Musings on a Small Life

I don't have anything earth-shattering to post, at least not yet. Ha. So just a few miscellaneous things: Early morning down at the swamp, August 13th. It's move-out day for my neighbours, so exciting for them, I'm sure. I wish them happy, healthy, successful lives in their new home.   I popped out to a flooring store on Saturday, was there longer than I anticipated, looking at flooring ("life-proof" vinyl options), as well as carpet options for the stairs (for safety!). I already had a general estimate from them, but the flooring I prefer is more expensive (of course) than what was in the estimate.      They will redo their quote to reflect the increased price and a few other things that were omitted from the first one. I have not paid any deposit, but unless the revised estimate is beyond what I'm anticipating, I will proceed. I've been dragging my heels on this because of the mess and work (for me) it will create, but it's not going to happen on its...

"The only constant is change," so it's said. My adjoining neighbours (my quiet, unobtrusive neighbours of 7 or 8 years) sent me a text on Friday letting me know they have a conditional offer in on a larger house and are listing their unit. This isn't a surprise, other than that it took this long. They have an almost 2-year old daughter and the wife might be pregnant again (not that I can or would ask). So while this isn't unexpected, it IS unwelcome. Long-time followers of my blog will (perhaps dimly) recall the previous absolutely ghastly, screaming, abusive people that owned the unit before this lovely family. I cannot and will not go back to living that way. Of course I could have wonderful new neighbours too! Most likely it will be somewhere in-between fabulous and horrendous...hopefully closer to the former than the latter. 🤞 A recent "selfie" with George . Yesterday, spurred on by this, I went to a local flooring place to talk options for redoing ...