Day 60

Still warm this morning but cooled off during the day with lots of wind.
Finally finished work today - 1st day of retirement tomorrow.
Finished sanding gyprock joins and took up patio blocks and frame around flower bed in front of trailer. Two big trees there and we have a company coming with a crane to remove them as they are to close to the trailer and there roots are causing trouble. Into Noel's for supper and tended the door for trick or treaters while they took Damien and Payton out around the neighborhood. Lots of treats for the grandkids. Mom & dad called us while we were there. After, the kids came back to the trailer to have a sleepover with us and Noel & Tammy went to a Halloween party.
Hey Helen & Earl - I guess its good to be back home after being on the road for 3 weeks.

Day 59

Nice morning again for a walk - 12 degrees. Ruby out with me this morning - her flu is just about over. Sanded the plaster on the sun room walls and Ruby put another coat of paint on the storm door and window extensions. Put some more plaster on the joins. A little sanding tomorrow and we will be ready to try some painting to see how well I plastered. Ruby went to the Dollar Store with Tammy, Damien & Payton - they had a hard time convincing her to go shopping but with a little arm twisting they got her to go lol. We listened to the hockey game between the Cats and the Royals on the internet -seemed like a pretty good game. Hope the Wings can get a win tomorrow night.

Day 58

Nice morning for a walk - 11 degrees. Put another coat of plaster on the sun room walls. Ruby put a coat of paint on the storm door extension and the window extensions. After that we went into Noel's for a visit before supper. Checking on getting a cell phone booster for here as the reception is really low. Found one on ebay and ordered it - hope it works ok when we get it. Do not want to get a land line in as we currently have our 2 cells so this may fix the low reception problem - we'll see. Ruby is feeling better each day.

Day 57

Lite rain this morning but clear up to be a nice sunny warm day again. Put the first coat of plaster on the sun room walls today (where's mooga when you need him lol). Also caulked around the storm door and filled in the holes in the window extensions. Enough for today, we are starting to learn that we do not have to do it all today, we are off again tomorrow lol. So doing a little bit each day may be better then working at it for long hours as we've been doing. After all I will be retiring on Sunday so I have to learn to take it easy. Ruby working on filing our photos and her recipes - I don't know which we have the most of. Ruby is feeling a lot better, getting over her flu but now Tammy has it.

Day 56

Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Another warm day. Getting in a walk every morning now, its 8 to 10 degrees at 8 am and things are advanced enough with our rebuilding that we can take some time for ourselves. Into Woodstock and picked up supplies to get ready to plaster. Talked to Adrian (park owner) to see if it was ok to remove the 2 big trees in front of out trailer - he said we can get them removed if we want to. They are to close to the trailer, cause moss and a lots of leaves on the roof, eaves trough and the vehicle, so they got to go. Called 2 tree removal companies and they are going to come here and give me a free estimate on removing them. Me and Noel could possibly cut them down but they are very big trees and who knows where they will go, don't want to do any damage. Picked up some shelving and installed new shelves in the computer cabinet. Dug out all my computer accessories and items and set them up in the computer cabinet. Got it all to fit too lol.

Day 55

A beautiful warm sunny day up this way. Moved some more things around - we're still trying to figure out where to put it all, but its starting to look good. Finished spraying foam around window and storm door. Also finished all the gyprocking. Ready to start the plastering - should be fun. Another late supper, even though we don't have to work tomorrpw, (lol) we wanted to get it finished today. Ruby still not feeling well - still has the flu.

Day 54

Nice warm sunny day. Finished installing window extensions and fill around windows with expanding spray foam. Into Woodstock and purchased a computer cabinet as I have to have to get all the computer gear out of the shed and inside before it gets too cold. Me, Noel & James went deer hunting at 1500 and stayed until dark. Still no luck - have not seen a deer since we go here - they must know i'm after them lol. Put computer cabinet together when I got back from hunting - just have to figure out where to locate it now - space is tight.