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Seriously, thanks to everyone for being so amazing and patient. You are the reason I love Vox.
I was just told that the Amazon Conduit will be fixed by tomorrow. I will post here as soon as I get word that it's back up and running.
I know this has been frustrating and I am sorry there wasn't more I could do to make it less so. I really appreciate your patience though.
Cheers,
Bad news. As many of you have probably noticed, the Amazon Conduit was not fixed in the last week's release. Unfortunately, there was an undetected bug that is preventing the conduit from working.
We are working on this bug fix and hope to have the Conduit back up and running this week.
I will keep you posted.
Thank you for being so patient.
Actually, they have been and left. But I like the sound of the title. Have you all seen the crazy movie The Russians are Coming? You should, if you haven't. Anyway, we met Kenny and Nate at the wedding this summer and they were in our area so came over for a wee visit. They are terrific company and were not here for long enough. We had sunny lovely weather and we had a picnic lunch at the beach and then I dragged them up Mt Doug. It was our Thanksgiving weekend, and C made lamb, in two ways for the meat eaters and a lovely fishy for me. We had a wee wander around town the next day when we took K to the Coho (after dodging the marathoners) and a bit of a seawall walk when I took N to the Anacortes ferry.
The next day, the weather turned. It was cold and wet for two days and then turned wet but mild for the rest of the week. I tell ya, when you work outside, weather becomes important. I am exhausted as I fit all my clients into two weeks so I can take a HOLIDAY for the rest of the month! Our friends from Scotland arrive tomorrow. My mum (and dad) came over tonight and helped me clean. How kind. How great. Anyway, there are just a few more things to do and then I can start to relax. We are going to go to Tofino for a couple of days, and then to Mt Washington and then a few days around here. It is supposed to rain for the next week. However, I will have the luxury of chosing if I wish to go out in the rain or not.
Wow. I had slightly forgotten how busy Autumn in the garden on the west coast can be. We have had spectacular weather, until just recently, and I have worked every day, 8 hours in the soil. I love the garden at this time of year. And I love cutting things back and putting beds to bed. I just love it. I think that Autumn and Spring are my fav times of the year. Although, I do love all the change of seasons, there is just something so lovely about now and the spring. As I have been busy planting bulbs, I have been already longing for spring, but I think it really is just to see if the bulbs look as good as I think they will look once they start to show. We had another lovely lovely day out at East Sooke park, not last Saturday, but the one before. Perfect weather. We took shortbreads and apples. Bliss.
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Yup, you know it is Autumn when the apples are ready to harvest. This is the one time of year that I become homesick for NS - I long for those cool crisp days and warm afternoons, the colours, the smell of the orchards and fields and the full to bursting farmer's markets. In lieu of making a trip out east, we satisfied ourselves with a trip out to Sea Cider Farm to celebrate their apple days. It was a lovely, lovely afternoon and we took the scenic route through the country, which is always so much better than taking the highway, n'est pas? Anyway, they had cider tastings, pizza from our fav pizza place baked in their mobile wood fired oven, apple crisp (sold out when we got there), a wee photographic exhibit and an orchard to wander through. All in all, a good afternoon.
Carmen's garden, to be precise. She had an open garden on Sunday and I stopped by to collect one of my clients and we headed out. It was a lovely, lovely day and we took the back roads. Bliss. And she had a bit of a plant sale as well, so I bit the bullet and bought a couple of things for the garden which we may have to vacate. sigh. Never mind. When I dropped off my client, I raided her crab apple tree. It was loaded with lovely yellow-red fruit. Picking fruit on a sunny Sunday afternoon. Lovely. I took the fruit to another one of my clients who I knew would make some crab apple jelly, which she did, and I received a lovely pink grapefruit-coloured jelly today.
Give me strength. We received a free 'magazine' with our junk mail yesterday and as I appear to be hard-up for reading material, I sat down with it as I drank my morning coffee on our patio amidst the morning sounds of birds and cycle clubs. Only a couple of pages in and I quickly realized that the entire effort was advertising in the glossy guise of a beauty mag. This ad stood out. Honestly, I have so many worries right now, I am not sure if I want to add the worry of the right colour of laundry soap container.
Raven hues were all over the fall runways - a look we can all pull off, regardless of budget. Embrace the dark side! Even your detergent can get in on the act: Downy Simple Pleasures has introduced the new Orchid Allure scent in a sleek black bottle to make your laundry room as fashion-forward as your wardrobe.
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