Friday, September 16, 2011

Taking all the wheels for a run…

Turned out to be not a bad day today… at least we didn’t have to head into London for the day! 

Regular household duties took hold this morning, and Judy headed into Woodstock to give Kristina a hand with Gwenny.  They managed to go back over to Walmart and have another Passport picture taken of Gwenny.  Hopefully this one passes the Government Test!

This afternoon I was wanting to do a couple things… it was nice out so I wanted to get out and about on my motorcycle for a while, however I also needed some exercise for my body!

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Fortunately, my roller blades fit into my saddle bags, so I was off for the Pittock Lake paved trail and got my blading in!   It was a blast… conditions were perfect!  That was about it for today!

Till tomorrow…

Thursday, September 15, 2011

Off to the shopping centre…

When you live the lifestyle we do, you end up being down south during Christmas, so we take care of Christmas before we head south!  You have to go Christmas Shopping to arrange gifts for people, so that is what we were up to today… back to good old London to check out the Malls. 

We picked up Kristina and Gwenny, and while Judy was starting the shopping spree… I went with Kristina and Gwenny over to the Government building in London, to apply for Gwenny’s first Passport!  Seems everything we presented in support of the Passport passed the muster, other than the Lady did not like the nice passport picture we arranged at Walmart.  Sad smile   

So, everything is in motion, and now we have to have the picture re-done.  No problem, we have a special envelope to mail in the new picture so we don’t have to return to London.

Found this picture on our camera, taken this week when Chris and Kristina cooked up a marvellous macaroni and cheese dinner for my birthday!  This is the Lemon Pie and Gift time of the dinner… Just a quick note, one of the gifts they gave me, was a new bottle of special glue that is foam safe for special use on my model airplanes… do they think I am going to crash again????

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While we were at the Masonville Mall in London, Kristina was all impressed as they had this nice Family Room for nursing Mothers to use! 

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Gwenny was in a great mood today for shopping, and kept trying to grab my Visa Card on me… that instinct must be built into them!

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On the 45 minute drive home to Woodstock, we found this nice 2006 Magellan Motorhome.  This is for Tom  and Cheryl to look at… It has leather furniture and a nice stand alone table and chairs… couldn’t get into it to look around, but it appears nice, and is listed at $76,800.00.  It is a gas unit.

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Nice looking unit about 38 or 40 feet long, with 4 slides and only 15,200 miles on the dial.

 

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Till tomorrow…

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

London visit…

Took life easy this morning, and headed into town to figure out if we can get U.S. service on our cell phone this winter… don’t even go there!  Bell, and the rest of our fine Canadian Cell Phone Companies, sure do not want you going down into the U.S with your phone… It is a lot cheaper to just buy a cell phone in the U.S. and use it!

We headed over to visit Kristina, and we all ended up planning a trip into London, to take in the Western Fair.  We were off by 11:30 this morning and landing in London about 12:30.  Well, the problem is, the Fair does not open until 3:00 p.m.  Guess we should have looked on the good old internet ahead of time! 

After we had a bite to eat, we decided to visit a London Park, and take Gwenny for a hike!

I will make sure I get my rivers right tonight, as we certainly are on the Thames River here, along with all the Geese and Ducks…

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Gwenny loved it down by the River.

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You can’t really tell, but Gwenny is getting her “business” end changed on this nice lookout over the River…

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Grannie and Pop Pop on the job below… enjoying a real nice day in London!

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Last night we received a real nice “Skype Phone Call” from Dr. Shawn along with Emmie and Paige in Ottawa.  It seems the Ottawa Hospital issued brand new Ipad two’s to all the Dr.’s working there, so Shawn wanted to try out the Skype capabilities… it worked great! The Dr.’s are able to access patient information in the Hospital using the Ipad.  Hi tech for sure!  Very clear pictures received!  Good to see them all in Ottawa.

Have to welcome our 80th blog follower to the clan tonight… Bob wins the prize for being #80!

Till tomorrow…