Conditions at 5:20 am: raining and 4'
Expected later: it's going to cool off to -1' throughout the day with a mix of sun and cloud, then drop back down to -18' overnight
What a mixed bag of weather. We had snow pretty much most of the day yesterday that changed to freezing rain in the evening. Fortunately, I hope, the rain and milder temperatures will have melted any ice on the roads for everyone's commute this moring.
Before I forget, Happy Birthday wishes to Caitlin out in Edmonton.
Hope you have a really great day and all the best. (I noticed that someone from Edmonton visited the blog approximately 4 hours before I woke up this morning, but I somehow doubt it was her at that time in the morning - but just in case, hopefully she'll come back!)
It was a busy but somewhat productive weekend. We had decided before Christmas that we were going to move some things around in the living room. This was the weekend. Unfortunately, like most things, it took much longer than anticipated but the bulk of it is done. I started out on Saturday morning going through dishes and such and editing out those that I really don't need. Some of them I really like but if they haven't been used in the almost 6 years that I've been here, then I really don't need them and they are just taking up valuable real estate. The truth is I needed one of the cabinets for something else, so some things had to go. There's a new charity run thrift store in town so I'll load everything up this evening and drop it off tomorrow. When Lloyd got up from his nap, he helped with moving stuff, but the issue is we moved all the electronics to the other side of the room. This entailed moving all the cables for TV etc as well as all internet related items, that were being moved upstairs. We did as much as we could but we had a party to attend at 5:00 so not a huge amount got done.
We were invited to Raymond and Marlene's annual Christmas get together along with the VanGaals. A lovely time was had by all, but we were all pretty tired. I think it's just been too much food and drink over the past few weeks - we're all partied out! But it was a lovely time and it was really nice to be included.
Sunday we were up early and started in. Things don't always go as smoothly as hoped and it took the entire day to finish just the wiring. We also moved the bookshelves which meant piles and piles of books everywhere. I couldn't put them back on the shelves in their new location until Lloyd was done with wiring, so there really wasn't a lot that I could do. Most of it is now finally done, with just a few little things to take care of. Of course, there's some fine tuning of bookshelves required as well, in addition to little piles of "stuff" in various places that need sorting. But the living room is much less cluttered and the room looks twice a large as it did before. All in all, a really productive weekend.
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