Thursday March 7 2013

Thursday March 7/13  update #385

Bella was off early again (do I know this woman??) with a friend to meet with the “Doll Lady” who makes spectacular costumed dolls made out of pantyhose, nylons, etc.   Over the years we have seen some amazing examples of such art so Bella was interested in learning another craft, naturally.

I did my thing then went to meet Jay at the Fuji store.  I thought he was late, most unusual for Jay, so I took a few shots of the pigeons and the church in Santo Domingo Square.  I found Jay in a neighboring store and we went into Fuji.  Jay had a problem getting the emails I had sent him with the updated versions of the old photographs he had given me.   See my earlier post about Hockey photos.  He wanted 40 x 50cm enlargements made of the Cournoyer and Lafleur versions, and he chose the sepia version of his Dad’s hockey picture.  I knew he would choose that one.  I love that shot.

He had brought along the completed collage for donation to the Hearts Of Gold Foundation Silent Auction so we came home to frame it.   On the way, we stopped in a video store and picked up the movie “Argo”.

We got home and had lunch, them cleaned the new frame and installed the collage.  It looks great!

Then we sat down to watch Argo and enjoyed that very much.

Bella soon came home followed by Oswaldo as they continued to work on his Canada Pension application.  Bella had done much research into the problem of applying from out-of-country, hoping that Canada Pension has all the information required on everyone.  We assumed that they would have the information from every paycheque where CPP is deducted but apparently not…  It seems they can now play stupid and force us to prove, yes, prove, when you entered and exited the country and when you worked and contributed…  I am glad that we never encountered any such problems when we applied, although I may be in the distinct minority where I have every income tax filing since day 1.   They were honestly hoping that CPP would tell them how long Oswaldo had worked in Canada but it now appears that Oswaldo is going to go to Canada and talk to them in person.   He is planning to return to Canada to work for a couple of years anyway.   Don’t we just love government bureaucracy!

Bella is going to be applying for her own separate Visa, in case something happens to me, so some of her documents have to be translated by an approved translator.

Jay had some of Bella’s new bread, and a chocolate éclair so he was just raving about Bella’s culinary expertise.

Donations are starting to come in for the HoG Silent Auction so I will be getting busier for the next few weeks.

That was today’s excitement.   Hugs to all.    Please see all new photos at http://souvenircuenca.blogspot.com/