chakalakalaka boom!
While I'm really excited to be able to say this, it has been a very demanding year and I'm not sure how I'm going to feel.... I think I am going to miss all that work..... (what am I talking about... I still have level 4!!!)
Level 3 has certainly been a challenge. Level 1 was work and I learned lots, that's for sure, but it wasn't really all that strenuous. Level 2 was a bit more of a challenge but still it wasn't all that difficult. But Level 3?! Oh my, I have never had to do and redo and then do it some more. I've never had to say, this sample sucks! I do have to say to all the Level 3 students who are not finished their work yet and are reading this blog.... don't do what I did and leave the tpi questions till last.... get them done early and get them over with... it will make the rest of the book a whole lot easier and believe me it will make your spinning technique a whole lot better.
I can't believe I'm saying this but I am not looking forward to tomorrow at which time I will finish my homework... no indeed, I think I am going to feel a serious sense of loss. I will finish my last sample, I will do the write up, I will do my bibliography, and then I will pack up my books and send them off to my instructor.... after that I will wait with baited breath for the fateful day when I get my marks back.... (Oh my!!! i wish that butterfly in my belly would just lie down for a snooze!)
The last few weeks have been exhausting.... not physically but mentally as I tried to jump the hoops to remember the math and formulas I learned just over a year ago. Yesterday when I sat down to figure out the Bradford count, the TEX count and the NM count (well the NM was simple enough) I thought my head would explode with trying to keep it all straight. But I did it and when I was about half way through I thought..... hmmm, I think I could get into this..... weird!
Well, I'm off to analyse a 3 ply yarn and do some more math so that tomorrow when I get up in the morning I can try to duplicate it.
All's well that ends well!
I have only one sample left to spin. Boom chakalakalaka boom chakalakalaka boom chakalakalaka boom!
While I'm really excited to be able to say this, it has been a very demanding year and I'm not sure how I'm going to feel.... I think I am going to miss all that work..... (what am I talking about... I still have level 4!!!)
Level 3 has certainly been a challenge. Level 1 was work and I learned lots, that's for sure, but it wasn't really all that strenuous. Level 2 was a bit more of a challenge but still it wasn't all that difficult. But Level 3?! Oh my, I have never had to do and redo and then do it some more. I've never had to say, this sample sucks! I do have to say to all the Level 3 students who are not finished their work yet and are reading this blog.... don't do what I did and leave the tpi questions till last.... get them done early and get them over with... it will make the rest of the book a whole lot easier and believe me it will make your spinning technique a whole lot better.
I can't believe I'm saying this but I am not looking forward to tomorrow at which time I will finish my homework... no indeed, I think I am going to feel a serious sense of loss. I will finish my last sample, I will do the write up, I will do my bibliography, and then I will pack up my books and send them off to my instructor.... after that I will wait with baited breath for the fateful day when I get my marks back.... (Oh my!!! i wish that butterfly in my belly would just lie down for a snooze!)
The last few weeks have been exhausting.... not physically but mentally as I tried to jump the hoops to remember the math and formulas I learned just over a year ago. Yesterday when I sat down to figure out the Bradford count, the TEX count and the NM count (well the NM was simple enough) I thought my head would explode with trying to keep it all straight. But I did it and when I was about half way through I thought..... hmmm, I think I could get into this..... weird!
Well, I'm off to analyse a 3 ply yarn and do some more math so that tomorrow when I get up in the morning I can try to duplicate it.
All's well that ends well!
Back To School
It is 7:43 a.m. We've had breakfast and now the Daughters are putting on make-up and Teapot is having his tea (me too). In about 20 minutes we will take some pictures to remember this day. Daughter #2 is heading off to high school today and it is her first day. She's worried about two things. She has to take shop (that industrial arts.... you know where you have to learn to saw, & hammer wood, and put small engines together). She is terrified. I'll be honest I'm a little worried too. She is not the most graceful gal on the planet and tends to get hurt in freakish accidents. She's worried she will cut off a finger with some of those power tools. I'm worried that she will be so nervous that she will cut off a finger too. The other thing she is worried about is monkey locking her locker.... evidently she has done this before but when she was in the elementary school end she had lots of help. Now that she is in the high school end she is worried that she will do this and get detention for being late to class. I keep thinking I should just buy her a regular lock with a key and then we don't have to worry about it. Either way we are going to have to cope with another year of assignments and studying.
