Ice-storm, ‘Stick-outy ears’, Krag, new cable deal, 'Hairspray', 'The Bourne Ultimatum', Orat visit, Deerstalker, Christmas with Maypo, Starbucks BRM
(posted from home)
(this post covers 16-26 December, 2007)
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Wednesday, 26 December-
This morning I drove down to Freedom Armory for a half-hour target-shooting session. The staff guys must be getting a little used to seeing me around—they are more helpful and approachable than normal.
Afterwards I made my regular stop at the Tollgate Starbucks and I was reading the Wall Street Journal when I noticed a well-dressed woman arranging the items on the shelf. I asked if she worked for this Starbucks or was from a central office. And that’s how I met Karen, the district manager for the Starbucks stores in York, Lancaster, Harrisburg, and Hershey. I very much enjoyed talking with her for the better part of a half-hour. We talked about everything from my problems getting a consistently-made drink from the various baristas (she dug out the official BRM, i.e., the Starbucks “Beverage Resource Manual” so we could review the official recipe and ordering codes for my Mocha Affogato-style Mocha Frappacino) to my experiences at Starbucks shops on my trips to people we know in common (i.e., baristas I’ve met at the various shops).
I also let her know the Starbucks map has a big blank space along the interstate near my home but she says nothing’s in the works for there yet.
I picked up some DVDs and made a grocery-shopping run before doing my daily four-miler today listening to ‘Way Out West’ music. That evening Labashi and I watched three episodes of ‘Lost- Season 3’. I may be getting a little impatient with that; I find myself wanting to fast-forward to get on with the plot-line while some of the scenes drag on as slowly as any afternoon soap-opera.
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Tuesday, 25 December-
Merry Christmas!!! I took my walk this morning and then Labashi and I drove over the hour-plus to Chambersburg for a Christmas visit. We opened presents with my Mom at the assisted-living facility and brought her back to my brother’s home for a family meal and to see her brand-new great-grand-daughter. Afterwards we sat around the table catching up on family news and sipping excellent pomegranate margaritas made in our hosts’ new margarita machine.
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Monday, 24 December-
It looked like Orat was going to have to go in early again today but at the last minute he was reprieved for a few hours—the employee with the flu was able to come in after all. We spent the morning talking and then Labashi and I headed home. The roads were blissfully clear and we made it home by 1700.
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Sunday, 23 December-
Orat was supposed to have today off but again had to work the full open-to-close workday. With one key employee out for an extended time because of a broken leg and another down with the flu, it was buck-up time. I thought I’d help him out by taking his place in riding along with my niece to check out and possibly buy some snow tires for her Toyota from a guy who advertised them on craigslist.com. That turned out to be a surprise for me. The tires in question were Bridgestone Blizzaks which are a dual-compound snow tire I’ve never seen before. These tires have two levels of wear-bars—a snow-bar and an inspection-bar. I’ve since learned that the outer half of the tire is a soft compound made for excellent traction in deep snow. But that soft compound also wears down very quickly to the snow-bars on regular roads. At that point the tires are designed to operate more like a regular-compound snow tire. I wasn’t sure how much tread depth there should be above the snow-bars so we were flying blind a bit (they were about 4 mm above the bar) but decided we’d take them if we could get a good deal and believe we did. From an asking price of $200, we settled on $150—not bad for four premium tires on rims that fit her car.
We spent the rest of the day visiting at my nephew’s house and then the evening back at my brother’s home, playing with my cutie little grand-niece and grand-nephew (four and two, respectively).
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Saturday, 22 December-
Today Labashi and I packed up for an impromptu visit to my other-brother’s home in western New York. Our drive up US15 was very pleasant today despite the cloudy weather. We were surprised to find snow along the road before we even reached Williamsport. After taking a break at the Williamsport Starbucks, we later ducked in to Mansfield for a quickie visit to Cooper’s Sporting Goods store just west of the square. Each time I come through here I stop in to see what’s in their ever-changing gun case and to see what I can learn. Today the subject turned to muzzle-loading rifles since Pennsylvania’s second muzzle-loading deer season is coming up the day after Christmas. The shop has a dozen-or-so muzzle-loaders but there in the rack were two flint-locks which caught my eye. They were both .50-caliber, left-handed Lyman Deerstalkers, one with an ultra-sleek European-walnut stock, the other with a black-polymer stock. These were eye-openers to me. It hadn’t even occurred to me that I’d probably want a left-handed stock to get the flashpan away from my eyes (and I had never seen a left-handed flint-lock). I’ve looked at historical repros of the fur-trade guns and those ran in the $800-$1500 range while these ran in the $200-$300 range. Interesting, interesting.
