The Football Game

I am a member of the Hamilton Tiger Cats fan club and regularly get emails from them.  Earlier in the season, I got free tickets to a Ticats exhibition game.  This week I got an email saying they were having a draw for free tickets to a Toronto Argos game that was being played in Hamilton because of the Blue Jays being in the playoffs and needing the Rogers Center.  It was a cold day.  So Barb went out to the thrift shop to buy warm clothes for us because we had gotten rid of all our warm clothes when we moved because we didn’t think would ever need them again.  On the way to the football game, we took a detour through Burlington so that Barb could stop at the IKEA store to return a shelf that she didn’t need.  The Argos lost so the Ticat fans were happy.  They hate the Argos.

Treadmill

We have a special key to the community center.  So we can get in whenever we want.  When it is raining I don’t walk on the trail.  Instead I drive down to the community center and use the treadmill in the gym.  For some reason, you have to sign in and write down which machines you use.  I don’t know too many people at the park but I know a few people who use the gym from their names on the list.

Thanksgiving

Julia came down from Ottawa for the Thanksgiving weekend.  She stayed with Sarah but she came over to see our house.  We showed her around and went for a long walk along the trail to New Hamburg.  We wanted to buy ice cream but it was too expensive at the convenience store.  So Barb talked us into walking a little farther to the Sobey’s grocery store.  We bought a box of drumsticks for the price of a single drumstick at the convenience store.  It was great because there were 4 drumsticks in the box.

Letter to Ireland

When Sarah and I visited Ireland, we dropped in on Aunt Yvonne and Cousin Billy.  Billy was not feeling well.  Yvonne thought he was depressed.  She asked me to write him a letter once in a while because they didn’t have a computer.  So when I saw an article in my science newsletter on why Guiness beer tastes better in Ireland than in other countries, I printed it out and wrote Billy a letter.  Then I walked into town to the post office to mail it to him in Ireland.

Brianna’s Questions

Daphne and Sharon and Brianna visited one day to see our new place.  I was showing them around and I was showing off my study.  Daphne noticed my turntable and mentioned it.  Brianna said what’s a turntable?  I told her it plays records.  She said what’s a record?  I tried to show her but before I could get my computer turned on and an album playing they were off looking at other parts of the house.

Record Shelf

Barb bought a stylish shelf from IKEA for my LPs and magazines. Apparently, these shelves are all the rage for holding Baby Boomers’ old LPs.  The shelf has four rows and four columns of large square cubby holes.  Barb found a YouTube video about how to put records on the shelves.  So I learned how to store my records safely.  I also found out that I had a lot of records in my collectionthat I had never listened to.  I wonder where I got them.

Chest of Drawers

Barb bought three large low chests of drawers and one large tall chest of drawers.  We assembled them together like an assembly line.  Barb got a blister from using the screw driver so much.  I got the tricky job of fitting the shelves in the racks.  The three chests of drawers fit perfectly under the clothes rack that John had raised.  Each chest had four large drawers.  They looked great and held a lot of stuff.  When we assembled the tall chest of drawers, I put the wrong piece in the lid and it wouldn’t fit properly.  So Barb got the idea of putting a towel over the lid and hammering if down.  When we did that we broke a hole in the lid.  It was only a small flaw but we weren’t happy.  So Barb took back the lid and they gave us a new one and we were more careful this time.  In the end, Barb was very happy with the closet and felt that now there was no wasted space.