Blast from the past

Dr.Fiero wrote: Marianne wrote: I want clowns driving Fieros Oh man....  you've got SO many of those already though....

Hehe. Classy, brother.

Man, I can't think of anyone I haven't seen in 37 years... Oh, wait.

Hey my ears are burning...means someone is talking about me!

Apologies for my absence as I having been moving ...it's taken 16 months!!!! Now is crunch time as the new people are moving in Saturday.

It's a long story but involves one disaster after another....kinda like the Money Pit story. I'll have to tell you all about it some day. My arms ache as myself and my skinny friend single handedly moved the entire contents of a five bedroom house. I drove a one ton truck during the week and have huge arm muscles.

I found Fiero headlights!!! amongst my many treasures in the garage and a couple of 2 dollar bills!!! Yes Bills not Twoonies!

I promise to be check in once again as soon as the weekend is over.

Hi Again,

Sheesh, I must be overtired as I meant to say lights not headlights...they are for the back of a Fiero.

Pat, I'm finally moving from the Fleetwood home and living full time at the home you saw (with the beautiful yard). With ongoing renos for the past 16 months I no longer have to travel to two places daily!!!!!

Some people have all the luck - First the sewer backed up...ewww and it took the insurance company a mere 9 months to rip apart my walls/ floors and crawlspace. With three big dogs underfoot and men leaving gates and doors open - we took the dogs back during the week and took turns living at the other place. Meant for months I lived in 2 places. Makes me sound like a rich person doesn't it? In reality we were playing double morgage which killed us.

THE VERY NEXT DAY....after they finished the sewer backup damage - someone ran into my fence and took out 52 feet!!!! Knocked out electrical/water and shrubs/trees.....that only took the insurance company 8 months.

No fence and three dogs....well that continued the two home saga for another 7-8 months. They kept promising it would be fixed" any day".

The only good thing that came out of this is I resorted to using East End language again.

This all was happening when my son contracted meningitus and had brain surgery.

So... work, hospital, house #1, house #2 daily for 16 months or more!!! No wonder no one has heard from me. Did I also mention I happen to have 30 something animals to care for and took on more hours at work in order to try to cover expenses. You won't recognize me ....I'm the one wearing the super woman outfit.

Rob Starr called me....Rob Starr!!!! Sadly, I never had a chance to call him back in my frantic pace.

Now life (after this weekend) will slowly get back to normal and I'll live in just one home like a regular person who just happens to have 4- 100 pound dogs and 30 other animals. Life is never dull!!!

>>puts on rose colored glasses and smiles.

Marianne, if you're still moving stuff you desperately need to downsize!

Let us know how you made out.

 

Who is she kidding? She's too busy with us.

The dogs

Just when you thought it was safe.......I'm baaack.

I just returned last night from Amsterdam! Took a much needed vacation after 10 years of being a slave to the animals. 17 days of Freedom!!! Visited London, Paris and Amsterdam. Yes, I know I'm bragging but if I told you my lastest reno disaster you'd have sympathy for me.

Had to return to work today and then go pick up my two of my dogs at Matsqui Prison where I had placed for boarding and training. The Pit Bull and one of the Old English Sheepdogs. People always chuckle when I tell them I put my dogs in prison, but it's a great program. A Win/Win situation where they take the most unadoptable dogs and match them up with inmates. Inmates benefit and dogs become highly trained adoptable dogs. They fund their program by taking in private peoples dogs..so it's why I took two of mine there for duration of my trip.

 Suffering from jet lag but in a happy mood I visited the prison today, after work and spent 2 hours with the inmates showing me what my good dogs learned. The other two dogs and numerous animals stayed with professional pet sitters. It took 5 of them to do my job. That's okay however, as it gave me bragging rights to boast that I do the job of 5-7 people but then not everyone can be a super woman!

Now, the daily grind continues - blah.

Pat, I definately would be interested in getting together for a Langara reunion!

Marianne

PS - As for that nice porch I spoke of earlier in my post. The contractor whom we had throughly checked his references turned out to be a major scum of the earth. Who destroyed my home, a flat roof garage that does not have access either via doors or stairs, didn't pay his sub contractors, nor his employees - thus they walked off the job and left two of our walls exposed to the elements for the last six months. How come people have all the luck? Anyways - you can now see why I REALLY needed a vacation after 3 nightmare renos, animals , work...sigh I even make myself tired writing about it.

 

I'm sorry that happened to you as well Romeo. We should wish the fleas of a 1000 camels infest their armpits.

It kinda sucks having to pay back a loan for the next 10 years and the house is in worse shape than previously. Blah!