All is good for us and this past week was good. Cooper's dental procedure went very well and his teeth are pearly white. We are very pleased with the results. With daily brushing, he should not need to have this done again any time soon, if ever. When we brought him home, he was a bit wobbly and quite subdued for a few hours but by dinner time, he was almost back to normal. He ate his food with gusto but didn't feel like playing that night. The next day, he was back to his old self. That's a good job done!
My car was at the repair shop for one full week. I got it back yesterday. Did I ever mention that my MINI Countryman is yellow, as in lemon.....OK, to be fair to MINI, of the two fairly major problems that I had with my car this past week, one what not entirely caused by the way the car was built. There was a mouse nest in the air cleaner which prevented the car from driving properly. Now, one would think that the car could be built so that this little incident wouldn't happen....so the first problem was not MINI's fault, but Minnie's. The second issue was totally MINI's: the fuel pump had to be replaced. Not something that we would expect to replace on a 3 year old car. Needless to say that our faith in that car is gone, especially when we take into account the other problems that we've had since we got it. Enough ranting but it is frustrating. Two good things came out of this: we found a great repair shop in Huntsville that services European cars. Far better than having to drive to Barrie to go to the MINI dealership and much better service. The other thing is that we now know that we can live with one car between the two of us.
Yesterday, we had the pleasure of having my good friend, and former colleague, Anne, over for an overnight stay. I hadn't seen her since I retired so it was truly wonderful to see her again. Needless to say, we had a lot of catching up to do and some of it was done while taking a nice walk in our neighbourhood. Anne loves College Football so Russell had a good excuse to watch the games... Cooper was a gracious host and even went up to her room this morning to give her a little wake up call......
So, just a few weeks before Christmas. Busy times for everyone. We are off to Toronto on Thursday for a much needed haircut. It's been 8 weeks since our last haircut and it shows. My hair is a mess and Russell looks like he is growing Chia grass on his head.....We will stay overnight and plan on going to the Toronto Christmas Market at the Distillery District. Cooper will be at Camp Talemaker. He hasn't been for a while so he tells me he is looking forward to it. Who wouldn't!
I leave you with a few pictures that Russell took of our Christmas decorations. As for our outdoor Fraser Fir Christmas Tree, and as predicted last week, the deer have been doing a good job at trimming the bottom of the tree! We may not have an outdoor tree by Christmas after all......hope Santa doesn't mind. I wish you all a great week!
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| The Coop loves to oversee all household activities and dresses the part. |
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| The Coop giving Anne some much NOT needed direction. |
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| Fresh Fraser Fir wreath on the great room wall. |
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| Christmas has almost arrived in the great room! Come on Santa. |
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