Good Morning!
We hit the ground running last week after having returned from holidays and I'm kinda shocked to see the condition of the CB. Other than a ton of threads that belong on the Games Board, there really hasn't been much going on. C'mon you guys - post some interesting topics to get things moving again!
To get the important business out of the way first,
@NFLDERS , I always put both my socks on first and as a Canadian,
never wear my shoes in the house - do you? They're all kept by the door to be put on before exiting. Where and how to store shoes tidily is a big issue at my place. My DH custom-built a shoe niche into the wall of our rear stairwell; at the door we use to exit to and enter from our underground parkade. Only problem is, it smells overwhelmingly like "shoes"
but fortunately nobody but us is ever down there - guests come through the front door.
We had a reasonably nice vacation cruise out of Galveston, TX, a place neither of us have ever been before. It was an easy 4 hour direct flight from Calgary and we went in-and-out the day the cruise departed and returned so we didn't really see much of Texas other than the hightway and an afternoon spent at the Space Center. It tickled us a little to hear people talk about how big Texas is when it's smaller than most Canadian provinces.
The 90 minute drive between Houston and Galveston was nothing to us.
We didn't make a good choice in sailing Carnival, but we still had a great time being together and visited Montego Bay, Grand Cayman and Cozulmel - all places we've been before. The weather was SO hot - I could literally feel my fat rendering out in that blazing sun.
Other than a sunburn and a fish-bite I took riding under-water motor scooters in Mexico, all was well! I shouldn't have complained so much about the heat - we returned home to SNOW - seriously, WTH?!? Waaaaay to soon...
Still hoping for another month of the beautiful Indian Summer we're used to. Thanksgiving is just around the corner (October 8) and it never snows on Thanksgiving. In the meantime, a catastrophic tornado has ripped through Ottawa, where DH's DD and her family lives. Blessedly they are unscathed but displaced as power has not yet been restored to their home. Crazy, crazy weather all over.