Day 148.....a bit more productive.
3 Girls and 4 Suitcases.
Yesterday saw me putting a bit more effort both into life and into my writing. Jen and I walked down to 'No Frills' in the beautiful sunshine and it was great to spend time outside. I had said to her, that if it got above feeling like -8, we were going and it made it to -7 just before 1pm, so off we went.
I put a double coat on and was really warm by the time we got to the store, which is about twenty five minutes away. I had removed my gloves en-route and was wishing that I had only worn one coat. I opted to wear just one of them, back up the road but we were greeted by a rather cold wind, blowing in our faces which made the walk home not quite as pleasant as the walk there. But the sun was still shining :-)
I forgot to mention that we stopped into an open-house, a few doors down from us. The house was not too different from this place but everything was a bit old and would need replacing plus the basement was needing fitted despite the fact it was clear. They are only asking $745, 000 for it (I say that 'only' in an 'I-don't-mean-it' manner) and the realtor mentioned that she felt a builder would buy it, knock it down and rebuild. What a waste of all those lovely wooden features but she is probably right. The house across the street, which was knocked down in the fall, is almost rebuilt. It'll likely be worth a couple of million once it's done-EEK. This is a bit of an expensive neck of the woods we have found ourselves living in. I wake up to the economic news every morning-I still haven't changed the channel on my radio alarm-and they seem to think the economy is going to go downhill. Housing prices are one thing they keep saying is unsustainable and I wonder if there may be a wee crash coming. If it's soon, it would certainly help us, when we are ready to buy.
After we warmed up when we got home (I had some soup) I set about editing my book. Lost in the process, I only realised the time when I couldn't see the keyboard in the dark. It gets dark around five-thirty and so it was like a wee alarm-clock reminding me that I needed to make dinner.
Jen had picked up a disaster movie, at the library and we decided to watch it. It was a very B movie, with the main characters being recognisable from other movies and the special effects/extras were naff. However, the actual plotline was interesting and I like to see how things play out in disaster movies. This one was fairly predictable but it did have some good acting that made us both cry. Ali has loads of homework and so she was not involved in what turned out to be a 2 part mini-series, not a movie. I got a fair bit knitting done :-)
This morning it's bright and sunny again and so I think we'll go for another walk, later. It still needs to warm up a couple of degrees but I am hopeful.
I wish I'd kept some of the photos I shared yesterday, for today rather than bombard you with them all yesterday, leaving today quite bare-oh well.
Love to all,
Lxx
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