A Dead Battery and So Much Excitement

Who knew?

It was a nice and relaxing day at work...it was time for coffee. And all of a sudden our church's neighbour walks in through the front doors and asked which of us two pulled the fire alarm. Renata and I look at each other and said, "Neither of us!" We are grown women working hard, with no time for shannanigans like that. Time for coffee, of course but that's a matter of necessity!! He said that there had been two calls to 911 in the last 20 minutes and had sent someone to check it out. He asked to go on a walk through with me and we had a tour of the facilities. Upon a proper viewing of the brand new, installed only last week, fire alarm system, fully loaded with automatic dial-up...it was discovered that there was a problem with the battery being low or nearly dead...and for some reason that was a three alarm situation.... I was about to phone my trusty chair of BOT and as I had trouble getting through....the alarm was dialing 911 again....he walked right through the door accompanied by the Fire Chief and the Fire Prevention Officer....lotsa brass. They eventually decided not to press charges since the machine was acting on its own, and no one was making prank calls. BUT...we will get reported in the newspaper units dispatched....so exciting to be in the paper.

That was the fun we had today, and now the rest of the day is kind of anticlimatic. Cleaning the bathroom wasn't nearly as enthralling as it usually is! I went home and tidied up, in case a friend stopped in, but she must be otherwise occupied. Kiddies are both away and I thought it was hightime that I update here and share the excitement.

Yesterday was truly a wonderful day off. I enjoyed it so much, and the fact that it felt strange to not be at work, just reinforced the feeling of a vacation day. It was high time for one of those I guess! I scrapbooked two pages yesterday!!! Not bad for a first day.... I seem to have to get on a roll and right now this stone is gathering moss. I should go and make a card, maybe that will kick start things. It has really been neat to slice up those old magazines because I got so many great ideas. I'm going to go through the "layout" pile in a minute for my next idea. I have really great paper right now too, and some really old stuff that I never wanted to cut up because it is too beautiful. That's just like having a really nice sweater that you don't want to wear because you're saving it for a special time....

The weekend might get wild and woolly and I may be absent from here for a while....I'll be back (say that in your Arnold Shwarzenegger "terminator" voice...)

Love ya!

More Digi Fun...

I figured that most of you haven't seen our pup, Blixie, before so I wanted to share a picture of here. A great dog with a sweet disposition.


Today is a nice day, a bit chilly at the outset but that was easily remedied by a quick shot of the furnace. I already got a couple of loads of laundry done, the place is swept and clean and the lads are heading out for a while. That means...I'm home alone....shhhh!

I hope all of you out there having birthdays had a lovely time of it yesterday, celebrating with your loved ones!

We got everthing set up nicely in the craft room at the bazaar last night. It took very little time at all with four people helping.... Another thing that can be crossed of the to do list.

It feels very strange to be home and not at church working ....but kind of cool too. I made lots of phone of calls to get some things arranged and I find that it is better to get those made right away, rather than leave them on the backburner where they are prone to fall into procrastination. Then it starts to become a burden and this just gets it done right away.

So a lazy day...so far very uneventful....this is the life. Hope your day is of the same variety! Love ya...

I Do Windows.....

My impatiens and geraniums are really happy today!! I took a picture for posterity and for sharing.... :) Temperatures are predicted to plummet later this week and I imagine these blooms will look quite a bit different after that!

You can see my blue deck spindles and my little red bench is just peeking out from under the pot. The bench is full of pots of annuals and I really should have experimented more with my digital camera while everything was in full splendour....oh well, something for next year!

Hope you are all having a great day today. I had much fun while cleaning at Pastor Koole's this afternoon. We cleaned all the sunny windows and BY all the windows and the shelves there as he is getting ready to bring all his plants indoors for the winter. We've been working on that for a while but this week push comes to shove. Git 'er done. And so we did! We had yummy koek with our coffee this afternoon with real butter. It was delish. I always get two pieces because I get spoiled there, but then you already knew that! We had lots of laughs which is regular too. And all things are sparkly clean and shiny! Always a nice way to leave things. I finished washing all the doekies already too so things are tidies and put away.

I had some extra things to do at church this morning which made the whole day kind of late but I had the car so I could just zoom onto the next job, and I didn't have to juggle all my pails like I do when I ride my bike. It is such a treat to have the car today. Good thing I had work to do or I might have had to go to a store or something. But...now I can take tomorrow off. The kids have the next couple of days off school for the teacher's convention at Redeemer. Joe is going to a friend's house and Craig's friend is already here. I really ought to go and cook some supper. Ray is busy with the books, and I will figure out what to do when everyone else is busy. No sense planning a papercrafting day when you are needed to play boardgames, making pizza from scratch, or plan an art project. It's just easier to slip away when everyone is occupied and it feels nicer than having my plans cancelled. Some people call it being flexible....

I was just thinking the other day about the little things we look forward to and how we sometimes forget to enjoy them when they occur. In the spring I always look forward to doing summer laundry because there seems to be less of it. 5 summer outfits, of shorts and tshirts...don't take up as much space in the machine as 5 fall and winter outfits, of jeans, tshirts AND sweatshirts.... So summer came and went and I forgot to appreciate that the laundry piles were smaller. Now we are right back into cooler weather, only very recently, and I already miss it...eventhough I forgot to appreciate it. Little things that come to mind eh!

I must go and reheat leftovers and bake a pizza. Yummo! Easy...just man the oven....

Have a great day, and love ya!!!