NO. 13 & 14 MY BLOG IS NOT ALWAYS MY BEST FRIEND

I love telling my news and stories as much as the next guy.  And when I haven't talked to my close friends for a long time, its so awesome to make tea or coffee, cozy down in purple room and talk and talk and talk.  Till now.

Every single damn story or info I start to tell, they already know.  And, you know there is always that person out there that tells your stories to your people before you have had a chance to.  I do not like them.  (shovel list)  It's so deflating!

Well that friend is my blog.  Everybody I talk to has pretty much read it.  So every time I start a story, I am interrupted with, "Oh yeah!  I read about that in your blog!"  Damn!!!  And if they haven't heard the story, I think "Jeez, why aren't they reading my blog?"  Its seriously ridiculous.  

I am not sure where I left off.  I think I was heading off to Maureen's for tea.  I cannot believe how that woman simply does not change.  She looks just like she did many years ago!  And I have the pics to prove it!

We had an amazing couple of hours!  She is such a wonderful visitor!  And, thank God!, she hasn't read my blog!!!  So we talked solidly for almost three hours!  There was so much ground to cover! We are both grandmas now so we were full of grandchildren stories!  And by the sounds of it all our grandchildren are just as clever and smart and awesome as our kids were back in the day!!  It felt so right visiting with her.  I look forward to many more visits!

I took the crokinole board back.  Didn't get any money back.  I showed them the misplaced pegs but apparently that is the way they make them now.  I argued and said no, its wrong blah blah blah.  They then looked up pics of tournament official boards and guess what?  I was right (or should I say Aryn as she was the one that spotted the problem first).  They apologized but still wouldn't take it back.  So I said well I am not keeping it, I am leaving it here so you can sell it again.  So one of the guys said that they were ordering in handmade heavy tournament style ones for 150 bucks and they will call me when they come in and they will knock 75 bucks off the purchase price.  I'm happy with that.  Its all good.

Last night Monte's friends arrived for the night.  What a nice foursome they were.  Dale is someone I hadn't met before and he was such a nice guy.  The three girls were wonderful as well.  They were on their way to Penticton on a rock climbing adventure.  This morning I got up and made a big breakfast for them and had such a good visit.  One of the girls has been here in Kamloops for a month now.  I told her to get hold of me and come up for a visit, dinner or coffee or something.  She is a criminal trial lawyer and she is kind of stuck here in a hotel until the trial ends.  Molly thought she had died and gone to heaven with four new people to pack her around and make a fuss over.

So now its numbers 13 and 14.  One is so boring.  Its getting harder and harder to find stuff I actually want to part with.  But I simply can't keep all those things if I am not going to use them or the kids don't want them.  Oh well such is life.  TTYL

CUTE LITTLE CREAM AND SUGAR...I DO NOT REMEMBER WHERE THESE CAME FROM BUT I HAVE HAD THEM FOREVER

THIS THING IS ACTUALLY STERLING SILVER AND A BONE HANDLE (CREEPY) OR HORN...NOT SURE WHICH.  AND GOD ONLY KNOWS WHAT KIND OF SERVER IT IS,  THOSE GENTEEL FORMAL DINNER DAYS ARE NO MORE.