22 posts tagged “life's good”

Good God I had fun last night. It worked out that I was able to golf with Kiks and TOK. We played that crazy game again, and again Kiks didn't fare too well, but for some reason the stars were aligned and I golfed fairly well, (could have done much better too, but freakin' TOK shot a 3 above par 39... and this ain't no easy course!) and just had a pile of fun in general...

Very much looking forward to:

- The interactive culinary demonstration, wine pairing and winery tour on Friday night in honour of TOL's b-day.  

- Golfing this Thursday and Friday

- Leaving for TN next Friday

- The drive-in hopefully for Indiana Jones... wink wink.

- Eating (I'm hungry whatelseisnew)

So,

Life's good...

Rereading my post on Monday regarding things that need to be done, I realize that I was in one of those 'Wah' moods where I didn't want to do anything, yet felt restless and bad for not accomplishing anything but making whine.

I actually ended up cleaning the car. Windex, paper towels, a vacuum, 2 cloths, Amour-all, Leather cleaner and conditioner, and a lint (dog hair) remover. It's done.

I also took the dog for a Fairly Big Walk. Because of Billy I've discovered a good walk to be had without getting in the car and driving... A little less than a kilometre away is a dirt road that connects our pretty busy road to the very busy by-pass, (oh and it's completely desolate service road which runs parallel). The road runs for just about 1.5 kms. Because this is the only dirt road that comes off the bypass, and it is flanked on each side by paved roads, it's deserted and I can let the pooch go. Very nice.

I cleaned out the AreoGarden. That was a very simple, quick job. I'll use it again in the fall when the fresh herb supply in the garden is dwindling (I've never spelled that word in my life..)

Yesterday I took poochy for a a little walk, played with my mom's dogs, as she is gone stateside again, did laundry, dishes, and made a metric tonne of mac and cheese. You can decide how healthy this dish is, when making it (it has to be worth my time) it takes 2 pounds of uncooked pasta, almost a pound of butter, 1 litre of milk, and 3, yes, 3 pounds of cheese. I can hear my arteries clogging and my cellulite growing exponentially...

Billy cut the grass for the first time this year last night, and it looks great!

Last night was the first night of the golf league and there was only 4 of us! Geez! It was a beautiful night, and thankfully I golfed okay... The Other Kim (TOK) brought this card game and it was so much fun! Mean! Vicious! And I got a free beer out of the deal.

So today? I'm just hanging out... Still a little too cool to a) fix the minor leak in the pond, b) plant the garden or c) plant the greenhouse. Life's good...

Yesterday was a gorgeous day, and although we did not go golfing, and I did clean the house, I was able to get outside some and enjoy the day.

Here is the newly stained lower deck.

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Here is some of our asparagus. In the background you can see on the left chives and on the right 2 rhubarb plants, and of course the greenhouse (completely empty... next week...)

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This is our kitchen island with our new paint colour. It's a hard colour to describe, but it does look kinda dark camo green here... but really it's more brown-ish, whatever it is, we love it!

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This picture was taken from the kitchen looking out to the back yard. I love that chair and that plant... there's pretty much nothing in our house that I don't love... 

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Life's good, what can I say?

Today was quite productive, and now I'm beat, although no lazing on the couch for me, (at least not my couch...) as TOL is having a few girls over tonight...

Let's see, today I...

- Cleaned out the barbecue... seeing as it is in the garage while the deck is stained, it was a perfect opportunity. It looks great, and took a couple of hours...

- Power washed everything I could, (no not the barbecue, Billy said it wasn't a good idea) the tools, the wheelbarrow, the outdoor furniture, a stool... I was seriously looking around for other things to power wash... fun...

- Drilled a few holes in the garage to properly hang tools. They are not level, and it doesn't look too great, but it works, and it is only a garage...

- Moved things around in the garage like pots, hoses, more pots and more hoses...

- Stained 1 section of the deck lattice, (not ugly lattice, more like a Japanese slat type BTW). It took 1 1/2 hours to do that 1 section, only 1 more section to go, then the lower floor, which I think Billy is going to try to finish tomorrow night... So far we have spent 10 1/2 hours staining the deck, and 10 cleaning it...

- Took my mom's dogs out, (nothing new there, I do that about everyday) and Halia decided to check out the concession behind us. I was really far back and she was still just a speck. Once she noticed that she was alone, she came a'running.

Because my mom is out of town, and my brother is who knows where, I have to take the dogs out again, then get ready, do some errands in the metropolis of Essex and head to TOL's.

And that is the exciting day in my exciting life... ;)

This week-end was a little odd and definitely productive.

Odd because Billy took Friday off, and because we golfed on Thursday night, it seemed like a Friday, and because he had Friday off, it seemed like a Saturday, you know what I mean...

