Tess, Greg & Spud
Welcome to Bobog!
Hello and welcome to www.bobog.org - Greg and Tess Harrison's family web site. We hope you'll check back each month to see what's new with us. If you don't know us and arrived here by accident, welcome anyway. You might find something interesting on the Genealogy, Software or Links pages.
Bobog is a Filipino (Tagalog) word that means little crumbs, like dry bits of toast or the stuff a pencil eraser leaves behind.
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August 8, 2010
We have been busy with the usual things in life - visiting or hosting friends, minor health issues, looking after the house, occasional outings to festivals, movies or out to dinner. I have been out locally on my motorcycle regularly although we had a lot of rainy weather last month.
At home, we are enjoying all the activity out the kitchen windows. As I sit and have my coffee and read the paper each morning I watch the new generation of birds flying and foraging, people walking their dogs, kids playing and on the other side of the lake, the new house construction crews hard at work. There are 9 new homes under construction today. We have newly fledged robins, sparrows, red winged blackbirds, Canada geese, yellow headed blackbirds, magpies, coots, Bonaparte's gulls, chickadees, crows (ravens?), several types of swallows and more. We have to refill the feeder and bird bath regularly. Oh, and gophers too - actually Richardson's ground squirrels. And the various hawks and falcons (wow, they are fast fliers) that eat them. And jack rabbits. And the coyotes that yip, yap and howl at night.
Tess' garden is in full bloom and she is outside enjoying them every day. She has also planted a small veggie garden and a herb garden. It is amazing how much stuff grows from a little patch of dirt as we are supplying several neighbours too.
The dogs are happy and healthy and we are enjoying them both. They are still inseparable and even sleep in the same crate at night.
One bright spot this summer is the price of gasoline. The pump price has been steady at 84.9
¢ per litre and the price I actually pay is reduced by 2¢ by using a particular credit card and another 5¢ with my gas station points (Petro-Canada) bringing the actual price down to 77.9¢ per litre. That's about US$3 per US gallon. Depending on where in the world you live, that may be considerably more or less than you pay, but we haven't seen 77.9¢ gasoline here since 2003. Woo hoo!Mark and Mel are doing very well and have settled into their new home. Of course their workload hasn't decreased much as they have to complete the landscaping of their front yard before the one year anniversary of their possession date in order to get back their landscaping deposit. Then there's the fence. And deck. And so on. Been there, done that. Repeatedly. Glad we are done with all that although I expect to help out from time to time. I'll supervise any time though. Let the young, strong backs do all the heavy lifting.
The other day the power supply for my laptop died. More like melted down actually. It got too hot to touch after 20 minutes of use so I went on line to find a replacement. Toshiba (the manufacturer of my laptop) wants $99 for a new adapter which is just stupid. A little Googling turned up www.battdepot.ca who sell the Toshiba branded adapter for $29 and a no-name one for under $13. I ordered the cheap one of course and it arrived in 3 working days and works just fine. Recommended seller for price, selection and delivery.
That's it for now. Stay in touch.
Greg & Tess