Ongoing Letter - Allan's Place
Allan's journal to the world. (Sounds important, doesn't it?)
I’m back doing desk work again, adding receipts to Microsoft Money. It’s been raining off and on for a few days, so I’m not working outside in the mud.
Besides that, my right wrist is sore (beginnings of carpal tunnel syndrome), so I’m taking it easy with the physical work. I wear a wrist brace most days.
No morning is complete without my cup of joe.
Another birthday has come and gone. And I’m still here. I wish I could say the same about many people I have known.
“What did you do on your birthday?” Hmm. I drove to High River, AB, to pick up Floyd, did laundry, tutored, and watched Hill Street Blues reruns.
Been busy the past few days. I installed some deadbolts in the rear of a rental property, cleaned out part of the garage, completed my taxes, blew out all the leaves from the red shale rock on the East side of the house, and attended a pot-luck supper at the community centre.
Boy, the music at Starbucks sucks. There was some opera tenor bellowing away like a sick cow in the previous song, and now we have show tunes. Should a person run the risk of sounding like a complainer, put up with it, or leave?
I left.
Happy Leap Day!
Today is February 29, 2024. To celebrate the Leap Day, I’m at Starbucks downing an Americano and completing my tutoring logs. Okay, so it isn’t much of a celebration, but it’s nice to get out now and then.
sunset outside Milk River, AB
It’s spitting outside – half snow and half rain. It’s a Sunday today, and I’m ‘taking a day’ (day off).
55, still alive.
Spring has sprung.
The deer are eating the tulips for the third year in a row. So this year, before planting a bunch of new bulbs, Floyd and I put up a 6-foot (2m) fence of plastic bird netting. I found some long 1x2s in the garage, pulled the nails out, sharpened the ends with Father’s band saw, and hammered them into the ground. Unfortunately, nightfall had already begun. (I wonder what passers-by would think.)
I went to Peavey Mart to get some gardening supplies. While looking around, I was surprised to see a cat just laying about. Was he protecting the store from mice? After all, he was sitting on a stack of feed, likely a mouse’s dream come true (except for the cat).
Along with spring comes spring cleaning. I’ve finally phased out the old computer and brought in the new. Along with that is also an old sound system I have had for about 15 years, replaced with a very small sound bar.
First day of ownership on the new rental house.
It’s a house built in 1906 built on a 65-foot-wide lot. It has one 3-bedroom suite on the main floor and a 1-bedroom suite on the 2nd. It is currently empty and in need of renovations.
Remembrance Day is here again. CTV Calgary had broadcast a memorial from the Hanger Flight Museum. It was a very touching presentation.