My apologies! Man I seem to get busy, at least busy in my head, and forget to blog.
A fair amount has happened in the last few days. Lets see if I can remember any of it!
My neighbours have disappeared...the ones that have a baby and a little boy of about five years old. I had a knock at my door and a woman I recognized from some of the neighbour's backyard get togethers with relatives was standing there. She asked if we had seen them recently. I had to think and I realized that we hadn't heard the little guy out in the back yard for quite some time. He is extremely noisy when he plays. And what is scary is their car is there. All the doors and windows are locked too.
We aren't all that fond of the dad. He is very very hard on the little guy, he never smiles or says hello, and when their sliding door is open you can hear him inside causing hell with the family. The mom is very friendly, but not when he is around. He works so he is gone all day but when he gets home everything goes pretty quiet over there. So it's a bit of a disturbing mystery. But her sister is on it. It is concerning.
Well we hared off to Nanaimo the other day. What a lovely trip! There was no smoke yet and the sun was clear and glorious! Monte bought Smooch a terrarium and it looks wonderful now. We stopped at Costco of course and I sent Monte in with a list. First thing on that list were two boxes of Verona, Starbucks, coffee pods. They are recyclable! And its the best damned coffee on the planet. YES! THE PLANET I say. I was buying it on Amazon but they put the price for 60 pods up to $82! They are only thirty something at Costco.
Then of course we made our compulsory stop at the drive thru at KFC. We just buy chicken and I got coleslaw. I love their coleslaw. It is our last and final guilty pleasure.
My hair. I must mention it here because it plays a very large part of any angst I may feel these days. I read in my covid science magazine that one of the very high risk places to get covid is at the hairdressers. Apparently no matter how many masks and distances there are you risk getting it. So no hairdresser. And now my hair is so long its disgusting. I didn't know my hair could grow that long. The last time I got it done was when I was still in Kamloops. Now, let me tell you, I can reach behind me and grab my hair! Seriously! And I have shitty sore arms that hurt if I move them more than six inches. Methinks scissors are in my future, I have still to decide if I cut it myself or let Monte at it!
I gotta tell you what happened the other day. Monte super likes 7/11 (sevvy) food. And it is good, but just not at all healthy. Anyway, we had thrown Wrangler into the truck and we were looking for a picnic idea to head into the bush with to give Wrangler a run. We ended up at 7/11. I picked a sub sandwich and so did Monte. We both got a drink and headed off. We took the logging road that goes up behind the shake mill near Cameron at the start of the dirt road to Bamfield.
Not far along that leg we found a wide spot and parked and threw Wrangler out to go exploring. We sat in the truck with the doors open and grabbed our sandwiches. They were in one of those hard plastic containers. We popped them open and Monte started in on his. He is too fast, he finishes before I even start. I had snagged a fistful of mustard packets to slather on my sammich. So I popped it open and squirted one of them on the right side. Then I popped open another one and started on the left and.....there, right frigging there, wiggling around was a COCKROACH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ahhhhhhh!!!!
Okay, that was bad but...you should have seen Monte. He took one look at that thing (and it was BIG...shovel list!!!!) and bolted out of the truck faster than I thought it possible a giant person could, and immediately started to barf.
Now you have to understand that he pretend barfs at home and gets Graeme and I (when Graeme lived here) laughing. He is really good at fake barfing and it is funny. But this time he wasn't faking. Believe me. But he sounded just the same!!! And I couldn't help it...I started to laugh. And laugh. And laugh. So hard I couldn't breathe. And he hurled for a good five minutes!!!! Finally he would stop and I would manage to get my breath and then he would start all over again and I would start laughing and laugh til I couldn't breathe. Oh my god!!!! I haven't laughed like that in many years! I felt bad but it was his own fault for making us laugh with his fake barfing. Jeez it was sooooo funny.
Meanwhile, back at the sammich, I had put it back in the plastic container. Monte climbed back into the truck, all exhausted, and looks at the sandwich. The roach had crawled out onto the top of the bread and as we looked, it jumped!!!! Shit we both bailed out of the truck instantly!!! Hahahaha! What a couple of weenies!!! So, seeing as how those sandwiches were nine bucks each, we took them back and got our money back. I was awake in the night last night and thought about it and started to laugh all over again. Poor Monte. What a reaction!
Well gotta bounce. Still have to list the next five things for Aryn. Take care people and make sure to noodle. TTYL
ARYN:
1. Eat whole grains. Well that can be good for you but I avoid grains, whole or half, all the time if possible.
2. Here's one for you Arnie! Drink red wine! In moderation of course, he added! Went into great detail about why, which we already know.
3. Eat nuts. Okay. But if you are like me with plates in my mouth, you might want to rethink that one.
4. Eat berries. Now that one I like. I buy them frozen and I buy the low carb, low fat, yoghurt and put yoghurt on the frozen berries. Mmmmm.....
5. Okay I don't like this one. Drink tea. Too messy. But I guess it's healthy. I haven't read the why part yet.
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