Saturday, November 30
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gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
having a nice day in the city with my Sweetie.
I needed to order a larger winter blanket for Dandy, and apparently I needed to pay for it at the tack store in person to get the Black Friday sale price or something. Sigh. The sale is worth it, though.
We also picked up a different back warming pad, on a 40% off sale, since I'm not 100% sure if I'm happy with the other one. I'm not even sure how you know they're doing anything.
Then we went to the art gallery, though we didn't have a lot of time before it closed. We saw one different gallery that was large photographs of Holocaust survivors that came to Canada after the war, and their stories.
The pictures were taken long after they came to Canada, and they all looked like anyone's Grandparents, and it was insane to think of anyone hauling them away to death camps.
There was a Craft sale in the main lobby area, so we looked around at this. It was hard not to buy something from every vendor, and I did buy one pinkie ring.
Then we walked around the public square just outside the museum, at all the lovely Christmas lights, with snow gently falling. Very pretty.
The big city Public Library that was opened only a few years ago was open, so we walked around in there. What a lovely building. We didn't take out any materials, though I suppose we could have (you can return them at any other library) but I really enjoyed looking at everything. There's a fair amount of art there, lots of inviting seating, and there is a room that they have cooking classes, an area for "makers" where they have classes, and so on.
What a wonderful building! Such fun architecture, big windows, open areas. We saw it at night but I bet it gets so much sunlight during the day. If we lived in the city I would probably take a lot of classes there, and hang out a lot in the winter time.
In general I am a great supporter of libraries and egalitarian public spaces where you don't have to spend money to just be there. I have over the years worked at TWO small local libraries in our area, and had things not go that well for me in the end, though I have to say it might have been partly my own perception of events that contributed.
It has soured me on those local libraries, which is too bad, because at one time I did use them a lot.
I miss having a library to be part of.
Then we went to a mall and looked for very specific boots, EXACTLY like the last pair, for my husband. He did not find them (and I'm not surprised, this is how shopping with my husband usually goes. We go to a lot of stores to find the exact same thing he had last time, and often after many, many tries we settle on something else).
He might end up just ordering a pair.
It was a lot of walking today.
Then we got a vegetarian burrito.
At home we got the wood stove going, and watched "Invictus", a good movie about rugby and Nelson Mandela. It's sort of an attempt to balance all the episodes of "Scooby Doo" during the week.
having a nice day in the city with my Sweetie.
I needed to order a larger winter blanket for Dandy, and apparently I needed to pay for it at the tack store in person to get the Black Friday sale price or something. Sigh. The sale is worth it, though.
We also picked up a different back warming pad, on a 40% off sale, since I'm not 100% sure if I'm happy with the other one. I'm not even sure how you know they're doing anything.
Then we went to the art gallery, though we didn't have a lot of time before it closed. We saw one different gallery that was large photographs of Holocaust survivors that came to Canada after the war, and their stories.
The pictures were taken long after they came to Canada, and they all looked like anyone's Grandparents, and it was insane to think of anyone hauling them away to death camps.
There was a Craft sale in the main lobby area, so we looked around at this. It was hard not to buy something from every vendor, and I did buy one pinkie ring.
Then we walked around the public square just outside the museum, at all the lovely Christmas lights, with snow gently falling. Very pretty.
The big city Public Library that was opened only a few years ago was open, so we walked around in there. What a lovely building. We didn't take out any materials, though I suppose we could have (you can return them at any other library) but I really enjoyed looking at everything. There's a fair amount of art there, lots of inviting seating, and there is a room that they have cooking classes, an area for "makers" where they have classes, and so on.
What a wonderful building! Such fun architecture, big windows, open areas. We saw it at night but I bet it gets so much sunlight during the day. If we lived in the city I would probably take a lot of classes there, and hang out a lot in the winter time.
In general I am a great supporter of libraries and egalitarian public spaces where you don't have to spend money to just be there. I have over the years worked at TWO small local libraries in our area, and had things not go that well for me in the end, though I have to say it might have been partly my own perception of events that contributed.
It has soured me on those local libraries, which is too bad, because at one time I did use them a lot.
I miss having a library to be part of.
Then we went to a mall and looked for very specific boots, EXACTLY like the last pair, for my husband. He did not find them (and I'm not surprised, this is how shopping with my husband usually goes. We go to a lot of stores to find the exact same thing he had last time, and often after many, many tries we settle on something else).
He might end up just ordering a pair.
It was a lot of walking today.
Then we got a vegetarian burrito.
At home we got the wood stove going, and watched "Invictus", a good movie about rugby and Nelson Mandela. It's sort of an attempt to balance all the episodes of "Scooby Doo" during the week.
