It's not always my fault. Well...ok, I guess it is, but there's always extenuating circumstances. This is about one of those circumstances. The majority of our work is done in new homes, there is no lighting and the only electricity is provided by two electrical outlets. No, I didn't get a shock. I don't blame you for suspecting though. We do have to provide our own lighting. I was working on a set of stairs. Now. Let me tell you about this set of stairs, 17, that's right, 17 from top to bottom. Who builds a house that needs 17 stairs to get from one floor to the next, COME ON PEOPLE, give your heads a shake. What are you thinking? Of course I was at the top when it happened. You know when you have a big idea and that light bulb glows brightly above the head in the cartoons. Yeah, well that's not what happened. I bent over to examine the fit of the nosing I had just cut when my forehead touched the light bulb I had attached to the railing. O!M!G! We're talking the type of heat that gives Hell, arguably, it's most undesirable characteristic. You guessed it, it was a Hellogen bulb, yeah I know, right now you're thinking "Ed, you spelled that wrong". That's only because you've never rested your forehead on one. Oh no, let me tell you, it's the clowns who invented these things who spelled it wrong. Instant blister, and, not just where my forehead touched it, my whole head. Now I'm looking like one of those big headed aliens...except I don't have those spindly arms and legs, so I'm looking like an obese big headed alien...oh yeah, and I don't have those big black bulging eyes either, so I'm looking like a visually impaired, obese, big headed alien. I'm feeling faint, my brain takes over. "Not again, 12 or 13 steps I can handle, 14 on a good day, maybe 15 at my best, 17, not a chance". I black out. I come to. What a brain, it thrust my hand into the quick grab adhesive I was using for the nosing and grabbed a railing spindle. Ha! I'm still at the top of the stairs. The glue holding my hand to the spindle has advanced from the adhesion stage to the adhered stage, so I'm stuck here. Not to worry, I have a pry bar and rubber hammer at hand. I can pry out a filet or two and pound out the spindle. I'm on my way to the hospital any way, maybe they can remove it surgically. Now, I don't know if any of you know this about me, I don't like drawing attention to myself. To avoid attention I once walked halfway to the cabin from the little beach in inconspicuous silence ( I would have made it all the way except my little sister let the entire population know I had a fish hook in my leg). When I get to the hospital I plan on pretending the spindle is a cane, the big head might draw a few stares though.
P.S. This happened in December so I'm still accident free for 2016
Have a great day
Loved
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🎇 Happy New Year, Edward!
We hope it continues to be an accident-free one for you.🏄
On the other hand, we like to read about your misadventures.💃 You have a great sense of humor. Your clever asides and speculation about the reactions of others are especially funny.😰
🙎 Blistered or not, you've got a good head on those shoulders of yours. Step lightly, now, and keep the monthly stories coming throughout 2016.👍
💕 Love, Louise and David
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🎈🎂🎇 HAPPY BIRTHDAY, CHRISTINE! 🎇🎂🎈
Congratulations on this first day of Year 2016 which is also your sixty-second birthday.🎆 We know that your family will take time to celebrate YOU on this day that is also special to each and every one of them as they anticipate the year that lies ahead. Let's hope it's a good one.😊
Enjoy your birthday activities and new year's celebrations with family and friends. Before this day ends, we will raise a wee dram in a toast to your good health and happiness.🍻 Here's to many joyful returns of this day which signals the arrival of a brand-new year. May the future look promising and bright. ✨
💌 Cheers and lots of love,
Louise and David
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🎇🎂 HAPPY BIRTHDAY, CAROL! 🎂🎇
...and a very happy New Year to you and all your family on this first day of Year 2016. Their Regina homes will be rocking with excitement as they mark birthday number 66 for you. 🎆
We have already seen Sonia's facebook collage in honor of you on this special day. 💐👸 It is a celebration of the love you have for your children and their families, and of the love they have for you in return. ♥♥ Have a great time with them and bask in the attentions of those of us who wish you a happy New Year's Day birthday.🎇 May life's blessings continue to rain down on you for many years to come. Cheers!🍻
💌 Lots of love, Louise and David
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Happy new year everyone. As I get older, I am getting slower and it didn't occur to me to check for the January thread until today. I am sure glad I did, though. Loved, your adventure is a great start to the year. Nothing like starting it with a
laugh. This is one of your best yet Please don't ever stop writing them.
Love, BJ
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!
Love,
ME
xoxo
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🎂🎈 HAPPY BIRTHDAY, HOLLY! 🎈🎂
I remember being at your first birthday party.🎇 Here you are 40 years later and one year into what is often considered the best decade of one's life.🎆 We hope your 41st birthday is one of your best ever and that the years just keep getting better and better.🎁
We add our wishes to all the other greetings that you will receive from family and friends on your birthday.💌 We know it will be a special day in your home where it's so easy to have a party anytime you gather around the family table.💞 Enjoy the celebrations!
