Old Lady

A tour bus driver is driving with a bus load of seniors down a highway when he is tapped on his shoulder by a little old lady.
She offers him a handful of peanuts, which he gratefully munches up. After about 15 minutes, she taps him on his shoulder again and she hands him another handful of peanuts. She repeats this gesture about five more times. When she is about to hand him another batch again he asks the little old lady, " why then don't you eat the peanuts yourself?".
"We can't chew them because we've no teeth", she replied.
The puzzled driver asks, "Why do you buy them then?"
The old lady replied, "We just love the chocolate around them."

Emma Report

I had blood work done yesterday and after much searching and two pokes, they managed to get enough blood (barely). I haven't heard anything so I have to assume that the results are satisfactory.
I went to the Tom Baker today to pick up my next month's supply of interferon. I have discovered that if I call ahead, they will have it ready to go. Much quicker! This also lets me use the 5 minute parking rather than the lot a 10 minute walk away! Parking is quite a problem there.
Tonight marks the end of six months on interferon - the halfway mark. I am pleased to have come this far but another six months seems like such a longtime. I continue to have the same symptoms - fatigue being the worst. As always, some days are better than others. I guess the best way to describe it is that I am getting used to it all. My hair loss has slowed down but I don't think there is any new stuff growing. I haven't needed a haircut in ages.On a positive note, I haven't had any indications of new tumors nor have I had to go through the nailbitting process of waiting for new scans andtests. Hopefully it stays that way!
I have returned to work, but only for one morning a week (Mondays, this being the day I feel the best). It is nice to get out of the house and back to the world but I do struggle with concentration and thought processes. Also, the company has had three acquisitions since I went on sick leave and my department has doubled in size. I am finding it hard remembering all the new names and faces. I am also finding that I have to sleep an extra hour for each hour that I work.
The dogs continue to entertain me during the day with their antics and we go for a walk each day. The exercise and fresh air seems to help. I am so grateful to have their company, usually one or more is snuggled up to me on the couch. I don't know how they will react when I am not a stay at home "mum" anymore! Anyway, that is about it for me.
Emma

Arthritis

A little old man shuffled slowly into an ice cream parlor and pulled himself slowly, painfully, up onto a stool.
After catching his breath heordered a banana split.
The waitress asked kindly, "Crushed nuts?"
"No," he replied, "Arthritis

Garage walls waiting for the pad to be done

 

Like my last post !!!!!!

Muslims

ANOTHER POINT OF VIEW....
Muslim outrage huh. OK ... let's do a little historical review. Just some lowlights:

Muslims fly commercial airliners into buildings in New York City . No Muslim outrage.

Muslim officials block the exit where school girls are trying to escape a burning building because their faces were exposed. No Muslim outrage
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Muslims cut off the heads of three teenaged girls on their way to school in Indonesia . A Christian school. No Muslim outrage.

Muslims murder teachers trying to teach Muslim children in Iraq . No Muslim outrage.

Muslims murder over 80 tourists with car bombs outside cafes and hotels in Egypt . No Muslim outrage.

A Muslim attacks a missionary children's school in India . Kills six. No Muslim outrage.

Muslims slaughter hundreds of children and teachers in Beslan , Russia. Muslims shoot children in the back. No Muslim outrage.

Let's go way back. Muslims kidnap and kill athletes at the Munich Summer Olympics. No Muslim outrage.

Muslims fire rocket-propelled grenades into schools full of children in Israel . No Muslim outrage.

Muslims murder more than 50 commuters in attacks on London subways and busses. Over 700 are injured. No Muslim outrage.

Muslims massacre dozens of innocents at a Passover Seder. No Muslim outrage.

Muslims murder innocent vacationers in Bali . No Muslim outrage.

Muslim newspapers publish anti-Semitic cartoons. No Muslim outrage

Muslims are involved, on one side or the other, in almost every one of the 125+ shooting wars around the world. No Muslim outrage.

Muslims beat the charred bodies of Western civilians with their shoes, then hang them from a bridge. No Muslim outrage.

Newspapers in Denmark and Norway publish cartoons depicting Mohammed. Muslims are outraged.
Dead children. Dead tourists. Dead teachers. Dead doctors and nurses. Death, destruction and mayhem around the world at the hands of Muslims .. no Muslim outrage ... but publish a cartoon depicting Mohammed with a bomb in his turban and all hell breaks loose.

PASS THIS ON IF YOU AREN'T AFRAID

Was a long cold night

It was a long cold night -29c last night and we need all the sun we can get today. 

Naked Fireman Poster

 

A bad one

A man and his ever-nagging wife went on vacation to Jerusalem.
While they were there, the wife passed away.
The undertaker told the husband, "You can have her shipped home for $5,000, or you can bury her here, in the Holy Land, for $150.
"The man thought about it and said he would just have her shipped home.
The undertaker asked, "Why would you spend $5,000 to ship your wife home, when it would be wonderful to be buried here and you would spend only $150?"
The man replied, "Long ago a man died here, was buried here, and three days later he rose from the dead. I just can't take that chance."

Bad Thinking

Well !!! Two days a go I was thinking of spring !!!!! (BAD THINKING) now it is snowing and
-12c.
They are saying down to -29c tonight, I will just have to put more logs on the fire.

We went to Red Deer yesterday and picked up the blind we had ordered for our bedroom.

Happy Valentine's Day CATHY

Love Raymond 

Thinking of spring

 

Here he is again

 

Rocky sitting in the sun

 

She leans over

An elderly couple was attending church services, about halfway through she leans over and says, " I just had a silent fart what do you think I should do?"

He replies " Put a new battery in your hearing aid."

Brittany Bay

There is the web site of Emma and John's dogs, see the Brittanys.
Just click on the link below.
http://www.brittanybay.ca

Changed

I change the template of our blog, I think it looks better now.
Well I had a change too, one more year went by (Thanks Emma and Philippa for the phone calls) and life is still going very good for me. Just love retirement.
Cathy and I went to a auction yesterday, we did not buy, but it was fun to go out and see.

Lazy day today

We had a lazy day today, sitting on the front deck in the sun drinking coffee.
We went to Red Deer yesterday and started to get the permits for the garage. ( about time we got them). Can not do the garage pad just yet.
I started to build the back wall, I am glad there is a crane two lots down the road I can get to put them into place, when the pad is done.

Garage/Shop

Making the roof for the garage/shop.