Merry Christmas to all

TO ALL WE LOVE -  THANK  YOU FOR ALL YOUR LOVE THIS PAST YEAR AND ALL THE BEST FOR 2012.

The television corner

Complete with new Bose speaker system...

Recovery

So today the cast came off, the surgeon gave me leave to start weight bearing on the offending ankle. So to all -   my wife and all my friends who helped with sympathy, car transport, and the rest - a HUGE thankyou. It is only when you really need help that you realise who there is out there. Even my students at SAIT came forward to help in  the classroom - raising and lowering the projection screen, erasing the white board (that goes back a long way to grade school - remember hating the kid who got the teacr's ok to use the eraser???)

Anyway, can now walk (albeit with a cane and a limp), and DRIVE--YEAHHHH...

Thanks again to all who helped.

The accident

In August while walking dogs with our neighbour I was knocked down by a couple of exhuberent Newfoundlands. Result - a severely dislocated right ankle with bone fractures - now have three pins in the ankle. It is times like this that you find out that your really do have great friends who have come forward with offers of trips to the hospital, and to where I teach part time starting this week.

It is (maybe) unfortunate that we did not photgraph the ankle at the time of injury, but some might have found that really disturbing - a foot at right angles to the leg...

Anyway, here is the present cast (removeable) that is on until around September 20th or so...

Possibly the only positive factor coming out of this is an increase in upper body strength as I can only use a walker and crutches (no weight bearing for this leg until the above September time-table)...

The lazy cat-days of summer

Can't you leave me alone??

Deck modification

Some carpentry to help the infirm...never know when you need a bit of help

The garden today

      The potato patch looking east

East end of the potato patch - rows of lettuce and arugela

    The back patch - zuchinis in the end, rows of carrots and spinach.

The back patch again - wire mesh protecting blueberry and gooseberry bushes from the deer.

The Garden!!!

                                                         The new fruit bushes

                                                    Rows of veggie seeds planted

                                             Potatoes all planted, lettuce on the end

Books Complete!!

The ongoing saga takes another step..

All book boxes are now empty! And there is still a bit of space on the shelves for future purchases...

The ongoing saga of the basement

The latest set of shelving...is it enough for the rest of the books??? Watch this space...

The curtains.

Another step in teh basement make-over!

Another view, the new throw on the futon...not sure what the exercise ball is doing..doesn't appear to be exercising...

The latest...

Living area with the "library" in the background

The "library", one view

The "library", another view with the living area in the background

The living area...

Winnipeg

Some views from my balcony, 14th floor Winnipeg Delta hotel. A long day on a concrete floor in the convention centre...

April 3rd, 2011...yuccch!

We have now had snow on the ground for 61/2 continuous months..

Another view

And we will probably run out of shelf space...

The sorting continues...

getting there slowly..

The library corner takes shape

Still a way to go, but starting to look good...

A third view...

And this is just mostly fiction - still have to deal with the Sci-Fi boxes, non-fiction and classics. Another shelving unit will be added. More later...

Another view...

Books everywhere ... including a pile to be discarded (or offered the the local bookstore), and a number of discoveries - "haven't read this in years".

The big sort

The massive job of sorting by author name and category starts....A huge mess now. Hoto, where are you??

More shelving..

Loading has begun, will post more when finished.

Another friendship pic...

Very unusual for Sandy to share her bed with Jackson the cat.

Friends...

Sandy and Jackson together...

ps...re the earlier blog of hte bird watcher ..don't worry, the sink gets cleaned to within an inch of its life after each incident!!

Back to the basement..

New shelving, loading just starting...

Cats!! 2

When not bird watching, the tower is a favourite spot...

Cats!!

Best place to bird watch - the kitchen sink..