Had a busy weekend with my granddaughter here. We went to the Cornwall home show which was a bust. What did I expect? Anyway we didn't stay long. She was rather disappointed that we didn't play in Dolton. So many boxes are still left to be unpacked and I am waiting for Jack to put 3 more shelves on the walls before I can go any further. So we watched tv.
But Saturday was much more fun. Jack left to go to Erika's fathers house to help him do some work. He was staying for supper and most likely to watch the hockey game there. So we had all day to ourselves. And it took all day too. Once again I emptied out the cabinets in Cornwall Heights. Erika got to meet all the Loftonians and Silkstone dolls. She memorized quite a few of them. We also got out all the clothing that we could find and organized it all. I made up envelopes (huge 11x14" size) for the Loftonians to keep their own outfits in. Most of my dolls each have their own wardrobe but some items are shared. We redressed a few of the dolls, like Batman, who Erika had the honour of redressing. You can see him here in his new Tuxedo.
By this time it was getting late, 9 p.m. and we knew Jack would be home in an hour or so, so it was time to put all the dolls back in their cabinets. We were sitting relaxing and watching the 3rd movie in the Twilight saga when he got home. The house looked like we had done nothing all day but sit in it LOL Although we told him what we did.
We also found a box of Silkstones with 3 dolls in it that was missing. I still have 5 Loftonians unaccounted for, although I have seen the box here in Dolton somewhere!
I let Erika set up the Tonner/Tyler dining table set and we placed a few dolls around it. I have yet to open the piano though, for lack of space mainly.
We are planning to have a Vampirish wedding here in Dolton so that Erika's Edward Cullen doll can marry the Erika doll. She is infatuated with this actor. I can remember when I was a young teen wanting to be Mrs. Elvis Pressley so I can understand this desire. She will grow out of it, maybe. In the meantime my Erica Kane doll will play Erika Murray and marry Edward. Since the Erika doll is already in a wedding gown, she will be the least to concern about dressing. I have lots of wedding paraphanilia including tuxes for the Ken size dolls. Only Jacob twilight will need a special suit because of his biceps! But I know I have a bigger suit here he can wear. It just won't be in black. If I could get my act together I could make him a suit. Nah I'll find the blue one first LOL Of course the wedding won't be until the summer, as Edward and Erika will have to court a bit first. It may be love at first sight (or bite LOL) but I am making them get to know each other first. Kind of a lesson for real life too.
Will all this love of Vampires etc, when Erika saw the Evangeline Ghastly dolls she was enamoured with them too. I have to admit there was 2 on the sight that I liked. Oh no I don't need to have them in Lofton too! What will this town become? Anyway I put the 2 dolls on my wish list. I have a coupon for Wilde Imagination for 15% so we'll see if I succumb!
Speaking of succumbing. I really wanted to get the Jane doll from Twilight and saw her on MFD's website. So this morning I ordered her, along with the Reba McIntyre doll. Of course Reba will go into my cabinets and only come out to give a concert or two. If I find she goes on sale then I could get a second one to play with, which is what I often do with the collectible dolls.
We had a wicked thunderstorm during the night, actually I think it was around 5 this morning. We had stayed up to the watch The Kennedys on the History channel. It's a series I think but last night was the 2 hour opening episode. We had missed the earlier showing as we had taken Erika back home to Ottawa and round trip is almost 3 hours. That's what is so nice about satellite tv is you can watch your shows in different time zones if you miss its regular time slot. No point in taping the show cos there is never enough time in the day to watch it. And both Jack and I are night owls anyway. Getting back to the t-storm. There was a very loud crash along with a loud clap of thunder. That's when the power went out. So a transformer must have got struck by lightning. It woke Jack up which in turn woke me up. My first thought was the huge maple tree on the front lawn. But as my brain slowly realized I wasn't in Mississauga anymore. There are no trees except little lilac bushes on our property so nothing to worry about them falling on the house. Jack took the flashlight and went around to check the house inside, including the basement for any flooding. The rain was just coming down in torrents and the wind was wild too. But the house was dry. We had been told by our neighbours that when there is a lot of rain sometimes the sewers here back up as they are old and can't handle a lot of water at once. That really concerns me with Dolton being in the basement. The frequent floods that we had in Mississauga, although were small (until the last one) really worried me and so all my cabinets and wall units and book cases were all up on bricks because of this. I did bring some bricks with me when we moved but not enough for everything down here. Most stuff is off the floor anyway except for the items that are in plastic bins, that won't hurt if they get wet. But it's the boxes that I still haven't unpacked that could get damaged if they got wet as most of them are holding doll clothing. And that would be one huge mess. Unpacking the clothing has not been a priority as yet.
On the bright side we were awakened once again with a delivery. Finally my camera that I won from the Heart and Stroke Lottery arrived, along with the kettle. It's red but what can you do? Anyway it's one of those cordless jobs that sits on an electric hot pad. Jack has been wanting to get one of those for awhile now. So we each got something we can use. We played around with the camera a bit. My God it's tiny. But it can shoot movies and I can download onto the tv if I want. We still have to install the program on my computer yet so maybe tomorrow there will be pix from it. For the pictures above I used Jack's camera. Nice thing though is the smart card is the same as the one for Jack's camera as are the batteries. The camera also came with a carrying case. At least after using Jack's camera these few times I already understand some of the features on my camera as Jack's camera is only a year old.
