All Gone!!!!

I spent yesterday doing some last minute stuff at the old house. One more run to the Sally Ann. We also piled a bunch of stuff at the curb just in time for garbage day today. Our neighbours are letting us keep our bicycles in their garage for the time being, so we moved all those over before noon. The cleaning crew spent a good 4-5 hours in the house and made it look and smell brand new. My son packed most of his worldly possessions in his Hyundai Accent and then we vacated the place shortly before 2 pm.

Chris and I had an enjoyable afternoon and supper with Jim Anders, an old classmate of ours from our high school days at CFB Baden in Germany during the 70s. He retired from the military several years ago. Jim came to our rescue in fact. We had a large wooden clothes rack to move to "the cave" and it was far too big for our SUV. Thankfully, Jim has a Dodge Ram truck which handled the load quite easily.

Chris is back to work today. I dropped her off and then headed to Perkins to have breakfast with my son before he headed off to Hanover. We had a good chat. Don't mind saying I was left a little teary eyed as he drove off to begin life on his own. Feels strange being an official empty nester now.

I managed a nice 4 mile along along the Ottawa river after breakfast and then spent the rest of my day running errands. I returned a floor lamp we had bought at Home Depot after 3 light bulbs blew up in it and shattered all over the floor. I picked up another floor lamp with the 'touch' feature. The top of the box looked like it was retaped after having been opened before. A Home Depot clerk told me it was new and had not been returned. Imagine how much I fumed when I opened the box and found the lamp had indeed been opened and returned before. Half the styrofoam was even missing from the box! Wait until I return it tomorrow!

Finally have our wifi internet connection working well at 'the cave'. I had managed to get my cable modem working in our suite by connecting it directly to cable but it stopped working this morning and Rogers said it was because they only allowed one cable modem on a line. I would have to pay for a second line if I wanted to use my own cable modem. I talked to our landlord upstairs and am now running a wifi network on his cable at no cost at all. Can't beat that!

Time to pick up the working lady.