Canada Day

What are you doing on Canada Day? G and I will be slaving ourselves at the backyard. We have not gone dancing since we started the renovation, but, this is going to change. We are going out for dinner on Saturday and dancing on Sunday. YEAH! =)

Is this “Matter of Interest” or “Stupid”

Yesterday G and I went to the garden centre to get 6 bags of medium size rocks, 6 bags of pebbles for around the pond. It was starting to get hot and we had to pick the rocks by hands and unloaded them at home. G was too cheap to pay $50 for delivery. My son wonders why we are doing this? He doesn’t see any neighbours doing thing like this! Asked if we are in some kind of competition?! HA ha! My back was so sore last night that I had to take a muscle relax pill to go to bed. I look back and realize all my life, I do crazy things like this with G. Believe me, there are stories that I can write a book on. Anyway, the pond is looking GooooD! All the water plants are in and we bought more fish. I gather by next week, G will re-build the waterfall, then we can hook up the pump. Any one wants to come for a B-B-Q? :)

I got a pair of COOL sunglasses, it only cost me $10. It has mirror affect. My, my, I look so COOL! =)

After 1 and ½ week vacation I’m back in the office to rest up. G and I were refinishing the pond since he has decided to stay 10 more years at this house if everything in life goes well. He had his friends came in to help to line the pond with heavy pond liner. It took five MEN to move the liner from the garage to the backyard and onto the pond. It was a succeful transaction and the weather was very cooperative that morning. G and I put all the waterplants, snails back in the pond. He still has to reinforce all the edges with rocks, pebbles and soils. I’ll update the next step as time goes by. Can anyone help or teach me on how to put pictures on the blog?! :)

Close call

One morning Friday in May at around 5:30 am, I woke up by a chipping noise from the smoke detector. I decided to ignore it but G didn’t. He was frustrated by the noise. Got up, half asleep, without thinking, climbed on a chair to reach for the detector not remembering the chair is on wheels. I heard him making all sort of noise and got up to see. Just as I went in the room, I saw the most frighten scene in my whole life. I saw the chair went one way and G was falling the other way straight onto the tile floor. The sound was terrifying. That fall hit his head and his back. I stood there in shock and didn’t know what to think. G cried out loud, held his head and a few minutes later he turned himself side way and that’s when I realized he didn’t break his back. I tried to comfort him and thank God that G is fine at that point. I told G not to go to work so we can monitor the situation if it got worse. He wanted to go back to sleep and I helped him to the bed. Later on, I phoned my friend who is a nurse about the incident. She told me that I shouldn’t let him go back to sleep just in case he fracture the skull. If it was the case, once he fell asleep, he’ll never wake up. I rushed upstairs and I saw him turning his side, I realize he is fine but I kept checking him every 15 minutes. At noon, G complained that he is sore all over and that’s when I suggested he should search professional help. Our doctor doesn’t work on Friday, so I look up in the yellow pages to look for a physio therapist, got an appointment right away. The next week we went to see the doctor, had the x-ray done in the hospital and that’s when we found out that G has the lumber disease. Now, I look back all the things that I done wrong that day. 1) I should get up and closed the door knowing it would wake him up. 2) I should take him to emergency right away to have the x-ray done instead of let him go to bed. 3) I should phone and leave a message to the doctor so she can check him out asap instead of wait for an available appointment. How stupid I was and I’m an emergency worker! If something bad happen to my husband that day, I’ll never forgive myself. I have to remember to remain calm since we both are old now. I notice that we both don’t think and make good decision any more!? G used to calculate and analysis very fast in his head. I, on the other hand have always depend on him to look after me, but I think this is going to change. I have to look after him and myself! May God help us!