Krunn's Site

It has been a busy few weeks.  I took on the job of co-ordinating our church's and the neighbouring church's collection of household staples to be given to the young couple with 3 small children that had their house burn down last month.  They lived with friends afterwards and are now in our village in an apartment.  They are from the Ascroft Indian Band.  The mother was very thankful for the sugar, and oil and toilet paper and spices and sewing kit etc. etc. etc.  It is hard to start from scratch to stock a house.  It is hard enough just to keep the larders re-stocked on a monthly basis.

Then I did a road trip with a friend to go 3 hours south to the coast where Spring is a month or so ahead of 

us.  We stayed at my sister's but didn't get to sit outside drinking wine by the carp pond as it drizzled most of the 3 days.  Still we did get some spring-time eye candy delights at two nurseries and bought ourselves some hyacinths.  They are scenting my back porch wonderfully. We also had a lunch visit with my old friend Rosie, the former RCMP officer, in her new orange jeep.  Somehow she is not the princess type to be riding in a big orange pumpkin.  She takes a lot of kidding over her choice of vehicle.  At least you can't miss her.  It was good to get away for a few days and the roads were clear and did not have much traffic, which was a plus.

I also needed to give my bigger-screened laptop over to Old Man with his eye troubles.  My old computer that he was using is 7 years old and groans and is so slow booting up and bringing up e-mails or anything actually.  It groans like an old man.  I bought it when I retired.   He can see the cards on mine much more easily to play his games and majhong.  I on the other hand am suffering through a crash course in using Windows 8.   I am not keen on change so am doing this blog on my old machine which we shifted to the kitchen.  I did write some notes to folk on blogger posts though, using the new machine.  I will adjust but I am still being dragged into this decade, and century for that matter.