Fun Sunday Morning

On Sunday we had a scheduled hydro outage from 8am until 6pm in our area.  Hubby suggested we should go to the local casino for a pre-birthday treat for me.  I will say we are not big gamblers, in fact it's not something we do very often and we do play within our limits.

As we had never been to this casino before, despite it being under 20 minutes from where we live, we "joined the casino" and got a players card, that gave us $10 in free play each.

I had a great time and tried many games, including the ones below.

This one was my favourite.  San Fa Tigers.

We used our free play, and then we had $20 each, then hubby used another $20.  So in total we put in $60 in cash.  I cashed out my ticket after just under  3 hours for around $215, so all in all we came home $150 up.  We had budgeted $200 total, so I was able to to put that $200 back and have the $150 to use to put gas in the car and spend on "useful" things!!!

We arrived at the casino before 10 am and left just after 12:30 pm and we were shocked at how many people we in the casino on a Sunday morning.  

In the Dominican there was a casino in the resort we were staying at.  I had budgeted $20 USD each per night for us to spend on the slots.  We went one night and it was so small and not enjoyable at all, that we never went for the rest of the week.  I felt it was a total waste of money, so as you see we have enough common sense to walk away.

Do you go to the casino?  Or gamble?

A toe tapper........for a Sunday!

 I hadn't heard this song in years, when it popped up in a video I was watching.  

Brought back many memories from the 80's.

Happy Sunday!

This says it all!!!

 

Fighter Jets......

I was reading this post over at Kate's and it brought back a memory from when I was a teen.

From the age of 6 until 25 we lived in the Eden Valley in Cumbria.  Due to it being a valley, it was a perfect place for the fighter jets to practice their manoeuvre's (British spelling!!)  Also there was an army camp close by with a practice range on it for the tanks, and the troops could also practice whatever they practice.

So we grew up seeing these jets flying past a ridiculous speeds.  Unless you were new to the area, you just carried on; someone new you may see them duck as they flew past....LOL  One day when I was a teen and living at home, I was either pegging out the washing or bringing it in, and a jet flew by.  I never heard it until it was basically on top of me.  It scared me so bad I was screaming my head off.  I was terrified, shaking and crying.  I must have been away in my own head day dreaming.  I still remember it to this day, as to how scared I was.

Then another memory which was funny as it made me smile.  We were at my mother-in-law's funeral, which of course was not funny.  At that point we had lived in Canada probably 15 years.  So during the funeral the vicar was speaking then all of a sudden we had fighter jets flying over.  The noise was deafening and the poor vicar had to stop speaking for a few seconds.  Again none of the congregation thought anything of it as they were so used to it.

I will say though it's when there is a sonic boom from one of these jets that can indeed frighten even those people who are used to the jets flying by.

Thanks Kate for the idea of this post.

Little House on the Prairie...............

Netflix is bringing a rebooted version of Little House on the Prairie on screen in July 2026.

I am not sure how I feel about this.  I don't think you should mess with this classic.  The same with The Waltons or Mash, they are all classic shows.  I don't think a newer version will do it justice, just my opinion.

What are your thoughts?

A good day all round, I'd say..........

Tuesday, woke up to the sun shining, so a big 👍from me!

Painted some more trim and the door in the laundry room twice, so another 👍from me!

Added more stuff to the boxes to take to the charity shop; then took said boxes to the charity shop, so another 👍from me!

Took a box of empty wine bottles to the beer store to get the deposit money back on the way to the charity shop, again 👍from me!

Called in at Zehrs to pick up some food items and picked up my free jar of pasta sauce, that I won on the spin the wheel thingie on the app, so another 👍!

Sold something on Facebook Marketplace that had been listed since last September........yes I have decided to just leave things on there, as this isn't the first time something has sold months after listed, so $45 in our pocket and another 👍!

Figured that $45 would pay for the peel and stick tiles I want to purchase for the laundry room, another 👍

Hubby, sorted took out the hard drives from three old laptops so now we can take them to the electronics disposal at the dump 👍

So all in all not huge jobs, but good jobs done and the house is looking a little tidier, so that's a win, win!!

How was your Tuesday?

What is your go too subject.....

when you run out of things to say when talking to someone?

Mine is the weather.