Funny how a name change can be such a positive thing. This morning, another load of surplus cardboard took that final, long ride. To be dumped. But, for the record, not at “the dump”.
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Sleeping in qualifies as “highly overrated”. There’s always something else going on, here in the country. Just this morning, the dog alarm went off about the time that I might have fallen asleep in other times/other climes. The contractor sent his man to do (some of ) the railings, and fix (maybe) the basement windows. I’ve learned to be hopefully enthusiastic.
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A special thanks to the fellow on speakerphone this evening. We called him, across a long haul, and he tried his best to get up through a traumatic time. Today, I decided to get more of the famous Murphy bed completed; the piles of pieces were depressing. And slowly, page by page, I worked through the schematics until I could do no more on my own.
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Sometime around noontime, I decided to watch the show. From last evening, my first effort at “taping” with that fancy PVR we received from the Bell bundle. And it worked! I was able to watch the “Still Standing” performance from Souris. Good, albeit short. When you subtract the commercial breaks from the nominal 24 minutes of broadcast, the editing had to be tight to fit in the jokes. I now know far too much about plunging for clams.
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This was the kind of day that gets filed under “futile”. I didn’t leave the house. Mainly, I moved from bed to chair to walking around the room, trying to find that one position wearing a “comfortable” tag.
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School opened this morning, for one member of the household. Over the next two weeks, a conservative calculation shows eighty hours of instructional time. This is the same model as one year ago, when the dog and I were sequestered in a city hotel. This time around, we’re country bound.
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A good idea, carefully nurtured, can take root. Grow. Become an annual tradition. That’s what we joined, this afternoon.
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Turns out that there is a peak time of day for traffic in this neighbourhood. I would not have guessed that it took place around 3:30 a.m. We were up earlier than usual, given that son #3 had found somewhere to lend a hand. On a fishing boat.
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Still have that “lean toward a lawn” thing going on. Another site visit by a contractor, to figure out how much we have to move (the) earth to have a more natural contour. Important to think these things through, long before a tread or a blade gets involved.
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Getting up early, because I didn’t want to appear too lackadaisical when a contractor stopped by, was a wasted effort. No show, today. There’s always tomorrow, right?
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