Sleeping Doggies!

When we arrived back in Camp Canada, Rockers was "gifted" with my sectional sofa.  He loves it.

The rest of us have to make do with whatever is left over.  Me, Pashy, on the lumpy bed.

Noodles on the sofa.

And finally me...back on the sectional!

Janet decided to surprise Phil and have some people in for his 65th birthday.  First, however, she wanted the Christmas tree up on Sunday, 08 December.  Phil made invitations to our block Christmas party a week ago last Sunday.  Janet wanted to deliver them that day, but Phil wanted to wait a couple of days so he could put his calendar with them.  Two days...no biggie, Janet says.  Turns out, as usual, two days in Johnny-On-The-Spots land is actually 7, which means he is delivering invitations and bullsh*****g with all the neighbours.

When it is discovered, much later in the day that nearly all the lights for the tree are burned out, Phil offers to go to the store and get more.  When he gets home, he thinks Janet should have told him not to bother and is annoyed that he had to go.  Many, many bad words were exchanged and Janet told him she wanted the tree up for his friends coming to our house on December 10.  Whoops!

Janet neglected to take any photos of the party, but here is the appy she made.  She had helpers!

Not in a million years will you guess what Janet did!  She had Phil take her trusty Janome Memory Craft 4000 sewing machine to Sawyers and have it overhauled.  She wanted to make a couple of small things for Christmas.

Phil came home with the machine and last Saturday Janet gave it a go.  As Janet hasn't sewn for at least 25 years, it was a bit of a challenge.  She managed to find the instruction manual online.  It was so overwhelming Janet said it may as well have been the manual to launch the space shuttle - with Janet firmly in control of the start button.   She nearly gave up, but after more than an hour managed to fill a bobbin and thread the machine.   She was, however, pretty stoked after her little project was completed.  Please, oh please, don't let her think this is the beginning of bigger things!

Janets' pathetic little collection of sewing supplies.