Thinking Out Loud

For the last week I’ve been spending most of my time working in the yard of my “other” house. I understand that my priorities are probably not in the right place. I should be working inside the house so that I might be able to move into it in the near future.

Well, in a couple of weeks I hope to actually have the back yard done, so there’s always the possibility that a bucket of common sense will splash on me, and the inside work (where you actually live and eat and sleep) that should be done will be done. Read the rest of this entry »

About two months ago, I mentioned my neighbour’s mysterious truck under the tarp.

Well, last weekend, the truck moved out of his back yard to the front street. At some point in time, I discovered that the truck belonged to a friend of my neighbour. The story is, that he bought the truck, but didn’t want his wife to know, because she had explicitly forbid him to buy a new truck. Read the rest of this entry »

Just so you know, I haven’t tried this. I don’t know what to use for mix, and I’m out of ice.

Apparently, if you can get enough down you, you can get drunk from the little squirt bottles of hand sanitizer. I have a bottle of the stuff sitting on the kitchen counter. Maybe I should move it to the liquor cabinet, now that I know it’s potential. Read the rest of this entry »

Saturday morning I went fishing with Sherry and Herb at the Craik Regional Park. I bought a fishing rod and reel, the angler’s license, and left home with a positive attitude.

I had been promised that there would be good fishing because my guides knew all of the good spots. As it turns out, there was only three or fish in the whole lake, and Sherry caught them all. Two of them were worth keeping, one of them was a little iffy, and the one to the left was nothing more than a large guppy. Read the rest of this entry »

It’s been 3 days and my hunt has not been successful at all.

My new little buddy (more than likely it’s buddies) have not been enticed in the slightest by the sweet aroma of stale peanut butter on a spring loaded dinner plate.

According to reliable sources (as reliable as the internet is) I may have a shy mouse. My brother, on the other hand, suggested that I may have a rejected and depressed mouse. Either way, it appears the mouse has severe emotional problems, and in my opinion should be put out of his misery. Read the rest of this entry »

I have a mouse in my house. Or a fast fuzzy cockroach. He (or she) is not a welcome guest, and scared the poop out of me when it scurried across the floor.

And we all know that one mouse means more than one. So I guess that mice traps are on my shopping list tomorrow. Or a cat. Read the rest of this entry »

How to build a bridge:

1. Find a hole in the ground for the bridge to go over. If there are no available holes, dig one. Optionally, consider putting water in the hole if there is not already some there.
2. Find scrap lumber. You will need some pieces that are at least 10 feet long.
3. Lay two or three pieces of the lumber out on ground, and fasten together as best you can. Read the rest of this entry »

I want to build a bridge over the goldfish pond I want to build. I want it to have an arch and I want it to look similar to the little bridges you see in Japanese or Chinese gardens.

I have no idea how to do this. So i looked on the internet for some ideas or plans (free ones, but there aren’t any) and here’s some of them. Read the rest of this entry »

Somewhere in my fish pond live about 12 fish. There are some koi, shubunkins, and common goldfish. Read the rest of this entry »

When I bought my camera, I managed to convince the salesman to throw in a remote control. I didn’t know why I wanted it, I just wanted it because I wanted it.

I had never used it, but it was supposed to let me take a photo from as far as 25 feet away. So, when someone said they wanted a family photo while we were in Edmonton, I thought it was the chance to try it out. Read the rest of this entry »