Paulette

Carla was generous enough to offer the kids a wall unit they no longer needed. Kat decided she could use it in her new house.

It has glass doors and glass shelves. Carla took the doors off for us so that all we had to do was move it. Dave and Paul manage to bring all 3 units up the stairs and out of the house without damaging any walls along the way.

We used our trailer to move them thinking we could fit all 3 in it at once. But they didn’t all fit so we made 2 trips to Hong’s house. The plan is to store them in their basement until Kat & Hong move in March ‘09.

The units didn’t fit down the basement stairs so we opted to leave them in the garage until Brian moves out in Sept ‘08 then we can store them in our basement. Whew!

We decided to bring the doors here since it all ends up here anyway. When we unloaded at our place the 2 long doors were broken in half. Oh oh…

We’ll wait and see whether they want to replace them or not. I guess we aren’t very good movers.

Kat bought a new bike today. She wanted something comfortable to ride. It wasn’t easy finding exactly what she wanted and in the correct size.

It really looks like an old fashioned bike. Everything old is new again. Isn’t it cute?

Here’s another item from the past that we inherited from Mom & Dad’s spring cleaning. Can we use a Weight Watchers scale? I thought probably not.

Well Kat has already used it. She measured out some ground beef to make meatballs. It worked just fine.

I think. I didn’t check to make sure that # of meatballs X supposed weight did indeed total the amount of ground beef she started with. The meatballs were all of uniform size. That’s all that matters anyway.

Some of our time in Merrickville was spent going to all the shops. There are a lot of artist studios to go into and of course a couple of antique places.

I’ve never been one to browse antique shops. I don’t collect anything. They usually smell funny.

This past weekend though we popped into a few just briefly. We wanted to find an old camera for Brian. He is using them to decorate his new condo.

We found an old Kodak from 1917 and just had to pick it up.

It still retracts into the case. The shutter still works. It probably can still take pictures. Imagine that!

We spent the weekend in Merrickville.  We stayed at Sam Jake’s Inn.

The weather forecast looked gloomy with rain predicted all weekend.  Fortunately we didn’t get rained on.  It was sunny on Saturday, then showers arrived at night and by Sunday the clouds looked threatening for a while but it all cleared up.

It was garage sale day on Saturday in Merrickville.  We arrived at noon and were lucky to have missed the craziness of the early morning mad rush of people trying to get the best bargain.  Apparently it was difficult to drive around.   I’m glad we weren’t there for that.

We ate lunch at an outdoor patio then shopped up and down main street.  We stopped in a few artist studios and picked up some small items.

We had a nice dinner at the Inn.   We watched the Canadiens get eliminated from the playoffs.  Oh well, I’m done with hockey now.  (Maybe I’ll watch Sidney Crosby just a little.)

We had breakfast at the inn and went for a walk taking in the canal locks, the ruins and a lot of beautiful old stone houses and porches.

It was a nice relaxing time.

Today is our anniversary. We’ve been married 33 years! Seems unbelievable since I only feel 33 maybe 34.

We are going overnight to Sam Jakes Inn in Merrickville.

I am scheduled for a hot stone massage.   I have only had 1 massage and it wasn’t a great experience for me.  The type I had back then was a deep tissue massage.  I don’t have kinks to work out so I found that it hurt.

Dummy me, I should have told her to go more softly on me.  I’m looking forward to this one.  It should be relaxing.

Last week the spa, this week the inn & stone massage.  What a life!

Happy Anniversary Dave!

Yes it’s a mini crock pot. Mom & Dad had never used it. It came with a large crock pot which they do use. Dad was cleaning out and asked if the kids could use it. Hmmm, I don’t know? It’s pretty tiny. What the heck, I’ll bring it home and find out.

When I arrived home from work I could smell something wonderful cooking. I head to the kitchen to see if this is dinner. Out of luck, it’s soup stock. Kat makes it at least once a week and although it smells terrific it isn’t ready to eat.

I do notice the Crockette on the counter beside it. I don’t remember putting it there. Then I notice it is plugged in. I pop open the lid and see Kat’s applesauce slowly cooking away. She has put this to good use already.

It is tiny but for making her applesauce it is just right.

Another appliance we got from Mom & Dad cleaning out their stuff is this old yogurt maker. I don’t remember Mom making it so I’m assuming it was after I moved out.

Kat has been making yogurt now for a couple of months so she was interested in this.  We didn’t have any instructions but thankfully the internet is just the place to find out whatever you need.  Many people have bought similar things at garage sales.  She quickly found out how to use it and put it to work.

This one heats the yogurt in several small glass containers.  Now she can make 3 litres at one time.

Since Kat uses 2% goat’s milk to make her yogurt it is very runny.  We have found an easy way to drip the yogurt.  I bought large commercial size basket style coffee filters.  Put a filter in a stainer and pour in the yogurt.  After an hour or so you have creamy smooth yogurt.

Yummy!

We went to Mom & Dad’s tonight for supper. As always the conversation turns to the kids and how they are doing. Since both are buying their first homes and moving out they do need a lot of things.

Dad was going through their cupboards and asked if Brian and Kathryn would like any of their old stuff. Not knowing what the stuff was I said sure.

I mean how old can the stuff be?  Remember avocado green? Isn’t that from the 70’s?

Here is an old blender. We haven’t tried it yet.