CedarHill Homestay

We love having visitors 'from afar' come and be part of our family for a short while or a long while!

Check our websites:

http://cedarhillhomestay.tripod.com/ for more info about where we are and what kind of Homestay we offer.
AND
http://cedarhillconsulting.weebly.com/ - this is the website for my business consulting/virtual office business


Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Christmas time!

It is most definitely Christmas time!  This afternoon Grant and I picked out, bought and brought home our 2012 Christmas tree.  We will have a live tree this year - a very nice Pine tree.  It is too big to sit on a table, so it will be on the floor just inside the living room.  And this last Sunday Serafina and I got a lot of Christmas decorating done.

This past weekend was also my 'birthday weekend' - my birthday, which was actually on Friday, surprisingly lasted quite a while.  On Wednesday Grant and I had dinner out then went to see 'Lincoln' at the movie theatre at Nanaimo North Town Centre (used to be Rutherford Mall).  Then on Friday Serafina and Sherry gave me a card saying they'd take me to the 'Winter Harp Concert for my birthday present on Saturday.  It turned out to be just Serafina and I - as Sherry had her tutoring.  The concert was really, really good = during the intermission I bought 3 cd's (for $40) and have already listened to them several times.

Monday, October 22, 2012

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Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Wow - almost March!  I last wrote Dec. 15th! 

Today has been a very mild, mostly-sunny day - good for the 'spirit'!

Yesterday was the long-awaited release date for Blackberry Playbook's OS2 - I had installed the pre-release Beta, which was a bit of an improvement, but after installing it I had decided to just wait for the 'real thing'!  So early yesterday I did the install - which was quite quick. Then for the couple of 'problems' I had I searched on both the Blackberry forms and Crackberry forums.  I learned how to make new 'folders' which I did using my choice of folder words.  Reinstalled Overdrive Media Console, which was the big thing I was waiting for.  Initially it didn't seem to be working - but after putting my Playbook aside to charge it all seemed to work fine.  Downloaded a book from the library and read it last night.  Today I played around with it a bit more and downloaded a couple of more books.  My only complaint so far is that the library is still needing more books.  But the books will definitely come.

Don't get me wrong - I still love BOOKS - real books, and that will never change!  When Heather and Sherry (our Homestay Student from China) were down in Victoria this past Monday, we spent a while in Bolen's Books.  I'd never been there before, and it is a very big bookstore for an independent.  Given a 'blank cheque' and unlimited space I could have walked out with hundreds and hundres of books.  As it was I got one called 'Crow Planet' which Heather had on her list to get for me for Christmas.

I cleaned a lot in the kitchen, and I think that at the moment I'm procrastinating.  I should either do some WORK or do some major tidying here in the Den.  My desk is overflowing, and I have piles of paper that need to be shredded - or something.  I think I will stop for a snack, may a coffee then come back and do some serious tidying!!