💖 you gotta have heart ....... "

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💖 ......... all you really need is heart " from " Damn Yankees " or what the AL East has been saying all season [ this is sparkly heart emoji ]

Yes, a gloomy start to a supposedly sun filled day. Warm and slightly humid was the call.

Visited CBC online. Reporting : Canada Ranks Last in Universal Health Care Systems [ 11 total ] and has one of the highest expense ratio for health care.
This is in the vein of how did / do we get it wrong. Crikey, we we're compared to Taiwan and found lacking. Taiwan is not perfect but delivers much better care at resonable cost.

Summary : here in this house, we have been to Emergency 3 times w/ the longest wait 1 h [ the press is quoting 18 h right now ].
We have gone for two fingers [ hand ] and a painful lower leg.
As well, there has been one MRI done.

In the pandemic era, we have seen  the family Dr [ 3 times by video conference } and three times in person.
Scheduled is a referral visit to a Skin specialist and a physiologist.

That along with 2 CV 19 shots and 2 boosters apiece. However, it seems that timing is everything. Those hospital visits were all pre spring of 2022 [ when wait times blossomed ].

That is our health story. As well ,we are booked w/ the eye Dr after almost a 3 year wait for CV 19 and government problems to alleviate.

Thus, all in all, we have fared well. But been very, VERY, lucky.

I notice the title ' the view from here ' is used quite often. But this morning, I said ' the view from here ' lying half awake. And did it. Hence, this photo.

Not inspirational! That's OK

The mirror attached to the dresser is the focal point. The bedroom set was purchased in 1987 [ our wedding year ].  OMFL ! Yes, things grow old, and older. 
To be fair. The whole set is by ' Pine, by Munro ' an Ontario firm. In fact, I've been to theirfactory. Wood is good, plastic brackets suck !!!! big time. I've replaced 30 pieces of plastic hangars for the drawer slides.
Lately, the last 5 years, out of replacement hangars - I've made slide supports out of small metal brackets and wood slats.
BTW, replacement hangers are $ 3 - 6 per pair - thats per drawer. And we have 10 drawers all together. 

The chore list over the last 3 months has included, staining the deck. The railing has been staring us back. OK. Today, out comes the pressure washer and paint and dirt flew. I did not do the whole deck b/c under the overhang the wood stays painted and neat looking.
Now, the truth is that you cannot know how prepped the wood is til you get down there and try painting. Surprises await, for sure. 

The real surprise was the filter for the pressure washer machine. The instructions remind the user to clean the filter between the supply line and the machine inlet.
There was a bunch of litter in that filter. How ??