the last 2 weeks

We have really had a busy time for someone in the slow lane . we have had a weekend motor home trip done work on the house had lots of field trips with the school celebrated a Birthday at a Mexican restaurant . I have been writing all of this in my other blog at
http://bobslifeintheslowlane.wordpress.com/

I am going to up date this site every other day and the same with the other site then I will be able to see which one I like the most
Today is Sunday the 25 of October
the girls are away at a church gathering this weekend and we planned to go on a weekend motor home trip but decided to stay home and work all weekend. I got the paneling replaced on the wall that was water damaged and got most of the window sill installed I will finish the rest of that  today. Deb was busy painting the big walk in closet  I will be putting up the closet organizer we got for it last weekend .
It was pretty cool last night and the trees in front of the house are continuing to change colour

I have moved to a new place
http://bobslifeintheslowlane.wordpress.com/

Friday a long weekend ahead

Another busy day not exactly as I had planned but that seems to be the way of my life.
I had sort of semi planned to prepare the tiles to be replaced on the stairs but before I could start I got a phone call that a tire was going flat on the school bus .I have started a new fitness program "I walk to work " so off I went to check the bus tires sure enough it was going down so off to the tire shop the short version is we got 4 new tires on the back ,I tried to go through the car wash but they have closed all their credit accounts and want cash. that will have to wait till tuesday.by the time I got the bus back to the school it was too late to go home and come back so I just poked around the bus till it was time to do the afternoon run .
Fortunatly it is not too bad weather but I didn't accomplish anything at home other than picking up a pail of wallnuts that the wind had blown down I have to get them picked up right away or the squirle gets them.
remember it 's the slow lane so not too much happens in a hurry

October 8

well this was supposed to be done last night but I was too tired so I am doing it in the morning
I drive a school bus and this morning saw an interesting phenomenon steam or at least watervapor rising from the river. It only happens here a few times a year I think it is when the water is warmer than the air. I usually want to take a picture but can't stop the school bus to take pictures and by the time I am finished it is gone. the school went on a field trip today to pick Toulies they are a reed that grows by bullrushes . they are used to make mats they also were picking pine needles to make baskets.

We still have a fair amount of work to do on our renovation, sometimes unexplained things happen ,for example I couldn't get the front outside light to come on it has a light /dark sensor and is supposed to come on when it gets dark anyway it wasn't coming on like it was supposed to and suddenly at 6:30 this morning it came on . ghosts? The renovation is sort of 3 steps forward the 1 back . the rain storm a couple of weeks ago caused a flood into our basement where I had just finished putting in new laminate flooring. I had to take out the floor and a piece of wallboard under the window where the water came in.To get the wallboard off I had to pry on the stairs which in turn caused some of the quarry tile to come off.This was all caused by the previous owner paving a sidewalk up to the edge of the house and sloping it towards the house so the water would run along the edge of the house I replaced the window I had all ready replaced with glass blocks cemented in and a soon project will be ripping all the paved sidewalk out .It is sometimes hard to get started on these projects after taking a break but we have just get going. I try to make listes of the jobs and then work them off the list so today for example I am writing this instead of working on the window sill.

Thursday night is our fire practice and tonight I was in charge of practicing putting out garbage bin fires it all went according to the plan

not too much to add to the last post except that we went to dance class tonight . we missed the first 2 classes because we were on the cruise so we had to kind of catch up tonight . Tango tonight, I am not much of a tangoer, just have to remember this is for fun we're not going into a compitition ,really where am I going to tango? this is Oliver we don't tango maybe we will 2step ,macarena, there might be a polka or a marenge but I cant remember hearing a tango .But now I am going to demand a tango at the next dance or maybe not.

We met some friends in California

So far so good .

we just came back from a cruise ,what a great time we had . We had our 2 girls with us they enjoyed the cruise and the time we spent in California