New Water tank, Air France aborted landing

Well the plumber from Home Depot came as scheduled... around 1:30 he and his assistant showed up to take out the old water heater. Up until now I was getting about 5 minutes of hot water in the shower. The old one, below, was nine years old so it was due to be replaced.



The new one is a 60 gallon so a little bigger. He told me I had to have an electrician rewire it and fix up the circuit breaker. Nothing major but right now it doesn't conform to standards. It might trip the circuit breaker if it isn't corrected, that's all. I'm quite happy now... longer showers and instant hot water yahoo! LOL



Took some more pics of the flowers in the garden. They are looking pretty cool now that it's mid July..









My grasses are doing well too.. last year this baby hardly grew... now it's almost as tall as me.



I like these two shots because the sun played well with the colours... nice contrasts making them a little artistic





Lastly I did some plane spotting from my back yard. An Air France Triple Sever flew by and I took a few shots noting some nice flaring off the wings





Suddenly five or twn minutes later it came back but this time from the south. IT had gone around the city, apparently aborting the original landing because it overshot the runway... so here it was right over head.. quite a site at this level... what a long plane the 777-300ER is.





Some other European arrivals;

Czech Airlines from Prague... their A310 heading to 24R



Hey, Swiss' HB-IQK, the A330-200 I flew on to Zurich came in next



KLM send in a 747-400 today to Montreal... nice site



I also spotted Corsair's 747-300 but didn't get a pic of it. Sheila's dad dropped by as he was curious to see the new water heater. He seemed quite impressed. One thing I didn't like though was I spent $40 to have the guys take the old one away... they just took it upstairs and left it outside on my front walkway for the city to take away... boxes an all.. not what I was expecting. Anyhow, we sat down and had a beer and soaked up the sun and shot the breeze. He is an amazing guy for someone in his 80s. I gave him my mother's old walker now that he has some hip problems bothering him. I was joking I was saving it for him but he said he'd take it now so that's great, I'm sure it will help him.

Tonight I'm suppose to head out for supper with Clem and Pascal. So far I haven't heard from Clem but usually it's a late supper. I still have the Syropwaffellens from Amsterdam to give to him. I also bought him a bottle opener from Switzerland but it dawned on me who used bottle openers anymore.. I'll see if he wants it, somehow I think it will be a relec from the past very soon LOL.