Sunday Night Update

You can tell from the five posts below how I spent most of my Sunday. I was ready to throw something but it finally all came together. (You may have to click on "older posts" to see them all but they're there).

First I didn't have my camera.

My camera returned and I couldn't find the cord to upload.

I uploaded direct from the memory chip (didn't know I could do that). It worked but it uploaded to Adobe and when I tried to publish, I couldn't find the directory from the Blogger "browse" windows.

Then I looked at the shelf below the computer. There was the cord so I started over with Kodak software which meant uploading, renaming, captioning, deleting, and editing everything one more time.

I started early this morning with the pictures. It's now past 8:00 p.m. I imagine I took at least 50 pictures and edited down to the ones I posted.

Not that I did nothing else. Ray's been back in hospital since Tuesday (or maybe Wednesday?). Some of you already know that from email. I saw him this afternoon and he's doing much better. He may come home tomorrow. I think some of it was exhaustion. We both pushed ourselves but he did more of the heavy work than he should have, even with all the help we had.

The girls called tonight; mostly Rebecca talking although I did talk to Elcie for a few minutes. Rochelle wasn't there but she'll call soon. Rebecca has always been the chatterbox. It was so good to hear her little voice. I miss them. She had to know all about our little house of course and what we were doing.

Let's see, what else? I had lunch with my friend Janet on Wednesday and then lunch and card playing with my shelf making friends R & L (and Tim) on Thursday. That's unusual for me; usually Janet and I just have coffee and it's the first time the guys, Tim, and I have gone out together. I had enough leftovers from both lunches for dinner on both nights so I didn't have to fix anything for myself.

Other than that, I've kept myself busy settling in here. I have a few more boxes in the side yard to go through (including the videos I mentioned in the picture post). Once we're done, the housework will be nothing. I'll be looking around for something more to do I imagine.

Oh, did any of you have problems with Bloglines the other night? Suddenly it showed 18,000+ posts. Looked like it backed up and updated for the last 3 months or so. I marked them all "read" which closed them all. If I missed some of your posts, I apologize. By morning, it was fixed.

We're getting into autumn quickly now. The afternoon temps are in the mid-80's (around 30C) and are expected to drop another ten degrees by next weekend. The mornings are in the 50's and I've packed my shorts away for winter.

We're expected to do our own lawn upkeep. Friend Dawn found us a used electric mower for $40. Works perfectly and even has the grass collector attached. I bought a heavy duty outdoor 120 foot extension cord and we were set. Dawn's husband tried it out on our lawn yesterday. We don't have much grass but what there was needed cutting. I don't think anyone had watered in some time and of course the summer is almost over. We might try putting some seed down and see what happens and might even try a little gardening next year. Ray wants to plant a rose bush.

And that's about it from me for now. Thanks to all for the comments and the emails.

Hope all of you had a good weekend. Take care everyone.

Too Many Pictures 5 (Ann's Sanctum)

Which also serves as a catchall for storage, at least for now. We have a few things to move in and once that's done, I'll look back over my storage space and do some reorganization of those lovely shelves. There's one higher shelf, out of range of the camera, which also holds knickknacks. The first two are my computer gear, books, cd's, dvd's and videos along with most of our paperwork in a pendaflex setup. Right now, things are somewhat in place but not as much as I'd like. I need to do some more culling although I did a lot when we moved. And I l have videos (all opera and classical which I taped myself) to sort through and decide what to keep. I still have one empty shelf.

I love this room. It's tiny but all my stuff is together and I can do my thing while Ray does his. Before, the computer was competing with the t.v. Not that I'm going to ignore him completely you understand. We'll spend lots of time together.

This is the only room the living room swamp cooler doesn't reach but that oscillating fan draws the cool air in.

So, that's my small but wonderful computer room/music room/t.v. room and library.

Too Many Pictures 4 (Kitchen)

That's a breadmaker in the middle of the kitchen table. I picked it up at a yard sale yesterday for $2. I'm a part of the group putting on the sale and I know who donated the breadmaker so I'm sure it works. I've never used one and I haven't made bread in years but it will be fun to try and Ray loves gadgets. He may be the first to use it.

Too Many Pictures 3 (Kitchen)

The kitchen is at least twice the size of the living room and bedroom together (and possibly my computer/music/library room as well) so I've taken the pics from different angles to show all the storage and how great a kitchen it is. It lacks counter work space but with just the two of us, I can work at the kitchen table. It also has a pullout chopping board at the sink. We'll do fine with that.

The microwave, can opener, and toaster look odd by the sink but we're short of outlets and I'd as soon not use extension cords in the kitchen. I wouldn't do that if we had kids around but Ray & I are careful and everything except the microwave is unplugged when we're not using them.

Those two windows face almost due east and catch the morning sun.

I'm not sure how many kitchen pics I have but I'll split them over a couple of posts and then come back and tell you what's been happening lately.

Too Many Pictures 2 (Bath, Living Room, Bedroom)

And one kitchen picture with Dawn's daughter, Destiny, and the neighbor cat. The other pics speak for themselves. Not much one can say about a tiny living room and bedroom. I did find a perfect space in the living room for my corner shelves though and the bathroom is fair sized. We don't need space in the living room or bedroom anyhow as long as we can sit in one and sleep in the other. Ray has room to tinker with his video equipment too.

Too Many Pictures 1 (Outside and Laundry Room)

The house isn't leaning, that was my lack of skill. This is the side of the house; the main entrance is around the corner. We blocked it off so we wouldn't be tracking through the living room and we needed the space. If we have to use it, it will be simple to move my rocker and open the door. This door leads through the laundry room and into the kitchen.

You can see part of my washer, all of my dryer (faces the washer), and some of the overhead shelves my friends built as their housewarming gift to us. The outside views should have been at the top of the post but we all know how adept I am with pictures. Not!!

Every room except the bath has at least two windows. My computer room has four and the laundry room has three. The only slightly dark rooms are the living room and bedroom and I could open the blinds and fix that.

Spunky, our alpha kitty and the only one we have now, went missing for a few days but is now back to stay. She's made friends with the cat who lives in the front house.

I almost forgot to mention that the funny looking thing hanging above the dryer is a knee high stocking covering the vent. Landlord is supposed to put in a vent but it's not done yet. No problem because I can open the door and the windows and we can get away with washing twice a week now but the stocking keeps the lint out of the house.