We made it to my brother’s pizza shop by 1700 and found the shop very busy. Labashi and I lined up like anybody else and I pulled my hat down over my eyes. We made it the whole way to the counter before my brother (Orat) recognized us and we had a good laugh over that. After sharing a few slices of the best pizza in western New York Labashi and I drove over to Orat’s house and sat talking with Mrs. Orat through the evening (I did manage to get in a short walk around the neighborhood on this cold, windy night). Unfortunately, my brother had to stay past his planned 2000 quitting time because one of the key employees had to leave unexpectedly. So Orat never made it home until almost midnight after going in this morning at 0900.
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Friday, 21 December –
I spent much of the morning on the web and then went into town on the Concours. I had to drop off videos at Blockbuster and then went through and selected new ones only to find at checkout that I had forgotten my wallet (yikes!!!). I apologized to the clerk and then headed home, thinking I'd just be making this same trip yet again today. But once home I decided I'd check our local video rental store and did indeed find 'The Bourne Ultimatum' was available here.
That evening we watched 'The Bourne Ultimatum' and enjoyed it for what it was-- an action/adventure that's soon forgotten but fun while it lasts.
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Thursday, 20 December-
I had a routine dental checkup this morning and afterwards lunched at the Memphis Blues restaurant I would occasionally visit when working in that area. I spent the afternoon installing the new solar-powered vent in the sailboat before my daily walk. That evening we watched the movie ‘Hairspray’. We didn’t quite know what to expect but saw Ebert and Roeper had given it two BIG thumbs so took a chance and enjoyed it very much.
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Wednesday, 19 December-
Today I did my four-miler in the morning and then drove to Chambersburg to return a ladder Maypo had graciously lent us for our crown-molding installation in the vestibule. I had looked into renting a scaffold and into buying ladder-jacks for this installation but the best solution turned out to be simply using two ladders in the normal just-climb-up-there-and-do-it manner. Nobody was home at the time so I dropped off the ladder and then drove on to my nephew’s house to find my sister-in-law babysitting the new baby. My new grand-niece is of course the most spectacular baby ever but today she had just gone to sleep so I didn’t get a chance to hold her or play with her. Afterwards I drove over to Shooter’s Range intending to terrorize a few targets but it was again closed early. I drove on to Starbucks for a coffee and Times and then to the local Dunham’s to see what military surplus rifles they have and to check ammo prices. I had been in a Dunham’s in Michigan last summer which had quite a large selection of ‘milsurp’ rifles and it occurred to me I didn’t know if the Chambersburg one even sold guns or ammo at all. This one had about a dozen military rifles but I’m not familiar enough with them to know whether there were any good deals. Ammo prices seemed high for a discount store.
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Tuesday, 18 December-
This morning I took Labashi’s car in to the dealer to trouble-shoot a brake noise. That turned out to be rust on the back rotors and the tech cleared it up by resurfacing them. When we come home after our long absences we of course have some rust on the rotors of our vehicles — including the motorcycles. Generally it only takes a few minutes of driving to clean them up but for some reason her car’s rear brakes didn’t clean up the rear ones this last time and left us with an irritating noise every time we applied the brakes.
On the way home I stopped in at Velocity Cycles in Mechanicsburg to check out an older BMW touring bike I had seen on their web site—a ’95-model 1100 LT. I’d love to get a ride on that one for the experience but don’t think I’d like the Teutonic styling for the longer term. I looked around the showroom and didn’t see anything I can’t live without (thank goodness!). I don’t like the weird styling of the newer-model BMWs and they want far too much money for the better-looking older ones (like the 2004 1150RT and the 2000 LT). Ah well, think of the money I’ve saved.
I then went to the Barnes and Noble bookstore at Camp Hill where I perused the hunting and shooting shelves -- again without success. But then I did find something interesting in the magazine rack-- an annual called ‘Surplus Firearms’. There on the cover is a picture of an 1890-era U.S. Krag-Jorgensen rifle—just like the one I had used for deer-hunting as a teenager. The article detailed the history of the Krag and I just had to have it. That gun is still in the family — now handed down to one of my nephews —and I want to get this info to him and review it with my brothers, who also had some history with this unusual rifle.
