Latin (tem-pu̇s-ˈfü-git): Time Flies
Wow, Wi-Fi at Camp Ceaderwood in the Phase 3 section, and I have my own room, with a bathroom, awesome!
The picture is from my perch in the sound booth, which required that you climb a ladder up to a trap door to get into it. The band has just finished and they are playing a crazy game. And, it’s just getting started, snack at 11pm, outdoor games until 1am, movies until 2am, and then curfew, but not necessarily sleep. Should be a wild weekend.
That’s right, at about 6am, it’s snowing. We arrived last night and had the water on in about an hour with no major complications. It seems that the cottage of an age where there are more little things starting to show their age. For example, the upstairs sink tap won’t shut off fully. It seems that the internal springs and/or the rubber o-rings that shut the flow off just aren’t what they used to be.
Another new little mystery is the furnace. After running for varous amounts of time, several hours last night, and only several minutes this morning, the circuit breaker trips. Not right away when you flip it on which would indicate some sort of short or issue with the fan motor perhaps, but some time later. I’m thinking the breaker is just getting old and tired. We’ll replace it later today and see.
The shingles were on the driveway for replacing the 26+ year old roof, next weekend. I hope everyone has warmed up their muscles. Carrying 50 bundles up the ladder should be an excellent workout
Oh yeah!
Taking her out for the FOG ride tomorrow and possible a Time Trials race on Sunday. Zoom Zoom
What happens when you drain the oil from a car and then put the “pedal to the metal”? We’ll see later. It sounds a little crazy, but it could be fun. Some people are sure it’s “crazy”.
See some other photos of the Dennis Rogers event today.
Perhaps that’s a little too dramatic. We’re actually talking about a very humane relocation, perhaps to a nice park in the neighborhood, or someplace very far away.
The nice cute little squirrel that we see scampering around all winter long has taken up residence in our shed. Now I don’t really have a problem with that, everybody has to be somewhere, but this guy is quite a messy tenant and he really needs to go. So, stage one, the trap is set and we’ve had a little experience with catching squirrels, so I’m quite optimistic that we can resolve this peacefully, with out a loss of life.
For the first time in a long time we went over to the Festival on Louis Riel Day no less. The place was packed out but we managed to avoid the line-ups and the gate charges (accidentally of course) by hiking up the river bank from Notre Dame St. and Thibault St. to Fort Gibraltar. We bumped into this nice pair of horses. We checked out the snow sculptures and a few of the events before heading over to Starbucks for a EH,CDL and a couple of cookies. Came across a wise bird as well!
About a week ago, I went out to the Conservatory to take some pictures of the flowers with Scott and Shirley. When we arrived there was a lot more that flowers going on. There was a bride pulling up in a limo, to get married with a very emotional dad. This turned out to be just one of three weddings that we saw in our short visit.
But the best of all were these young ladies that I’ve dubbed Fairy Princesses. There were all dressed up in very fine attire and being quite attentive to the Queen of the Fairy Princesses, who was reading them a story and later singing and helping them with some craft work. It was quite a sight and never having had young daughters (yet) it was quite fascinating and heart warming to see them all having such a good time at what appeared to be somebodies very special birthday party.
We did get around to taking some photos of the flowers and Scott Orchid shot is excellent. Later we enjoyed a late lunch together at had a great afternoon.
Trying to learn a little more about Photoshop.
