From NY to Toronto

Huffle worked from home and managed to get some answers on the cooker. An engineer WILL visit us but we won't know when until tomorrow. It all spends on whether he ends parts or not (HOW ABOUT A BRAND NEW COOKER THAT IS NOT FROM SAMSUNG AND IS NOT INDICUTION?). He also spoke to the mower man who said he was waiting for a part which he hoped would come today, in which case our mower would be back today (it wasn't).

After dispatching the boys onto the school bus, I went to work. Today I helped MrsM and Jeff to get rid of all the FleaBane (a prolific weed) and Ragweed from the Alpine Garden. After coffee, we moved a load of logs (which earned me another pot of honey). MrsM gave me a resin garden frog for Smallest to put in the garden. It belonged to her Late husband so we called it Real (pronounced rayal) after him. Smallest was very pleased but he wants to call it Real Freddy Frog - of course.

After lunch with Huffle, I spent the rest of the day cleaning so now the house is spick and span and ready for a Royal visit. The boys came home from school with homework and got on with that while I made dinner and Huffle went off the airport to meet Grandma and Grandad. Today they flew in from New York to Toronto but not the airport we normally go to. They went to Billy Bishop Airport which is the one next to the Toronto Islands. He went in my car because his has been making some strange sounds lately and there are things falling off it. It is an old thing and we only bought it as a tied-him-over when we first arrived. Nearly three years on and it is time he had a nice one (it must be very embarrassing turning up to work as a Senior Vice President in a falling apart noisy Hunk of Junk, which is why tomorrow, he picks up his new (not brand new) car).

The boys and I played piano, basketball and Swingball and eventually Grandma and Grandad arrived.

This was our stash (no chocolate this time due to the fact they had to go to New York for a week before coming over to us). Twelve jellies, ten Angel Delights, a huge bag of tea and some working gloves. PARTY TIME.

 

 

 

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