Furniture

My new hide-a-bed arrived along with a reclining armchair and my living room now looks much better than it did when it was furnished with lawn chairs.  Now just to hang the art.  And the cushion that Marilyn made and sent for Christmas is just perfect on the couch.

My view is just gorgeous!

I have been taking so many photos - pretty well one each morning because the view is just beyond words!  And the scenery makes my photos look pretty good.  The ornamental cherry tree just outside my balcony really helps and the lake is like glass just after the sun starts to shine on it.

Easter vacation

Great vacation!

Good Friday found me driving to Victoria following an invitation from Kevin and Tina.  They have a lovely apartment and they have decorated it so nicely - mostly Tina's ideas with a helping of Kevin's muscles.  The weather was the usual - lovely.  So we walked on the West Bay Walkway and the Ogden Point Breakwater, ate at Il Terrazzo, an Italian restaurant with no spaghetti or lasagne on the menu!  Good food.

And oh yes, I bought a new car.  My last car was dirt colored (that's what I requested when going to the dealer).  They don't have that color any more so this time my car color is called brown sugar.  There isn't a whole lot of difference in the color which suits me just fine as this one should hide the dirt reasonably well too.

Kevin took some things to Victoria when he was here in the fall - thank heavens!  And here he is with one of his treasures.

Since returning home I put in my application for old age pension!!!!!  A few years ago I didn't think I'd live long enough, now I think that I had better collect for many, many years.  And that same few  years ago I wasn't overly thrilled about retiring but just before Easter I put in my letter.  If things go the way I am planning, I will be finished work by Labor Day.  Now I am gathering a list of things that I will do once retired.

I have set the alarm once more and head off to work in the AM.  Not counting sleeps yet.

Couch is finally here!

Despite my best worrying that it wouldn't fit through the door to the condo, or that it wouldn't fit in the den, my hide-a-bed has arrived and those great guys from Home Goods took it into the den to show me that it would fit, then brought it into the living room so that I will be able to put the lawn chairs in the basement.  In the process they took off the outside door and the den door, put them back on and were in and out in under thirty minutes!  The couch came with cushions but I think that I like the one Marilyn sent more.

Christmas 2014

Here is our cosy Christmas in my condo.  My couch still hasn't arrived so the lawn chairs/folding chairs/rug were our choices of seats.  There is enough room for all ten of us at the table, just no room for extra food so I set up a couple of TV trays in the corner for bowls once we were finished passing everything around.  It seems that there was enough space for dancing while the smokers were outside!

Fireplace now works

Lor came by and lit the pilot light in my gas fireplace.  I sure like the cosiness of that!  The rug came back from the cleaners with a whole new lease on life.  Now for the hide-a-bed that I ordered.

 Marlene was kind enough to drop off some tulips to brighten up my dining room.

New digs

It has been busy, crazy busy but now I am happily settling into my condo at High St Place.  Much smaller - so much stuff has gone!  And I am trying to fit the rest into place.  Before I moved in the carpet was removed and laminate installed.  Now I am busy making it my own with my own furnishings and art.

Here is my condo from High St.  This is a two storey building and I am on the lower floor at the end.  The windows are my bedtoom window on the side of the building, another window in my bedroom along the front and then my living room window.  Further over is the balcony that leads from my dining room.  Below my condo is the storage area.  I have to come outside to get to it but the storage room is quite large - so I have decided to call it my basement rather than try to change.  I drive up into the underground parking here as well and walk along a covered walkway behind the building.

The lobby and mailroom are in the building behind mine.

Today was a lovely sunny day and the high temperature was 2.  I went across the lake to see if I could take a photo of the hospital directly above the condo.  Learned two things - my unit of the condo does not get direct sunlight at this time of year, and when the hospital is directly above the condos it is hidden by the trees of Gyro Park.
In this photo you can see the hospital peeking out from behind the trees at the upper right of the photo.  In the centre below the rock is the group of the condos that faces west and does get sun.  My unit is at the left side of the photo in the shade.

Not too far from work but I will likely never walk!