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All About Nothing

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In my last post I was whining about the weather. Mother Nature had snuck in when we least expected and served up hopefully one last dose of winter winds and temperatures, just so we all would remember who is really in charge. OK Mom, I surrender. You make the rules.
Yesterday we are out for a walk around 50 Point, where as you can see, spring is underway. Every year in late April they begin putting all the boats in the water, making sure they are all in and ready to go before the May two-four long weekend.
Come late September, early October, they lift them all out of the water to prepare for the oncoming winter.
Further along on our walk, Marilyn comments that these trees look just like spurts of water out of fountains;

water fountains

Someday’s we are walking fools!

Later in the day we head up to another local conservation area to enjoy the now gorgeous day. This park is noted as a great bird watching area, and there are dozens of people watching the sky, all with fancy looking binoculars and cameras in hand, ready to capture each exciting bird sighting.
As we walk through the park we see many hawks enjoying the thermals as they make their way north for the summer.
Here’s a recent count;


After years of procrastination, I’ve now been working hard on RVQuestions.net and am starting to see some results. Daily hits are now in the many hundreds  so I’m thinking that makes it time to get some advertising on there. Last night I did that. Notice the first random ad that google puts up? Now you know what my plans are for the weekend.

An Old Joke?

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In most doctor’s offices the magazines of choice are National Geographic and Reader’s Digest.
I always catch “Life’s Like That” first then follow up with the rest of the jokes.

There was one in there the other day about  how a wife takes her hubby to an Antique store only to have him disappear. Later she finds him sitting quietly in the car. When asked what’s wrong he says he found the whole thing very depressing because he could remember when all the things for sale in the Antique store were brand new.
Yesterday we spent the afternoon in Toronto with Jason, Elizabeth and Aiden. At one point Jason comes out of the bathroom with a copy of Readers Digest (where do you keep your Readers Digest?); he wants to show me a joke in there because when he read it he thought of me. Turns out it’s about a guy that goes with his wife to an antique store…..
On the news yesterday they are saying that Rogers Video is shutting down the balance of their video rental stores. Here in canada we are eliminating pennies.
Earlier yesterday I was reading up on the new Jayco fold down tent trailers. Seems the stereos in the 2012 models come satellite, mp-3 and I-pod ready but no longer include a CD player. Yes they still have AM and FM.
I’m thinking we should all get together and have a huge garage sale. I’m going to bring my CD’s. While I’m in that cupboard I should get rid of the cassette tapes too. What about the 8-track tapes and those records? There’s got to be someone who would love all those great 33′s, 45′s and 78′s.
There goes the combo DVD player/VCR we loved so much (remember Beta?). We’ve already replaced our books with e-readers. Maybe I could part with that old roll of paper for my telex machine, and what about my cool collection of fountain pens. Throw in the typewriter, yeah, the adding machine too. And my first couple of cell phones, my Kodak cameras and a couple of almost new tape recorders.

We should send everyone a telegram so they know about this big sale I’ll go down to  A & W and tell the car hops, and you tell your neighbors. We’ll mimeograph some posters and put them up on the telephone poles, and announce it on the P.A.

I’m sure everyone bring all their pennies.

Tell me, tell us all: What things from your “yesteryears” will you be adding to our big sale? What will we do with all the money we raise? More importantly, what will be do with all the space we free up?

True Love Ways

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When we last talked we were fasting, waiting not so patiently for our 9:30 medical appointments.
We parted company at the stairs you see above. We hugged, promised to stay in touch and said our goodbyes, then Marilyn went down stairs to her appointment, I went upstairs to mine.
Sometime later we joyfully rendezvoused at a romantic fluorescent lit table accross the street at Tim Hortons. Marilyn had an extra large coffee and a toasted cinamon & raisin bagel with cream cheese. I chose a small coffee and a lemon & poppy seed muffin. We remembered old times, then caught up on all that had happened to each of us over the past 30 long minutes.
You will never guess what happened after that.

After going home to pick up the kids, we headed over to our storage bin and hopefully emptied it for the last time. We have decided to sell our tandem bicycle. The first couple of years travelling we used it a bit, the last couple though it has spent all of it’s life in storage. We love it, we’ve had a lot of fun with it, but in our use or lose it lifestyle it just doesn’t fit in anymore. I’m not sure what it’s worth, I’m working on that. It’s a good one, we paid $3500 for it 6 or 7 years ago and that was a deal. The bike is in great shape. Please spread the word.

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