🪂 ... and a little late coming at you - coffee and typing at 9:21 AM
The view. Sunny. Wind stirring and the temperature is Fall like. Chill in the air.
The street
chewed up. Driving feels like a buckboard passage across the plains [ imagined of course ]. The grinder machine and fellow metal beasts - chewed up the asphalt gathered the chunky asphalt and swept the mess up. The situation sits for a couple of days then the asphalt crew returns and smooths out the mess.
🤺 .... in the wet and gloom. The asphalt crew is out there. Our driveway should be next. Can the asphalt stick if it s wet ?
We shall see said the Zen Master
On tap for the day. A trip to the Lab for blood tests.
Later, I head into Mega traffic country as I traverse the City to Yonge St.For 6 P
🏵 ... Remembrance Day. Veteran s Day .... 2026. War is futile ? so ..... let s keep at it
JFK, said the price of Peace is eternal vigilance
Sunny in the ' boro. Wind is still
Follow up. The broom closet. Not sure. Looks neater [ organized ] but we await a decision concerning utility
Ah, we shall see said the Zen Master
Coffee and typing. Left over Joe for now, coffee maker rumbling
Every man needs a pedicure, especially, when you cannot reach your toes OR safely reach your toes [ to clip nails ]. The salon has massage chairs, except I don't like the bum vibrator setting - it always makes me want to pee, I have enough trouble w / urinary overage.
However, soak, clip and clean [ dead skin ? around the nail ], smooth the feet and massage the lower leg.
For dinner, a pre - marianted pork roast that was 30 % off [ due date a day away ]. Roast potatoes, par boiled and roughed up and heat treated in oil bath, to crisp up and brown.
And corn on the cob.
👯 .... and we get sun and temperature climbing to 50 F. Eternal Blue is up there
Coffee and typing ..... quiet on the street
Re - do the closet episode [ at least ] 3. The cardboard box idea was quaint, not functional. Today, two days later, I replaced the cardboard w / a milk crate. The milk crate is solid and needs a little accompaniment by a narrow box[ fairly strong b/ c it is small ].
Step one, get stuff off the floor. OK - the milk crate provides a platform. AND the space inside the crate stores the bottles etc.
Now, the mops and cleaning equipment, sit on the milk crate. Alright, but that closet is 7 ft tall.
I removed the shelf at 5 ft and attached a metal U - bracket on the right side wall 6 ft above ground.
This bracket can hook or store the Swiffer mop and the vacuum - meaning that the top of the milk crate is free.
So, thing s went vertical and not sideways. I took the shelf board that was set at 5 ft and slanted the board against the wall. Surprise, twice the light, b / c the shelf isn't blocking the bulb above.
I nailed the vacuum accessories template on the slanted board, thats where all the small parts can go.
Overall, a bit more efficient and brighter. Last step. I screwed a cantilevered clothes hangar to the perimeter board at 5 ft. The hangar can tilt its arm down to accommodate clothes hangars. For bags etc
The evaluation, good. Maybe the walls need painting or cleaning. However, increased functionality at least
🧚 ... of November .... and the view from here is dull and threatening ... street is glistening ... branches stirring
we should get to fifty F
AND perhaps snow on the Thur - Fri.
Coffee and typing
Well, a trip out to Bestco for corn on the cob, breaded chicken pieces and inari sushi [ bag rice or suitcases ]. Bestco is an Asian supermarket. Loads of fresh produce and Asian foodstuffs. Then a North American section AND a bakery and hot table take away.
OK it's like wonderland if you are me.
Plus, I went to Yogi s Noodles in the food court of Chartwell Plaza [ across the parking lot form Bestco ]
I ordered noodles and won ton plus they give you Chinese greens [ $ 11.35 ] You wait a bit and boom there s the food.
Alright it is Disneyland !!!!!
I returned home and M ... wanted to go to Metro.
I listened to ' Beth Roars ' a vocal coach who analyses songs and singing.
" But the ending always comes at last Endings always come too fast They come too fast, but they pass too slow I love you, and that's all I know "
These are the lyrics from ' All I Know ' a hit for Art Garfunkel, penned by Jimmy Webb.
🤹 ..... a more Fall like day. Cool and sun influenced.
Apparently, a cooler bulge of air brought the damper weather tht we've seen.
Report then .... typing and coffee. I'm reading the ' Big E ' the story of the Enterprise, CV 11, the Gray Ghost of Japanese Naval lore.
To give you an idea of the age of the paperback, the price reads ' 95 ' and thats cents
Long time readers will recognize that if it's Sunday .... It s go to Giant Tiger day.
So, I went and bought cheese, cheerios, frozen burgers, relish, mustard, lemon meringue pie, cookies, eggs, peanut butter, meat pies, Recto Verse crackers[ part pretzel and ritz ]
I checked my weight. My stomach, looked and felt bulgy. The tale of the scale was # 179. Not good yet could be worse.
Chores. We have a broom closet [ in name only, b / c there are 2 brooms ] filled w / bags, bottles [ insect stuff and vinegar etc]. Actually, its a mess. Every twenty years, I get the impulse to organize the closet.
Today, yes, it was time. Step 1 is to pull everything out. OMG ! vacuum parts and MT bags, telephone directories [ actually, not bad - one was 2024 ! ]
Next step raise the brooms and mops on a board supported by cardboard boxes. You turn the boxes open side out, Fold the flaps for extra rigidness. Using boxes recycles the cardboard and its temporary but does the trick.
You can store stuff in the opening as well. Of course, the boxes are light as well.
Definitely, a work in infancy
🏁 .... awake at 5A and reading til 6. Coffee from the thermos and re heated for morning watch
