Costly covers
It is true that a new environment can be hard on the body; son #3 is suffering from a rather nasty summer cold, which has nothing to do with temperature and everything to do with contacting unfamiliar virii. We decided that a trip to the pharmacy would be in order, as well as a good excuse to get down to the shopping district of Souris.
Did you know that a person with good hand-eye coordination can make money in this world? I don’t mean as a baseball player, or a skeet shooter. By investing a couple of hundred dollars in some 100% cotton, spending a few (well, relative to say, growing an oak tree) hours on winter evenings and by joining the local co-op for artsies, you too could become a quilter. With queen-size bedspreads running anywhere up to $1500, the gain is obvious. I won’t quit my day job just yet, but by honing my needle and thread skills, anything is possible.
The house and tent have been too long without a new musical instrument, so I’m now the proud owner of a button accordion. Golden-orange in colour. With buttons. Who could have foreseen this one? I’ve got a whole campground to amuse/annoy. Sharon Shannon, watch your coattails.
We also bowed to the care and maintenance of a sick child by renting a DVD at the local general store. A former student was on the cash, but that wasn’t necessary to provide the required ID and character vouch; my home phone number was the ticket. I mentioned that it was “from away”; she mentioned that they had long distance in the area now. Given that this was next door to the former telephone exchange office, I took it at face value.
So here we are in week two. I am slowly forgetting what a watch is used for. The local radio from the Magdalens, CFIM 92,7 had the English want ads read with an intonation that sounded like plainsong; the chanter was a former student from there. I do get around!
