"Odds and Ends"

No this is not another family post in case you were fooled by the title. Just odds and ends. Here goes.

1) After about a hundred years they have decided to start making people pay for their parking at the psych hospital. Some employees just park at the road and walk in rather then pay. Today when I seen a Mercedes parked on Sunset Drive I thought to myself; if he has such a car can't he afford to pay? Then it quickly came to me. Maybe that's how he could afford the car in the first place?

2) Do you find this as ironic as I did? I seen (ha ha) on TV today that in some city in western Canada they were cutting down the bushes and shrubs in the local park in order to be able to improve surveillance?? Why not just pave the place and be done with it I say!!

3) I went to the drivethrough at the bank today and withdrew some cash. As I took those pretty pieces of paper in my hand I thought how ludicrous....the things people will do for a 2 3/4 by 6 inch piece of cotton/linen, and the stress it creates....me included!!

4)I had a flashback today. Claudette is not feeling well and as such I rubbed her shoulders a bit and then closed the bedroom blinds so she could have a nap. As I left the room and turned out the lights I suddenly felt the ghost of that old Peter....the one that spent 6 months hiding in that same dark room. It literally made me shudder for an instant. One day I'll completely shake that guy but not quite yet I guess.

5) Congratulations to my running buddies Joe and Burt. They terrorized the marathon(3:11) and half marathon(1:23) courses in Toronto this past weekend. They continue to set standards I will never meet. I really, really hate them both....oh and love them too!

6) The pool is closed and today I put the RV away. I have heard lots of people complain that we didn't have much summer but don't count me among them. I enjoyed every moment of it and I can honestly say that it did not seem short.

7)I'm reading Lord of the Rings for about the 50th time. It still works for me.

8)I'm not much for poetry but when I came across this the other day in the very same book I couldn't help but think of my friends at the home.

"I sit beside the fire and think
of all that I have seen,
of meadow-flowers and butterflies
in summers that have been;

Of yellow leaves and gossamer
in autumns that there were,
with morning mist and silver sun
and wind upon my hair.

I sit beside the fire and think
of how the world will be
when winter comes without a spring
that I will ever see

For still there are so many things
that I have never seen;
in every wood n every spring
there is a diferent green.

I sit beside the fire and think
of people long ago,
and people who will see a world
that I will never know.

But all the while I sit and think
of times there were before
I listen for returning feet
and voices at the door"---J.R.R. Tolkien


"Oh lord, won't you buy me a mercedes benz ?
My friends all drive porsches, I must make amends,
Worked hard all my lifetime, no help from my friends,
So oh lord, won't you buy me a mercedes benz ?
Thats it!"---Janis Joplin

love
peter