Happy Weekend All!

Last night was Happy Hour at the OFH!

I had put that on my Facebook status Thursday, cause sometimes my friends come to help!
One friend B., said, "Gail, Please bring your peeps to the Nightmare Before Christmas."
Me: "It'll be a nightmare at happy hour!"
It was a promotion for late night shopping, shop local, yadda yadda!
Know what!
I used to go myself.
BUT, it would be very cold (-30), and there was never a place to park!
I don't mind walking, but it would be freezing cold, and where the heck am I parking the Handi Van!?
You know I don't let those people walk across the street.

Yesterday my status on Facebook read, 'I work with idiots, but it's happy hour at the OFH so it's all good.'
It's saying that I work with idiots at least once a month anymore!
Gawd, you'd think they'd catch on!
The 10-6 girl's pissed at me.
Oh well, get over it! You'd think they'd  learn that when I get mad, and it takes a lot, I'll cuss you out, and I'm over it.
You wanna pout forever, that's up to you, I'm not losing any sleep!
And I've probably already forgot what we were fighting about!?

Then I slept until 9 a m! OMG!
Guess I needed it!

I'm having a make work day!

My washing machine was filling painfully slow!
Oh the joys of farm living!
I'd already pulled out the little filters where the hoses hook up to the water in the wall.
I pulled it out and got Ray to undo the hoses to the machine......and there were more little filters!?
He took them out!
I then scrubbed around and under the washer, and pushed it back. The machine fills up now faster than you can say 'gotta get the laundry done'!
I then pulled the dryer out, thought it might be fluffy under there. It was, and when I pulled it out, I unhooked the silver vent hose from the vent thing on the dryer!
Had to move my pantry cupboard that sits between the washer & dryer to get it hooked up again!
Oh well, it needed defluffing anyhow!

I then took the dishwasher apart to clean that filter.
I hate that dishwasher.
About a year after I bought it (of course, when the warranty's off), I had to call the Maytag man cause it wasn't washing the dishes.
K was home at the time, and said the repairman was here for about 3 hours.
Had a hard time finding the filter.
Me, "I didn't know it had a filter?"
K; "Neither did he!"
I bought the darn thing because it didn't have a filter, and had a garbarator, something I figured would be good for our water.
So today, because the damn thing won't work without the filter, I used my handy dandy little scrapbooking wire cutter, and cut the center out of the filter, then put it back in.
My plumber told me it had some sort of sensor for the filter.
My reasoning is that if it 'thinks' the filter's in, it'll work......stay tuned!

The beer fridge in the entry is defrosting.
Can you believe there's still a fridge left in Canada that needs defrosting!?
It's over 30 years old, and I really should replace it!

Since it was tropical out today, I sorted bottles.
Here's the mess I start with!

Here, I've turned it into 50-60 bucks!

Don't forget I'm going to GP, and will have to go to Michaels!

Here's Shadow!

The buffalo might be gone, but she seems to have an unending supply of horn caps!

I tried to find out what the attraction for a dog is, but came up with nothing.

Someone once told me that they're like fingernails or something!?

And here's a card I made a few nights ago.

I made 2 of them actually!

The color's a little off.

The ribbon matches the embossed reindeer....really!

Thursday morning when I was leaving home.....in. the. dark. a vehicle was stopped at the end of our driveway.
The passenger gets out, and walks over.
Him; "Good morning, how are you today?"
Me; "I'm good, it's still early, depends what you want?"
Him; "We're just driving around, just saw 3 big elk jump the fence over there, they were BIG ones.....you see any?
Me; "I only see elk in the spring when they're in our pasture."
Him; "Well, we just saw 3, we're talking to land owners to see where we can hunt. We're from Wetaskiwin."
Me; "Don't you need a guide if you're not from the neighborhood? You can't hunt here."
Him; "How far is it your land?"
Me; "From this fence on your right, all the way to the end of the yellow fenceposts, and then about another 20 feet."

We used to let people hunt here.....before we had animals......before we moved out here.......before someone shot an elk in the middle of our field, and left it there.

I've made my pastry for Sour Cream Apple Pies tomorrow.
Have a meeting Monday and I'm dessert.

Ray went to PR.
I had too much to do.
I just realized it was 6:32 pm, and already getting dark and the ashes need to be cleaned out of the furnace.
There's about 3 BIG pieces of wood in there, so I'm leaving it til tomorrow!

Now I'm going to finish the beer fridge, and go play in my craft room.

Ta ta for now!