On the way home I happened to be passing the cable-company office and thought I’d drop in to see if they have any specials. Our price had just jumped $12.50 a month at the end of a two-year trade-in offer for our old Dishnet receiver. Imagine my surprise when the two very-nice clerk-ladies came up with a year-long offer that restored over $11 of the $12.50 discount while adding a bunch of digital channels and doubling the speed of my Internet connection. So glad I asked!
When I got home I had a message to call my motorcycle insurance company and learned they had just expanded their ‘Gold’ program to Pennsylvania customers. This would give me a discount for being a home-owner in addition to my other discounts. (And why it makes sense to give me a discount on motorcycle insurance because I’m a home-owner, I don’t know). I had heard of this program during my call to the company last week but at the time it was not available to Pennsylvania customers so my file had been annotated to contact me if/when it did become available. This change helps a lot. My bill for the new year had jumped $51 but the discount brought that down to a $16 increase, converted some of my optional coverage to included coverage, raised some of the coverage amounts (for Options and Accessories plus adding new coverage for my safety gear), and also took me from limited-tort to full-tort coverage. Very cool.
Late in the day I did my four-miler then spent the evening updating the blog and surfing the web.
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Monday, 17 December-
This morning I had a quickie appointment to have the stitches removed from my recent minor scalp surgery (for removal of two non-malignant growths) and then went shooting at the fancy indoor range again. When I arose this morning I thought I’d dress well and shoot at the outdoor range near Dillsburg but with the temperature near freezing, the wind blowing around 20 miles per hour, and overnight icing having taken down power lines all over the area, I thought better of it and headed for the indoor range (and besides, there’s a Starbucks on the way back from there!).
My shooting session went well. I shot a new high score (for me) on the first target but then lost my concentration and blew it on the second. I recovered on the third and fourth and then switched over to my .22 target pistol for the rest of the session. Afterwards I visited my barista-buddies at the Tollgate Starbucks, then did some Christmas shopping.
After my four-miler (listening to ‘This Week in Saskatchewan’ podcast episodess) I walked another mile up to the garage to pick up Cherry Larry and his two new tires. My stupid failure to do something about Larry’s low tire last week ended up costing me $169 today.
That evening we watched two more ‘Big Love’ episodes. We finished up Season One and are now into Season Two. I get a kick out of Margene’s stick-outy ears—very charming.
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Sunday, 16 December-
We lost power at 0400 this morning because of the ice-storm but fortunately it was back up by 0800. Labashi was already hard at work painting baseboard in her workshop by the time I got up. As I checked the weather online I saw it was supposed to get windy by this afternoon so I decided I’d walk this morning in the rain rather than this afternoon in the rain and wind. The temperature was just above freezing and we had ice on the vehicles and trees but the road was just wet, not icy. I did my regular four-miler listening to “This Week in Saskatchewan”, where I heard a story of an elderly aboriginal couple surviving a breakdown of their truck in -40-degree temperatures (they were driving on one of Saskatchewan’s ‘ice roads’ at three in the morning when the radiator froze and they survived by burning three tires they had in the back of the truck). Another story was about the University of Saskatoon being concerned about students organizing ‘pub crawls’ as fund raisers. Apparently the bars in Saskatoon all have buses they rent out to student groups for $125 (including driver) for the evening. The groups sell tickets at $10 a person and take the students (all over 21) a tour of the bars, stopping for an hour or so in each, then ending at the one which owns the bus. At the end of the event, the bus takes the students back to campus. The University isn’t keen about being associated with the plan while students think the University has no say in the matter. The other story was about a farm woman who found a skunk living in her barn with her cats. I can’t convey how charming this last story was— this quintessentially-Canadian granny chuckling about the beautiful little skunk, hoping it’s a ‘she’ that will bring baby-skunks in the Spring.
That evening we watched two episodes of ‘Lost-Season 3’ and two of ‘Big Love’. We’re enjoying the ride with ‘Lost’. It’s fun to see what the writers will come up with next even though we do sometimes feel mired in soap (as in ‘soap opera’). We’re happy to see ‘Big Love’ writing is improving and we’re really getting into it. The writing wasn’t bad before but now it’s not so easy to say ‘I know where this is going’.
