TOPPED, DOORED, AND SANDWICHED

In Toronto the annual all-night Arts Festival called Nuit Blanche featured this huge stack of bicycles by Ai Wei Wei, the famed Chinese dissident who is under house arrest back home.  Can you see how symbolic and subversive this looks to the authorities??

At the apartment the kitchen counter tops have been updated from 1988 "butcher block" to 2013 "Limestone". The kitchen is mostly Pat's domain and she likes the lighter tones and texture. Around back, the garage doors have been updated from 1953 and 1992 "homemade plywood barn doors" to 2013 "light steel overhead doors". The garage is mostly my domain and I like the lighter weight and security. To each his (her?) own! Something we both like is the upgrade of the stair runner from 1988 "grotty dark rose wool pile" to 2013 "works-for-me 2-tone brown". On the way back to Kemble, flocks of gulls now roam inland ---- a yummy change from eating minnows to munching worms?

Today I'm sandwiched between what would have been my mom's 101st birthday (yesterday Oct. 12th) and tomorrow's Canadian Thanksgiving (Oct. 14). Pat's preparing to give me the bird and we're both very, very grateful for our privileged lives. May you feel the same.