December 29, 2014
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| Como Lake, almost never freezes over |
On a scale of one to ten today was about a three! Not that anything unfortunate for evil had happened, it was just the energy level was down across the board. I was out of bed by 9:00 but totally lacked any kind of motivation whatsoever. The lovely Lisa and the Rat dogs were still in bed. I guess we were all still recovering from our Christmas food fest. Three days of too much turkey, turkey dinner, hot turkey sandwiches, turkey salad lettuce wraps and turkey Squatch Chef salads. It takes a while to go through forty-six pounds of turkey, even with twenty-one people helping.
I had barely been out of bed for an hour sipping on drippy Joe and watching the news on five different stations. CTV, SunNews. CNN, BBC and Al Jazeera. No good news on any of them. Another passenger plane fell out of the sky in Asia. Putin is keeping Crimea and everybody hates Harper.
While here at home. The skies were clear and the Sun was shining. Don't let it fool you! It was zero degrees! Freezing. I prefer the rain. One time I was doing stand up in Moosejaw, Saskatchewan. It was - 47 degrees before the wind chill. I didn't care, I was warm and happy in my hotel. My block heaterless car on the other hand, had to sleep outside. In the morning as I load my stuff into the car after heating my key with my lighter to get the lock open, I find that the key in the ignition does nothing when I turn it. The front desk was happy to call a tow truck to give me a boost free of charge and how come I don't have a block heater? When the tow truck came he had a super booster battery thingy that he said could start anything. When he hooked it up, the side of the battery melted and burnt out most of the west coast rain forest sodden wiring. The good news was I already had a tow truck there. The bad news was I was playing in Saskatoon that night. I dropped the car at the Canadian Tire I could see from the hotel and the tow truck driver dropped me at the bus depot with my luggage in time to get on the 8:30 bus to Saskatoon. It would get me in at 6:45 for my 8:00 show.
See what happens? I went all sideways again. When the lovely Lisa and the Rat dogs got up, Nutmeg had to be chased off the deck. Elvis might have set a land pee record. He had his leg up before he hit the bottom of the ramp!
The lovely Lisa was taking Mama Lee shopping today. Always an adventure. I was going to replace my printer that had just died. I wanted the same printer. I paid $25 for it ten years ago. I got my money's worth. And I have a $150 worth of ink cartridges that fit the printer. I bought six, three black and three colour in the package for $10 when we went yard sailing in the spring. Needless to say they no longer make that printer. I was about to buy a different make that used different cartridges when I noticed on the top shelf and undisplayed, an HP printer for $35.
It used the right ink cartridge and it's wireless, it works off the WiFi. Warms my frugal Scottish heart.
To celebrate my success I took the Rat dogs to Como Lake.
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| Cold! Brrrr |
They weren't happy about it. Not only was it colder than it looked. The parking lot we use was closed and they were chopping things down and grinding stumps and generally making anti-Rat dog noises. Elvis got over it pretty quick because it was constant. There was some kind of machinery running pretty much non stop. Hard to believe it was a city crew! Nutmeg lost her tiny little mind! Even at the furthest point from the work she had her tail between her legs. I dragged her around the lake once and we left. It's the first time ever I had her on the leash the whole time. Poor little Chicken Rat dog.
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| Ducks don't seem to mind the cold. |
I stopped by Cheap Thrills on my way home for some salad stuff then again at Mundy Park for the Rat dogs to pee in peace and quiet. Nutmeg tail up and tearing around with Elvis. By the way Elvis turned thirteen on boxing day. He never even got a card! While I'm on the subject of Elvis. In the movie Love Me Tender, I don't believe Elvis sodomised Gabby Hayes. I know the Elvis fans reacted badly to that joke. I'm sure it was the other way around! Camp cook has a lot of power! There I go all sideways again.
The lovely Lisa and I arrived at home from different directions at the same time. I went to the office to install my new printer and the lovely Lisa kicked back on the couch recovering from an afternoon of shopping with Mama Lee. The printer hooked up like I knew what I was doing. I got it working with my Mac and with my laptop. "Look Ma , No wires!"
"What do you want to do for dinner, Honey?" I asked "Let's go out for dinner then do a Christmas Light Cruise." The lovely Lisa replied. "Sure, there must be a light somewhere we haven't seen" I replied in my head. "Okay" is what came out of my mouth. I like Christmas lights. Just not as much as the lovely Lisa. We went on line and googled the best lights in Vancouver. Trinity Street was number one. It also happens to be two minutes from Tentatsu. It was now 6:30 and I was hungry. The lovely Lisa, who seems to be able to go days without eating, drove us around aimlessly until we got to Trinity Street.
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| Trinity Street |
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| Invasion of the Gingerbreads |
There in those five blocks was Christmas Nervana, or Christmas obsession. Depending on your point of view.
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| Marilyn Claus |
The lovely Lisa drove us once up the street then with the vow of "I shall return!" we made it to Tentatsu at 8:00. There was a line up at the restaurant. Between 5:00 and 9:00 they turn the house four or five times. A steady stream of people were leaving. We waited only a few minutes before we got a seat.
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| $18 worth of Japanese . |
The whole restaurant was in motion. By the time we ordered our food the place was full again.
We had a nice meal as we always do at Tentatsu. Then back to Christmas light water boarding.
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| Okay, I like this one. |
I am so done with Christmas. Can you tell?
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| Grinchy Squatch? |
It was nearly 11:00 and -12 when we got home. The lovely Lisa went in the front door and I took the Rat dogs into the back yard. They went and scratched at the back door immediately. I chased them off the deck until they peed then let them in. A couple of days of rest then New Years Eve. Looking forward to the Jam/Black and White Party we are going to. Our hosts are collecting warm clothes and blankets for those in need as well. How cool is that.
That's all I've got
Till next time
Peace out y'all
©2014 Dave Squatch Ward
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