The Copeland Ramblings/

The Marathon Walking Flies of the Great White North!

Well, the flies are back! It’s time to get my fly zapper back out… aghhhh! For one thing we live on a beef farm. This means that at any given time we will have at the very least 40+ flies in our house. Now you would think that we leave our doors and windows open for that many flies in our house… but no… we keep it shut… because if we kept it open we would have at least 300 flies in our house at any given time. So, as you may have noticed I called them “Walking Flies,” YES, that’s right WALKING FLIES. For some reason, I rarely see a fly FLY! They walk all over the floor, the walls, the food, the ceiling, the furniture, carpet, windows… but how often do I see them fly?? Well, hardly! This is kinda nice. Except for the fact that they are also kamikaze flies. When they do fly they are spastic…they must be blind, cuz all they do is run into the walls…. buzzzzzzzz! Bang!!!!! buzzzzz… BANG!!! What the heck??? They definitely don’t have their flying licenses. Well, welcome back flies and remember you are not welcome in my home… and I zap intruders!
~Deb

After work on Thursday (wednesday night to be exa…

After work on Thursday (wednesday night to be exact), we left at 7am for Toronto to renew Deb’s passport and get her last name changed. We hit morning rush hour but eventually made it to Yorkdale where we caught the subway. We took the subway to the embassy but realized that we needed passport photos of Debra for the application. We searched up and down the street and eventually found a Kodak shop, that didn’t open until 10am. It was 9:30am. So we waited…. and waited…. 9:45… 9:55….10…. 10:05…. 10:15…. 10:30… OK THATS IT! The sign says 10am weekdays, maybe there was fine print at the bottom. Nope, 10am. We eventually found this convenience store close to the consulate that does passport photos. We arrived at the consulate, made it through the barrage of security checks and got in line. We were actually quite surprised at how short the wait was. We were expecting to relive the nighmares of getting my replacement birth certificate. It was actually quite the painless procedure, well, except the whole payment thing. After we were done with the paperwork we headed back to the kodak shop to get a look at the man who made us wait out in the cold. We entered the shop and I went up to the counter to meet the heartless soul.

So, what time do you open on weekdays?

I asked

10am everyday

was his smug reply

Right at 10? You sure?

He seemed quite certain, apparently oblivious to his late entrance only 4 hours previous. Maybe he tripped over a tri-pod, knocking himself unconcious and getting amnesia. It’s the only thing I can think of.
~Norm

The beginning of the sunrise… sorry its kinda bl…

The beginning of the sunrise… sorry its kinda blurry!

This is towards the end of the sunrise!

This is towards the end of the sunrise!

The Sunrise!

One of the most amazing things in God’s creation is a fresh day. The rays of the new sun casting its hello on the earth’s surface! Every morning is a new day, a fresh start. This morning was the most exceptional sunrise that I have ever seen. I took 25 pictures of the sunrise, trying to capture at least 10 percent of its beauty. This picture hardly shows the spectacular color and warmth of the sunrise. I stood there enthralled with the growing rays, it must have been 20 minutes, I paced the kitchen, dying to share it with someone. Unfortunately it was 6:00 am on the nose… I couldn’t call anyone, and Norm still isn’t home. So I will share it with you. I hope that you like it and take time to actually look at the next sunrise!

This is my grandma and my aunt! We met at Pete’s D…

This is my grandma and my aunt! We met at Pete’s Donuts on their way home from the airport! I am so exited grandma is here to live! It’s great having more family around. Poor grandma was so tired!! ~Deb

Fright

My short work week just got a bit shorter, Chrysler in Brampton whom we supply with seats seemed to be having problems and after hours of sporadic work, we left at 4:30am. Debra didn’t know that I was coming home, I talked to her at 4:30, which is my usual break time but didn’t let on that I was coming home. I got home, slowly opened the door, crept upstairs and let out a loud scream. Ok, she didn’t look quite like this woman in the picture but I sure did scare her! Hehe. Anyways, I really didn’t mind coming home early because we have to be in Shelburne early tomorrow afternoon (which is early morning for me) for a doctors appointment. We are also going to meet with Deb’s grandma, aunt and uncle. Debra’s grandma is moving to Canada today! That may seem strange going from sun to snow, but I can assure you that she is very excited about it.

As I said, there isn’t much to do during the nigh…

As I said, there isn’t much to do during the night… I’ve found it hard to be productive during the night, although we did get some of Deb’s paperwork finished. We roamed around Orangeville causing trouble, here’s every Timi’s in Orangeville. Yes… that time is A.M.

As we were leaving Orangeville, we saw this black cat run across the road, and we were sure that it must want to be pet…. so we tried to chase it down. We lost it in some bushes across from the Orangeville Mall, but soon picked up some tracks. We found out that this cat must spend a lot of time there, because there were tracks going every which way! I tracked him to a dumpster behind Future Shop, but he was long gone.

Buddies

Another weird weekend in progress – yesterday I worked four hours overtime till 10pm, and ended up going to bed around 1pm, much later than usual, so once again my weekend is all weird. There isn’t all that much to do during the night when you’re up. This morning I tried calling Immigration to get a status on Deb’s application, I don’t know what I was thinking, it’s saturday, of course the government isn’t working. We applied last October, and from what we’ve been able to figure out from their cryptic website, they’re looking at applications recieved up to last september! Aye! This week we’ll be applying for an extension to Debra’s visitors visa, we’re going to try to do it by mail this time instead of heading off to Buffalo or wherever. With all this paperwork between countries, it’s a good thing our two political leaders get along so well…….

With all that said, we also know that we will get it when God wants us to have it. Sure, we’d be ecstatic to have it now, but does God have something better for us? We know He does, and so we’re all for it.
~Norm

Geoloc

Some of you may have noticed we have a map that shows the countries who are online…. We have found that depending on your monitor, some of you can not see the map very well. Some monitors are darker than others. Ours is semi dark… We are sorry if you can’t see it. If you click on the “Geoloc” work/link… it has an enlarged picture of the map. It may be easier to see.

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