My Storm Doors

Sad to report the contractor that I hired was unable to put my storm doors on yesterday but hopefully today. I did know that he had another project in the morning as he had informed me when he received my payment for the doors that he did have this project to go to first. I am the daughter of a trades owner and do know that smaller projects do sometimes have to wait for an opening. I will just continue to wait and see but do look forward to having new screen doors even if they are not the same excellent quality that the ones they are replacing were but times change and the quality of merchandise has certainly diminished since my childhood. Another human excess; the throw away generations. Just take a load to the dump and you will see that our generation is the most negligent there has ever been on the planet! I do not exclude myself from the blame although at least in my favour is my tendency to not buy very much! But eventually even I have to buy things. 

However, we firmed up our new fences so that will happen this fall at some point. The fence on one side will be replaced by an extension of the present chain link to the back of the house. The other will be a lovely wooden fence replacing the aging wooden fence that is there attached to chain link further down. Why not wood on the other side? It blocks the sun and we are rapidly losing our sun view with the tree cover so a little more open will be very nice. We have a back patio that is secluded so happy with that. 

Owning a house is really the pits to be honest; I have no need for it and eventually it will go the way of the Dodo bird (sad to say; God must look down on us and wonder when we will realize that we are responsible for how the world goes). 

I was excited to read that Palestinian groups are trying to form cells in Gaza that are Hamas free. Terrorists are archaic; barbaric and just plain ridiculous in a modern world (the only aim of these terrorists (Hamas, Hezbollah and Houthis) is to annihilate everyone who isn't Muslim starting with the Jews - really ignorant one might say and I would pray to God that he strike them all dead but not likely to happen unfortunately). And one must note they (the terrorists) do not care how many Muslims die in their rampages! 

At nearly 79 my desire for home ownership is pretty much gone. But I do need to respectfully continue to downsize Edward's work and get it published and the original material either given to family, donated or shredded if it does not have a home to go to. It still takes up a lot of space - the entire master bedroom is now committed to this task with all possible tools at my disposal. Scanners, Printers, Camera setup, large table type areas to work on and almost 25 boxes still to go. Now all concentrated in one room I will work away at that as I write my books this next winter. It was still too scattered for me to work on it and the task was always so daunting and he had published some of his work on World Connect and discovering World Connect was defunct meant that I had to do something with it myself. Probably I was never really into home ownership although we have owned one for most of our marriage (I was 20 when we were married and living in my parent's home). Edward's zest for gardening drove the home ownership mostly and a place to raise our children for sure. But one does need a roof over one's head and walls here in Canada (the winters are cold for sure) and home ownership continues to be the best way!

The birds are busy today cleaning up the last seeds in the feeder before it is filled again for the day. Not much left; mostly bird level of eating as the squirrels will not return until the new feed is put out nor the chipmunks and we haven't seen the rats/mice for weeks now it sees. I would need to reread my blog to check on that. I do not really have any animal that I am opposed to but some have diseases that cross to human and so must be avoided if there are children around and we do have children on our street. The racoons are just too big to be in a yard and mostly they do not come into this yard especially now that we are not using the large feeder. It would actually get up there and eat! Although that was a rare sighting for sure. Usually early spring for that and then they find better pickings elsewhere. 

The second cleaning day and it is the basement. I will soon start up the robot to clean the rug. 

On to breakfast. The day commences. Perhaps some work on the Blake Newsletter as I would like to get it published sooner rather than later (was due 1st of July).