Lazy Lurkio

The weather started out very foggy. Then it got warmer and more humid and we had a few spots of rain. There is a storm forecast, who knows whether we will get it or not.

Huffle worked from home again. I went to knitting. El had to undo my sock as I hadn't enough stitches (where did they go?) and she spent most of the morning undoing whilst dealing with customers, telephone calls and other people's knitting mishaps. So I only really did about four rows but at least I am on track now so hopefully I might get more done. I spent most of the sessions chatting, listening, laughing and drinking coffee - life is tough!

On the way home. I encountered some truly awful driving. A man on a moped or motorbike pulled out in front of me without looking and nearly fell off when I honked my horn at him. Bloody idiot! Then I got stuck on the supermarket car park when one car was seemingly parked next to the pedestrian crossing and another wanted to pass it. I stopped to let a pedestrian walk (as being a walker I know how difficult it is to cross when no-one even sees you) and caused a major jam. Seriously the driving here is abominable!

Huffle and I I had a lovely lunch together and then later instead of going for a walk (like we intended) we moved our vegetable beds into their new place (which took a lot of moving as we kept changing our minds) repaired them, filled them with paper and compost and comfrey (which we also moved). It was a hard couple of hours work but I think we did a good job and needed to be done. I rang a woman who keeps horses and she said we could come and get some horse manure for free so that will help to make the soil better.

The boys came home. Smallest had a problem because Small said he would give him a piggy back and he didn't and then he hit him in the head with a football! Oh boy! He went inside for a grump while Huffle and I cleared away and small and I went into the top of the barn while Huffle handed us all the pool gear. Summer must now be officially over, the pool is closed, the lilos are deflated and everything stored away for the chipmunks to play with (they better not!!).

The wasp situation has improved slightly. Last night Huffle used sealant in all the gaps in the sun room so they can't get out of their nest one way. We kept all the doors closed so that no new ones could get in and any that were in we squished. We did kill quite a lot but there don't seem as many now.

Small did his homework, Smallest and I played table ice Hockey and then made pizza and then all the boys played table ice hockey while I cleared away and cleaned the kitchen.

We ate our pizza in front of 'Willow' which we started a while ago. We have all just stood at our front window and 'boooo'd' our neighbour Don NoQuotey. He came home in his truck and then went straight out again. I said "I bet he is driving to the beer store", which is a matter of 400 yards and is very easily walkable. Huffle said "if he comes back in a couple of minutes with beer I am booing him". He came back with a six pack of beer - that is despicably lazy. No wonder he doesn't do any work!!!!!

Rude Trude (from knitting) sent home some brownies for the boys - they liked them alot.

 

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Squished wasps

This morning I went to my exercise class. I cycled there and back. Can't really describe what we did. Power strength stuff. It was good. I worked hard though it wasn't as tough as last week's circuit training. Lots of stretching and yoga and core work.

Huffle worked from home. Part of his form filling for residency involves writing down all the countries he has visited in the last ten years, when and for how long. We had to go through our photo albums on the computer to work it out but it was nice to go back and see tiny Smallest and little Small - so cute.

We got to have lunch together briefly before I cycled off to the community garden where I had volunteered to clear and weed it before the big Heritage Festival this coming weekend. I was there for 15 minutes before I realised no-one else was coming. I phoned the garden club organiser, she had forgotten but came anyway despite her bad back and the other volunteer had gone to the dentist. It wasn't too much work and we got it done in about 40 minutes and then I I cycled back.

I took this photo whilst cycling

The wasps are still getting into the roof and the sun room. I swatted at least 30! Huffle filled some of the holes. See if that does it!

When the boys got home we played football, table football and table tennis with them in between having dinner and watching wrestling (not me, I don't watch wrestling!!! All those smooth legs on men! Not right!).

I also finished knitting and sewing my rag doll.

 

 

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Poor Froggy

I had a terrible night's sleep last night. I had lots of dreams. One was my friend Mrs Chappo visited and surprised us. It was a lovely dream where we had such fun and it made me very sad when I realised it wasn't real. Then I had a horrible dream where my bottom front tooth fell out and I just had one awful pointy tooth left. I lay awake for ages wondering if it was wobbly. Silly billy. Talking of wobbly teeth, Smallest has another one, I the it would come out today at school but it didn't. Hope he doesn't swallow it in his sleep again.

