I took a rare day off for the big day in 2024, the total solar eclipse. Amy had the day off as normal, and thankfully didn’t get called in last minute. Based on all the hyped up “states of emergency” some communities were declaring, we thought it would be a madhouse on the roads, but […]
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It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas
It’s been warmer lately – not summer warm, but vaguely normal winter wet warm – though definitely not the white Christmas we have been having for the past few years. Today we finished most of our Christmas shopping for the year. It was too rainy and gross out to want to do any InstaCart, which […]
Christmas Baking with Mom Dafoe
Today we were off to Belleville to bake a billion or so cookies with Mom, it was quite an adventure. We baked sugar cookies, pudding cookies, apple cinnamon cookies and all sorts of others that I’ve already forgotten about. I broke a seemingly unbreakable bowl, and we had an interesting pomegranate and other fanciness salad […]
Busy Sunday Evening for Amy
Today I thought I would be bored and lonely while Andrew went to Whitby to sleep over night there before his appointment. But I am the total opposite.. Well right now. its only 7:10pm. I cleaned the dining room, kitchen, living room, swept and took out THREE bags of garbage. After that I decorated for […]
Visit with the Dafoes
We visited the Dafoe household to spend time with Mom and Dad on Father’s Day. We obviously got a super fun balloon and lots of pictures were taken and card games played. It all started as a random drive to Belleville and was intended to be a quick visit that ended up being hours long. […]
Back doing Instacart
We took a hiatus from Instacart due to awful experiences back in 2021 – we’re back at it in very limited fashion, where I’m the Instacarter and Amy does her grocery nerdery and driving, both of which she’s excellent at. I love spending time with her and we work well together despite the obvious stresses […]
Amy’s New Computer
Amy just today finished building her new computer! I helped buy a couple of parts with my budget, but she purchased most of it through her portion of her personal budget. It’s a great big colourful machine with a Ryzen 5 5600G in it – it may even be a little faster than mine in […]
New Car
So our poor grey triangle was written off recently, and it turns out the settlement put us back in the black – unlike when the Mazda broke which we ended up paying way more for. We were approved for a brand new Kia Soul 2022 “Neptune Blue” model, and picked it up today and immediately […]
Christmas Slips, Slides and Crashes
So today started out as many recent Christmases have, with an early morning trek down Highway 7 towards Ottawa to visit my sister. What we totally ignored was the warnings of a pending rain/ice storm. In Peterborough it was basically fine, slightly above zero, rainy and dark, not particularly slippery and it seemed pretty consistent. […]
Honeymoon
For the past couple of days, we’ve spent some time out at Lake Edge Cottages near Lakefield and Young’s Point. It wasn’t the best weather for adventures, but it was pretty great weather for hiding indoors at a cottage. We opened gifts, and I made it so we had to delay opening them, only opening […]