Excitement

 is delivery to your door. Well, this week, a surprise of sorts when a flat tish box arrived - turned out to be a kitchen scale for wieghing smaller objects. We had a Kg scale that had the gradations down to 100 g but it was really meant for around a Kg type object. This one smaller than a box of Triscuit and 1 / 3 the thickness can measure 10 g and up to 2 Kg. It says up to 3-5 Kg but thats pushing its limits.

Next anniversary and birhtday cards arrived. 2 were from overseas - so exotic seeing the UK postal cancellation.

Segue into birthday plans. In a lockdown time - gifts came via Amazon.   The highlight was a 100 bulb < LED > string of ' fairy lights '. tiny bulbs w/ a remote to choose brightness level, 20 colours and modes that include steady, fade, flash and chase. The fairies are around the ceiling edge in the spare bedroom. Now, if youu know me, right up my alley. Love that kind of thing.
To be fair, this is a trial run. Both in the kitchen and downstairs bathroom, the installer put in under cabient accent lighting. He didn't leave the instructions thus by trial and error I've learned how to replace the halogen bulbs. Now, as soon as you see ' halogen ' in the name that signifies that each bulb costs $ 5. For a car read $ 25.

Looking at catalogues, I've noticed fairy lights are $ 15 a stringer. And the life expectancy is 3 000 h. Yepper, for the price of 3 bulbs that last 2 - 4 yrs - I get lifetime lighting. As well, the LED s use 1 / 20 the electricity. And as described you get the versatility.

A cool to cold, raw day w/ winds really kicking up.

And I ran errands this AM. First to Lee Valley Tool for quick connect hose couplers. The couplers screw into the existing coupling but allow interchange w/out unscrewing everytime that you need to swap hoses or nozzles. AND you leave the water on to change nozzles or hoses.
Picked up ' les mets Chinois ' < Chinese food > for lunch and it seems dinner. So for $ 38 we eat at least 2 meals and get leftover I'm sure.
My go to store is the Giant Tiger, our small dpeartment store. I got bananas, pickles, ice cream sandwiches < the essentials > and cookies. Perogies were 3 froxen package for $ 5. These ' ravioli s ' make a great quickie meal. We love them