(posted from home)
(this post covers 16-26 December, 2007)
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Wednesday, 26 December-
This morning I drove down to Freedom Armory for a half-hour target-shooting session. The staff guys must be getting a little used to seeing me around—they are more helpful and approachable than normal.
Afterwards I made my regular stop at the Tollgate Starbucks and I was reading the Wall Street Journal when I noticed a well-dressed woman arranging the items on the shelf. I asked if she worked for this Starbucks or was from a central office. And that’s how I met Karen, the district manager for the Starbucks stores in York, Lancaster, Harrisburg, and Hershey. I very much enjoyed talking with her for the better part of a half-hour. We talked about everything from my problems getting a consistently-made drink from the various baristas (she dug out the official BRM, i.e., the Starbucks “Beverage Resource Manual” so we could review the official recipe and ordering codes for my Mocha Affogato-style Mocha Frappacino) to my experiences at Starbucks shops on my trips to people we know in common (i.e., baristas I’ve met at the various shops).
I also let her know the Starbucks map has a big blank space along the interstate near my home but she says nothing’s in the works for there yet.
I picked up some DVDs and made a grocery-shopping run before doing my daily four-miler today listening to ‘Way Out West’ music. That evening Labashi and I watched three episodes of ‘Lost- Season 3’. I may be getting a little impatient with that; I find myself wanting to fast-forward to get on with the plot-line while some of the scenes drag on as slowly as any afternoon soap-opera.
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Tuesday, 25 December-
Merry Christmas!!! I took my walk this morning and then Labashi and I drove over the hour-plus to Chambersburg for a Christmas visit. We opened presents with my Mom at the assisted-living facility and brought her back to my brother’s home for a family meal and to see her brand-new great-grand-daughter. Afterwards we sat around the table catching up on family news and sipping excellent pomegranate margaritas made in our hosts’ new margarita machine.
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Monday, 24 December-
It looked like Orat was going to have to go in early again today but at the last minute he was reprieved for a few hours—the employee with the flu was able to come in after all. We spent the morning talking and then Labashi and I headed home. The roads were blissfully clear and we made it home by 1700.
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Sunday, 23 December-
Orat was supposed to have today off but again had to work the full open-to-close workday. With one key employee out for an extended time because of a broken leg and another down with the flu, it was buck-up time. I thought I’d help him out by taking his place in riding along with my niece to check out and possibly buy some snow tires for her Toyota from a guy who advertised them on craigslist.com. That turned out to be a surprise for me. The tires in question were Bridgestone Blizzaks which are a dual-compound snow tire I’ve never seen before. These tires have two levels of wear-bars—a snow-bar and an inspection-bar. I’ve since learned that the outer half of the tire is a soft compound made for excellent traction in deep snow. But that soft compound also wears down very quickly to the snow-bars on regular roads. At that point the tires are designed to operate more like a regular-compound snow tire. I wasn’t sure how much tread depth there should be above the snow-bars so we were flying blind a bit (they were about 4 mm above the bar) but decided we’d take them if we could get a good deal and believe we did. From an asking price of $200, we settled on $150—not bad for four premium tires on rims that fit her car.
We spent the rest of the day visiting at my nephew’s house and then the evening back at my brother’s home, playing with my cutie little grand-niece and grand-nephew (four and two, respectively).
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Saturday, 22 December-
Today Labashi and I packed up for an impromptu visit to my other-brother’s home in western New York. Our drive up US15 was very pleasant today despite the cloudy weather. We were surprised to find snow along the road before we even reached Williamsport. After taking a break at the Williamsport Starbucks, we later ducked in to Mansfield for a quickie visit to Cooper’s Sporting Goods store just west of the square. Each time I come through here I stop in to see what’s in their ever-changing gun case and to see what I can learn. Today the subject turned to muzzle-loading rifles since Pennsylvania’s second muzzle-loading deer season is coming up the day after Christmas. The shop has a dozen-or-so muzzle-loaders but there in the rack were two flint-locks which caught my eye. They were both .50-caliber, left-handed Lyman Deerstalkers, one with an ultra-sleek European-walnut stock, the other with a black-polymer stock. These were eye-openers to me. It hadn’t even occurred to me that I’d probably want a left-handed stock to get the flashpan away from my eyes (and I had never seen a left-handed flint-lock). I’ve looked at historical repros of the fur-trade guns and those ran in the $800-$1500 range while these ran in the $200-$300 range. Interesting, interesting.
