Sunday ; Sunny, +7° C.
Joanne was ill again (still ?) today. I initiated a lengthy discussion about that.
Late this morning I drove to the Shoppers Drug Mart at Tillicum Plaza to buy a stamp at the Post Office. “Due to unforeseen circumstances the Post Office is closed today” ! <fume>
This afternoon I cleaned dog nose prints off the car windows, a frequent task (! ! !), did some weekly investment updates, posted my weekly blog entry ... miscellaneous routine tasks and chores.
I acknowledge being in a REALLY BAD MOOD right now ! While walking Apollo, I had to pull an item away from him that he was very interested in sniffing. It turned out to be a tampon inserter. WHO THE FUCK TOSSES A TAMPON INSERTER ONTO THE LAWN OF A MOTEL ? ? ? ? ? ! ! ! ! ! Was it a motel guest ? Was it one of the many women who gather across the street, smoking marijuana (and coughing their lungs out) every morning at 8:30 AM outside the Indigenous Supportive Housing complex ?
Monday ; Occasional light rain, chilly, sky clearing at dusk, +5° C. BRRRRR ... the forecast is for the return of “winter” this week.
At noon we went out to run some errands, to give Housekeeping a chance to service our suite. Of course, the Housekeeping lady who has been assigned to our suite for the last few weeks did not show up around noon as she is scheduled to, but showed up around 2 PM, after we had returned from running errands and were having lunch in our suite. She’s surly, speaks little English, and does a poor job of servicing our suite, always missing something ; replace shampoo, provide fresh face cloths, replace toilet paper, empty garbages ... always something missed !
That’s okay ... the many hundreds of dollars that I had allocated as tips for Housekeeping can remain in my pocket when we depart in early April.
Our first errands stop was Esso on Burnside to refill the minivan with fuel. Then to Gorge Plaza ; I went into Shoppers Drug Mart to buy a postage stamp while Joanne went to Dollarama. After Dollarama we did some grocery shopping at Fairway Market. Apollo was a good dog, waiting quietly in the car.
I made an Udon noodle stir fry for supper tonight. I don’t do much of our meal cooking, as I have a limited repertoire, but... what I do, I do very well !
Tuesday ; Mix of sun and clouds, chilly again, +5° C.
It rained overnight and the temperature was below freezing, so apparently there was snow mixed with the rain, but when I walked Apollo at 8:30 AM, there was no evidence of that, just wet ground.
I woke up this morning profoundly depressed as a result of bad dreams. It took me half the day to shake that off.
Around noon we left to run some errands and buy take-out lunch at a Syrian restaurant Joanne wants to try. First we drove to Second Hand Hope, a local thrift store. We browsed, but didn’t buy anything. Mostly because we have a policy, formulated by Joanne, following the Covid pandemic, that if a thrift store refuses to have a change room, which (maybe) made sense during the pandemic, but not afterwards, we won’t buy any clothing there. By the way ... I have just remembered, there is another thrift store policy we have, formulated by me. If a thrift store refuses to make a bathroom available for customer use, we won’t buy anything there ! HMPH ! ! !
Next we drove to Esquimalt Plaza. Joanne instructed me to go into Esquimalt Bake Shop and buy her a Boston cream doughnut while she went into Country Grocer and began shopping for groceries. Well ... I failed ... on two counts ! And I only had one job ! HA HA HA ! Firstly, I bought a vanilla cream doughnut, which apparently is NOT a Boston cream doughnut, because ... a vanilla cream doughnut is not chocolate dipped on one side. WELL ... pardon me for living ! Then ... I bought a bag of five, day old vegetable rolls, (sort of like miniature strombolis) when I had NOT been instructed to buy ANY vegetable rolls. HA HA HA !
So ... HMPH again ... now that SOMEBODY had purchased a bag of five, day old vegetable rolls, we might as well go home and eat some of them for lunch, and postpone the trip to the Syrian restaurant. WELL ... HMPH ! ! ! HA HA HA !
Wednesday ; Cloudy, +5° C.
This afternoon we decided to go to a local thrift store followed by a quick stop at a local grocery store. At 3 PM we left our suite, I dropped off a read book at a nearby Little Free Library, and a few minutes later arrived at the thrift store, Burnside Boutique. Scheduled to be open until 4 PM, closed at 3:15 PM. <fume> I am way too much an OCD rigid thinker to be accepting of that ! We dropped into Fairway Market at Gorge Plaza to buy milk and lettuce before returning “home”.
Back in our suite I finished the batch of buttermilk I started yesterday, then started a batch of sour cream. I’m kind of having fun with my newly acquired “cultured dairy” skills. And Apollo is VERY appreciative ! HA HA HA !
Early in the evening, before we had supper, we watched “Won’t You Be My Neighbour ?”, the Mr. Fred Rogers bio-pic. Joanne had seen it before, I had not. It’s a powerful film.
For tonight’s dinner salad Joanne used some of my freshly made buttermilk as a base to make a salad dressing. It was very good !
Thursday ; Sunny, cold, +3° C.
Due to the lovely sunshine, and despite the cold snap, we went for a long (time, not distance !) walk with Apollo around noon. It takes him twenty to thirty minutes to complete one lap around the Robin Hood Inn building !
This afternoon we had a lengthy (1.5 hours) telephone meeting with our new financial advisor’s assistant. She needed a lot of information from us in order to set up our six transferred investment accounts to conform with her firm’s files.
Joanne did laundry. I got a couple of books to read from the Robin Hood Inn’s exchange library. I finished making my newest batch of sour cream. It looks and smells good ! I hope it tastes good !
Friday ; Overcast, cold, +5° C.
When Housekeeping showed up at noon (an hour early !) today to provide weekly (full) service to our suite we left with Apollo to go buy take-out lunch at Syriana Restaurant. To the best of our recollection, this is the first time that we have had Syrian food. It was GREAT ! Although ... <whispering> ... a little heavy handed on the garlic !
Saturday ; Overcast, very windy, +6° C.
This morning over breakfast in the Great Room (Robin Hood Inn’s breakfast room and communal lounge) we chatted with a couple about our age, from Winnipeg, here for a couple of weeks of winter vacation.
This afternoon I paid some bills and ... <insert drum roll here> ... started working on our 2025 income tax returns. While I napped with Apollo after lunch Joanne went to buy some advertised specials at Thrifty Foods.
DSK
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