Thursday June 6/13

Thursday June 6/13 update  # 475

Thank you to Mavis for reminding me that I had forgotten to finish the missing key mystery.  I had meant to sneak that in later in my narrative, in chronological order.  When the key didn’t turn up at Kevon’s, either in the loveseat or along the route to the car there, that left only two alternatives, my car or the sidewalk at Jill’s.  A search of my car did not produce any results either.  When I returned to Jill’s from all my visiting I began to scour the route from the front door to where I parked the Buick.    The concrete was devoid of anything so I went over the edge of the lawn as carefully as I could, trying not to disturb anything that could just conceal it further.   The grass was long and the edge had a lot of dried clipping complicating matters so I went over it 3 times trying to eyeball things from different angles so maybe I could catch a glint off it.  I was about to give up when I just spotted the top edge of it near the front sidewalk, right where I figured I would be reaching into my pocket to retrieve my car keys.  The key was well hidden, pointed down, and thankfully almost impossible to see unless you were actually hunting for it like I was.   It was the last place I would have wanted to lose it, to compromise the security of the house, but providence was on our side, thank goodness.   The key is now attached to the rest of my keys so this will not happen again.

It is unusual for me to sleep with the window wide open but the evenings have been so warm here.  That means the rising east sun shines right in and so I was up at 5:30 and came down.   I expected to see Ash getting ready for work as I was certain he was downstairs at this time yesterday.  My old brain had it wrong again, he comes down at 6:30 so I was thankful that they don’t have creaky floors so I did not wake anyone.

Everyone was off to work and school before long.  In a couple of weeks only Ash will be off to work alone because the other 3 will be off on summer holidays from school.   I went back to bed until 11:30 as I didn’t really have anything planned until mid-afternoon.

When I finally did get rolling I stopped at Rexall Place (the old Edmonton Coliseum) and got a couple of shots of the statue of Wayne Gretzky hoisting the Stanley Cup.  Edmonton City Council has approved the construction of a new downtown arena.  Why taxpayers are supporting millionaires is beyond our comprehension again.  Apparently they will get ½ of concession revenues in return.

I wanted to be well on the south side before rush hour so I went to visit Ash at his Sunble Signs shop.  He inherited the company name which is well respected in town.  It is amazing to see the capabilities of sign-making with today’s new technologies, from plain wall signs to wrapping vehicles.  There is a lot of superfluous equipment that Ash would like to divest himself of, because many jobs are much easier to sub out to others.

We ran over to the Vimy Sports School (the former Bonnie Doon High School) to pick up Dawson after school and returned to attend to a string of customers that came by to pick up their signs and decals.

My final destination was to meet with my cousin Jeanne at her home for supper.  She was outside with her dog Benji and ready to go for a walk so away we went after putting supper in the oven to cook.  Benji was off his feed today for some reason and wasn’t his normal self.

Jeanne’s good friend Mend, a podiatrist originally from Thailand, joined us and we had a superb time, laughing and joking, and especially enjoying the Shepherd’s pie, corn on the cob, and fruit crumble plus cheesecake for dessert.  They were both very interested to know more about Ecuador so I showed them the slideshow that I had prepared for Mom on my previous trip n January.  They sure liked what they saw.

We all took Benji for a second walk and came back and yakked and laughed some more.  I couldn’t believe my watch that it was almost midnight so it was sadly time to depart.

I took a couple of shots out my car window of the downtown of Edmonton then a shot of the pyramids at the Muttart Conservatory but not proper time shots on a tripod.  I didn’t expect to get much of a result but, thanks to PhotoShop, I was able to salvage them somewhat.

That was today’s excitement.  Hugs to all.  

Enjoy the pics at souvenircuenca.blogspot.com