Bic Pen

Barb bought a big package of Bic pens when we were in Barrhaven.  There were about 50 black pens and 50 red pens and 100 blue pens.  I carry one around all the time so that I can write notes on my little pieces of paper.  I write a lot of notes.  I have been watching the ink in my Bic pen because it is clear and you can see the tube of ink inside.  It is slowly going down.  I was very excited and couldn’t wait to finish the ink.  Well today it finally ran out of ink today when I was writing a note at Fred and Ellen’s house about a friend of Barb’s who was in the hospital.  Ellen went inside and got me another pen.  I finished writing my note but I didn’t like the pen.  It was not a Bic pen.  When I got home from my walk I was very proud to show Barb that I had used all the ink in the pen.  Barb said she had never seen a Bic pen run out of ink.  Usually you lose it before it runs out.  I got another Bic pen from the package.  This package of pens will last a long time if I use them all until they run out of ink, probably the rest of my life time.

April 2015

At the beginning of the New Year, it is always difficult writing cheques because I put the wrong year on them.  I guess I don’t write many cheques anymore because when I went to put the date on the medical forms for Barb’s claim, it was the first time I had written the date and of course I wrote 2015 on the form and had to white it out and write 2016 over it.

Honeyed Chicken

Barb bought some honeyed sliced ham at the deli in Walmart.  For some reason, I always think it is honeyed chicken.  When I call it honeyed chicken, Barb never knows what I am talking about.  Then she realizes I mean the honeyed ham and she corrects me.  I guess I have confused her enough that now she is even calling it honeyed chicken.  Anyway its best before date was today.  So we finished it off and don’t have to worry about the name problem anymore.

Month’s Calendar

Every month the Home Owner’s Association and the Park Management put out a nice newsletter with announcements and a calendar of all the events for the month ahead.  The newsletter usually comes out a few days before the beginning of the month.  So at the end of the month, all of the members of the community go down to the Office to pick up a new calendar.  On March 31^st, Barb went down to the office and picked up the newsletter and calendar.  She brought it home and was studying it for quite some time before she realized that it was the March newsletter and calendar and not the new one for April.

Grampa’s Puzzle

Barb goes to knitting on Tuesday nights.  Her friend’s husband made a puzzle out of wood pieces for all the girls at knitting.  It was the same puzzle that Grampa Taylor made and used to show us when we visited him.  You have to make a T shape out of four pieces of wood.  Barb struggled and struggled with the puzzle.  She always likes a challenge and doesn’t give up easily.  Eventually, she gave up and asked me if I knew how to do it.  I looked at it for 5 seconds and then did it correctly first time.  Barb was amazed and took a picture of it with her iPod and sent it to her friend.  Then she took the pieces apart again and tried to repeat what I had done.  She couldn’t do it.  So she asked me to do it again.  This time I couldn’t do it either.  She said it was just luck that I did it correctly the first time.  Fortunately, she had a picture on her iPod to help her do it again.

Surprise Delivery

We almost never lock our doors because we live in such safe communities.  Today I was sitting in the living room in my pyjamas working on the computer and Barb was out playing pickle ball and had the car.  So there was no car in the driveway and Barb’s friend must have thought there was no one home because she just came right in the house without knocking to drop off a pattern for Barb.  Barb had volunteered to make a couple of bears for some hospitalized children and I guess Barb’s friend didn’t want to leave the pattern on the steps outside the house.

Double the Bruises

Barb is always getting hit by pickle balls when they smash the ball.  The smashes leave bruises all over her body.  Today she got hit in the leg in the exact same spot that she already had a bruise.  I guess it hurt twice as much as usual.