Daughter #1 is an old hand at high school this year and doesn't appear to be nervous at all. She is looking forward to seeing her group of friends. (I just wish she would stop wearing those stupid shoes... they have a great ruddy crack in the bottom... I guess I will have to sneakily throw them in the garbage...). She does not have to do shop (industrial arts) this year which was the bane of her existence last year... this year she gets to choose her electives and I think she is feeling very grown up because she can determine her own choices.... (well, with a little help from Teapot and moi!) Meanwhile she has discovered the joys of science and is quite disappointed that her favorite teacher who taught her science last year is not going to be at the school this year. She will have to be prepared to learn from a new science teacher.
Teapot is embarking on his own new adventure. When he first started teaching, he was teaching grades 7 and 8. Then we moved here, and he started teaching high school. He had a few difficult years where it seemed like he was constantly changing curriculum so when the opportunity arose to teach in the elementary end of the school, he jumped at it and for the last 11 years he has taught a combination of 3, 4 and 5. This year, they asked him if he would be interested in teaching different grades.... so he is back to teaching 6 and 7. For the last few weeks, in the evenings, he has been learning the curriculum for these new-to-him grades. It has been long hours of working, and reading and some nights he works well past midnight.
What's really weird, though, is that they are all really excited to go back to school. I think it is because the summer was not the best that we have had. Our camping vacation was too short and wet after a summer too hot to do anything. Also the Daughters have been missing out on the social aspect of school and seeing their friends every day. To be honest I'm really on the fence. I will miss sleeping in and the lazy days of summer... but I am also looking forward to long days with no distractions and getting lots of work done. The only thing that really bothers me is that both Daughters are now in high school and they seem to be growing away from me. They go off and turn their backs to me and giggle about who knows what (probably boys) but there are definitely secrets. If I wasn't so sure of them as well adjusted young ladies, I would be worried. But I'm not. Teapot and I did a good job bringing these two lovely, and smart young ladies up, so I know they will be alright.
And so it begins..... again!
Later:
Daughter #1 is an old hand at high school this year and doesn't appear to be nervous at all. She is looking forward to seeing her group of friends. (I just wish she would stop wearing those stupid shoes... they have a great ruddy crack in the bottom... I guess I will have to sneakily throw them in the garbage...). She does not have to do shop (industrial arts) this year which was the bane of her existence last year... this year she gets to choose her electives and I think she is feeling very grown up because she can determine her own choices.... (well, with a little help from Teapot and moi!) Meanwhile she has discovered the joys of science and is quite disappointed that her favorite teacher who taught her science last year is not going to be at the school this year. She will have to be prepared to learn from a new science teacher.
Teapot is embarking on his own new adventure. When he first started teaching, he was teaching grades 7 and 8. Then we moved here, and he started teaching high school. He had a few difficult years where it seemed like he was constantly changing curriculum so when the opportunity arose to teach in the elementary end of the school, he jumped at it and for the last 11 years he has taught a combination of 3, 4 and 5. This year, they asked him if he would be interested in teaching different grades.... so he is back to teaching 6 and 7. For the last few weeks, in the evenings, he has been learning the curriculum for these new-to-him grades. It has been long hours of working, and reading and some nights he works well past midnight.
What's really weird, though, is that they are all really excited to go back to school. I think it is because the summer was not the best that we have had. Our camping vacation was too short and wet after a summer too hot to do anything. Also the Daughters have been missing out on the social aspect of school and seeing their friends every day. To be honest I'm really on the fence. I will miss sleeping in and the lazy days of summer... but I am also looking forward to long days with no distractions and getting lots of work done. The only thing that really bothers me is that both Daughters are now in high school and they seem to be growing away from me. They go off and turn their backs to me and giggle about who knows what (probably boys) but there are definitely secrets. If I wasn't so sure of them as well adjusted young ladies, I would be worried. But I'm not. Teapot and I did a good job bringing these two lovely, and smart young ladies up, so I know they will be alright.
And so it begins..... again!
