January 1 to 4, 2015: A new Year and birthday celebration

JANUARY First, 2015, Thursday; A new year begins

A new year, new adventures!  It is sunny and cold, -5*C @ 9am.  Only 286 days to our departure South!!! 

We watched the “ROSE BOWL” Parade in hope to see Aud and Marcel but no luck (they were to have a Cdn flag in front of them).  Later in the afternoon, we went to brother Johnny’s place and had dinner with him and his friend Joanie. He made a Quebec “ragout de boulettes” (meat balls and gravy) and tourtiere with a salad.  It was very good.  We had a nice visit and were home by 10 pm.  Good way to start the New Year!

JAN 2, Friday;

SNOWING!!!!  Wow! But it soon turned into rain as the day progressed.  We went to the Mall where I got new lenses for my glasses (warranty) then we went to McDonald to get Val’s schedule for this coming week.  We also stopped at EZ Rentals to wish Russ and Cathy a Happy New Year.  We then went to get groceries and had a beer at the local Pub.  We came home and put everything away, had dinner and watched the tube. 

JAN 3, Saturday;

We had a quiet day again.  The weather outside was not conducive to being out; there was a low cloud inversion in the Valley which made everything drab and cold.  Anyway, we did go out for a couple items and came home after, glad to be inside and warm.  I watched football for a while then we had dinner and watched some of our recorded TV shows afterwards.

JAN 4, Sunday; Birthday celebration

We had a trace of snow overnight and the forecast is for probably more and even freezing rain; it sure looks like that is possible out there.  Today is Rochelle’s birthday so we all (family) met at Graeme and Courtenay’s house for cake and ice cream which we ordered from Save-on-Foods.  Everyone showed up which was very nice.  We were back at our place by 6 pm and got dinner going.  “Good Wife” and “Secretary of State” were on the menu this evening for TV watching.