Sep 19, 2018
Colin has been gone over 14 hours thus far and I have been at my desk for 12 hours plus. Certainly not trying to win any prizes but I have to do what I have to do. The last two jobs have gone very well weather wise. Tomorrow is our last photo shoot before we leave and the forecast is 40% chance of showers in the morning and then clouds. Fingers crossed. Likely we may only be able to invoice for the actual photography and the photoshop etc next April.
Despite the cool temps, someone was out just before sunset last night in his wet suit.
Hmm my eyes are crossing as I type this. Colin is inbound, about 35 minutes away. Somehow in the last few days he has misplaced his gate ( to our park ) swipe pass. We each have one from back in 2003 when we moved here. Tonight he will have to summon security to the gate to let him in. I had planned to go to the office earlier today to get a new one for him but I ended up spending over two hours on balancing the month to date ( and ran out of time ) and then forgot about it. Human input error 😳 I plea simple exhaustion. He can use mine tomorrow and I will get another. When one is chained to ones desk, it is difficult to think of life three feet away 🙄
Yesterday I had to go out and get my new eyeglasses adjusted. Don’t think I told you about those, too busy. Well, you will see them eventually. At the same time I did some banking and safe deposit box stuff. I also decided on the spur of the moment to get $1000.00 USD cash. Guess I should have waited until today and I would have saved $8.80CAD. We like to travel with some cash. Markets are up. Oh well it is all a guessing game.
Today was a crazy day and Colin needed to hire an assistant for the last four hours of his shoot. He couldn’t be front and back of the home at the same time, so he set it all up and needed this guy to push the camera button. Of course as well as carry equipment, wet down the driveway, etc.
A quick snap of our sun setting tonight.
Ahh, Colin is home…..time to sign off and get dinner going, now just after 9:25PM. Hopefully Colin will be good with fresh tomato sandwiches. Likely not, as he has been eating sandwiches all day. Gosh I haven’t even had my bath yet….onto dinner 😯
Hasta manana 😎
Sep 16, 2018
Because the sun appeared for a bit, Colin was able to get a job done yesterday. He left at 9AM and did not get back until almost 11PM.
At the end of my very long day I relaxed with a book in the tub.
Still unusually cold here for this time of year. It feels like the end of October when we are preparing to leave. The weather guessers are saying that this might be it, no more hot days. Glad we are leaving shortly.
So today Colin spent the day doing photoshop and blueing up the sky and the lake. The photos look great and the client is happy as he needs the photos for a high end magazine article on his business. I finally finished all that needed to be done re the new will we just finally signed. But really two months and lots of stress is not normal and I did let the lawyer’s office know. I won’t go into the back and forth but bottom line is that I started long ago to avoid this last minute hassle. Now onto other things that need to be done before we can start loading the RV.
After 8 hours of doing photoshop on his computer today, Colin went out to do some physical things. like cleaning the Weber BBQ in preparation for our departure. He also put some patio furniture away.
It rained off and on most of the day so our plan to put the garden to rest was thwarted. We have no idea how tomorrow is going to go. If a client can get her home owners willing to accept last minute photography because the forecast looks pretty good, then that is what Colin will do tomorrow. That will change all of our planned events for tomorrow including a meeting and lunch with our financial advisor as well as a few business stops and working in the garden. I am simply going with the flow. My list of to do’s is so long that I just go from one list to the other. Poco a poco.
Off to another bubble bath and than a late dinner. Colin is back doing photoshop for another client. Gosh is is almost 8PM 😯 Once we lock the door and hit the road in eleven sleeps all of this will be forgotten.
Sep 14, 2018
Gosh what a crazy couple of days it has been. D day is in just under two weeks. The weather is freezing cold but at least we didn’t have snow like my friends did in Edmonton. Libby I thought you were joking when you said it was like Christmas. Then I saw all the snow covering Jannose’s yard. Yesterday we broke a new record for this area. We are a full seven degrees Celsius cooler than normal ( that is 45 degree Fahrenheit ) which is a lot.
Heck I even wore socks with my sandals today and as many layers as I could. I was cold. Thank goodness I have a great seat heater in my car as well as a heated steering wheel. Right Ken?
I am older and this pace is exhausting me. Life was much simpler when I was younger.