Later:
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| Good Lord! I'm the shortest! How did they grow up so fast? |
Monday, September 6, 2010
End Of Summer
Well, folks this is the last day of holidays before Teapot and the Daughters head back to school. The weather has definitely turned... there's lots of rain. The funny thing is that the grass is finally starting to grow and turn green.Yet, the trees are turning gold, and around my yard (which, for some reason is a little different from other areas in this valley) the leaves are actually falling off the trees. It's been a strange year for weather indeed. On our way to town the other day, I was amazed by the colour of the Fireweed. It has turned a brilliant red and gives the sides of the road beautiful depth as other bushes turn gold and melon. Many of the Pine trees have died again this year and so there are tons of brown trees in the forest as well. While most people are harvesting their gardens I am not... and I miss the harvest. I had great hopes that this would be the year that I would get the animals out of the garden and get the vegetables back in but that didn't happen and so now I have to wait till next year for the garden and shop at the grocery store for my veggies.
The electrical shed, on which should be a new roof, will have to wait. I am still hoping that some fine weekend this Autumn, Teapot will get this project done. I am not sure the roof that is there will stand up to any big dumps of snow. The cedar shakes that are on there have rotted now to the point where you can see daylight in lots of places. I worry that the Hydro lady who comes to check the meter, will report us and we will have no choice but to replace the roof in the middle of a -40 degree cold snap. So I am hoping that Teapot will find the time somewhere, somehow and get that new roof on the shed before the snow falls.
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| Teapot thought I looked particularly studious in this picture. Basically I couldn't see the yarn to count tpi... thus the headlight and magnifying glasses. I guess I'm getting old! |
All the old timers around here are predicting a hard and early winter. I don't know how much I can trust the old guys, especially since people don't work in the woods like they used to. There are no trappers around here and the loggers have gone the way of the Dodo bird. But if it is a hard winter then I'm not looking forward to it. We've already had a hard frost.
I thought I would include here a little rant, so if you are not into rants then you may want to stop reading.....
I hate reading blogs where the husband is referred to as DH. I realize the DH stands for dear husband but every time I see DH I think, how rude!.... because I see DH as di-k head..... does anybody else get that out there in computer land? Or is it just me? I've been thinking about starting a protest group.... The Stop Calling Your Spouse DH Society.... I mean how many of us would want our husbands calling us the old bag..... (ha! I bet you thought I was going to say the old bat!!!) I mean there is BH for better half.... or OH for the other half, TBK might work if you are looking for something a little on the funny side, TBK for the big knob,.... there's TS for the spouse... and MH for my husband... DB for dear boy or DM for dear man.... DH just is mean.... If you love him call him something nice..... : )
I think that's the end of my rant....
Hmm maybe I should come up with something better for the Daughters...... any suggestions?
Well I'm off to spend the last day of summer vacation with the family..... maybe some laundry, maybe some helping Daughter with clothes... for school.... maybe a little spinning.... we'll see.
Tomorrow is the first time I will use our new tub... everyone else has used the new tub, but I've been saving the wonderful experience for the first day of school.... can't wait!
Saturday, September 4, 2010
How Close We Come
Teapot and I took the girls to town for a little shopping, yesterday... We didn't go far and we didn't buy clothes as we had planned. That will come later in September. We just got them their paper, binders, and pens and stuff. We had a lovely afternoon driving along in the fall sunshine. When we got to town though we noticed some pretty dark cloud rolling in over the mountains so we knew that the sun would be short lived. Of course, that was no deterrent from our shopping. After the girls were happy with their purchases we decided to pop into the grocery store for a barbeque chicken and some salads, that way neither Teapot nor I would have to cook when we got home. Little did we know that it would be really late when we finally got our supper. We left town around 5:15 p.m. and the drive home would take about fifty minutes. By now those ominous clouds were pretty much right overhead and we knew that they were carrying rain. We headed out of town chatting a gabbing and generally enjoying ourselves.
The road that takes us home from that particular community skirts the rocky mountains and takes a generally northward direction. It was just as we were coming up the hill that leads out of town that it started to rain. 25 minutes later we had passed through one of the most torrential rains that I have ever, in my life, driven through. The visibility was next to nothing and it was like someone had opened a tap and we were under it.
We slowed down on the road because there was so much water on the road that driving conditions were difficult at best. Meanwhile other vehicles were passing us as though we were Grandma and Grandpa Mose. Just as we were getting back to our own community I happened to look in a ditch on my side of the road. It was quite a deep ditch and there were no guard rails. There in the ditch was a beige coloured car with very little glass left in it, with dents all over it, and a man dangling out the passenger side window. Obviously there had been an accident.