The Saturday morning meeting, was, well, seeing as I don't have much to complain about, I'll say that it was very annoying... apparently these same women have been essentially running the league for about 6 years, and still it took almost 4 HOURS to get everything in order... honest to God, with the exception of developing a theme and flyer for the 9 hole invitational it would have taken 1 person about 1 hour to do all that was needed, if said person was able to actually make decisions. As I said before, as simply a score-keeper, my presence was absolutely unnecessary, and in fact, the ladies couldn't remember who was nominated to be co-captain this year, so she wasn't even there... I guess there was a purpose to my attending, as I was the one who remembered... oh well, at least all aspects of the league are set (except some fine tuning for the invitational...) until September 19th or sometime like that...

Probably due to my agitated state at these meeting I felt like crap for the rest of the day, which is too bad because it was gorgeous outside, so instead of doing anything productive, I was on the couch... ugh.

On Sunday Billy finished cleaning and power washing the deck, which took about 10 hours total to do. It still has to be stained, but the timing of that fun job is dependant upon the weather. I spent about 5 hours doing the pond. Do you realize that our pond is a little bigger than a toilet? I couldn't imagine the work involved if it was larger... Well after discovering a couple of leaks, and moving just about every rock, the pond is running very well, and looks great if I do say so myself.

It's great to have those 2 big jobs done, and the lawn was rolled on the week-end as well ($120!), so everything is coming together nicely. I'm acclimating my indoor garden, preparing it for the move to the greenhouse (or garden tent as William calls it).

God, I love spring! Especially my first spring without being a Realtor! I can't believe the amount of stress I endured over the years... I know, I know, it's a part of life, but let me tell you, I appreciate my freedom from it!

Life's good... now to the chiropractor, then to visit a friend... Later I have a rant, and hopefully some pics...

Because I don't have the patience to write in proper paragraphs

- Yesterday was the first annual Grady Master's event. It was cold (about 45*F) windy with occasional driving rain. Obviously this event was for men only, and consisted of just Billy, JP and PF. PF won the event, and during his acceptance speech (involving cash and a trophy) PF sadly acknowledged that all he needed to do to win was simply break 100.... next year may be different... the weather was terrible.

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- Last night was fun! The prime rib was by far the best we've ever had. We think due to an odd set of circumstances that we stumbled upon a fail proof way to make the perfect prime rib. We'll try again in a month or so I'm sure... I'm loving the grilled red onions as a side and a topping to the prime rib...

- As per usual, a get together at our house involved being really full from dinner, then busting out the Wii. The boys bowled (for money, of course, duh) and then played a little tennis. We then moved on to the PS2 for a little Dance Dance Revolution, where BMW showed great improvement, (not to mention looking fairly fly...) and has motivated me to work on my skills (or lack thereof...). Billy is moving a little slow today, not due to excessive drinking, but from playing Wii. He he.  

- It makes me so happy to have a good dinner and a nice time with friends at our house. In my opinion, it's the best place to be (indoors, Kiki's backyard is hands down the best in the summer....), and the layout is perfect for what we do. Ahhh, so nice! Next time, I want to see if we can borrow Billy's sister's Guitar Hero. That game is fun and addictive... probably a good thing that we don't own one...

- Kiks bought me, (for no real reason, my birthday is in July... she's just nice like that) a kick ass pair of golf shorts from Mark's Work Wearhouse. They may be my new favs, as soon as I tan my legs a bit... rats! no pics available online...

- Today MomG is coming over for lasagna and homemade bread. This is Billy's department, the most I will do is watch him and possibly stir the sauce.

- It's lightly snowing outside, but the weather is supposed to be improving this week... it can't get worse! So I already have plans to golf on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday... Saturday I have a meeting about the 9 hole league. Fun, fun fun!

- I'm a lucky girl, and life's good...

Yesterday was beautiful so Billy and I headed to Sutton Creek, he golfed, I walked. It is in awesome shape, and I can't wait to golf. I think I'm going to try it on Thursday, at least a couple holes.... we'll see...

I was able to do a little bit of work outside, any raking is out, or carrying anything heavy, but I picked up some leaves, and I might do a little more today, although it is pretty chilly out right now.

Of course, the day of the year that we can actually have the windows open, the neighbors across the road decide that it is a perfect time to burn wet leaves. Great, instead of nice fresh country air blowing in the house, we now have a lovely campfire smell... Driving past our house yesterday was reminiscent of Cole Trickle driving thru an accident on Days of Thunder. Ugh, so annoying! Bag em! Mulch em! Don't burn em! Duh! At least they don't have the rooster anymore....

So now that I'm done complaining... this week-end is going to be great, many fun things going on. I'm looking forward to cleaning the house because it's pretty much been a disaster since the painter started, then with my stupid back issues and Billy on call last week-end, it's pretty nasty. I'll post some pics of the new colour as soon as it's presentable.

