This has been a quiet and relaxing day, at least for me; I slept most of the day nurturing my cold. At the end of the day it was much better. Val did laundry (almost two weeks worth) and we had a roast for dinner. In the evening, we had a fire burning branches and wood, Gilles and Lise joined us. A week or so ago, a mini tornado came through here and did extensive damages in town and on Pierre’s lot, big branches either broke clean or hung and had to be cut down. Sure glad we missed all that!
It was a sunny and warm day, temperature up to 27*C. We are told to enjoy it as it is supposed to cool right down by the end of the week.
Sunny and warm! What a busy day; for someone getting over a cold, I sure sweated it out. First we cut and picked up all the branches, small and big, and piled it all by the fire pit except for the big pieces which we stocked up on the wood pile. That took about an hour and a half then Val made us lunch. My toilet had leaking for a while and Val complained that it was worse this morning so I took it apart, hauled it outside and found the problem. I drove the Lupien RV and got a kit for a the valve that is causing the problem, came back home and replace it all, put it back together, tested it and all was fine. I also installed a shut-off valve as I had to turn off the whole rig water supply. After this, Peter and I walked over to Gilles and gave him a hand building a small new office for Lise’s business. We got the roof on by 6 pm and decided to call it quit as we were tired and hungry. Val made us pork chops, rice and carrots for dinner. Afterwards, I had a shower and Peter decided to build a fire to burn the branches as there was no wind. We sat around until 10 pm then went to bed. My cold is much better!
It rained overnight and the temperature dropped quite a bit, down to 16*C max. And to think that last night we sat outside with just a t-shirt on! The three of us left at noon and went to MAXI for some grocery and wine/beer then drove to Andre’s house in St-Basil le Grand, near Montreal. Everyone was there except Gilles and Lise who was too tired from yesterday’s work. We had a great visit and the weather cooperated and we had even had some sunshine. Around 4PM, we shuck the corn cobs, (Andre bought a whole 50 lbs pouch of it) then we cooked them and had a “corn on the cob feast”. Some people cooked hot dogs to supplement their craving for meat. After clean up, we sat around the fire pit and proceeded to tell jokes and lies about our youth days J! The highlight was my niece Emmanuel (Christiane’s daughter) who has “Artistic” and has an incredible talent of making paper figurine from memory. She made us a horse, a butterfly and a bat. She made Pierrette, who is an animal lover, a cat. She got lots of compliments from all of us and we could see the pride and joy in her face.
We finally called it quit around 11 PM and came home. I stopped for fuel along the way @ $1.35 then it was straight to bed when we got home.
A quiet day at home! We went for a walk then visited with Gilles and Lise for a while. Peter did some little jobs in his garage and I helped whenever I could. We had dinner then I showed Peter some of our pictures of the party Saturday at Andre and our trip to NFLD.
I posted pictures on Picasa this morning, which by the way, is clear sky and sunny! Val and I went into town grocery shopping and also stopped at Cdn Tire to get some screen material. I also stopped at a lumber yard to get a piece of laminated plank to build shelves in the cupboard. We came home and found Therese and Michel had just arrived with their trailer and were just hooking up. We had a short visit then had dinner together, a stew prepared by Val. After dinner, we sat by the fire until 10 pm when it became bedtime for everyone.
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