typical week

Monday started with a 9 am mtg.with my Aldershot 2008 committee. We're planning a year-long celebration of Aldershot becoming part of Burlington in 1958. Once I got out of there I ran some errands, and then fell to building some more of the two two-layer drywalls either side of the garage door. These will define some gardens/shrubs to be planted next year, and will give our new pavement a border out to the rear sidewalk, on one side, and the neighbour's evergreens on the other. Had the city in the previous week to install a new culvert, smaller than the first and lower, and they did a fine job. My neighbours will pay for it in their taxes. Monday evg.attended Official Board meeting at church, where I tried to keep my mouth shut on major issues, as I no longer wish to pick up additional committee work.
Tuesday I did some small jobs here and at the church, and goofed off for the evg.
Wed. I rejoined the YMCA and spent an hour there doing pushups. That evg.I travelled to Brenda's to help Paul install stove wire from panel to far corner of kitchen. That took us from 4:30 to 8:30. All holes in walls covered.
Thursday I spent the morning recovering from Wed., and odd-jobbed around here. That evg.I went to Grimsby to play poker with the same guys I've known for 30+ years. I was able to attend only because choir practice was cancelled due to death of director's grandfather in Newfoundland.
Friday morning Anne & I went to the farmer's market, and then to the 'Y' to do "Stretch & Tone" for an hour. PM was yard work, and evg. was another meeting with 7 guys from the church to plan our Fourth Friday Fellowship Group events for the coming year.
Saturday morning I had to usher at the funeral of a friend at East Plains, after which I went home, ate, changed, and arranged to meet Anne's brother Murray at Heather's, where the two of us put a plywood roof on Connor's clubhouse, as Ted was at his folk's 40th in Orillia and Heather is in either Reno or Vegas on company business.
Today was church in the morning, and after lunch Anne and I went for a one-hour guided hike in north Burlington along some of the Bruce Trail. This is a new approach the Assn. is using to encourage the public at large to show up and join the walk, and consider possibly joining then or shortly after. It was a perfect day for a 3 km.walk over hill and dale, in a forest of mature trees .
We ran a couple of errands on the way home, and then rested up for supper - a totally yummy salmon casserole, courtesy of Anne.
So that was an almost typical week for me. And tomorrow it will start with a 2-km walk for me, coffee at the church from 9-10, and then it's off to Jill's to help her with some shelf installation and power-washing of a very dirty driveway. Marilyn is due to arrive at Murray's any minute now, and will be here for the week before heading back to Calgary. She spent the last two in New Brunswick visiting old friends.
Hope you've found something of interest to you in this drivel, and I'll close with this note from the old philosopher. "Every situation, properly perceived, is an opportunity." Warren