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Kitchen Renos – Building A Bird’s Nest

This is now one for the books!! For some reason someone up there thinks its funny to mess with our heads. Our contractor arrived this morning. When he called a couple of days ago and said he could...

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Kitchen Renos – You’re Not Serious??

Simon and his workmate, Dale, arrived promptly at 8:30 this morning. I, for one, slept in just a tad longer than yesterday, only because I was exhausted the night before. Nat and I couldn’t believe the...

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Kitchen Renos – Take A Deep Breadth

Thursday evening just as Nat and I are rummaging around to make a frozen fish supper (yuk!!) our son-in-law rang the front door bell. This good man had decided to actually deliver the new kitchen...

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Kitchen Renos – I Need A Wheelchair

Yes, here we go again! The morning started out just fine – well almost. Friday night I wrote down everything we were going to pick up at the Ikea Store in Burlington. Nat and I both went through the...

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Shhhhh!!

Can you hear that? Of course not. It’s only silence Nat and I hear today. He got the groceries this morning, I did laundry and after lunch we are literally in our recliners working on crosswords and/or...

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Kitchen Renos – Oh, What A Beautiful Day

Monday – Somewhat rested and trying really hard to begin this week with my usual routine, I did my workout and was finished by the time the boys arrived to continue on with the renovations. It felt...

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It’s The Little Touches

As anxious as we were to get our kitchen back in order, we took our time. We continued to putter about putting the food back and deciding what went where in the new order of things. Nat discovered a...

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Being Such A Sore Ass

The kitchen is now pretty much done. We’re still waiting for our contractor to put up the backsplash tiles, but being a busy, busy boy, we’re not expecting him any time too soon. With all the doodads,...

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A Pinch of Salt and An Ounce of Energy

My whole daily routine has somehow gotten out of kilter ever since the kitchen renovations were complete. Rising from my warm cuddly bed at 8:30 am, I’d kiss dear hubby good morning, get my pills and...

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What Stays And What Goes

  At long last Nat and I have cleared the spare basement room from items that have piled up over these past several months and were strewn all over. It all started once we were clearing out the kitchen...

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Keeping Calm And Carrying On

I really don’t know what is happening to my brain lately. Yes, I know I’m getting older. Yes, I know my brain cells are deteriorating, but this is now getting a bit scary. My brain just isn’t kicking...

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My Dream Is Now Over – Oh Happy Days!

As much as I was disappointed in our contractor, I’ve forgiven him because all is right with the world again. He emailed last week to say he’ll be coming on Monday the 25th to finish the backsplash,...

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Seeing Is Believing

The dog days of summer are almost gone. The Autumn Equinox is only 5 weeks away. Of course, I have no idea what that really means, except that it’s 3 weeks to September and the beginning of some of the...

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Time Is Money And I’ve Got A Lot of Time

The summer months are pretty much gone and they took with them a lot of boring days from my point of view. It wasn’t particularly a busy summer, but one filled with days of minor appointments, a...

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Seeing Is Believing – Guess I’m Screwed

Writing in my last blog post, I bragged about the gorgeous new shoes I bought for the Rangers’ (Golf) Dinner Dance held once a year. Everyone gets all dolled up in their finery, eats a great meal of...

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The Devil Called – And I Said HELL-O

My posting days have diminished somewhat with the more quiet days Nat and I have been experiencing. My doctor appointments have now become something of the past, except for the once/twice yearly...

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Good Riddance to 2016

From the very day that Glenn Frey died in January, I somehow suspected that 2016 was going to be different somehow – and I wasn’t far off. It turned out to be a crappy year all around. From...

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My Last Words – Honesty And Truths

Finally, December 31st has arrived. I’ll make an attempt tonight to stay up, despite the fact that my sleep last night was just plain crappy and bad. I’ll be dog tired by the time I hit my pillow in...

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Let’s Start Again, Shall We??

Another adventure gone wrong for our travelling granddaughter, Felicia. It seems every time she ventures out locally or internationally something bad happens, and New Years Eve was no exception. Her...

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Our 15 Hours To Hell And Back

It all started around Wednesday afternoon when Nat complained of his right shoulder being really sore. Thinking he’d twisted a muscle or joint when moving the snowblower in the garage to make room for...

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