Anyway that's the weekend and today so far. It's been raining off and on and man it's humid! They were calling for tornado warnings NW of the Toronto area but I doubt it will hit here. Although you never know as the winds are still quite strong out there. And I expect it will rain on and off for the rest of the day. It will be a good day for Dolton.
Stay dry everyone, where ever you are.
But Saturday was much more fun. Jack left to go to Erika's fathers house to help him do some work. He was staying for supper and most likely to watch the hockey game there. So we had all day to ourselves. And it took all day too. Once again I emptied out the cabinets in Cornwall Heights. Erika got to meet all the Loftonians and Silkstone dolls. She memorized quite a few of them. We also got out all the clothing that we could find and organized it all. I made up envelopes (huge 11x14" size) for the Loftonians to keep their own outfits in. Most of my dolls each have their own wardrobe but some items are shared. We redressed a few of the dolls, like Batman, who Erika had the honour of redressing. You can see him here in his new Tuxedo.
We also found a box of Silkstones with 3 dolls in it that was missing. I still have 5 Loftonians unaccounted for, although I have seen the box here in Dolton somewhere!
I let Erika set up the Tonner/Tyler dining table set and we placed a few dolls around it. I have yet to open the piano though, for lack of space mainly.
Will all this love of Vampires etc, when Erika saw the Evangeline Ghastly dolls she was enamoured with them too. I have to admit there was 2 on the sight that I liked. Oh no I don't need to have them in Lofton too! What will this town become? Anyway I put the 2 dolls on my wish list. I have a coupon for Wilde Imagination for 15% so we'll see if I succumb!
Speaking of succumbing. I really wanted to get the Jane doll from Twilight and saw her on MFD's website. So this morning I ordered her, along with the Reba McIntyre doll. Of course Reba will go into my cabinets and only come out to give a concert or two. If I find she goes on sale then I could get a second one to play with, which is what I often do with the collectible dolls.
We had a wicked thunderstorm during the night, actually I think it was around 5 this morning. We had stayed up to the watch The Kennedys on the History channel. It's a series I think but last night was the 2 hour opening episode. We had missed the earlier showing as we had taken Erika back home to Ottawa and round trip is almost 3 hours. That's what is so nice about satellite tv is you can watch your shows in different time zones if you miss its regular time slot. No point in taping the show cos there is never enough time in the day to watch it. And both Jack and I are night owls anyway. Getting back to the t-storm. There was a very loud crash along with a loud clap of thunder. That's when the power went out. So a transformer must have got struck by lightning. It woke Jack up which in turn woke me up. My first thought was the huge maple tree on the front lawn. But as my brain slowly realized I wasn't in Mississauga anymore. There are no trees except little lilac bushes on our property so nothing to worry about them falling on the house. Jack took the flashlight and went around to check the house inside, including the basement for any flooding. The rain was just coming down in torrents and the wind was wild too. But the house was dry. We had been told by our neighbours that when there is a lot of rain sometimes the sewers here back up as they are old and can't handle a lot of water at once. That really concerns me with Dolton being in the basement. The frequent floods that we had in Mississauga, although were small (until the last one) really worried me and so all my cabinets and wall units and book cases were all up on bricks because of this. I did bring some bricks with me when we moved but not enough for everything down here. Most stuff is off the floor anyway except for the items that are in plastic bins, that won't hurt if they get wet. But it's the boxes that I still haven't unpacked that could get damaged if they got wet as most of them are holding doll clothing. And that would be one huge mess. Unpacking the clothing has not been a priority as yet.
On the bright side we were awakened once again with a delivery. Finally my camera that I won from the Heart and Stroke Lottery arrived, along with the kettle. It's red but what can you do? Anyway it's one of those cordless jobs that sits on an electric hot pad. Jack has been wanting to get one of those for awhile now. So we each got something we can use. We played around with the camera a bit. My God it's tiny. But it can shoot movies and I can download onto the tv if I want. We still have to install the program on my computer yet so maybe tomorrow there will be pix from it. For the pictures above I used Jack's camera. Nice thing though is the smart card is the same as the one for Jack's camera as are the batteries. The camera also came with a carrying case. At least after using Jack's camera these few times I already understand some of the features on my camera as Jack's camera is only a year old.
Anyway that's the weekend and today so far. It's been raining off and on and man it's humid! They were calling for tornado warnings NW of the Toronto area but I doubt it will hit here. Although you never know as the winds are still quite strong out there. And I expect it will rain on and off for the rest of the day. It will be a good day for Dolton.
Stay dry everyone, where ever you are.
1 comment:
No rain here in south west UK. sounds like you've had it bad again.Good thing it didn't flood.
Glad your cameras arrived its about time! and Jack is happy with his Kettle too.
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