Monday August , 2025 Beauty

 

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Monday August , 2025

 I was up early again because Bob's neighbour was coming with her brother to pick up the desk that I had salvaged for her from next door.  We used my dolly to get it downstairs and loaded it easily into his SUV.

I spoke to the workers resurfacing the garage.  They completed patching the bad areas and we assume they will commence tomorrow with a cement layer of about 2".... and they expect to be done by Friday!  I sure hope so, so I can move the Gio back to his regular spot.

Window washers (apparently only 1 guy today) started finally washing windows on the other building and may be om site until Thursday.  I can't wait to get clean windows again...

Bob called that he had been to his doctor and has a new regimen of pills and tests for his newest problems.  He was also excited that another neighbour lady is definitely purchasing his Daymak scooter, maybe Wednesday.  He also spoke to his bank to pay off his existing loan and get a new loan for his new Gio.  Things are falling into place well for him.

I had a 3-hour nap then grabbed the Nikon and took a short walk with plans to do a lot more walking.  Close by is a Heritage Home that has a very nice front garden so I took a lot of shots.

When I got back, I found that I could update my Topaz AI program and that made it MUCH faster, so I went to work, using the RAW-NEF files into Topaz AI to convert them to DNG files, which I then processed in Smart Photo Editor to huge PNG files, which I finished off in PhotoShop, and converted those for the Blog to smaller JPG files for you.

The 23 pics I saved took 3 hours overall but the results are worth it.  I hope you will agree.   I am getting the hang of a system that works now.

I think now I will go out for another walk.  It is cooling down slowly from today's high of 30C (which is a lot warmer than North Carolina at the moment).

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

Al

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Heritage Home on the corner

Many lovely flowers

See the bee?

Bee

Bee

Bee

Apples

 

See the fly and the spider?

Very cool fountain

 

 

 

 

Sunday August 24, 2025 Nice

 

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Sunday August 24, 2025

Saturday, I got busy making new business cards with my new Fongo phone number and made sure they were attached to my pieces of luggage....  Already getting ready to head South.

Since my neighbour to the West, John, is vacating his apartment to move to a place with the extra care he needs, his sister, Collette, let me know that they had a few things to try to get rid of.  I had mentioned this to Bob so he found one of his neighbors that needs stuff, so now I am holding a desk for someone named Sharon in my suite until Monday.  

At 3 PM they had a corn roast outside in the sunshine for the residents, for which we had paid $2 each..  A nice cob of Taber Corn, a small hotdog, a bag of Hickory Sticks, a Pepsi and a Twinkie made a nice quick meal.

I plugged in my Gio and spoke to another friend, Ross, who was using the computer downstairs while watching football and baseball.  I invited him up to watch at my place and we yacked until past midnight.

Today around noon, I went down to retrieve my Gio and Ross was again at the computer.  Sitting on my Gio was another Chicago Black Hawks cap in black,.. a nice gift from Ross.  He likes a lot of the same things I do.

The weather is turning nice and hot for a week, today hitting 29C, so I was determined to get out.  Later we have a heat warning in effect as temps will rise into the 30's...  Finally we may get to use the air-conditioner..

I met Bob and we headed to the Queen Mary Flea Market for something to do.  I wanted a blue ball cap because I have a lot of blue clothes and jackets.  I could only find Blue Jays caps they wanted $30 for...  Bob wanted a night light.  

I also needed to confirm a few things with my IPTV provider who has a booth there.  I can buy a simpler IPTV box, a Z11 model, for $210, and get it all set up to use in Colombia when I go in December and prepay a year at $15 monthly.  That will give me something to pass some of the time down there.

Then the lights went out and they shooed everybody out of the building, including the vendors...  So we went to a different Dollarama store to get the nightlight for Bob.  I am still looking for a cheap blue cap. 

I left Bob and went down along the North Saskatchewan to Ezio Faraone Park, then the Legislature.   I honestly expected both places to be much busier, but the kids were having a ball in the fountains in the heat.

I hope you enjoy the pictures (out of order again).  

That was the day’s excitement.

Al

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My new cap!

 

I expected this area to be much busier

This kid was having a blast

Love this view

One of our Tram cars on the High Level Bridge

 

Lots of watercraft on the N. Sask.

A look West

Gotta love Alberta blue skies

Wednesday Wings photos

 

 

 

 

Fin