Monthly Archives: July 2022

THANK GOD!!!

Sorry for the lack of updates, it’s been very busy at work and at home but I needed to post this update because I am so happy…  Our backyard pool turned green after 2 days and it’s been 3 weeks of struggling with it.  Chemical & pH levels are good but the damn pollen made it look absolutely terrible.  I have a family gathering at my home next weekend and told them that nothing has been working so yesterday we went to the most extreme level and I bought some Power Floc (flocculant) and my god what a difference it made!

First picture was taken on yesterday, I added the floc in the afternoon recirculated the water for a couple of hours then turned off the pump to let the stuff do its work.  Frankly I wasn’t that hopeful as everything else failed but when I woke up and saw how clear the water was it was great!  I immediately started to vacuum out the particulate matter and now my pool is mainly clear!  I might do it again, I was too fast when I did started vacuuming and disturbed the materials but it’s so much better now.  Just refilling the pool and maybe I’ll go for a swim in the afternoon/evening. 🙂

Congrats!!!

Wanted to wish my good friend Andrew & his wife Jodie congrats for having their baby on the 14th.  Didn’t post about it sooner because it was a bit touch and go, there was a complicated birth but the worst is behind us and little Camilla will go home very soon. 🙂

Ready for SHTF!

LOL kidding but I did get two new toys and mmm I can’t wait to use them!  First is a set of Opfor Night Solutions BNVD 1431 night vision googles.  They’re a Canadian exclusive (due to American ITAR laws) which blend the PVS31 body with Photonis ECHO tubes with PVS14 optics.  This mishmash was created by one of the leading Canadian suppliers with hand picked tubes and the resolution, brightness & clarity is certainly much greater than with my old PVS-14.

Delivered today too was my DBAL-A3 civilian laser system.  My old PEQ15 was giving me some problems so I got rid of it a year and a half ago and frankly it never felt right that I didn’t have an IR laser so I’m glad to be equipped with one again.  I haven’t shot or played airsoft in like forever so will need to rectify one (or both) of those things soon, I’ll keep the PVS-14 as you can never have enough night vision and Brandon can use it.  Just need another helmet now lol…

Busy weekend!

So this was certainly a busy weekend & it started with a 6th birthday party for Georgia.  Man where does the time go, I remember hearing her cries outside the delivery room and now she’s getting so big.  It was just our family and we had it at the park where the kids could play, then we went back to Estelle’s house for lunch and cake.

Hehe she’s so sweet and 6 is a very great age, some of my best memories of Brandon were from that time.  Afterwards I went to pick up a trailer hitch for the Lexus NX then came home to unpack, ugh there’s still so much but we’re making progress…

Today Brandon and I went to look for osprey in the morning and was quite successful.

I think there were 4-5 nests with chicks and it was really great to see these awesome birds.  After lunch we played Pokemon Go for about an hour and a half then back home for more unpacking (well I unpacked while he played games).  Overall it was pretty leisurely and tomorrow I get back to work, sigh my “vacation” is over already and it went by so damn quickly but that’s how it always is.

Old house closed

10 years…  That’s how long we were at our old house and man it flies by so damn fast.  We’ve had so many ups and downs over that time and it was an absolutely great dwelling to raise our family in but time moves on and today it closed.  It’s now owned by different people and I certainly wish them as much love and luck that we had over the years.

Had to throw out some recycling today, rented a U-Haul van to move it and then cleaned it up nicely for the next owner.  Left some bottled water in the fridge as well as a bottle of wine to celebrate the new home, just a little nice thank you that we like to do. 🙂

Moved in (mostly)

So on Friday we moved the vast majority of our stuff from the old house to the new one and yeah it’s pretty sad.  I know Brandon is bummed out about it, but really that’s life and unfortunately for him, he doesn’t have much of a choice in the matter.  The new house was built in 1992 and huge compared to our digs in Toronto.

Hehe some fun drone shots of the house, it also has roof top solar and it’s almost twice the size of the installation on my old house…  Yes my pool is a bit green, I’m going to call the same company the previous owner used to maintain the pool and hopefully Brandon can do some swimming later in the week. 🙂