💌 Cheers and lots of love,
Louise and David
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🎂 HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MARK! 🎂
🎈 Our blog greetings are being sent from Calgary where we are spending time with our grandkids. We hope you are also surrounded by loving family as you celebrate today. Have fun!🎆
Later, we will pour ourselves a scotch and raise our glasses in a toast to your good health on this birthday.🍻 May the year ahead be an easy ride for you. 🚀 Cheers!
💌 Lots of love,
Louise and David
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🎈🎂 HAPPY BIRTHDAY, GERON! 🎂🎈
Greetings from Calgary where we are visiting our grandkids.🎆 We send warm greetings on this cold January day.⛄
A Sunday birthday is usually a relaxing day, free from other commitments. 🏂 We hope that is the case for you on your 17th! Enjoy the attentions of family and friends who are eager to celebrate with you.🎁🎈🎂 Many happy returns!
💌 Lots of love,
Louise and David
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🎂 HAPPY BIRTHDAY, EMMANUEL! 🎂
We have already greeted you over on Facebook where your birthday picture is a big hit with family and friends.🎶 We hope your Monday celebration got the week off to the best of starts for you.🎆
💌 Our greetings are being posted in Peachland soon after the completion of our long drive from Calgary along the mountain highways. 🚗 You were in our thoughts throughout that road trip; and now that we're home, we are able to send warm wishes your way.🎈 May you enjoy many happy returns of this day and the joy it brings to you.😎
♥♥ Lots of love,
Louise and David
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🎼 🎶🎵 HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MARCIA! 🎶🎵🎶
Congratulations! You've reached the age that raised the question in song, "Will you still need me when I'm 64?"😤 Of course, the answer is a resounding "YES"! 👍
Wherever you are in the world, we hope you have a birthday celebration that is a perfect fit for you and one that is entirely to your liking.🎁🎈🎂🍷 Here in Peachland, we'll join in on the excitement by pouring ourselves a warming drink and raising a toast to your good health and happiness.🍻 Have a wonderful day. ♥ Cheers!
💌 Lots of love,
Louise and David
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🎈🎂🎁 HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BONNIE! 🎁🎂🎈
Congratulations! 🎆 You have reached the half-century mark on life's road. 🚶 That's a significant milestone that signals the beginning of yet another active and purposeful decade of life.🎢 Well done, you!
We are sure that your Wednesday birthday won't go by unnoticed in the bustle of mid-week events. 🎂 Facebook greetings are already pouring in. We are certainly going to take time to celebrate your special day by raising a toast in your honour.🍷🍷 Here's to 50 good years gone by and to a generous number yet to come.
💌 Cheers and lots of love,
Louise and David
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🎈🎆 HAPPY BIRTHDAY, TERENCE! 🎆🎈
Yours is the last of the three birthdays we are celebrating today. 🎂🎂🎂 We know that Dominick and Jenalee will make the day special for you on the home front. 👪 Other family members and good friends are sure to add their greetings as well. 👋 We join all of them in wishing you a happy 29th birthday.🎁
🎂 Here's to a joyful mid-week celebration and to many happy returns of this day in your life. We'll drink to that!🍻
💌 Cheers, warm wishes and lots of love,
Louise and David
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🎎 HAPPY ANNIVERSARY, DIANE AND MICHAEL! 🎎
Congratulations and best wishes on your wedding anniversary!💍 Sometimes when the years are many, such occasions come and go without much fanfare. 🎆 No matter how you decide to mark this day, we hope the celebration of 38 years of married life is just right for the two of you.💑
We join family and friends in wishing you a day of good memories, fun times and future planning.🎈 This evening, we will raise a toast to your love for one another, for your children and their spouses, and for your darling grandson. 😍 Cheers🍻!
💌 Lots of love,
Louise and David
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🎈🎂🎁 HAPPY BIRTHDAY, EDWARD! 🎁🎂🎈
Congratulations! Your monthly blog postings make this birthday seem like a remarkable milestone, given all those tales of mishaps and near misses.💃🚑
We are 16 days into Year 2016 and, though we anticipate funny stories of woe from you, we hope they remain more fiction than fact.🏫 You certainly look fit for a long future at 65 years of age.🚶
Have an enjoyable weekend birthday.🎂 We can only imagine the celebration of YOU by a family that loves you so much and appreciates all you do for them.♥♥ We join them in expressing our thanks for your presence in our lives and in wishing you the best of birthdays.🎆 Many happy returns, Edward!🍻
💌 Cheers and lots of love,
Louise and David
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Thank you for the birthday wishes. On the 16th I continue accident free and at 65 I'm beginning to think I'm like that little guy who cried wolf. If I actually do get hurt (I plan not to) I'll be sitting in a hospital bed for a week without any visitors. I almost had a problem this morning when I went outside into the wind chill and my eyeballs almost froze, lucky for me my blinking muscles still work at 65. I was on my way to get Deanie a coffee from Tim's, when I got home I stumbled and spilled it, it froze before it hit the ground so I was able to chip it back into the cup before going inside. Oh yeah, one other thing, it's pretty cold here today.
