Nocturnal Adventures

We were tired puppies yesterday. The night before last we went to bed at about 10:45. I was reading while Phil went straight to sleep. I could tell by the very loud rhythmic noises coming from his side of the bed. At about 11:10 Phil’s cell phone started ringing. I don’t know about anyone else but in our household if the phone rings after 11:00 it’s never the kids saying, “Hey I’m getting takeout, you want some?” If the phone rings they usually need to be bailed out in some way. This time it was Drool. Drool is going for the world record on number of times locked out of his vehicle. Of course his spare keys were on the fridge. So off I went to bail him out. It was just about 12:00 before I was crawling back into bed. Flip may not have taken the trip with me but he was still fully awake when I got back. At 12:30 and we both just starting to settle in, pillows finally just right and my body warmed up so I didn’t give Flip frost burn if I happen to get to close. We were at the happy drowsy state not quite asleep but comfortably on our way. That is when Sher came home. Due to the nature of the house we are staying at when the screen door opens it sounds like a cymbal going off right by our bed. I would like to say this was the end of our nocturnal adventures but sadly this was not the case.
At 3:30 in the morning we could hear a car alarm go off. In my hazy state it took about five honks before I rolled over to Flip and said, “Isn’t that your truck?” It was like I had touched Flip with a cattle prod. He was up and to the window in one fluid motion. “Shit.”
“Do you want me to come with you?” I asked. “No I got it.” So he fumbled for his pants while I tried to find his keys. Half an hour later that adventure was over. Some had tried to unlock the truck by snaking his arm in the barely open passenger window and this had set the alarm off. No damage or loss. Now I’m trying to not get scalded by Flip’s freezing cold body. So around 4:30 we are for the fourth time that night trying to fall asleep when the cat right on cue starts into a long gagging routine while dislodging a particularly wet sounding hairball. Yes folks it was a great night.

A river runs through it

It's snowing. I'm sitting in the Sandman looking out the window and it's snowing. I guess this the same system that hit the rest of Alberta yesterday. We are going to get a high of 2 today. Yeaa I guess I picked a good day to sleep in and let my brain recover.
So I completely forgot to mention our big discovery this week. When we bought the house it was surrounded by five plus feet of snow. Monday when I went to our new house to check it out the snow was gone replaced by a babbling brook 40 feet off our back step. I still have no idea how big our back yard is because I couldn't cross the creek to check it out. This now makes our back yard pretty tiny. So I went and purchased a bunch of landscaping books. I don't really see the point of have a postage stamp piece of lawn to mow when we are only going to be outside for a limited amount of time anyways. I'm thinking deck... a big honking deck. Put it up and forget about it. We'll see.
So I'm off to wander around the town its not very pedestrian freindly so I'll be careful, in the @#$% snow.

setting up

It's been a busy week. It feels like I'm running in quick sand lots of effort with little to show for it. We are up in GP for the week Flip is working and I'm getting things set up and checking on the house. The house is looking good and the contractor is optmistic that we could be in by the first...if the cabinets come in on time, and the flooring guy comes back and..... So here's hoping. It seems that some companies have made signing up to be as difficult as possible. I spent an hour on the phone with Telus trying to get a home phone and the internet set up. If I had any other choice for this area I would be going with them but unfortunately we're a captive audience so we will have to stay. Hopefully this will be the last time I have to deal with them for the next three years. Electric, gas and water were very fast and easy just give them their several hundred dollar deposit and they are quick and courteous, gack. My brain feels like mush so this will be short blog.

Life lesson #856

Life’s lessons are usually painful as Drool can tell you. He went to the fair last night with a couple friends and his cell phone and wallet lifted out of his back pocket. He is very choked. Flip called Drool’s cell phone provider last night. He had a lovely round of circle conversations with an automated machine. The conversation as I heard it, “No, no, no, no, yes…” then he rolled his eyes and said aside to me, “I’m back to the main menu….. no, no, no, no, yes.” I hope the jerks didn’t make too many calls before he got the phone disconnected. We know they are jerks because they actually called Drool’s voice mail and taunted him, “Ha Haaa we stole your phone, ha ha.” Nothing like a little salt in the wound.
Today I drove Drool around as we tried to get everything sorted out. When we went to the bank to get a new bankcard for Drool the ladies at the bank noticed that the jerks had withdrawn $100.00 from his account. Drool was adamant that he hadn’t given his pin to anyone. The bank must have asked him a dozen times, “Who has your pin number? Who have you given the number to?” Drool did waver a bit no one has his pin number.
Drool's phone was a brand new Razor with a three-year contract. To cancel his plan they told us would be $400. The cheapest new phone they have in store is $100. Not a Razor phone the worst phone in the store $100. He aready has a plan so no deals for him. So if any one has an old bell phone kicking around I think we might be able to find a good home for it.
We went and filed a police report and then on the way home I was grilling Drool, “You didn’t give your pin to any one, its not stored in your phone anywhere?” The one thing he did think of was a couple of weeks ago he did banking through his phone and he keyed his pin number in. The Razor stores your out going calls. This is the only thing we can think of on how they would have gotten his pin. It's been a tough day for Drool he knows the police are going to be disintrested, so he would just like to get his hands the guys who did this. The word of the day is frustration.

Chasing Rainbows

What a beautiful day today is. It actually is starting to feel like spring. What a relief after experiencing yesterday’s dump of the white stuff. I have the door to the upper deck wide open to lets some air in. It’s nice that the upper deck is completely enclosed so the cats can get out with flying the coop. The air is still a little brisk so I put my fuzzy slippers on so I can type this with out my feet getting cold. They have a creek running in the ravine below us and accompanied with the birds singing it is very soothing.
Yesterday was a lazy day I went shopping. It was more like I went browsing. Usually I am very goal oriented; here’s my list. Get in. Get out. Yesterday if I went into a store I went down every isle. Meandering along. I found a beautiful crystal in Value Village. I always associate Easter with Grampa’s death. I actually have no idea what the exact day was I just know it was Good Friday. So with Easter approaching and it being the fifth anniversary of his death I have been thinking more and more about him. Towards the end of his life it was painful for Grampa to get around so he used to sit in his armchair a lot. He confided to me once that loved to watch the rainbows from the crystals in the window. Since that time I have been unable to look at crystals without thinking of Grampa. So finding the crystal yesterday felt a bit like serendipity. I put it out in the full moon yesterday and today I hung it in the window. The cats don’t know quite what to think of all the different rays. It is amusing watching them with their puzzled expressions, contemplating rainbows.