PROJECTS.....AHHHHHHH

 You should see my living room!  As I think I mentioned I brought a couple of Rubbermaids and garbage bags full of April's clothes and footwear she needs to sell, home here.  There is no reason I can't do it for her. I have no life.  And so far it is going great!  I have met a lot of awesome locals and will be meeting more.  There is a pretty steady stream of people at my door.  This beats halloween all to hell and back!

Another project has cropped it's head up.  My guest room is full to the top.  It is my storage room.  Costco size tp and paper towels and boxes of Kleenex, a cooler full of crap to sort, two giant Rubbermaids full and overflowing, the bed has art prints, a printer, two boxes of crap and a ton of other stuff.  I have been waiting to hear that someone is coming to stay for a night or two, to offer up the opportunity to get me off my duff and clean the damn room.

Well opportunity knocked on my door this morning.  Graeme called and he and Levi are coming up for the weekend.  They will be here Friday night.  Ayayayay!!!  But I did tell him that they have to be out of the house by Sunday mid morning.  I have to do a colonoscopy prep and if you know anything about that, well, even Ange is going to be using Monte's bathroom and not coming upstairs.  But the relief I am going to feel about that room being cleaned is going to be the real gift of the week!!!!  I have put Monte on notice that he is going to have to do the lifting for me.  I am much better than I was but I am not quite there yet.

After I am finished selling April's stuff, and the colonoscopy is over my next project will be getting my clothes under control.  That is going to be a herculean job and I think it is going to be hard.  I have a real tough time getting rid of clothes.  Especially clothes that fit.  But they gotta go.

So I remember I was going to tell you about an event that happened before we left for Vancouver.

I was sitting in my chair staring out the window.  The lady across the street had just arrived home with her two girls, about 9 and 11.  They were standing at the door waiting for mom when suddenly this beautiful brindle pitty dashed across the street from our side, two houses over.  It made a beeline for the older girl who let out a screech and dropped her stuff and tried to stop it.  It latched onto her leg and would not let it go.  The guy next door to them came roaring out with some kind of implement and started bashing the dog on the head.  Meanwhile a lady standing by her car where apparently the dog had escaped from was hysterically calling the dog.  Suddenly the dog let go and dashed back to the car and leapt in.  Mom scooped up her kids into their van and roared off.

Meanwhile a number of people gathered at the dog car.  The woman was crying and wringing her hands.  Just then I saw Nicole next door go over to talk with them and just then a police car pulled up.  After a an hour or more of chat and talking and looking at the dog and more woman crying (if this had happened in Britain, someone would have pushed a cup of tea in the poor lady's hand) an SPCA van pulled up.  They had a pole loop and they snagged buster from the back seat and put him in the van and drove away.  About then mom and girls came back.  The older girl had a nice big bandage around her upper leg.  The crying lady dashed over, chit chat, and hugs all around.

I talked to Nicole later.  Apparently the dog did not belong to crying lady.  She was dog sitting her best friend's dog.  The dog was from Nanaimo.  The girl's leg only had surface owies.  Fortunately it didn't puncture the femoral artery.  The sad part is probably the dog will be put down and it was truly a magnificent looking dog.  This was a lot of excitement out my window to happen in the middle of my very humdrum life!!!!

Now that girl's house looks like Christmas vomited all over it!!!  Their dad is a tinkerer and boy did he ever tinker this year.  I thought last year was amazing but this year is over the top.  I will get pics and put them on here at some point.  As soon as I get April's stuff cleared out we will be putting up the puny little tree we own.  It may be puny but it is mighty!!!

Well it is time to go clean the kitchen.  Again.  Take care people, and enjoy the season.  It's a very happy time of the year.  TTYL

So I was looking for a quote about pit bulls.  And I found they were all terribly mean or unrealistically sweet.  No reality in that.  So I decided to put in a quote here made by one of my fave music makers, Pitbull.

'Every day above ground is a great day, remember that.'  Pitbull