Have a great day
Loved
You're welcome, Edward. 🎁 Your response is a gift of humor to us on your 65th birthday.😅 (I hope Deanie got to drink her coffee before she read about what happened to it on the way home.🍵) Too funny!⛄
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🎂 HAPPY BIRTHDAY, GRACE-ANNE! 🎂
💌 Our greetings are a day late but they are warm enough to extend yesterday's events into a Sunday of celebration too.
🎈 F ind lots
🎁 O f
🎆 U nique ways to
💖 R emember the day
👧 T hat you brought the
📞 E lation and
🎂 E xcitement of a beautiful
🚼 N ew life into your family.
👸 Let the celebration of YOU at 14 continue!
💌 Lots of love,
Louise and David
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😎🎂 HAPPY BIRTHDAY, KAHLESS!🎂😎
We hope your Tuesday birthday celebration is already in full swing.🎆
F ifteen 🎁
I s three high
F ives ✋✋✋... or a perfect
T en 🔟 with 5 extra points 🎇🎇🎇🎇🎇
E xtended to an
E xceptionally
N ice 15-year-old.👨
Have a great day, Kahless!
Warm wishes and lots of love,
Louise and David
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🌹I still have Mom in my thoughts
whenever January 19 comes up on
my calendar.📛 She was born on
this date, 98 years ago.
Oh, happy day!💐
💐 Louise
Yes. Me too. Mom is on my mind and in my heart.
Love,
ME
xoxo
Ditto. In many ways she was quite remarkable.
BJ
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🎇🎇 HAPPY BIRTHDAY, LUI!🎇🎇
We join your family and friends in celebrating YOU today.
🎂 Congratulations, Lui!
🎁 E ach new birthday brings
🎈 L oving greetings from
🏆 E veryone who wants you to have a
🎂 V ery happy day.
🏄 E njoy all the
🎂 N eat things about being ELEVEN!
💌 Lots of love and warm wishes,
Louise and David
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🎆 HAPPY TRANSPLANT ANNIVERSARY NUMBER 18, MARCIA AND TONY!
Yours is a story of determination, courage and love.♥♥ There is no better way to illustrate the impact of Marcia's gift of a kidney to Tony than the poster Sonia has created on Facebook today. 🎢 It's a collage of your favourite things, Tony ... which are all about having time to spend with your family on special occasions 🎂 and on the ordinary days of their lives.🌅
Congratulations to each of you! 💌 Thanks, Marcia, for a gift that touches all of our lives. 👣 Well done, Tony, for continuing to put that kidney through its paces with care and determination.
🍻 Here's to LIFE, one day at a time.
💐 Lots of love,
Louise and David
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🎂🎁 HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MICHAEL! 🎁🎂
Well, Mike, you are the tenth of fourteen of us to reach this six decade milestone in life.🎆 That's an amazing fact, eh?
Congratulations on your sixtieth birthday celebration! 🚗The road ahead is filled with lots more of life's blessings and challenges.🎢 Enjoy the ride!
Here in Peachland we will be raising a toast to you on this pleasant Saturday in January.🍻 May your day be special and may life continue to shower you with personal success, family joys and well-deserved happiness.😊
💌 Cheers and lots of love,
Louise and David
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Thank you for the birthday love and wishes! It's so nice to hear from our extended family on our birthdays!! Happy New Year to everyone!
Grace-Anne and Emmanuel
😍 You are welcome, Grace-Anne and Emmanuel! We find that remembering birthdays🎂 and other special occasions🎓🎎🏆 fills our year with celebrations and keeps us connected to family across the miles. Thanks for the New Year's wishes to all of us. 🎢 Continue to enjoy the rest of Year 2016 yourselves!
💌Lots of love,
Louise and David
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🎈🎂🎁 HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BRADEN! 🎁🎂🎈
As we join family and friends in celebrating your birthday, we can't think of a better reason for scoring this Monday a perfect TEN 🔟. Congratulations 👐!
🎂 T ake time today to
🎁 E njoy all the especially
💌 N ice greetings that come your way.
🎶 Warm wishes and lots of love,
Louise and David
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