I had to stay in all day today as I was expecting a friend to visit this morning, the pool people were coming to close the pool and the cooker man was coming to check why the oven kept displaying error messages.

My friend didn't come as her little girl was poorly. The pool people came at around 10:30 ish. They were very happy (not the normal little grumpy man we get). We do have a leak and it is coming from our pump so next year we need to get that looked at. They took some money off as they didn't have to drain it because the leak had done it for them.

The cooker man came around 2pm and decided we need a new computer for the front of it. They will ring to arrange when to fit it.

In between my visits I was on the garden. Digging, planting, weeding and moving a whole load of stones from near the barn to cover a water pipe from the basement into the garden. I had to dig a long hole to fit the pipe in and then moved five wheelbarrows of very heavy stones backwards and forwards. While I was digging I think I may have chopped the leg off a small frog. I said I was very sorry and tried to move him to another place. I never actually saw his leg, I am just guessing. I also moved three of the veg beds and disturbed another wasps nest. Arrrggghhhh.

I only have this one photo from today and that is of my stone work. Small asked if I was building a whole wall!

In between the gardening I finished sewing up a rag doll I am making and carried on a bit of knitting.

When the boys came home I made dinner. Small did two lots of homework and then had IPad banned when he told me he hadn't eaten his fruit and yoghurt AGAIN! Smallest was very happy that he had all food groups in his lunch today and told me that only him and one other boy had all of them. He asked for the same again tomorrow. He tidied his room, put his clothes away and then played on the IPad.

Huffle came home early and we wandered around the garden waiting for dinner to cook, then he played table football with Small.

Dinner was eaten, spellings done (I was appalled today when Small came home with some work and for the word another he had written an over). So we had extra spellings lessons today.

Huffle and I played table tennis and I nearly won a couple. Mr Miagi might have to give me extra lessons!

 

 

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Bonjour m'duck

The weather report said it would be 7* but it was actually a much warmer day and was lovely but by the end of the day it was shivery cold!

I went to work once the kids had gone to school.

Jan, Jeff and I worked on another bed today and cleared it of all unnecessary things including a huge trumpet vine (which I realised was what Huffle bought me for our Anniversary. Whoops, might need to keep an eye on that because theirs was keeping the garage up!

I came home with a handful of Hollyhock seeds (yellow ones) and some Spurge which I planted as soon as I got home and then did a bit of weeding, cutting back and planted a clambering rose.

When the boys came home we cycled to the library and exchanged our books and then cycled home. They played, homeworked and showered whilst I got the dinner and we ate when Huffle got home.

After dinner we played Junior Monopoly and then the boys watched TV while I watched Huffle spray to wasps again. This time he tackled the ones in the ornamental pump on top of the well.

All paperwork has been sent off to the UK for mine and Huffle's police checks and we are teaching Huffle how to speak English, Canadian, Canadian English and Canadian French which I am sure will help him immensely in his English Test. ha Ha!

 

 

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Garden Host

All the boys went off today leaving me by myself. This evening I was host at the Garden Club, which means me and another lady had to bake lovely things for after our Garden Club talk. She rang to say she was making apple turnovers and Naimo Bars and cutting up Cantaloupe and Strawberries. I made flapjack, chocolate chip cookies and courgette chocolate chip loaf.

Before I started I skyped Moo and we had a good chat. I also rearranged the kitchen and front room. It must be the weather, because it is getting cooler I am going into Winter mode!!

I went and did some grocery shopping, cleaned a bathroom, did some washing and put some plants in.

The wasps were out in force again though there are loads of dead ones strewn all over the roof. They are still getting into their nests somehow but they seem really dozy, landing on shoes and the floor. I hope no-one treads on them.

