It is nearly 5pm and the sun is just now breaking through the long day of grey clouds as it sinks further below the horizon. The light drizzle that started during the sleeping hours finally ended about an hour ago. Thankfully we did not get any freezing rain as the temperature kept itself just above zero in the early morning hours.
I am feeling for Vancouver Island and part of the lower mainland of B.C. today as they start their third day of intense rain. The west coast of the island was predicted to receive as much as a whole foot of rain in one day. We continue to be blessed with tolerable and even enjoyable weather here. Oh how grateful I am!!
My email server has had some kind of hitch in its getalong all day today. A couple of business related emails finally straggled in a half hour ago, but I have received no response at all to a couple of personal emails needing some answers by this evening. My personal inbox has been vacant all day long.
Well, not being distracted today by my computer allowed me to do all of our laundry of the past nearly 2 weeks. Thankful that I did the bedding on the weekend as it made for one less load today. I do have one pair of my husband's work jeans in the washing machine right now after having to soak them in stain remover overnight. When he washed the car yesterday the hand held water hose was covered in some kind of industrial grease and when he was done he not only had to use solvent on his hands to remove it, but also had to treat those pants. Ugh!!! It is my final load today, a load unto itself to keep the grease from transferring to any other items. After it is done I will fill the machine with hot water and soap and run a cycle without any clothes in it to hopefully remove any grease from the pants that may have stuck to the tub. Eek! This gives me vivid memories of doing laundry years ago when my husband was doing construction and oil field work full time. YUCKO!!! (I have to admit that I am grateful for how rarely I remember those days any more. FREEDOM!)
We will try to make one more attempt tomorrow to find my husband a thin rimmed white china tea mug. There are a couple of antique stores that may have what he is looking for. The locally thrown pottery mugs for sale in most stores here are lovely, but are thick rimmed and chunky and generally do not have the blazing white interiors.
Yesterday we received a sheet of Dairy Queen coupons in the mail. The last time I ate DQ food was a few months ago with my cousins and their friends and before that was about 13 years ago when we lived in the town of Kindersley SK. When we lived in Moose Jaw nearly 20 years ago DQ was a staple in my fast food dietary indiscretions as my best friend there loved going there for iced cream treats. hahaha Lots of good DQ memories. Once we moved away I rarely went to DQ in any of our subsequent locations because it just wasn't the same without my bubbly, laughing, mischievous friend! However, seeing this sheet of coupons I am tempted to indulge myself there later this week.....their burgers, if I remember correctly, have a distinctly charred flavour that seems appealing to me at the moment. hahaha Don't want to ruin the results of all the healthy at home meals we have been preparing lately...stews and veggie soups etc.....but it might be fun to relive a few happy memories from The Jaw......
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