The saga of the cook book

This is a sad but true story. When I (Bonnie) was in Texas last winter, my good friends Marcella and Joan and I went to visit our other good friend Judy in Corpus Christie. While we were talking in the evening, Judy told us about the great cook book she had called "Artisan Bread in 5 minutes a Day" and told us the bread is really good and so much easier to make than the traditional method. We all thought it sounded great and after Joan went home to Ontario (a couple of weeks before Joe and I went home) she bought Marcella and I each a book and mailed them to us at our Canada addresses. Well Marcell got hers when she got home to Manitoba, but when I got home there was no sign of the book. I thought that seeing as I had my mail forwarded to Texas from Canada it would arrive in Texas. After it didn't show up in Ontario, I called Texas to see if they had it arrived there. No, it hadn't. After a few weeks of waiting, Joan sent me the tracking number from when she sent it. We tried tracing it on the computer and it said it was "undeliverable", so after a few days we went to our local post office to find out what was going on. Well, Canada Post could not find it in their system. I turns out that the Post Office in it's inefficient way does not forward packages when you have your mail forwarded, only letters and such. Now, they did not tell us this when we paid $160 to have our mail forwarded in November, and further more they do not leave a notice in your mail box, or send a notice to you in Texas to tell you there is a package for you! HELLO! No one, is told you have a package, so how can you pick it up! To make matters worse, if it is not picked up (which is actully impossible) within 90 days it goes to the Dead Letter Warehouse and is then DESTROYED!!!!
I am so disgusted with our Postal System. It is so ridiculous. Needless to say, next fall when we go to Texas we will not have our mailed forwarded. So, the cook book is lost forever. I went out and bought one, which I will always consider came from my thoughtful friend Joan.
Of all the bad luck, I now discover that my oven is broken, in that it keeps getting hotter and hotter and is burning everything!!! Foiled again! We called a repairman and $185 later it is fixed.

Now, I can't wait to make some delicious bread in my oven that is working well, Hurray!
Will let you all know how it turns out. Marcella says it is delicous.

From Scotland to July10/10

First of all, when we left Scotland, Joe had been sick for a few days with, dizziness (more than normal) nausea and he was pale, cold and clammy. Bonnie thought he was having a heart problem but Joe insisted it was in inner ear infection, and insisted on flying home rather than seeing a doctor in Scotland. Laurie & Rob picked us up from the airport and took us straight to the hospital. After 4 days, every test known to man, and numerous doctors, the concluded that Joe had an inner ear "disturbance" and that in time it would go away. Well, at least we know everything in his brain, chest and arteries are all working well!
We went home, Joe was better but still off balance so Bonnie drove us to Montreal to help Joey and Kate move to their new condo. What a great place they have! Joe helped, up one flight of stairs to get the stuff out of the old place and up TWO flights into the new condo. Except for the bedroom which was up another flight. All in all we had a great time in Montreal and Joe really manned up and did a lot of work. Joey, just like his dad did the greatest portion of the slugging and carrying as well as his girlfried Kate.

We got back from Montreal on the 30th of June because our daughter Laurie and her family were taking the truck (which we had borrowed) to go white water rafting, crazies that they are. Apparently they all loved it, did all the extreme stuff and can't wait to go back!

By now, Joe is back to normal (if there is such a thing) and we find out his aunt (96) has passed away, so we pick up his sister Chris at the GO station on Sunday and we all head to Wingham Ontario for the funeral on Monday. We took Chris back home and came back to Mount Hope for a rest.

By the way, the funeral was July 5th and both Bonnie and Joe forgot that it was their 36th anniversary until we got an anniversary card from our good friends Dan and Jane. Thanks folks. Talk about seniors moments!

We are finally settling into enjoying the summer, watching the robins with their babies that have nested in the upper corner of our front porch and relaxing (sort of). Had to catch up on weeding, planting etc. Enjoying our new house and trying to keep cool in this extreme heat we have been having here in southern Ontario.

Watch for the next exciting episode of Bonnie and Joe on the Go coming soon!