Hurry hurry, Dr appointment in Duncan

And here I sit, rushed down to this office, filled out the 3 sheets of questions, back and front, ready for the Dr, at 11:30, now it's 12 and still I'm waiting. I'm guessing that's not too bad, considering it took over a year to get this appointment. Knee surgery is what I'm asking for, been a very sore knee for quite a few years now. 

My regular DR said wait till it wakes you up in the night before you start asking for a specialist. Well if I keep waiting, I'm going to be just sitting in a chair 🪑 all day. So I'm asking to see if I can get more mobile again. My walking has suffered the last few years, I can still walk, but often I pay for it when I do. 

A short walk slowly, not too bad, a little more speed, and longer and I'm going to be in pain for awhile, maybe a day or two. 

Oh well, just the way it is is what we all say, but is this how we should accept the system we have in place? I'm not sure that anything can be done, accept maybe become an athlete, too late for that, or a politician, they get good service, or rich so I can pay for the extra service. 

Are there other options? I just don't know it's now 12:10, still no call. I guess I'm just used to my regular DR, as almost always on time. 

Well I've looked at some new planters I can make, Mom on them will be something for Mother's Day, many options for this year. I wonder this year why it is a little slow getting orders for planters? It's just beginning, I'm sure people will be wanting them soon. 

Dinner out tonight with friends, watched a really good hockey 🏒 game with a friend last night, they won! Go Bulldogs! 🎉🎉 Polly went to the casino while I was at the game, Winner! 😁 The way she told me was fun to listen to, love her enthusiasm for the game's. 

Oh, hey there the Dr calling me in, Nice. Dr Popovic orthopedic surgeon, now a bunch more questions, then decision, want surgery or? I'm asking about length of time the pieces last, 25 Year's! Ahh that's great. Then I asked, if I say no now, will I still be able to get back in? No problem she says, just call and the secretary will give ya an appointment, or even a phone appointment if I choose. 

Fantastic, she answered all my questions, that feels good knowing I'm ok to wait till I'm sure I want the surgery. 

Ok now we take off back to Port, next decision, where to have lunch? I say Dog house, Polly says Alice's, so I set the gps, to find out how long, and on our way by, we decided the Hideaway, by Chemainus.  Lunch was good, fish & chips, Polly paid, and off we went home. Another day done almost, except for dinner now. 

Retired and Dr appointment, kinda go together 😂

We were on the road again, for awhile 🤗

Love our life ❤️ 

Easter Sunday morning 🐰

             Polly's memorial garden 

I wonder how Easter got associated with Bunny's and egg's? I see my grandson went to see a bunny that was set-up like Santa visit. I got a video of this, he was kinda uneasy about it at first, I would have been too seeing a 6 foot bunny sitting waiting for ya 😳 to come sit beside him. 

Today I'm quite content to sit and enjoy my coffee ☕ and peck on this phone - computer - camera I'm holding. 

I was surprised a little seeing my daughter still buying candy gifts for her son's as they are young men now, 17 & 19, just seemed way past my expectations to still get Easter baskets. I'm not sure there is a exact time that ya stop, but I kinda thought in early teens. 

Still is nice to get a gift I'm sure. Today we'll go for another Easter dinner, had one on Friday at Polly's brothers house, our sister in law made a really nice dinner, turkey and ham, with everyone bringing something different. Made for a real good time. Was a fun time alright, 16 were expected, but 2 didn't show. Still was a nice dinner, and 2 young children with and adult that acts like a child sometimes made for fun time's. 

Dan has some really nice cars, so got to show my other brother in law Danny his cars, he really liked seeing them, and his shop. 

Just got a call from our granddaughter Taylor, it's her birthday 🎂 today, she's calling to say thanks for $ for her birthday, we like to send $ rather than a present 🎁. Much easier, and they can choose their present then. Had a nice visit with her, and Polly got up too so was nice to hear from her. 

Her brother Jayden has a birthday tomorrow, born a day apart, three years apart. Wow, I'm just thinking how fast that time went, from being young children to now, young adults, on their own, working and living on their own. Seems such a short time ago 🤗. 

