Canada/Kanada

...As I keep watching the world according to cnn...nothing much is changing...looks to me like it's getting cold a little early this year, so much for global warming, just another oilcompany conspiracy...Makes you wonder.

Renovation of the new, old house is progressing slowly... the working habits of our typical out of town reno workies is a joke. I have to call his home to see if he will show up...and even then it's hit and miss.

Kath was in town after a New York trip she stopped by in the big TO..she narrowly missed an Emmy Award for her movie short, but she is happy for the nomination.

This is a picture at the Eatons Center, a nice passerby took it with my camera.

...the other pic is from my livingroomwindow..at sundown...

...about time...

...the house renovation in Cobourg is going along fine, no serious problems.The kitchen is pretty well complete,new floors in kitchen, hallway and bedrooms as well. Had a little trouble with the enlarged front door entrance area...the local building code enforcement team hit me for a few bucks for the required permit...etc.

That part of the project should be all rouged in by next week,doors installed and so on. The concrete footings are in place for the rear of the house planned deck 10 x 16 foot should do it.

The other somewhat urgent thing to do is the bathroom upgrade with a new tub and that's about it for this year.

...this has absolutely nothing to do with the deer buck...but I did complete another acrylic 8x10 with a deer in it..

Canada/Kanada

November 11...the poppy thing..sadness..war..and here I am with my Cobourg renovation whining..

The front entrance desperately needs improvement, like a door,a bit of an entry area and so on. Failed to get the proper building permit..they need the few bucks in this small town, hard to believe but they have 3 ( yes three) full time building inspector types working in this area of 15,000 souls ...but so be it...we have to do things right.

...by the way this is a drawing by Katharine( 14) of me...just to give credit to an artist, inventor of the now famous planet bag.

the planet bag.com