Snow, snow and more snow

OK enough already!!  We've had it with the global warming!  Today the snow is being re-arranged.  The wind is blowing and moving it to other places.  At least we don't have ice, and we do still have hydro.  

This snowy weather has given me the opportunity to catch up on some painting, thus the teapot with the rose.

An Afternoon Out!

Friday is normally laundry day at my house. So, I started the day with that task.  Then we went to Costco to do a bit of shopping and then on to the pool for our swim.  After lunch at McDonald's and a short nap and finishing up the laundry, I went to Judy's house for a fun afternoon and evening with some of the ladies from church.  We began our fun time putting a jigsaw puzzle together while some of the others played scrabble.  Then we were treated to a soup and salad supper.  After supper we played Mexican Train ( guess I need to say that I was the winner of that game.)  Got home in time to see the beginning of the Raptors game.  Wayford had the towels dried and put away when I got home.  Ho-hum, this retirement is really rough!!

Taking a mini-vacation

A scheduled Drs. appt. made it necessary to be in Toronto for 2:30, Wednesday, which meant we would not be done with that until 3:30. (not a good time to drive home from Toronto) Soooo, Wayford and Linda conspired and came up with the idea that we should stay in a hotel and see Sound of Music on Thursday night(which was a beautiful presentation). Could we get tickets to see the play on Thursday night and come home after the play. Or, why not just stay two nights in the hotel??? O.K., we can do that! Then, to our surprise Linda and Marcia gave us tickets to see the Raptors on Wednesday night. Wow! Two big events in one week, plus two nights in a luxury hotel. Now we have to get maps out to determine the walking distance from the hotel to the two events. We're good walkers and with so many others on the street it would be quite safe to walk those areas. Little did we know the temperature would be down to 0 degrees F. As I began to look at the hotel amenities I discover that the Toronto PATH (an underground tunnel which has about 1200 shops and lots of food courts) leads directly out of the Sheraton and right to Air Canada Centre as well as within about two blocks of the Princess of Wales theatre. However, for two country bumpkins that PATH looks a bit confusing. When it is 0 degrees one can overcome confusing! When it is 0 degrees we could even pay a valet to park our car!!! The PATH turned out to be a real blessing. There were a few times when the signage was not clear and we were standing there looking like real tourists looking at our map of the PATH when someone would come to our rescue. We got to the venues on time, even with time to spare. We only left the underground tunnel to walk the two blocks to the theatre. The only glitch was at 2:00 Friday morning when the fire alarm began to ding. We were only on the 9th floor and the stairs were just outside our door. We did get our coats and boots on and get ready to evacuate but were instructed to stay where we were, the fire dept. was there checking things out. We then got an "all clear" and went back to bed. Buffet breakfast was amazing. This was included with the package deal we got. They had everything on the buffet (except biscuits and gravy)and it served so elegantly. A wonderful couple of days for these two oldies.

Pitures are Wayford in the PATH, Raptors Logo on basketball court, City Hall with Nathan Phillips Square in foreground, waterfall from the window of the Hotel, and Wayford and Wilma relaxing at the Hotel.

A painted sawblade for a loaf of homemeade bread

Would you trade a painted sawblade for a loaf of homemade bread?  I would.  To thank Barry and Jean for our trip to Pennsylvania in October, I painted one of the covered bridges on a round saw blade.  This afternoon Wayford and I took it over to them.  I think we had been smelling the bread all the way to Silver Birch Crescent.  Boy, did we pick the right time to visit them.

We've taken one more step up on the tech scene.  We got a PVR to enhance our TV viewing.  Not a HD but a standard one.  No need for HDPVR if we don't have HDTV is there?  Are we Tech savvy enough to figure out this new remote?

Happy New Year!

We have started our New Year off by watching the Rose Bowl parade and then having a wonderful buffet meal at the Mandarin Restaurant.  No black eyed peas for us!.  Linda and Marcia invited us to join them for lunch there today.  Now for some football viewing!

A very relaxing way to begin the new year.