Polly is now looking at a new vacuum, tired of the one we have she's said, "going to get another one". Amazon is where she's searching, "Yep! This is the one!" "Different colours" I hear her mumble, I'm guessing I'm going to have to order today. "Finally had enough of this old one" Polly says. Okay, whatever keeps ya happy 😊 I say. 

And in an instant, we can tap away on the phone, and in a couple days a box will arrive with her new machine. "So did ya order it?" I ask. "No I didn't, I don't know how to do that." Guess I gotta show her, but good for her to know. "Nope, u order, I don't have an account." is Pollys response. So I did. 

Today we will plant the flowers I bought yesterday, just starting Polly off, more to come I'm sure. I built a fence or trellis that has flower boxes on it, for Pollys memorial garden she's making for Chris, Memere and Pepere, her Mom and Dad. It looks good now with all the flowers Polly planted last fall, now coming up, but she wanted a backstop kinda fence, so that's what she got. Today we'll plant the boxes. 

I got a couple grape/blueberry plants too,

be interesting seeing these come to fruitation. Life in a not so mobile home 🏡 is giving us another shot at gardening. 

Always change in our lives, 

Love our life ❤️ 

Sunday morning once again 🤗

Love Sundays ❤️ as it's the day many take off to reflect on the week past. Some cut their lawn, do their shopping, visit friends or family, or take a hike on a unusual trail, or a drive to another place, beach, or park. Some go to church. Today I'm not sure what we'll do yet, how we decide when no sure plans have been made is left to the morning getup, and what we talk about. 

A drive now with gas and for us diesel prices makes us think just a little more about the trip. Buying another car & possibly selling Rambo has been on our minds lately, but Polly said, "let's just wait a year, see how things go, see if we decide to get another camping trailer, just wait, maybe buy a small car." I agreed, so am looking at cars, and not sure what will be our new vehicle. 

6:40 now, coffee ☕ is ready, was a late night for us, we went to a birthday party Ivan turned 39 again, 🥳 🎉 then a dance last night, was fun to dance for a change, been a long time since we really danced as much as we did, knee told me so this morning. Was fun, meeting people we hadn't seen for a long time, and seeing others from a distance, a wave 👋🏻 was nice, I didn't feel I had to talk with everyone. Beaver Creek Hall is along way from town, but was a good time had by many. 

I made a sign yesterday in the back of the Santa I'd made for Christmas, was a spring sign, one welcoming the 🌞 celebrating the beginning of warmer weather. I used all acrilic paint, except for the black on the eyes, I didn't have any acrilic so I use this other one that washed away in the rain last night, so a redo is in order today. I wanted to make some changes anyway. Was fun to paint again. 

I made a birdhouse for Ivan, thought he could use it at his camp in the summer,
they go to the same place every summer, a beautiful campground on the inlet, not too far from town. Well have to go visit him and Wendy this summer for sure. 

I'm not sure what I'll make next, I also have a bed that folds up that I have to make a decision on, do I cut it up and use it in my shop as a bench, or do I try to reassemble it to use in our spare room? It's been sitting in our sunroom awhile now, gotta decide soon. 

I have a bad habit of collecting things and saying I'll deal with it later, well later can take a long time, and things start piling up, so this I'll deal with this week for sure. I want to get our sun room ready for our sunny mornings, not a storage room. For now I'm going to get a coffee ☕, and read a little of the news about our world, then hopefully Polly will get up, and our day will develop. 

Yep, sure do love our life ❤️ 

Why do I cry when people win against evil?

Watching Equalizer 3 again at the end I teared up, and wondered why? I know, I'm not surprised, just wondering what triggers it? We all want to win, have the good guys win, and even though I know it's just a show, I'm completely absorbed in it. I'm hoping that the good will overcome, and whenever it does I'm overcome with a feeling of? Happy, peace, righteous, just feeling the good won! 

Looking at the story, it ended with the bad guys getting killed, But! There were more, and in one scene the head bad guy says if it wasn't me selling the drug's somebody else would. 

Making me think he's right, as looking about in this world the war on drugs as it was called has not changed things, drugs are even more available now than before. No matter how many people get arrested, or how much of the drug's have been taken away, the street always seems to be full of what people want. 

