Impressed by my piety
The new landlords, they're impressed by my piety.
They've popped around to attend miscellaneous small repairs, light yard work, check that everything is OK.
They love the "Our Lady of the Birds", a bird feeder I've left on the front step, the blessed virgin presiding.
"It's our Lady of Fatima" they assure me, they're Portuguese and so they'd know. Not to be confused with "Our Lady of Lourdes", which mistake I made (but was forgiven for, they are, after all, somewhat alike, and they take a minute to explain the difference.)
And they love how I've fixed up a little shrine in the hallway, filling the old phone niche with rosaries, devotional cards, miraculous anointing balm.
They think we're on the same page, which is a good thing, and are impressed by my piety.
I haven't the heart to tell them I'm a Buddhist.
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I won! (ebay...)
And it didn't turn into a bidding war...
Late at night browsing ebay. What has it all come to? But I search and I search again and I find an item vastly (well, slightly) undervalued, with a single bid, auction ending soon. The owner has not entered the right keywords, so the item hasn't been discovered (or at least as discovered as other similar items).
And so I wait. 10 minutes, watching the time count down in red letters. When it reaches under a minute I bid on the item, confirm, and - ta-da! I win.
The price was right, the item OK, slightly annoyed by the fact the shipping exceeds the cost of the item (but that's shopping online), now I just have to wait for my present to arrive.
Now I've something to look forward to. Every day, hounding the mailman...checking the letterbox....
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Tibetan Marches by Andre Migot
In which the author recounts his adventures in traveling through China in 1946 through to Tibet.
Exactly that. Not great literature, but a good read nonetheless. I rather like travel & adventure books, especially those that capture the period and setting. And it has me googling Lhasa and idly looking at maps of the territory, which also can't be a bad thing..
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2010 - Garage Sales Week 4
Lots of garage sales, none particularly accessible. There's the Parade of Garage Sales in Okotoks, a large one in Huntington Hills, a few others, but all too far away. Eventually I decide on a neighborhood sale in Brittania.
It takes me an hour to get there by bus, I expect perhaps a dozen sales, mixed items. Ever the optimist I even pack a big Lulu lemon bag to pack my treasures in. But there's nothing. 3 garage sales, one with mixed toys for young children, a small box of videos, the other principally comprised of leftover hardware from a bathroom renovation. Nothing. Nada. Diddly Squat.
So week 4 is a bust.
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