Dupont:

Do NOT EVER try to pour just-stopped-boiling-water from one cup to another over your lap! The result is still blistered, still uncomfortable. Only a skirt is comfortable. And more vitamin E oil, and more and more...

Then there is the very dead range(stove) cluttering up the K. R took it all apart yesterday! He found it interesting that all the same type screws were used throughout! Said screws were all over the K counters, table... Lots of screws! He cleared it up a bit and BF was eggs poached in microwave and nuked porridge with toast. And fruit...

We have a surfeit of fruit - raspberries, strawberries, melon, mangoes, apples! Tis the season and... Trip down to mill to give Merril key to gate and barricade the door that we(not R) "put a shoulder to" last week to get the wheel back in - thinking the door was "stuck". Then a Subway on way to Orchard, hoping for more delicious raspberries but we would have had to pick them ourselves and it was getting late. So a larger basket of strawberries - I shall have to freeze some. Also corn and a free can of their maple syrup to replace one I bought last year that was not good. I had emailed them at the time to alert them. Great folks!

The goal of trip was to purchase a larger toaster oven that I had found on Marketplace. We arrived at home and were greeted by ... the lovely (HUGE) Rotie and the family... fiddles on the wall! They remembered us from the wonderful venue that was, very sadly, torched a few years ago. Gave us info re the "Brysonville School Revisited", now on my calendar! (has a FB page)

Of course I bought the oven, nice and clean, only $30. The old one is a give-away. Depending on what happens next in the stove dept, I may want a larger one but that's OK for now. The daughter had had the wit to check my FB page and see that I was in Bancroft; "You are 4 hours away!" I assured her... Then to get there and find we were a community of music lovers!   

With any luck, there will be a functioning stove in a few days - before my son arrives on 3 Sept! I really liked the downdraft function on the Jennair, which pulled heat and odour out of the house. No way to put an ordinary exhaust hood in this K. I believe a toaster oven will generate last heat than the larger one in a 30 inch stove...?


Oh, and it rained!!!! I had put a soaker hose in the back garden and left it dripping for 3 days - it was SO dry. Then yesterday it rained! And may do daily this week, stopping by Saturday for the big Antique Assoc event on the weekend. Will take my pottery down (it is just N of the border) on Friday and get partly set up and cover with heavy plastic, then pick up an order of frozen organic food at a store near the mill, having just discovered their excellent website. Then a good sleep to prepare for this wonderful community event.

R helped me get the back deck in good order and we have four chairs and the carpets. It will look moderately civilized. The rain helped cleanup! The #$%^& desk is still in the guest room - about ten days to go!

Perhaps the most important de-clutter this week was a phone call from a friend of 54 years about whom I was so concerned I was considering going into the city and knocking on the door. (I hate driving into the city, esp to unknown areas.) We had a good talk and a promise of another call - less than two years hence! He has Parkinson's. I was SO happy!