Today is bell ringing day for the salvation army. Now I love to volunteer and do good works, but its twenty below out there. I can't get warm inside this house, never mind out there in the windy cold.
The first stint I am doing with Michelle. She is a good looking fifty something and does a lot for Kiwanis. But...for some odd reason she doesn't drive. I don't know why she doesn't drive, but she doesn't. I don't think I know anybody over the age of 25 who doesn't have their driver's license. Maybe she will tell me today why she doesn't. I know its not just not having a car...she actually doesn't have her license. She is a hoot though and I think it will be fun. I am going to take a chair just in case. No way can I stand for hours on end.
I asked Michelle why she doesn't drive and she told me that her husband died about the same time Spod did. Apparently he drove her everywhere and she never had a need for a licence. But now she is considering it. She really is at the mercy of getting rides from everyone.
Kathy is signed up for the following couple of hours and if she doesn't have anyone to be with, and by the looks of it she doesn't, then I will go and help her out. In this cold you need someone to spell you off for a few minutes so you can go inside and warm up. Today we are outside the liquor store at Sahali. Hmmm...maybe free samples would help.
I was just reading an article about how another blast of cold winter air is going to hit BC. Okay, it continued to say that people need to look after each other at this time and particularly keep an eye out for the elderly as they are more prone to hypothermia than the younger ones. Elderly...well jeez when are you considered elderly? Nearly 65, fully grey headed, sore knees, sore hips, is that not elderly? I will finish this post later and report back to you, if I survive hypothermia that is.
Okay, I ain't gonna lie! It was fekking cold out there!!! It was dark, snowing and freezing. But we made over 800 dollars! And it was a lot of fun. Michelle was a hoot, as I suspected she would be and it is always great spending time with Kathy. When I got home I bundled up in fuzzy warm stuff, wrapped up in a cozy blanket and stayed sunk down in my fave kitchen chair. But it took hours and hours to warm up!
I wrote the above a couple of days ago. Sunday night K&K came up for dinner. We had a great time! They are such good company and Kerry did the dishes afterwards! I was very impressed and even more impressed with where he put stuff!
Monday evening Monte and Anton came by to jam downstairs. I feel so lucky that I get to have such awesome music barrelling up the stairs. I love it! Monte had to run down to London Drugs and whip over to Walmart. This gave Anton and I a chance to visit. Somehow the convo ended up on books, and Russian Fairy Tales. So interesting. I ended up purchasing a beautiful Russian fairy tale, hard cover, and a kindle version of the funniest book called, "The Wasp Factory" by Iain Banks. (the latter is not Russian) He is so funny. Its worth looking it up on Amazon just to read his preface. I have only started the book but I can already tell I am going to thoroughly enjoy it!
Today has been a tougher day for one reason and another. But one thing I got done was turn eight loaves of bread, six onions, half a cup of poultry seasoning and two pounds of butter into the yummiest stuffing. (NO BESMIRCHING CELERY!! shovel list) I packed it into bread bags and into the freezer, all ready for the twenty pound turkey coming my way soon for roasting!
TTYL
...what happened to your new hairdo?
ReplyDeleteI was also wondering if the poof is still there!
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