Thursday, May 12, 2011

"What's in the News" and "Life This Week"

What's in the news? A full page ad in the Bangalore newspaper, DNA, about beautiful British Columbia, Canada, that's what!

Imagine my surprise to see a huge travel article and photos on my home town and province, "Cosmopolitan and hip Vancouver...Charming and quaint Victoria with its British heritage. The wilderness of the Canadian Rockies. Whistler, one of the world's premier ski destinations...From hiking to skiing to scenic train rides and gastronomic delights, British Columbia offers amazing diversity."

Color photos included those of Burrard Inlet, the Parliament Buildings and Empress Hotel in Victoria, the Sea to Sky highway, Whistler and Capilano Suspension Bridge. Wow it looks beautiful and BC is diverse isn't it - it looks like a pretty nice place to go back too!

Well, you are probably wondering about those ants? I'm happy to say (knock on wood) that the ant problem seems to be solved. Looks like we cemented up all the entry points to the house and we seem to be ant free.

The list of things going wrong continued this week though when our washing machine broke down. Appeared to be a clogged filter and thought I could fix it myself - looked simple enough. Michael read the instructions outloud and I pulled out the little tube to drain the water into a pan (the machine was full). No water came out so we proceeded to the next step: "turn and remove the plug and then remove filter and clean." The plug came out nicely and as I looked in to find the filter an enormous gush of water erupted! The pan couldn't hold it all and I scrambled to plug the hole, but not before the kitchen floor was full of water. Michael had backed away to avoid getting wet and calmly asked, "Should I phone the repair guy now?"



2 comments:

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