cottage

[Condolences to the family of Bruce Pelz, who passed away yesterday. :-( Please see Dave's posting in Blatherchat or this Web page for more information]

So I'm typing this in the corner of the boathouse at the cottage, clad in fleece tights, t-shirt, two fleece sweaters, thick socks, hiking boots, huddled as close to the electric heater in the corner as I can get. Jeff is sitting across from me at the dining room table, also on his laptop.

We are both online at the same time, thanks to the AirPort hub that Jeff set up. No more tangled phone wires! I can be sitting on the deck and surfing the Web at the same time! Not that I'd want to right now...it's pretty blustery out there.

So blustery last night, in fact, that a power line was knocked down somewhere. The power went out in the middle of our dinner (barbecued steaks with blue cheese, and salad), and didn't come on until about 4:30 this morning. It was my turn to clean up, so I warmed up some cleaning water on the woodstove and rinsed everything off, stacked it, washed it more thoroughly this morning when I had access to real hot water.





It's snowing outside. What the heck happened to spring? This morning we even had a brief bout of hail. Jeff and I both seem to have caught some bug. I plan to do a lot of productive napping this weekend to try to get rid of it.

Despite the AirPort, I still have only regular telephone dial-up access from the cottage, so please don't send me big files while I'm here, thanks.

Heard from my tax lawyer. The CCRA wants some more docs, so looks like I'll have to do more digging through paperwork next week.

I've renewed waitingforfrodo.com and debbieohi.com. I brought my Wacom artpad to the cottage, and hope to do some updates to both cartoons while I'm here.

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Today's Blatherpics:

	Jeff wearing his headlamp as he calls Ontario Hydro.
	Cora experiencing her first power outage.
	Jeff using my laptop to test the limits of the AirPort range.