Well I hunted down as much cheese as I could at Aldi and topped up from Asda, I have just done a trial packing and returned it to the fridge until tomorrow night, I have split my packing between two suitcases for the hold this time, to make them more manageable. I also serviced our elderly gas central heating boiler this morning, which is 30 years old this next January, the only thing that ever goes wrong is the thermocouple which lasts about 4 years and when it goes the pilot light won't stay on. I replace it every 3 years to make sure it doesn't fail while I am away, it only costs $5 The right hand copper piece . I am sure you are interested
Ive never even seen my furnace, it's it the attic I think. I hardly use it though...it's as old as the house, 18yrs. My hot water heater is in the garage and I just spent $280 to have a flex pipe replaced. That's a lot of cheese! But...Yum.
Good evening to you all, I have been busy sorting out odds and ends before I leave early tomorrow morning, I will be in Russia around 20 hours from now, assuming all goes to plan, I am looking forward to being with Lisa until virtually the end of the year 28th December.... Apart from the cheese which is residing in the fridge until the last minute, all packed I checked in and printed my boarding pass this morning, so I can relax now until tomorrow. I hope your days are going/went well.....
This is Florida???????? This morning it was 49 degrees! It was 32 in Denver, CO and the area, but I'd expect that there. Here.....NO! Funny, each year, during November and into Dec., Jan and Feb, we complain about how cold it can get here. And, there are folks that absolutely love this cold air. if we lived in Colorado or Wyoming, we expect this temp, but Florida?
Good afternoon from my second home here in St.Petersburg, though I spend more time here than in the UK It's a grey damp day at 40f with some snow flurries at times, Lisa is working so I am settling in and sorting out my clutter The taxi ride last night took longer than expected, because having booked a taxi at the airport kiosk, when it arrived Lisa knew he wasn't a Russian by his look and accent, he was from the Caucasus region, he was friendly so everything was fine, but halfway to Lisa's apartment we were flagged down by the police. The driver became nervous, and after a 10 minute conversation with the police he told us he was being detained by them and rang his son to come and collect us.................after another 15 minutes our driver returned, rang and cancelled his son coming and took us the rest of the journey............ he had obviously paid the police some money for his release, this is common practice here, because the police are so poorly paid they rely on bribes for their income. In the baggage reclaim, they now employ a cute looking black and white spaniel as a sniffer dog, who jumps on the belt and examines every suitcase, it was fun to watch and everyone was taking photos, I took a quick one but it's obscured. My suitcases were also x-rayed on the way out, and I had to explain that the strange images were cheese, so I was allowed to go through .................. all is well that ends well Enjoy your Thursday
Good Morning ..how tha heck are you today ? While most of the world is crazier than yesterday, I remain optimistic and grateful that I have all me marbles in place.
Good morning, starting to cool off with a high of 69 today...also some pm rain forecast. I have a physical therapy appt this morning and I'm also going to take a look at the oil change place and get that done also. Have a great day!
Good afternoon to you all, I am still a bit out of tune with the time so tending to get up on UK time, 3 hours late it's 1:30 pm at the moment. Lisa is at the university again so I have just made a chilli bean casserole for dinner and bought a bottle of monks wine to go with it Enjoy your Friday and the weekend...
I'm really looking forward to today. In a few hours I'm going shopping for my childrens and grandchildrens Christmas tree ornaments. I have been buying ornaments for them since each of my daughters married and for each grandchild every Christmas since they were born. I buy a joint ornament for each married couple and individual ones for the grandkids. I used to give them to everyone at Christmas...but now I give them out on Thanksgiving so they can hang them on the Christmas tree which my daughters pretty much put up now right after Thanksgiving. It has been fun through the years checking their trees out and seeing so many ornaments that I picked out for each of them...and knowing that as my grandkids get out on their own whether alone or in marriage...they will have a collection or ornaments to start off their first Christmas trees with. My oldest grandchild has 20 ornaments from us now...while our youngest will get his second this Thanksgiving. Shopping for everyone's Christmas ornaments is my favorite shopping day. Be blessed everyone and may you all find joy in some of your favorite things today too.
Good morning! High of only 64 today and some rain, Yay. I have an early morning drs appt. and hopefully I'll get the results of my mammogram..thinking everything is ok since I had it last Saturday and nobody has called me. Had my oil changed yesterday so I feel better about my drive to my daughter's on Tuesday. Much more expensive here but lesson learned.... Have a great day everyone!
Good morning to you all it's almost noon on another grey day here, nothing much planned just more vacation planning and dreaming............hope you are enjoying your weekend.......... An Italian flavour today Gaetano Bellei...