Month: April 2017

Monday, April 3rd, 2017  —> +8˚C / +46˚F —> Sunny & Bright @ 5:58 pm Atlantic Time —> Happy Birthday Cathi! { heart heart heart } –

– This was last night @ about ten minutes to 9 pm as we were walking the dog up and down the street here – The very interesting mountain of snow is in one neighbour’s front yard up the street a bit. Most snow banks are about half that height. I think that neighbour had to have a heavy duty bulldozer plow their driveway. –

— Today is my favourite spouse’s birfday 🙂 She got today off, but we’re learning more than we wanted to know about living in a predatory economic culture.

— Saturday we went and got our eyes tested and ordered new glasses. The first place we thought we would go to see what their glasses were like was closed as of 1 pm on a Saturday. Which made no sense to us. But we crossed the bridge on our way home and on the north side of the river here – another store in the same chain was open.  We walked in, looked around, were greeted by a friendly, helpful dark-haired woman who was probably in her twenties – who answered our questions and when she wasn’t sure about something, went into a back room to ask somebody else and came back with good answers – This chain has a ‘get your second pair of glasses free’ policy. Cathi was slightly upset about their ‘pink pricing’ with women’s styles obviously much more expensive than mens’. When she started looking through the ‘mens’ frames for something she figured would be gender neutral, the helpful employee came and told us that certain frames were reduced in price.  Cathi looked at the frames in that category on the women’s side and when they had like two frames that were reduced, the employee disappeared into the back a second time, came back out and said – it is the store’s policy that when they sell out of the reduced price frames too quickly other brands come up to qualify for that same lower price. Okay! Cathi chose a frame in that category. I chose my second pair of glasses along the same lines, from one of those brands that was supposed to be reduced in price due to circumstances. So we had our eyes measured and had technical things done, and that process was finished at 4 minutes past closing time, so they told us they would have to put the order through on Monday – today. Today we received a call to come in and went in and were processed by a frowning blond-haired woman who wasn’t there on Saturday, and the cheerful dark-haired woman who waited on us was working in a different store. Our blond-haired woman called the dark-haired woman to ask a couple of questions and frowned a lot as she processed our order, told Cathi that her order had not been entered – Then, near the end of this ordeal today, said, “Oh – there you are, she put you through as ‘Cathi’ instead of Catherine. But when we got home and looked at the invoice the blond woman had printed out – the price for Cathi’s frames was more than twice what we had been told they would cost. We will raise a little hell here – Schnarr! –

— We’ll keep you posted.

– This is snow beginning to fall last Monday @ about 2:30 pm – in what was billed as, “Perhaps, the last significant snow fall of the season-” { Let’s hope so – } –

— Cathi says it always snows around her birthday up here. Last Monday into Tuesday we expected to get something like 5 to 10 centimeters of heavy blowing snow – ( That’s like two to four inches in human terms. ) { I still do not like the idea that idiots who believe they have the power to over-ride what the general citizens of any given area want – whether it’s weights and measures, distances, temperature systems, or whatever – just go ahead and do it and to hell with what anybody who voted them into office thinks, desires, or believes should happen. } { Grrrrrr- }

– And this is last Tuesday, @ about 11:05 am – After the storm had come and left its white stuff behind for us to deal with. –

— This photo is tipped at a slightly different angle from the one above it. I think all I did was turn a little to my right, and tried to get the horizon in the centre at about the most correct angle I could – You may notice that the swing in the right there is buried under just a bit more snow than it had been buried under the day before.

– Jassper, ‘hamming’ it up for the camera with his laser eyes uncorrected –

— Jassper almost looks like he’s giving us an evil grin here – He got all excited and wanted to go play in the snow while it was falling, would come in with an all white back and run to the refrigerator – all but saying, “I had fun, now it’s time for a treat, right?”

– Moe, on the other hand, is completely bored with all this cold white stuff contaminating his ‘outside’ world to the point where he just looks through the door and then turns and glowers at me for letting it snow where he would really love to go and plop down in green growing grass and sun himself. –

— Moe is glaring at the door in this photo, staying far enough back in the centre of the living room to avoid the possibility of any cold white stuff sneaking up and landing on him. 🙂

— Sigh – So it should be “Be Nice To Cathi Day” Every day should be “Be Nice to Cathi” day. But the forces of Schnarr are hell-bent on their economic warfare regime and while we know that the predatory economic system is about to backfire and explode in their faces, they’re still at it. Our best authority on the subject tells us the ‘fit hits the shan’ for banksters in 2019 – just stay far enough away so they don’t bring you down with them.

— Schnarr! —,

~~~~~ Jim