Sunday Café – 11/3/2018 – World Plumbing Day

HRH tells Dorry where their relationship is.

We are awaiting possibly ex tropical cyclone Hola to arrive tomorrow and race through my area with heavy rains and gales. She should be here and gone in a day. Also a short time ago we had a wee quake, only 3.2 but enough to make the house creak loudly and make the cuckoo clock pendulum chains tremble.
PG, great cossover pic.

Hi all – somewhere I have a photo of Shaddo under the kitchen sink. From that day forward one of his nicknames was, “Shaddo the Plumber!”

Such funny pics! The family business on my father’s side was plumbing and heating. Dad wasn’t a plumber, but four of his brothers were, as well as two cousins.

Is there anything more important than indoor plumbing? Well probably, but to my way of thinking, there’s not much. 😆

Peso is also fascinated with the flushing toilet…sticks his head way down in the bowl until I say PESO!!

The site is running much smoother now, thanks to our very efficient Kittenmaster. And the awesome people who let him know when we have problems. Thank you everyone for your commitment to this site!

“Plumming” MS – delightful! 🙂
So glad that Dorry will not be in the doldrums re offending HRH.

I am extremely Westernized and in no way a “nature lover.” So indoor plumbing is a must-have for me. While camping will ever happen!

Tks KZ, when things go awry, I have a need to see if I can get them fixed ASAP. That’s just my style.

Now while I didn’t ask for it, today’s spin instructor (who moved last yr) maintains that this could come as a new “leash” on life for me. Hehehe. Purrhaps, but the suddenness of it was what I think hit me bigtime.

Purrhaps I could fulfill my long-held dream of an actual room designated for wardrobe/office piece/craft storage. There are so many neat and inexpensive wardrobe units online. Plus the idea of a doorman to receive package deliveries and a fix-it person on premises, plus efurrything spanking new would also be a plus. I’d also have a balcony/view.

Although I would never let Dorry out ‘cept on a harness, hmmm … I asked him if he would like to move, he’s mulling it over. Wants to know if we’d be nearer to Miss Moppet, PG!

Clearly I’m trying to wrap myself around all this, but there is a ways to go.

I actually have a footstool/storage box almost exactly like this. Plus it sorta explains why moving peeps would be mandatory. 😉

MS, your description of the ‘foray’ out into the night before bed, sort of gave me the heebee geebies! Well, the part about the spiders that is. Also here, it’s darned cold in the winter (like below zero cold) so hanging out in the outhouse would never be a good idea. I also know how to ‘rough it’, but prefer not to since if our electric goes out, the pump to the well does too which means no water for anything–including flushing. Mr. KZ would most certainly have to get a generator going, as I don’t relish going to the barn to do my business–cows can be sooooo nosey!! 😆

LOL, KZ, at least our spiders are non threatening. They just make faces at you. Worse still is finding a weta on the seat or under the seat or feeling something tickling the back of your butt only to discover while standing safely outside the ‘dunny door’ with your pants around your ankles that the threat it was just a fern growing through the cracks in the wall that was giving you the heebee geebies. Been there, done that and screamed loudly. 😯 🙁 😳 🙄
ROTFL at the nosey cows, sheep are just as bad.
JJ and KZ, that is really annoying to lose power when you rely on it for your water pump. Do you have gravity feed storage tanks for these occasions? JJ, the falling snow and ice must make it dangerous for going outside safely.
HRH is not in a good mood with me, it has begin to rain here and I found her curled up asleep under a shrub and brought her inside. She does not appreciate being inside and is racing from door to door and flinging me some pretty big stink-eye as she passes by. Too bad as she is inside for the night as far as I am concerned. I’ll have to warn Mr MS about the ‘prisoner’ so he doesn’t accidentally let her out when he comes home from work.

For sure MS, if it came to a (hopefully never) emergency situation I’d have no choice but to somehow manage. Just can’t get how some peeps enjoy roughing it.

But we all have our prefurrences and I’m not one to question what others do, ie I’d never travel, would rather spend the amount of a yearly trip on higher rent, which is where I sense I’m headed. Not that’s it an either/or. Last time I was on a plane was in early 90s, don’t even bother renewing my passport. Nor do I go to restaurants or entertain. And yet I still manage to have fun on my own terms! 😉

Yup, won’t bore you all with the details, from what I sense looks like a move will be the way to go, but need to see how this all plays out. And I do have lots of time to figure it all out. And feel somewhat better now that have done a good bit of research. MS I would def use a reputable moving company. If one has the $$$ one can get just about anything done. I’ve never had a balcony, but it might be nice. And the very notion of living in the “boutique hotel” style condo rentals that seem to be abounding fills me with joy! But we’ll see, cause had this not happened I would have just stayed put.

Also in prep for bringing in taxes to acct did major clean-up of no longer needed paperwork. Admittedly I’m super-organized, the exact opposite of a hoarder, but a thorough scouring of various storage places resulted in 5 bags full ( as opposed to 3 bags full!) of trash! Thought that I needed to keep files way longer than is nec’y.

Anyway, tks for hearing me out guys. And not it’s time for me to open Mon Café and then try to snag that 1 hr of xtra sleep. Don’t want to have to wait until Fall to get it back!

PG, just a heads-up. Copied you on email sent to KM about site having some probs again – bounced back to me.

Chamber pot or outhouse? Not for KJ! 😮

When I travel, the main motivation is work at a conference or seminar, but if possible I do take the time and some money to visit my friends abroad – though I’ve passed the age to crash at their places (them too) if we are talking small flats in major European cities). I do keep my passport up to date as I don’t drive and except for a driving licence it is the best form of identification – sure in Québec we can use our medical cards but they aren’t always accepted elsewhere.

KZ, I suppose the architecture in your ‘hood is why you’ve never had a balcony, as I’ve only once had an apartment in Montréal without one. I’ve visited splaces from the poshest districts to the slummiest here, with balconies.

I’m very interested in divesting myself of paper documents. I was never a hoarder (though I’m not particularly well organised) but I’ve cleared out bags and bags of recycling – I do have a shredder – and would like to keep on doing that. I suppose one can access the guidleines for taxes (especially possible revisions), utilities, retirement etc.

I don’t like roughing it either. No interest in camping. But no appetite for posh places either.