We had our annual 3 day special sale at work last Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. For me that means working through lunch and staying till 6:00 each night. It was very busy and I'm really glad it's over. Fortunately it didn't coincide with tire changing season, although we did have a couple of people off on vacation so at times it was a bit of a challenge.
Wednesday, the last morning of the sale, things were turned a bit upside down here on the island. A bomb threat was reported to the RCMP in Ottawa, apparently, and it required the evacuation of all schools from tip to tip. The kids were sent home for the day while it was being investigated. Fortunately it turned out to have no basis, but still a bit unsettling. More so I suppose for those children who have arrived from war torn countries. I know this can now happen anywhere but we're just not used to that sort of thing out here.
Really, what goes through some peoples minds sometimes. It brought back memories of a similar stunt when I was in Timmins many years ago. A bomb threat was called into the local hospital on a Saturday night during some fairly miserable winter weather. I happened to be dining with the manager of the larger mall, who was good friends with the manager of the smaller mall, which was located right across the street from the hospital. As soon as we heard we all rushed out to the downtown mall to help in what ever way we could. Patients were being evacuated across the street to the mall as it was the closest place and it was after hours so there were no shoppers in attendance.
I will never forget the sight of nurses wheeling incubators with premature babies in them across the street in the snow and dark. What kind of sick mind allows this to happen? In the end it turned out to be someone who had a disagreement with a worker in a government office, which had also received a bomb threat a couple of days earlier. Fortunately they were idle threats but the trouble it caused everyone was immense.
On a happier note, we have our first egg!!!
It's quite small, but a good first attempt! We should be getting more over the next little while. It doesn't seem so long ago they were tiny little balls of fluff and now they are starting to lay eggs. Nice fresh eggs every day will be a treat worth waiting for.
We enjoyed the company of the VanGaals on Sunday evening. I had made a pan of lasagne with some of Lloyd's fresh ricotta cheese so it was only fitting we should share. Especially as it was Bernie's birthday on Saturday. We also enjoyed pumpkin pie made with the pumpkins that were the centrepiece last weekend! An early supper was enjoyed before we chased Lloyd off to bed.
I received an email from Patti regarding her most recent excursion to Turkey:
There was a group of us that went for dinner in Istanbul and a guy came to our table while we were having a drink and was selling these bobble head dogs straight out of the 1970's. The relief pilot, who was about 23 years old, decided to buy one. He put it on the "dash" of the airplane and the pilots decided it would be our new turbulence monitor. When his head bobbles, it's time to turn the sign on. When he stops, you can turn the sign off. I should have bought one for Lloyd's plane!
Don't let anyone tell you this particular airline isn't at the forefront of advanced technology! No point in making things more complicated than they need to be...
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