Weekend come and gone

Saturday was busy with an all day Prairie Fire board of directors seminar. Quite good (if you're into that sort of thing). We had an expert on board governance fly in from Toronto to give us a little Q&A and seminar. Fantastic food - Janine (on of the PF staff) had food ordered from Mondragon, and OMG! Spanakopita, samosa, a multitude of dips for pitas and chips. Yum!!

Tanya's dad and step-mum came in from Snow Lake last night, so we went and met them for drinks and snackies at the Elephant & Castle. Quite nice.

Then today was "HandyMan Day." I had to put a couple of stop-valves on the tub, on account of the taps leaking.
Now you're asking, "But Perry, why didn't you just change the taps?" Easier said than done. We have a quite complicated contraption that dates back to 1926 (the date our house was built), and to replace it would cost several hundred dollars! Which we don't have right now. Soon. So now, we can control the drip with the stop-valves. Quite handy, I must say so myself.
I'll post pictures later.

Thank God for Dylan and Teena's car. We have it for the next week while they're in Scotland (lucky ducks). Going back and forth to Rona for the parts I needed (and then returned when they were the wrong parts, and needed different parts) was VERY handy!
We don't own a car for a variety of reasons, but man, there are times when you just need one.

Like getting tons of groceries (which we did after the minor bathroom reno). Yay! Now we can eat something besides old carrots, dried bread ends, and not-quite-crisp-anymore apples.

Now, it's time to relax and read. This week I've promised myself to delve into my writing; rereading some of my old stories and manuscripts, so I can get to speed on rewriting something (or completely writing something new) for my Aqua Books evening of reading! Yay!

I've also had a couple of board and card game ideas brewing in my head that need clarifying on the computer and then some playtesting...