Weekly Musings of the 10th

 

Here we are again.  As I mentioned last week, they were paving our parking lot.  Found out that those that owned the building (who live in another city) decided to do only half of it.  Mind you, it is the part that had all the potholes and damage so that is great.  Funny thing was they told people it was because the back half had been done pretty recently.  I smiled because I know that it has been longer than 13 years because we have not seen the back half being done since we have been here.  Another funny thing is that I asked the Super if the lines were getting painted before the parking lot is opened up once more and he actually said that he doesn't know.  I just smiled and said - oh good, I do love a challenge.  

I know that through all the paving that those spots that were available for parking would have been at least 5 or 6 more spots if people had just parked a little closer to each other.  Still having room to open doors but most put enough space for half a truck on either side of them.  

So, that is the finished product without lines.  You can see our car at the very back between the two black ones.  I actually like being parked back there.  The shade made the car easier to get into during the hot days.  

The photo here, well, I just had to take as there is one guy driving the little bobcat back and forth and the group at the side looks like a bunch of supervisors discussing what the one worker is doing.  

In all fairness I have to say this crew worked non-stop during the hottest days from 7 in the morning to 5:30 every afternoon.  They took only a half an hour for lunch and took only 15 minute breaks.  That photo was actually one of their 2 breaks.  

During this part of the work I still took my morning walks but I went down the street and walked around the blocks for 30 minutes.  Basically it meant I went down to the main park and back again each morning.  

As you can see I had a large audience watching my walk each morning and this morning I was very happy to be able to walk the loop around our buildings again.  I don't mind the audience but not a fan of dodging their poop.  

Another fun thing was even though there were days that were cool enough to leave the A/C off we had to keep things closed and keep the A/C on because of the dust and dirt that was flying around when the wind came up.  

Turned out that, of course, it was a bigger job needing a lot of extra dirt to even out the ground that had sunk over time.  Apparently before these apartments went up there was a pickle factory here. Who knew?

So, quiet week with timing when it would be the easiest to go in and out.  Hubby had his eye appointment which he was pleased to learn that his eyes had not changed at all and everything was good.  Mine is coming up in another week and I am guessing there will be changes because I am noticing differences myself.  

However, such is life in the senior lane.  

As to which book I got into this week, another old testament one of Queen Esther.  

Good read although I had read in the past another version which had more depth to it than this one.  Still all in all a good read and very thought provoking which is what I like about these books. 

Now, I am onto another about David's first wife. 

So far quite interesting.  Again like Esther's story I have read a couple other authors versions of Michal's story.  I still enjoy them as seeing them different ways makes me think about the person more and brings them to life once again.  

So, hope you all had a fine week and managed to keep cool.  

Huge hugs and much love.

Weekly Musings of the 3rd

 

What a hot, hazy, humid end to June and start to July.  Canada Day saw storms moving through the area, we had high winds and a bit of rain but Ottawa got hit really hard and had to cancel the evening show and fireworks.  They had 100mm of rain with flooding in many areas and lots of power outages as well.  

This triple H is suppose to last at least until Sunday and our little A/C unit is working overtime each day.  

This week also meant the beginning of the replacing of the sidewalks which, of course made it challenging going in and out of the building.  From our balcony the fun part was watching people who either wanted the workers to let them in the building (where they didn't live) or walking exactly where they were trying to work. 

The first two walks are having the finishing part done today and I am sure that means the front will be the next one.  After all the walks are done they are going to replace the parking lot too.  Should be a fun time but certainly really needing doing this year, there are way too many potholes now.

Had the chance this week to catch up with my sister and chat about life in general and solving all the problems of the world - LOL.  It was great to get the chance to just sit with her and video chat.  I think back on the long distance phone calls after 6 or on weekends and not seeing the person or writing letters if they were overseas because phoning and the connections were just too difficult and now we can sit and chat with video and not worrying about the minute costs and see the loved one.  That, I thank Meta for too.

I still kept to my morning walks although still hot I was glad to walk as early as possible to be out of the full morning sun.  As well, hubby's pictures are finished the clearing, sorting and naming as well as my Pinterest has been deeply cleared out from over 5,000 to under 100.  I am sure the collection will grow again but I am planning on purging each summer in the future to keep it from getting silly again.   

As I stayed out of the heat I am enjoying the 3rd book of the Anna series

Another powerful book and I cannot wait until the 4th one comes out next year.  

So, that was the very quiet week that was and I must say I hope we get to open the windows at night once more next week.  Keep cool everyone and enjoy the weekend.  Happy 4th to my American friends and family.

That's me - ROTFL

Weekly Musings of the 26th

 

I don't care if the media goes on and on about how wonderful soccer is, I find it boring and the players over dramatic.  I mean come on, you fell down, get up and stop pretending that you are deathly injured.  

Anyway, after clearing out all my photos and making sure all of them are labeled with names (lesson learned from grandparents and parents who didn't put names on any photos) I was looking at my Pinterest account.  How on earth did I manage to make over 20 board (some kind of the same) with nearly 10,000 pins saved, which since there are so many I no longer look through.  Time to get clearing that out.  

 As I looked through and thought about it, I do use Pinterest nearly every day for different things but I always do a search on the homepage.  I rarely look in the folders that I already have so why on earth am I keeping them all there.  

By the time I am through there will be a lot less saved on various boards.  Less boards too ;)  

Anyway, this week has been some reading, some gaming and some purging with some errands including getting my hair trimmed once more.  Hubby has a summer cold so that kept things pretty quiet.

Hope you had a lovely week.  This weekend we are celebrating 13 years since I retired and we moved to Simcoe.  

I made this collection a year after we moved in and one more three years later and those of you who have kept up with the blog know that through purges and other things the place has changed completely again since this last video 

 Have a lovely weekend and week ahead and see you in July :D