The Canadian Embassy

Found three days relatively empty of customer meetings this week, so I'm working on that annual goal of taking some time off every quarter. Go me!

I'm not doing anything super special, but I do have a couple of fun things lined up. Today I planted some spring flowers (iris and daffodils) and did a weed and feed spread on the lawn (and, of course, it's been pouring rain for the last 30 minutes), made myself take advantage of weekday day hours to go revisit the top two contenders for care homes for Mom and see what they have now, ran a couple of errands, went to dance class, and cooked a thing.

Tomorrow is trying again with the evaluation to hopefully qualify Mom to start making claims on her long term care insurance (after its 90-day waiting period). We're getting her own doctor to do it this time instead of some random nurse over a Zoom call. And then a nice family multi-birthday dinner out in the evening. I haven't yet decided what will go between, but toilet repairs will likely be on the list (one flush valve leaking, one likely has a partly-clogged fill valve). Maybe I'll read some of the paper library book I have out.

Friday cousin and I are going to visit the SkyBridge about an hour north. It's a long wooden pedestrian suspension bridge amongst the hills at a ski resort. She says it's nice, and it sounds like my jams, while husband and child would never go near it. The weekend will likely be usual stuff, possibly with bonus minigolf because the season's almost done and I love it but haven't been this year. Kiddo wants a haircut too.

And then back to the frenetic work chaos on Monday. At least I get 2 days before invoicing starts again (and with it new billing for a newly-launched customer, which promises to be challenging).

Seems the new house next door may still happen this year after all. We'd been thinking it was too late to start, but came home early this week to find new property corner stakes in our yard. While I was photographing them a neighbor noted that when other new houses had previously gone in, they'd excavated and done the foundation in the fall, and built in the winter. That's what they did with my mom's house 40 years ago too, so *shrug*.

With those stakes, I discovered I have about 8' less side yard. If I had to guess, our lot's about 200' deep, so on the plus side, that maybe 1600 sq ft was a significant chunk that I didn't have to mow today. It also helps explain why I've always had so much trouble with weeds (besides the fact that that edge is beside a weed field) and lack of sprinkler coverage along that edge.