October 01, 2017
Another and another first. A guest broke the shower head, sometime this summer, and did not have the courage to hand it to me. I found it in the bathtub when I went to clean it. Thus OFF we went to the patriot tire store, to purchase, among other things, nightlights, (got LEDs which after one night, don’t seem to be to bright, like the owner of the house, I have to admit.) and shower heads and lawn size garage bags, not on sale but convenient in a bundle of 900. What the heck they were doing, I think is twisting when they should have pushed. And cream.
I thought that I was down to one guest, but no. The Visitor information center calls and put a British sounding lady on the phone, and she arrives with an Italian gentleman with whom she married in South Africa, 40 years ago, BOTH sound like they just arrived on Canadian shores, yesterday. In fact I am not sure that the gentleman’s incoherence was due to tiredness or he spoke his native language better than anything else.
I explained to them that the shower may not work, please use the downstairs commode, and that the bathrobes were out on the line. I then went to another room to replace the wet ones, as I knew if I did not, it would rain. It was cold, and there was a red alert, for frost. I did manage one night of bringing in the flowers and placing them on the floor of the living-room. The gentleman not only did not speak English well, he did not understand it either. Parking which is free on the weekend seemed to be a problem.
OFF I went, and had the best service ever at a store, complete with the salesman picture of his dog. I think I should have gone with his recommendation and did not. An emergency call to my repair guy for a Monday morning refit of shower fixtures.
Here is the other first, I ate something, that did not agree with me, someplace. The lady from France giving me a carrot ball to taste early in the day, having been left in her shoe, I saw. Thus did not even know there would be a last minute on line reservation from people area code 514 that they would be arriving at 23:00. Slept thru it all. Here we are again, in the dark, and cold about to make breakfast for people I did know were here. But pay I will for going to bed. October 01, 2017