We made it to my brother’s pizza shop by 1700 and found the shop very busy. Labashi and I lined up like anybody else and I pulled my hat down over my eyes. We made it the whole way to the counter before my brother (Orat) recognized us and we had a good laugh over that. After sharing a few slices of the best pizza in western New York Labashi and I drove over to Orat’s house and sat talking with Mrs. Orat through the evening (I did manage to get in a short walk around the neighborhood on this cold, windy night). Unfortunately, my brother had to stay past his planned 2000 quitting time because one of the key employees had to leave unexpectedly. So Orat never made it home until almost midnight after going in this morning at 0900.
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Friday, 21 December –
I spent much of the morning on the web and then went into town on the Concours. I had to drop off videos at Blockbuster and then went through and selected new ones only to find at checkout that I had forgotten my wallet (yikes!!!). I apologized to the clerk and then headed home, thinking I'd just be making this same trip yet again today. But once home I decided I'd check our local video rental store and did indeed find 'The Bourne Ultimatum' was available here.
That evening we watched 'The Bourne Ultimatum' and enjoyed it for what it was-- an action/adventure that's soon forgotten but fun while it lasts.
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Thursday, 20 December-
I had a routine dental checkup this morning and afterwards lunched at the Memphis Blues restaurant I would occasionally visit when working in that area. I spent the afternoon installing the new solar-powered vent in the sailboat before my daily walk. That evening we watched the movie ‘Hairspray’. We didn’t quite know what to expect but saw Ebert and Roeper had given it two BIG thumbs so took a chance and enjoyed it very much.
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Wednesday, 19 December-
Today I did my four-miler in the morning and then drove to Chambersburg to return a ladder Maypo had graciously lent us for our crown-molding installation in the vestibule. I had looked into renting a scaffold and into buying ladder-jacks for this installation but the best solution turned out to be simply using two ladders in the normal just-climb-up-there-and-do-it manner. Nobody was home at the time so I dropped off the ladder and then drove on to my nephew’s house to find my sister-in-law babysitting the new baby. My new grand-niece is of course the most spectacular baby ever but today she had just gone to sleep so I didn’t get a chance to hold her or play with her. Afterwards I drove over to Shooter’s Range intending to terrorize a few targets but it was again closed early. I drove on to Starbucks for a coffee and Times and then to the local Dunham’s to see what military surplus rifles they have and to check ammo prices. I had been in a Dunham’s in Michigan last summer which had quite a large selection of ‘milsurp’ rifles and it occurred to me I didn’t know if the Chambersburg one even sold guns or ammo at all. This one had about a dozen military rifles but I’m not familiar enough with them to know whether there were any good deals. Ammo prices seemed high for a discount store.
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Tuesday, 18 December-
This morning I took Labashi’s car in to the dealer to trouble-shoot a brake noise. That turned out to be rust on the back rotors and the tech cleared it up by resurfacing them. When we come home after our long absences we of course have some rust on the rotors of our vehicles — including the motorcycles. Generally it only takes a few minutes of driving to clean them up but for some reason her car’s rear brakes didn’t clean up the rear ones this last time and left us with an irritating noise every time we applied the brakes.
On the way home I stopped in at Velocity Cycles in Mechanicsburg to check out an older BMW touring bike I had seen on their web site—a ’95-model 1100 LT. I’d love to get a ride on that one for the experience but don’t think I’d like the Teutonic styling for the longer term. I looked around the showroom and didn’t see anything I can’t live without (thank goodness!). I don’t like the weird styling of the newer-model BMWs and they want far too much money for the better-looking older ones (like the 2004 1150RT and the 2000 LT). Ah well, think of the money I’ve saved.
I then went to the Barnes and Noble bookstore at Camp Hill where I perused the hunting and shooting shelves -- again without success. But then I did find something interesting in the magazine rack-- an annual called ‘Surplus Firearms’. There on the cover is a picture of an 1890-era U.S. Krag-Jorgensen rifle—just like the one I had used for deer-hunting as a teenager. The article detailed the history of the Krag and I just had to have it. That gun is still in the family — now handed down to one of my nephews —and I want to get this info to him and review it with my brothers, who also had some history with this unusual rifle.
