A Visit from Mum.
July 25th, 2003
Mum is here today for a quick overnight stay in order to help Weener look at an apartment. This one looks promising. It's in East City, so she isn't far from downtown. The apartment is a studio on the main floor of an old Victorian home. She'd have full use of the pool and the yard, and heat and hydro is included. It's less than the other one we looked at. Smaller too, but I hope better.
I've been cleaning out the basement over the past couple weeks that I have been between jobs. It's been a ton of work, but things are really starting to fall into place. We had so much junk that we had carted from one apartment to another for whatever reason. I got rid of most of it, and organised the rest into bins instead of how it was crammed willynilly into boxes and bags. I've also done a quick pass through the house so it looks good for when Mum arrives.
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Well, Mum got here safely and her and Weener went to look at the apartment. I think Weener wants it, but the landlady said that she is waiting to hear from one other girl first. I guess this girl had looked at the place, and wants it, but is on a waiting list to get into Trent, so she doesn't even know if she will be in school here in the fall. That must be so rough. Double cohort problems again, I guess.
My garden is looking really pretty lately, although I have to get out there and weed. The mulch I put down is doing a pretty good job of keeping things in check, but it's just on the verge of beginning to be overtaken. My roses are getting ready to bloom again, which is really wonderful, and my clematis actually flowered this year. Mind you, it's only at the top that it is flowering, but I hope next year I will get more blooms. I am already mentally moving plants around and planning the additions for next year. I think I want a couple old fashioned roses, the giant ones. I adore those. I just need to figure out where they'd be happy. Since all the construction behind us when they ripped out all the trees, my back yard is quite sunny now, when it used to be quite shaded. So maybe one would be happy there. We just found out that our neighbour is following suit and building a fence like our other neighbour. That means that we'll probably just have to pay to connect the two at the back. Bonus! The one neighbour put up a cedar fence, I don't know what the other is going to do. We offered to help, but they said they were ok. Neither one asked us if we wanted to chip in and do it more cheaply by going in together, so I guess our patience will pay off and we won't have to pay very much at all. We are definitely going to wait until the survey is done, because we can't find our back stakes and we'd hate to be 6 inches over our lot line and have to move it later. Our one neighbour eyeballed off existing fences, but he didn't have stakes either, so I hope he was right!
Approaching Kilter is on a little hiatus because I haven't been on the bike lately due to some knee problems.
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