July 19th, 2017
Plans are firming up for the 93 year old mother to visit. She has a ticket and she gonna ride.
In the meantime, a room arrived from Rhode Island, young couple, a book editor and his bride possibly, a food prepare r. Prior to their arrival, the earth moved, as the list shifted from inside to outside as I have been threatening to do for a while now. As I got my feet under me, “OFF with their heads was my cry.” The roses both front and eventuality the back being trimmed back and filling two large waste bags. That started the cascade affect with more yard work. One quarter of one percent tackled. One and half other kind of bushes out front done. It was accomplished slowly and eased into because of the heat, humidity and sunshine of the utmost reaches of the scale for here in the Maritimes. Most of the merry month of May list for the garden, yet untouched. Its a jungle out there.
OUT to lunch, to a local cafe, where the waitresses don’t shave and the men are irregular. Things have changed since my day, not one fern hanging from the ceiling in a brass pot. Succeeded at finding a table and on it was a thick tome of criminal law on the table earmarked with a torn piece of paper. Quick glance at the front page of the local rag, and my lunch partner arrived. We had a salad in the latest quest to “eat food, not too much and mostly plants.” I came home and ate a sandwich.
The public policy of the big little city is being run by the hotel association. There may be worse conclaves, I am sure, but metropolis council had approved a building permit for yet another 14 story hotel on a vacant piece of land near by. Insert drum roll, bringing to the total of hotels, with four in the works, of 25. Of course they are the standard mix use, condo, hotel and retail. (The last of the BIG dept stores has gone into liquidation, just yesterday and one can throw a bowling ball down the hallways of the malls sometimes, but I digress.) Being Gordon’s daughter I wrote and asked them to think about having eventually having 5000 bedrooms and mix up mixed use to include other things like 24 hour day care, or a seniors complex or two on some of the floors. Not autoerotic I know.
Lucy P continues on, and now we sit beneath a tree on our daily rounds, near a group home of mentally disabled men. We have become quite friendly as they smoke and Lucy rolls. Today the agenda swings yet again, to fleece pjs and oil changes, stay tuned. Carpe Diem, “Your future depends on what you do today.
Mahatma Gandhi Moi and Miss Lp