Monday, October 9, 2023

Monday October 9, 2023 Thanksgiving

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Monday October 9, 2023

An anomaly has me baffled....  Increasing from 3mg Melatonin to using 9mg at night has not helped one iota,.... so I took only a 3mg pill again last night and slept 11pm to 7:30am, then dozed until almost 10am!!!!  

Bob made Thanksgiving chicken dinner for us, with Ukrainian trimmings and I contributed some German wine.  He filled our plates to overflowing and I took half of that back home for eating lunch tomorrow!  Looking forward to enjoying that again!

Then Bob and I decided to take advantage of the warm 23C weather and get outside so we went back to our haunt on Whyte Avenue.  A day like today was perfect in almost every way and the people were friendlier than ever, not a surly person anywhere,... all thankful on this amazing day for the blessings we have....  And I got to interact with several dogs today to get my doggie fix.

There was a fundraiser at the Commercial Hotel for WIN House (a refuge for battered women) so we contributed generously to that and enjoyed the music until it got too loud and we made our exit....

I hope you enjoy the pictures.  That was the day’s excitement.

Al

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Our local entertainment

I am the only one with fans and birdfeeders

A glorious 23C day..

The message for today

Bob's carving

Looking across the river valley

The High Level Bridge is our thoroughfare

2 kayakers way below...

A 50 year-old Triumph

Look at the speakers on this beast!

Large groups wandering today in the warmth.












Without my make-up

LOVE this helmet!

Fundraiser for WIN House

Many bikes this aft

Lambo #1

Lambo #2

Friendly dogs

Thanks for letting us interact!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sunday, October 8, 2023

Sunday October 8, 2023 Whyte

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Sunday October 8, 2023

Even upping the Melatonin isn't helping at all for sleeping.  Sheesh!  I went to bed at 11:30pm and was up at 3am.  Of course I had another 2-hour rest later.

Even the baseball is not very exciting without the Blew Jays, so Bob and I left at 4pm to go see Leo Martinez at Blues on Whyte at the Commercial Hotel.

As we pulled out of here, we went to check out the new mural that was installed on our east wall.  Last June, people were signed up to participate in painting the separate tiles.  I had been asked to photograph the activities but, unfortunately, that was the same time I had to be in Fernie, BC for the memorial service for Laurent, Cathy and Douglas.  The results is quite striking!  I wonder who first came up with the idea for these..???

We caught up with the High Level Bridge Streetcar on the way too.  That is always a pleasure.

It was 22C today so people were suntanning, biking in shorts, and much more, .....and even the ice creams shoppes were busy.

Leo had a guest guitarist named Brandon (I think) and he had a very deep singing voice which surprised us all.  

Around 7pm we made our exit as dusk was on us.  I caught a couple of nice shots as we crossed back over the High Level Bridge.  Then we came to my place and ate the leftover Meateor pizza from last night. 

I hope you enjoy the pictures.  That was the day’s excitement.

Al

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Really cool mural!

Bob and the streetcar

I guess they block the tracks from walkers...

See what is written above the headlight

Lovely vintage Indian Motorcycle

Alberta blue sky

Eating ice creams across the street

Leo needs new material

Sister

Brother

Papa

Brandon waiting with his cute girlfriend

People dancing

Brandon has a bass voice

Nice touch on the guitar!

A joke in the firetruck?

Dusk on the North Saskatchewan

Caught the LRT better in this shot...