So the feeling of the good guy wins is temporary, as the bad seems to win overall, as another steps up to take there place if one falls. 

Delema is what to do? What to believe? What's good? What's bad? Who's to determine that? 

We all have a moral code, not all the same, but our own code to live by.

Criminal behavior is operating on there own moral code, I'm not sure what that is, but I'm sure it's not mine. 

Reading what's happening in our world now I'm always thinking with my moral code. Others in this world are operating with their own moral code, criminal? Not that the laws, or the lawyer's or politicians are labeled as criminals, in their minds they are performing under their own moral code. 

Mostly I try not to think about it too much, but I do just the same. 

Hope is what we have to hang onto, hope that it will be ok in awhile, maybe next week, next month, next year! Hope is really how we endure this bazaar time in our life. 

What can we do? Write ✍🏻 a letter, speak to you representative? Buy this, don't buy that, exercise restraint. Travel less, spend less. Us right now, we are enjoying this moment in time, our retirement that is closer to home. Worry is a waste of the moment, so just for today I'm quite content to watch a good movie, call our good friends, and sit beside my Love, even as I write she's watching another cooking show 😛, to my benefit. 

             Just had to eat the last piece 

Love our life ❤️ 

Patient's. No not in hospital, in me!

Sometimes I have patience, most times but when I fired up my laptop today I found myself wanting it to be as fast as my phone. I realized it's just not from the same era, made at a different time, in a different way. My patients in time gave me opportunity to check out what I had on my computer that I'd forgotten. 

I tapped into my memory of time's gone by, so many great memories. Starting with memories of our sons photos, then cabin photos, and friends, and videos I made on July 1st, at Saratoga Beach with Americo & Claudette ❤️. Yep a lot of great memories, even a huge file of Africa memories, that was a good look at how beautiful that trip was, and the memory of just how I was feeling after Chris's funeral, as it was just a month before we went to Africa, a very tender time for Polly and I. 

Patient's was rewarded today, still so much different with a laptop vs the ease of clicking on the screen of my phone. 

Last week Polly & I watched a few videos on DVD that I'd recorded on our video camera many years ago, when our grandchildren were younger. Was fun to see and remember when our grandchildren were so young, and the fun time's we had with them. We are both really happy with the time's we took to enjoy their youth, happy to have not only a memory, as well as video to watch to remember. 

I've always loved photos, and video fits right in too. I learned that just taking a video wasn't like making a movie, as to make it interesting and watchable for others, ya have to edit it, get the interesting parts, and delete the less interesting parts. As the one taking most of the video, I can watch most all of it, but others, not so much. 

I don't have to show them off, just enjoy them myself, with Polly, but a few I'll bring out for the kids to watch as they will get a chance to see themselves when young, be fun to watch them watch themselves and others in the family. 

Some of the DVD's don't play, so I'm going to try another DVD player, see if I can get them working. One really special one I want to get working, I remember the time we really want to show our granddaughter Shayla, as well as others. There was a time when we had Shayla and Jayden for over a month when Catherine was injured. That was a really special time for us being so close with them, daily enjoying the daily fun we'd had together. 

Nice to have some recorded, that we can see with them now. 

Rain is persistent today, going to be staying close to home today, I know I won't melt, but not wanting to go out in it. 

I worked at getting my little shop just a little more organized the last few days, trying to get a for sure plan of how I'll lay out the best way for the work to flow. Just so much in it, hard to decide where everything will Go. Maybe today be the day it gets done? That's if I don't go building something else 🤣. 

Friends to visit this afternoon, dinner out tomorrow, another birthday 🎂 to celebrate 🥳, Saturday a dance, and another birthday celebration 🎉 🎉 🎉. 

Busy is good, 

Sure do love our life ❤️ 

Sunday morning, early spring now 🌞

Snow/rain forecast, I'm thinking be warming up, and the rain is a coming. Had the best sunny day yesterday, building a couple more planters, installed 5 planters I made on a neighbours deck. Good productive day I say. Polly went to Parksville with Lyn, of course a little shopping, and a trip to the pub for a Keno possibility, they do enjoy there time together ❣️ I got to enjoy my time building. 