Nobody else in the traffic ahead had even seen the car, let alone pulled over to help.... we were the last vehicle in a line of about 5 or 6 vehicles and I knew that nobody else had seen the results of the accident. Telling Teapot to pull over because I had just seen a car in the ditch, didn't take me long and Teapot pulled over and turned around to go back. We weren't sure what we were going to see. Teapot jumped out and disappeared over the edge of the bank and by the time I got to the edge of the road the man who had been dangling from the passenger side window wasn't there and I couldn't see Teapot for all the brush that was in the way, but I could hear voices. I called out to see if everyone was ok and if I needed to call 911.
Teapot yelled out that there were two people but they were walking and ok. I stayed where I was because by now the Daughters were wondering what was to be done.... I let them know that their dad had things under control and that it looked like nobody was seriously hurt.
By the time Teapot and the two people climbed up out of the ditch several more cars had passed along and had stopped to see if I needed assistance.... among them was one of the local police guys who lives in our community. He walked down to them and met them coming up a much less steep way of getting out of the ditch. Apparently the fellow who was driving was driving his Auntie home from our community to the community where Teapot and I had just been shopping. The accident occurred because his vehicle hit a patch of water on the road and hydroplaned. They went over the edge of the embankment and rolled once and landed right side up in the ditch. Both were wearing seat belts and neither one was seriously hurt. The lady had multiple cuts and scrapes from broken glass and both were badly bruised but they were ok. When I had first seen the man dangling from the passenger side window he had been trying to get the insurance papers out of the glove compartment. The police took our names so that they could call us if they had any questions and then when we left the two people were being taken back to town by the police.
Teapot and I have come very close a few time to being at the scene of very bad accidents and it never ceases to stir me and make me grateful that I am alive. I know those two people in that accident yesterday are very lucky they are alive. The vehicle was completely destroyed. How they weren't killed is beyond me....
I am so glad it wasn't us.
There but for the grace of God go I.....
The road that takes us home from that particular community skirts the rocky mountains and takes a generally northward direction. It was just as we were coming up the hill that leads out of town that it started to rain. 25 minutes later we had passed through one of the most torrential rains that I have ever, in my life, driven through. The visibility was next to nothing and it was like someone had opened a tap and we were under it.
We slowed down on the road because there was so much water on the road that driving conditions were difficult at best. Meanwhile other vehicles were passing us as though we were Grandma and Grandpa Mose. Just as we were getting back to our own community I happened to look in a ditch on my side of the road. It was quite a deep ditch and there were no guard rails. There in the ditch was a beige coloured car with very little glass left in it, with dents all over it, and a man dangling out the passenger side window. Obviously there had been an accident.
Nobody else in the traffic ahead had even seen the car, let alone pulled over to help.... we were the last vehicle in a line of about 5 or 6 vehicles and I knew that nobody else had seen the results of the accident. Telling Teapot to pull over because I had just seen a car in the ditch, didn't take me long and Teapot pulled over and turned around to go back. We weren't sure what we were going to see. Teapot jumped out and disappeared over the edge of the bank and by the time I got to the edge of the road the man who had been dangling from the passenger side window wasn't there and I couldn't see Teapot for all the brush that was in the way, but I could hear voices. I called out to see if everyone was ok and if I needed to call 911.
Teapot yelled out that there were two people but they were walking and ok. I stayed where I was because by now the Daughters were wondering what was to be done.... I let them know that their dad had things under control and that it looked like nobody was seriously hurt.
By the time Teapot and the two people climbed up out of the ditch several more cars had passed along and had stopped to see if I needed assistance.... among them was one of the local police guys who lives in our community. He walked down to them and met them coming up a much less steep way of getting out of the ditch. Apparently the fellow who was driving was driving his Auntie home from our community to the community where Teapot and I had just been shopping. The accident occurred because his vehicle hit a patch of water on the road and hydroplaned. They went over the edge of the embankment and rolled once and landed right side up in the ditch. Both were wearing seat belts and neither one was seriously hurt. The lady had multiple cuts and scrapes from broken glass and both were badly bruised but they were ok. When I had first seen the man dangling from the passenger side window he had been trying to get the insurance papers out of the glove compartment. The police took our names so that they could call us if they had any questions and then when we left the two people were being taken back to town by the police.
Teapot and I have come very close a few time to being at the scene of very bad accidents and it never ceases to stir me and make me grateful that I am alive. I know those two people in that accident yesterday are very lucky they are alive. The vehicle was completely destroyed. How they weren't killed is beyond me....
I am so glad it wasn't us.
There but for the grace of God go I.....
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