2004/03/28
Our most basic instinct is not for survival but for family. Most of us would give our own life for the survival of a family member, yet we lead our daily life too often as if we take our family for granted.
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What is up with the price of gasoline? Here it is at .717 cents/lt. In California it is around $2.25 US/gal. Here, it went up about .14cents a litre in one day! (from .63 to .78/lt.)....and now its gone down a bit.
Yesterday it rained like mad here, thunder and lightning.....in March! The streets were flooded because the water had nowhere to go. It was hard to drive home from the play because of the high water. Of course people in Suv's and big 4 x 4 's were having a ball justifying their large purchases by driving through the large puddle at break neck speeds, drowning out everyone else. Pat and Paul's house (basement) got flooded; they have there window wells that are quite efficient at capturing runoff and if the ground is frozen the water has nowwhere to go except in the window. Luckily the water just travelled down the wall and directly into the sewer, but the wall panelling will have to be replaced and the insulation too. Us? We just ended up with lake Winnipeg in our front yard. I had to take the water pump to it today to drain it off. The ground is still frozen you see. It is quickly filling up again!
The play "The Winslow Boy" was quite good but lengthy and very wordy. It could have done with some editing. It went for 2 1/2 hours. The guy on the other side of Catherine fell asleep and started snoring loudly, that is until his wife poked him and he woke up with a snort. I, however, am given to taking the odd cat-nap at any given play, dutifully stayed awake all the way through, encouraged by the fact that we were going for a nice steak dinner right after the play. I believe that there is one more play in May.
Looks like it will be mild all week; not as mild as they said it would be but mild none the less. The snow is continuing to melt away.
Today, Catherine and I did the 'Premier Crossword" puzzle from the Saturday paper. It was a large one but we completed it in 22 minutes. We were limited only by the time it took to write the clues it. Too easy, but since we do not subscribe to the NYT puzzle anymore and the one in the paper is one that we have already done, we had no choice.
I have a book of 200 NYT puzzles that I am currently working on (this is my 3rd 200 puz book) but that is my own book. just for me bwahahahaha. I have also done 3 or 4 of those 50 puz books. So you might say that I enjoy doing them. I do a NYT puzzle every night when I got to bed, before I go to sleep and generally will complete a puzzle in 2 nights. I don't always completely finish them. I do get stuck once in a while.
I heard from Jack and it appears that he and the boys and Lucinda ( I think) are going to Victoria for the first week of August. His plan is to meet with Mom there. I hope he realizes that his Mom is now 86 this year and really should not be travelling. It is an easy thing to forget when you are not actually seeing her that often. I know that she has a pace-maker but realize that she has it because her heart is weak. She is also having nosebleeds and has had one recently which resulted in her having to go to emergency. Of course she can be talked into anything.
Well, its a lazy Sunday and I am on the 'puter and Catherine is reading a book....and Suzie is sleeping. Life is good.
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What is up with the price of gasoline? Here it is at .717 cents/lt. In California it is around $2.25 US/gal. Here, it went up about .14cents a litre in one day! (from .63 to .78/lt.)....and now its gone down a bit.
Yesterday it rained like mad here, thunder and lightning.....in March! The streets were flooded because the water had nowhere to go. It was hard to drive home from the play because of the high water. Of course people in Suv's and big 4 x 4 's were having a ball justifying their large purchases by driving through the large puddle at break neck speeds, drowning out everyone else. Pat and Paul's house (basement) got flooded; they have there window wells that are quite efficient at capturing runoff and if the ground is frozen the water has nowwhere to go except in the window. Luckily the water just travelled down the wall and directly into the sewer, but the wall panelling will have to be replaced and the insulation too. Us? We just ended up with lake Winnipeg in our front yard. I had to take the water pump to it today to drain it off. The ground is still frozen you see. It is quickly filling up again!
The play "The Winslow Boy" was quite good but lengthy and very wordy. It could have done with some editing. It went for 2 1/2 hours. The guy on the other side of Catherine fell asleep and started snoring loudly, that is until his wife poked him and he woke up with a snort. I, however, am given to taking the odd cat-nap at any given play, dutifully stayed awake all the way through, encouraged by the fact that we were going for a nice steak dinner right after the play. I believe that there is one more play in May.
Looks like it will be mild all week; not as mild as they said it would be but mild none the less. The snow is continuing to melt away.
Today, Catherine and I did the 'Premier Crossword" puzzle from the Saturday paper. It was a large one but we completed it in 22 minutes. We were limited only by the time it took to write the clues it. Too easy, but since we do not subscribe to the NYT puzzle anymore and the one in the paper is one that we have already done, we had no choice.
I have a book of 200 NYT puzzles that I am currently working on (this is my 3rd 200 puz book) but that is my own book. just for me bwahahahaha. I have also done 3 or 4 of those 50 puz books. So you might say that I enjoy doing them. I do a NYT puzzle every night when I got to bed, before I go to sleep and generally will complete a puzzle in 2 nights. I don't always completely finish them. I do get stuck once in a while.
I heard from Jack and it appears that he and the boys and Lucinda ( I think) are going to Victoria for the first week of August. His plan is to meet with Mom there. I hope he realizes that his Mom is now 86 this year and really should not be travelling. It is an easy thing to forget when you are not actually seeing her that often. I know that she has a pace-maker but realize that she has it because her heart is weak. She is also having nosebleeds and has had one recently which resulted in her having to go to emergency. Of course she can be talked into anything.
Well, its a lazy Sunday and I am on the 'puter and Catherine is reading a book....and Suzie is sleeping. Life is good.
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