Tuesday, 10 November 2026

๐Ÿ‘ฏ ... ten days in ....

   ๐Ÿ‘ฏ .... and we get sun and temperature climbing to 50 F. Eternal Blue is up there

Coffee and typing ..... quiet on the street

Monday, 9 November 2026

๐Ÿงš ... it s the ninth, folks

  ๐Ÿงš ... 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.


Sunday, 8 November 2026

๐Ÿคน ... on the eighth of the 11 ...

   ๐Ÿคน  ..... 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


Saturday, 7 November 2026

๐Ÿ ... on the 7 th of 11

  ๐Ÿ .... awake at 5A and reading til 6. Coffee from the thermos and re heated for morning watch


Friday, 6 November 2026

๐Ÿข ... the 6 th of the month

  ๐Ÿข ..... the view from here .... wet glistening street look. Temperature fell a tad - yesterday was spring in November. The air is still 

Coffee and typing. We are feeling a bit zombie, awake but fuzzy. Caffeine should kick in soon .... hope
Follow up. The day turned out to be productive. I did a teensy bit of tossing out ' stuff '. Things that you look and ' say ', someday that izzbit will be useful....... NOPE
Toss the izzbit. A wig. Really, a Halloween witch s black wig. How long 30 yrs in the downstairs canteen.
Thats how you can be productive.

Sorted out some financial items. Sitting on the dining room table for a week, today !!!!
And
Finished exercise. Watched ' Mindful Narrowboat ', a single lady cruises the Canal and River Trust waterways in a 60 ft boat.

Well, it felt productive
And then who cares ?
No one



Thursday, 5 November 2026

๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ถ on .... the fifth of Nov

  ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ถ ... rain last night. fairly steady, w / the temperature holding at mid sixties, thru the night hours.

So, up at 3:30 A or 4 A. typing and TEA from 4 for sure

Aha, did drop back to sleep til 8 A
Tired tho' and as at 3 P cannot close my eyes for nap time

On the refurbish project, curbs and driveway entries. Curbs renewed. Dug up areas either refilled w / dirt or one layer of asphalt. Thus, sod and top up layer of asphalt, to go.



Wednesday, 4 November 2026

☎ .... fourth of 11

  ☎ .... sunny in the ' boro. Going for 70 ish. Wind is still. Eternal Blue streaked w / white

Quiet on the street - guess the machines are working around the crescent to the East
we await the asphalt crew

Our section of the crescent is abandoned for now. Few trucks and hardly any noise.

I did a litle more crack repair. However, I realize that I should have gone w / my first instinct. Which was to take the ' crack filling compound ' and b / c this stuff was liquidy - to paint the whole area near the garage door [ new asphalt section ] and use the crack repair like driveway topper. The stuff is supposedly self leveling.
Oh well, next year