Sunday, February 8, 2009

Matins Gris

Currently before going to bed I'm playing one of my favourite CDs entitled "Matins Gris" recorded by Ocora/Radio France in Paris, July 1989, and featuring the music of Christian Vesvre and Serge Desaunay who play music for bagpipes and accordeons (musique pour cornemuses et accordeons). One of my favourite melodies, aside from "Matins Gris" (5'14), is "Eraglubeidolum" (2'14). The CD is a co-production between l'Agence des Musiques Traditionelles d'Auvergne and Ocora. With all the melodies we have a duration of 61'28. The bagpipe/accordeon combination is one of my favourites. Check it out!

Saturday, February 7, 2009

Inspiration for a Sunday

For those of us that appreciate it, here's some inspiration for a Sunday. Check out the Aussie gay magazine called DNA for more photos and interesting articles!

Setting up

Today, I finally got around to removing the glass table top from the crate it was housed in during storage and onto the table its supposed to be on. I found the table cloth and a couple of placemats plus a glass bowl to dress it up a bit. The colour scheme on the walls is a bit drab for my taste but has to do for a while until I can dress up the walls a bit with some pictures. The dining cabinet isn't loaded yet since a leg on the base needs to be re-glued. I'll have to get someone to help me remove the large upper piece first so I can turn the base over to re-glue the leg. When that's dry, then its a matter of turning the lower piece upright and then placing the larger piece on top followed by installing the glass shelves and doors. Only then can I load the cabinet with china and glasses. My father designed and built that cabinet back in 1958-59 in the early years in Canada after emigrating from Germany, so the piece has some sentimental value to it eventhough it does need a bit of refinishing to make it look like new.

The dining set has been around since the early 1970s when my parents bought it for the new house they had just purchased a few years earlier. My mother, a pisces, loved the colour violet! By the way, my father was a gemini, my younger brother a capricorn and me, a leo. This made for an interesting household!

After removing the glass top and setting up the table, I collected the recycle material to take outside along with the crate. Since I don't have a crowbar, I used a hammer/large chisel combination to lift the particle board on the one side of the crate and then the claw on the hammer to remove the nails one by one but it worked though slowly. Inside I found paper matting covering the glass top and a couple of pads/blankets cushioning that. The movers should have done all this because the pads/blankets belong to them, not me!

After a supper of perogies (with cheddar) and tea (not very nutritous but it works for now), I got down to downloading these photos I took this evening and reading emails. A vegetable stew with potatoes, carrots, cabbage, onions, garlic and herbs in a vegetable broth is on menu for Sunday. There'll likely be more potato pancakes Sunday as well with liftovers going to work on Monday and Tuesday. Payday is Friday which means the bills get paid and groceries are bought to refill the fridge and cupboard.

We've managed to have some sun today (Saturday), so I hope for the same on Sunday. Next weekend promisses to be even better as spring approaches here on the west coast. Hope you're have a great weekend! Have an awesome Sunday!!!

Thursday, February 5, 2009

David Beckham's hot in underwear

David Beckham's in the news again and with his physique, why not! I was reading the Thursday edition of Vancouver 24 hours, a local free newspaper, when I saw these two pics on page 2 taken from Emporio Armani's spring campaign, the underwear line. The short article was entitled, "nice pecs, Becks." And his wife Victoria has been doing some modeling of her own. Keep watching for more developments!

Muscles 2

Well, all this talk about muscles and fitness in general has me in the action of losing some extra pounds in order to get in shape for the amount of hiking I do from spring through to autumn (and we're talking miles and miles of hiking here!). I'll soon be setting up a meal plan so that I get the nutrients needed plus don't add extra pounds I don't want. Money is tight right now but food is very important, so I don't plan to skimp there. It seems Brad is back to training at the gym. Good for him! He's got a hot physique, so it should be even hotter!!! Oh, remember, that special post is coming up very soon! You won't want to miss it. In the meantime, have a great day guys!

Monday, February 2, 2009

Muscles

I love seeing guys with well-developed muscles and admiring the work that has gone into getting into that degree of fitness. Well, there is a special post along these lines coming up in the not too distant future. One of these poolside hotties will be the feature of that post but you'll have to come back to find out which one it is. A little suspense is good, don't you think?

Sunday, February 1, 2009

Shower

I was up just before 9 am and puttered around on the computer for a while before taking a nap late in the morning. The shower afterwards was needed and felt real good, a nice, long, hot shower! Now I am just finishing up cooking potato pancakes, known as "Kartoffelpuffer" in German, and also referred to as Latkes, a name some of you might be familiar with. I'll be having that with applesauce and will have enough left over to take into work tomorrow.

Next on the list of items to do is paying the rent and getting the laundry done. Mundane chores but necessary just the same. I hope you've been having a great weekend where you are. Have a great week to come!