As per facebook updates, our first foster Goldie was only with us for a couple of days before finding her forever home. But we were back to our usual quiet single-hound household for only a few days before being asked to step up again. Although Andrew and I both work full time, and we have no yard, it turns out that our home has one factor that ( Read more... )

Breaking some long LJ-silence for the details on Goldie (that probably only my mother will want to know, yes ( Read more... )

- I am at work, but only pretending to work, because a bar call party starts in 15 minutes and that is clearly not enough time to accomplish any further today, and I would really like a glass of wine and some cheese ( Read more... )

I am becoming bad at LiveJournal, but so is everyone, really, now that there is facebook and y'all can see from my pictures what I'm up to ( Read more... )

Haven't updated in forever, but in my defence, most of the people who read this, were actually in my house ( Read more... )

This time I think I have a better excuse for taking a while to update. Kathleen and Frank arrived as scheduled on Tuesday afternoon and we've tried to show them the best of Alberta in a bit of a whirlwind ( Read more... )

That was quite the weekend. Worked almost straight through from Friday afternoon to Sunday evening with only a little down time on Saturday when stuff had to dry before proceeding ( Read more... )

First of all, happy birthday to my mother (it is not her birthday now, but it is well past her bedtime and so it will be her birthday by the time she reads this). I hope you have a great day and I will call ( Read more... )

We have these bathroom renovations that have been being planned, and "worked on" in the sense of buying supplies and so on, for what, two years? The deadline that I set was for when my family arrives for my bar call. First relatives, K and F, get here on Aug. 11. So we are getting down to the wire on this. I am living in fear that it will not ( Read more... )

Spent the weekend at a horse show. I usually don't go for trailering down and stabling there, since it always means missing some work, but I have to admit it makes for a much more civilized experience - never had to get up earlier than 6 a.m. which is my normal time to get up for work through the week ( Read more... )