The man who I did some typing for came round to see what I had done with his document and we went over it together. He had a look at the wasps too and said they were really hard to get rid of. He had to use petrol to get rid of a nest in his garden, in the ground. BOOM

The boys came home and played football before going on the IPad. We all had dinner when Huffle came home and I went to the Garden Club. This evening's talk was from a man from Norwich, UK. He had a strange accent, English, American, Canadian! The talk was about cactus and succulents. Interesting enough but I don't want to grow them. We watched a slide show in the dark and I nearly fell asleep. The food went down well but there weren't many people there to eat it so I brought loads home. The boys will be happy. I won a prize which I was very happy about. It is a Stafford China Mug with cactus and succulents in it. I now know from the talk that the roots need air so I will have to replant it but its nice all the same.

 

Huffle had sprayed the nests again with his 'John Merrick' outfit on. Hopefully it will be better this time.

 

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Dave Meatball

This morning we decided to go on a bike ride. We breakfasted, made a picnic, blew up our tyres (which was actually a much longer job than it sounds) and then took two cars with two people and two bikes each, drove down to the lake and started our 11km bike ride along the Waterfront Trail.

Smallest bombed off without a care in the world. Small complained about everything, his legs, his bottom and his gears. We think his seat is too low for his enormously long legs so we need to sort that before our next ride. I was still achey but the ride helped to loosen me up a bit.

We had a lovely cycle alongside the lake, with not too many people on the trail. We stopped at one park on the way and just a few stops for photographs. We made it all the way to the boys favourite park and tried to find somewhere to eat our picnic.

There were flies everywhere so we ended up on the beach. It was lovely. The boys played on the park before we started on our way back. It took us an hour to get there (whereas when the boys and I came earlier it took us two hours but we did stop at every park and many benches!).

It was between 12* and 18* today - perfect for cycling

It was a good ride back with more moaning from Small but we got there in the end. On the way home Huffle nearly got hit by a car that wasn't paying attention.

Once home the boys played outside until Small came in for a soothing bath and Smallest and Huffle vacuumed the cars. I made a roast dinner and we played football while it cooked.

After our dinner we watched the end of Harry Potter and the Order of Phoenix, had a game of table football and played Junior Monopoly.

The boys watched TV and went to bed. Huffle became Wasp Wiper-outer and got rid of two nests we had. We were going to leave them as they weren't bothering us but they started to get into the sun room and it is difficult to get through into the garden, especially now that smallest has been stung, he is even more afraid of them!

Bug-b-gone

The gloves were to stop him being stung and the towel around the face was to prevent him breathing in the spray! Gorgeous!

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No smiling!

We had a lovely lazy morning. Huffle watching football, I was sewing and the boys were playing on some device or other. We had croissants in honour of Mummy Appreciation Day, which I made up because the some shops doing "customer appreciation days" where they have BBQ's and offers on because 'they appreciate their customers'. I asked them what they appreciated about me, mainly it was to do with food and letting them play on the computer. Very funny.

We all went out to several Mall's today. The first one, a Chinese Mall, we couldn't park in because it was lunchtime and it seemed the whole of the Chinese community were there. So we went for lunch in Unionville. A nice stroll along Main Street and then the boys had pizza, Huffle had a Bison Burger and I had a lovely Mushroom Linguine.

We went back to the Chinese Mall, managed to park and then went and had our photos taken. Huffle is applying for Residency here and we have to submit 6 photos of each of us and one extra of Huffle and I for a Police check in the UK. Smallest went first and tried very hard not to smile, in fact he looked like he was chewing. Smallest was next and his photo looks like he has just been told off. I got told to move my hair away from eyes.

What a motley crew!

Huffle also has to have an English test. Can you believe it? Huffle is English, born in England, lived in England until Novemeber 2011 and his first language is English but he HAS to have an English test - he better pass it. The rest of us don't have to have one because Huffle is the Principal applicant. Ha!

While we waited for our photos to be developed we went on the lookout for Pokemon cards. We didn't find any but we did get some leaf picker-uppers which is good because ours from UK broke. We picked up our photos and went to another Mall where we bought a cover for Huffle's new IPad. The boys were happy in there because they go to try a computer.

By the time we go home it was about 4:30pm. The boys had far too much energy and we sent them outside to play while we skyped Grandma and Grandad.

Small finished his Harry Potter last week book so we watched some of the film. We had our tea in the basement whilst watching the film and then the boys went to bed (we will have to finish the film another time).

It is very cool this evening, I'm ready to put the heating on!!!

 

 

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