Digs on Nicola

Winter is ordained to follow fall. As you know, we have been living at the lake, but the lovely Indian summer (is it still appropriate to call it that?) is about to give way to freezing wind, snow and sleet. As the cabin has no central heating, the water pipes need draining soon to prevent the pipes from freezing and bursting. All liquids such as vinegar, oil, wine, soya sauce, canned goods and other sundry liquids need removal from the cabin for the same reason. So, given our yet again delay, we have necessarily rented new lodging for ourselves.

Susan and Lee Charlton, some people we know, offered us their suite. As it is near the hospital, they use it as short term accommodation for hospital visitors from out of town, medical interns training at the hospital or nursing students here on practicum. It is ideal for us for several reasons. First, we don’t have to sign a lease, therefore are free to leave if and when our visa is granted. Secondly, we are close to the hospital, so can visit frequently with Dad and thirdly, we can evaluate whether downtown living is suitable for us if and when we decide to sell our Sunshine Court home.

Wait until you see the suite. It is vintage! It is tiny with funky old furniture and is situated in the basement of an old Nicola Street house. A lovely yellow house on nice wide 900 block. This tiny suite will shelter us until we leave – likely February, but hopefully sooner.

So, with our homelessness problem settled again for the winter months, we feel a bit more settled and less stressed. Moving day is November 1st. No, we don’t need help as one small Subaru load will move us. Speaking of the Subaru, we are getting it fixed; we can’t put it off anymore, now that we will be winter driving. We bumped along all summer on our rutty, washboardy lake road, without shocks and struts on the Subaru, but now we must repair it.

Bill and I are off to the storage locker today to see if we can unbury our winter boots, coats, mittens and fashionable touques. All our winter wear is packed and buried, God only knows where, in our giant storage locker.

I have completed part one of the cycle tour video. I broke it into two parts as youtube only accepts videos less than 10 minutes. I haven’t finished part two as yet. You're invited to view my shared video on youtube at:


  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0ffgc8KDkk



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0ffgc8KDkk

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