On the way home I happened to be passing the cable-company office and thought I’d drop in to see if they have any specials. Our price had just jumped $12.50 a month at the end of a two-year trade-in offer for our old Dishnet receiver. Imagine my surprise when the two very-nice clerk-ladies came up with a year-long offer that restored over $11 of the $12.50 discount while adding a bunch of digital channels and doubling the speed of my Internet connection. So glad I asked!
When I got home I had a message to call my motorcycle insurance company and learned they had just expanded their ‘Gold’ program to Pennsylvania customers. This would give me a discount for being a home-owner in addition to my other discounts. (And why it makes sense to give me a discount on motorcycle insurance because I’m a home-owner, I don’t know). I had heard of this program during my call to the company last week but at the time it was not available to Pennsylvania customers so my file had been annotated to contact me if/when it did become available. This change helps a lot. My bill for the new year had jumped $51 but the discount brought that down to a $16 increase, converted some of my optional coverage to included coverage, raised some of the coverage amounts (for Options and Accessories plus adding new coverage for my safety gear), and also took me from limited-tort to full-tort coverage. Very cool.
Late in the day I did my four-miler then spent the evening updating the blog and surfing the web.
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Monday, 17 December-
This morning I had a quickie appointment to have the stitches removed from my recent minor scalp surgery (for removal of two non-malignant growths) and then went shooting at the fancy indoor range again. When I arose this morning I thought I’d dress well and shoot at the outdoor range near Dillsburg but with the temperature near freezing, the wind blowing around 20 miles per hour, and overnight icing having taken down power lines all over the area, I thought better of it and headed for the indoor range (and besides, there’s a Starbucks on the way back from there!).
My shooting session went well. I shot a new high score (for me) on the first target but then lost my concentration and blew it on the second. I recovered on the third and fourth and then switched over to my .22 target pistol for the rest of the session. Afterwards I visited my barista-buddies at the Tollgate Starbucks, then did some Christmas shopping.
After my four-miler (listening to ‘This Week in Saskatchewan’ podcast episodess) I walked another mile up to the garage to pick up Cherry Larry and his two new tires. My stupid failure to do something about Larry’s low tire last week ended up costing me $169 today.
That evening we watched two more ‘Big Love’ episodes. We finished up Season One and are now into Season Two. I get a kick out of Margene’s stick-outy ears—very charming.
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Sunday, 16 December-
We lost power at 0400 this morning because of the ice-storm but fortunately it was back up by 0800. Labashi was already hard at work painting baseboard in her workshop by the time I got up. As I checked the weather online I saw it was supposed to get windy by this afternoon so I decided I’d walk this morning in the rain rather than this afternoon in the rain and wind. The temperature was just above freezing and we had ice on the vehicles and trees but the road was just wet, not icy. I did my regular four-miler listening to “This Week in Saskatchewan”, where I heard a story of an elderly aboriginal couple surviving a breakdown of their truck in -40-degree temperatures (they were driving on one of Saskatchewan’s ‘ice roads’ at three in the morning when the radiator froze and they survived by burning three tires they had in the back of the truck). Another story was about the University of Saskatoon being concerned about students organizing ‘pub crawls’ as fund raisers. Apparently the bars in Saskatoon all have buses they rent out to student groups for $125 (including driver) for the evening. The groups sell tickets at $10 a person and take the students (all over 21) a tour of the bars, stopping for an hour or so in each, then ending at the one which owns the bus. At the end of the event, the bus takes the students back to campus. The University isn’t keen about being associated with the plan while students think the University has no say in the matter. The other story was about a farm woman who found a skunk living in her barn with her cats. I can’t convey how charming this last story was— this quintessentially-Canadian granny chuckling about the beautiful little skunk, hoping it’s a ‘she’ that will bring baby-skunks in the Spring.
That evening we watched two episodes of ‘Lost-Season 3’ and two of ‘Big Love’. We’re enjoying the ride with ‘Lost’. It’s fun to see what the writers will come up with next even though we do sometimes feel mired in soap (as in ‘soap opera’). We’re happy to see ‘Big Love’ writing is improving and we’re really getting into it. The writing wasn’t bad before but now it’s not so easy to say ‘I know where this is going’.
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