Life's good.

- The golf course is open. Billy has a tee time, but it's foggy and frosty, plus he's on call...

- My back is getting better! I can stand on one foot, (handy for putting socks on etc.) and can straighten up without wincing!

- The painting is done! Done, done, done! The guy did a great job, and we love the new colour!

- The house is in total disarray... I didn't clean at all yesterday as the painter was here all day and I'm physically unable to do so. The upstairs is still naked, the lights need to be put in the basement ceiling, the bar reassembled, etc...

- You know you have a good friend, when they offer to go to a funeral with you. A funeral. That should be the test of a friendship right there.... I'm a lucky girl!

- Tonight? Steak, husband, hot tub, movie, perhaps a little of putting the house back together... life's good

In no particular order:

1)  The weather consistently being above 55*F

2) Green grass and leaves on the trees

3) Camping in June in Goderich

4) Having all the painting done, and the house back to normal

5) Having the girls over for a 'good-bye to Liz, she'll be golfing all summer' dinner

6) Dinner tonight with Billy

7) Hot tub tonight if it's not raining

8) Be able to spend time in the garden

9) Seeing a movie at the drive in

10) Not having any backpain, or worrying about hurting myself again

11) Feeling sun on my face and the sand between my toes

12) Walking with Billy and Pooch around the 'Big Block'

13) The 2008-2009 NFL schedule being released

14) Having some colour (other than sickly white) on my legs

15) Losing 20 lbs

16) Having cocktails with Kiks on the balcony of SC on a beautiful spring evening

17) Going to Tennessee and all the fun involved

18) Taking care of Billy, because he's been so good to me!

19) Seeing that psycho Natalie evicted from BB

20) Winning the lottery (I'm thinking positively here now...)

21) Halia being at home with us (MomG is keeping her until I'm physically better... what an angel) 

Wow, three days since my last post, time is certainly flying by. I have had time to write, just nothing much of interest to say, even now I'll keep it short and sweet...

- We went to SuprT's new house on Friday, it is beautiful! It was nice to see all the kids.

- We missed the projected 10 inches of snow by about 50 kms, and ended up with only about 2

- Detroit is reported the 5th snowiest winter on record. I forget the inches, but suffice to say: a lot.

- I was unfairly hung-over for much of yesterday. Billy's friend popped by for a 7 hour visit, and he brought his sweet pooch.

- TOL popped by, (literally, for like 10 minutes) with her puppy Schmeichel, (fun to say, not to type...) and they played, meanwhile Halia missed all the fun as she was at MomG's.

- The Easter Egg Hunt was a success. The ground was pretty much frozen so it wasn't too muddy, and there were more people there than 2 years ago, (it didn't happen last year). Halia won a dog bone and a light up leash, (which doesn't work well - rats! I could have been a HUGE box of milkbones... ) and Dave (on behalf of Lilly) won only a small bone which was pretty funny because looking at his prize card I was convinced that he was going to win the grand prize... haha, oh well, it's really not about the prizes...

- Here is a sub list of some dog breeds we saw at the walk:

- Bouvier (s) (huge!)

- Labs of all kinds

- Basenji (they are fairly rare...)

- Collies

- Bichon Frise

- Bullmastiff, (I wanted to squeeze his cheeks!)

- 2 Brittanys (gorgeous)

- Pug (love the pug)

- Welsh Terrier

- A sweet small rescue Greyhound

- One Visula

- Bulldog, not sure which kind...)

- Either a malamute or a huskie, I can't tell the difference... sorry DD

- 2 basset hounds

- 1 sweet beagle

- Boxer (s)

- A few chihuahuas

- Dogue de Bourdeaux

- Dachshund

- Doberman

- Newfoundland (HUGE!)

- German short haired pointer

- Poodles (a black one was trimmed for show with pink bunny ears...)

- A smattering of small terriers, one wearing a camo jacket, another a tutu...

- And of course, one gorgeous, if not slightly portly Rhodesian Ridgeback! (TOL reported seeing a fat rhody at PetSmart... so Halia is not alone... or the fattest...)

I'm sure there is about a dozen or so breeds I missed...

I'm not sure what is up today with my mom and the kids, easter egg hunt wise... I'm fairly certain that it will not be outside, as it is a sunny 18*F!! Brrr! Did you know that we golfed for the first time last year March 30th, then the 31st... that is less than a week away and there we haven't had 3 days in a row above freezing since I don't know when! Ahhh! I'm going crazy! I just want to golf! I want to be warm! I want to be outside! Arg!

Oh, so anyway, we're going to MomG's house today for turkey (yes!) because someone doesn't like ham, (wah, wah, wah), so it's turkey for dinner!

Well, life's good, (except the weather), and my hair is out of control due to late night hot tub hijinx!