We all have our own interests, whatever turns your? Or another is whatever floats your boat! Me I like working with wood, and just enjoying this in my retirement is perfect for me. I also enjoy writing here, well pecking on this phone computer camera, LoL who ever thought we'd have so much power in the palm of our hand? 

Polly gets me a coffee ☕, and on her way said to the little box we got from our grandson Jesse, "Google Play 70s music" 🎶 🎵 and it does. Amazing I think that we can order something to do what ya want with a verbal order. 

Mmm  😋 ☕ coffee is good this morning, I just had to turn the music down a bit, "Hey Google, turn down 10%" and it does. Life is good, even with all the pains and creeking and older body has. Long cool woman in a black dress just came on, yep great way to start our Sunday. 9am now, no solid plans today, dinner at Penny's is cancelled, Jet's got a cold, so doesn't want us infected. 

I'm sure I'm going to get into my shop for awhile as I stuck lots of wood in there yesterday to dry out a little, the black I need to paint the trim with needs dry wood to stick properly. Thinking back to the last few days, I've been busy in a good way, weather has cooperated, tee shirt 👕 weather. Content to sit this morning though and peck here a bit.

We have been thinking of what we'll get as a camper for our summer, and travel, just not sure what'll work best for us. Polly a definite no to a camper, small pull trailer be just a little too small, started looking at small fifth wheel trailer I'm thinking this be best, then keep Rambo. We did talk about a van for sleeping in, but no toilet be no good for us. Anyway no decision yet, mind that's kinda how we roll, a little talk, a little research, then a little more yak. 

Well come to terms with it in the future, till then we keep thinking, keep looking. We have been asked many times now if we miss travel, if we miss our trailer and way of life. Sometimes we do but mostly we're very happy with our new home, all around just very happy and surprised how quickly it all came to pass. Content is how I'd describe it. 

Now the order from Polly "Hey Google shut down" and the TV goes on. I LoL a little as a program gets picked now, Polly is very good at the remote. I'll be heading out to the shop pretty soon, not to interested in the TV early in the day. 

Yup Sunday morning 

Sure do love our life ❤️ 

How do you write after the loss.

Watched the wizard of Oz last night, sure was fun to see again, been so many years since we had seen it. So much we never noticed when we last saw it. 🧙🏻‍♀️🧹

Woke this morning to Polly coming back to bed, tied, 1-0 for USA she said. Our feed was buggerd she said. Both of us have colds, I took a pill when I was awake at 2 am, Polly stayed up, she was awake at 1:30, it's taking it's toll on us. Anyway, now I couldn't go back to sleep, so up I get and get the TV back on line, and now 1-1 tie 2nd period ends. 

Polly says she's done, staying in bed, I'm watching the 3rd now. Great play, but no goals so off to OT. Didn't turn out in our favor. Darn I say in other words, was expecting a different outcome. Oh well, someone has to loose, even though I'm not really alright with it. 

So now what? Watching a few videos, then to a series we were told about by our granddaughter, maybe that'll take the sting out. I think it's day 5 for me, Polly just getting to her worse day, cold always an unwelcome hack, hack, feeling. I always say, oh! I'm feeling better today, well let's hope this time it's true. Polly have another couple days before she's better. Just something we have to go through once in awhile. Been a long time since we've had one, and many have had it in town this year. So our turn.

I made 4 planters this week, but have no desire to make more yet, early in the year. I'll get energy again sometime, just coasting right now. We have watched a lot of TV this winter, different when we stay put, not traveling as before. We did have a busy weekend last weekend, was nice to see everyone on Sunday, people we don't get to see often, Friday and Saturday, birthday and a dinner/concert dance in town visited with many here in Port too, made for a busy weekend. 

Had to turn down a dinner invite yesterday and and couple birthdays, oh well can't go when not feeling well. Today we are starting a new series Mayor of Kingstown, Taylor Sheridan I see again, man how many series has he written?

Well so far seems like a good interesting show, will see as it goes. 

Sunday morning rains, weather has changed now, warmer & even with the rain ☔ is appreciated. On to a movie instead, Grace & Goliath, is a fun movie 🍿. 

Even when we're sick 

Love our life ❤️