Jan 25 to 31

Monday
Rain. We received about 47 mm of rain today. The snow is disappearing. More searching on Ancestry for my Kipp and Link family sources. Finished watching season six of All Creatures Great and Small. Walked 5.7 km.

Tuesday
Some snow today. I went to work at the Friends of the Library and Archives Canada book sorting facility. We took our oldest daughter to the airport so she could head home and back to work as a professor of library science. Walked 12.1 km.

Wednesday
Some sun today. Today was a cleanup day which included vacuuming the house. We had the two dogs over for several hours in the evening. When they are here it is difficult to do anything else! Walked 6.3 km.

Thursday
Sunny today. We went shopping today looking at bread makers. Walked 11.6 km.

Friday
Very cold today so we didn't go out walking. Temperature was about -18 C with a wind chill close to -30 C. We spent the whole day house sitting our daughters house because they were expecting repair people to come and work on things. We also looked after the two dogs all day which is a chore in itself. The trick is to tire them out. We stayed at her house for supper. We finished watching the Lovejoy series. Walked 8.2 km.

Saturday
Sunny and cold today. Overnight it went down to -24 C. We spent the day doing some clean up around the house, in particular paper shredding. Our daughter and two dogs arrived for an hour so the dogs could have a run in our back yard. The back yard is very long but not so wide. Walked 6.9 km.

Sunday
Last day of January. Some sun not quite so cold today. We had our daughter and the two dogs over for supper. During the day I installed on my laptop a device to convert my music tapes to digital file format. Finally got it working, so now I can convert my music tapes. This will take a while! The next project to start is to convert my 8 mm home video tapes to digital format. This is another project that will take a while. Walked 5.9 km.