I can’t believe summer is over! To
start with, I apologized to the one or two persons who had to suffer summer
without having any news from me. But really it’s your own fault, I started a French’s
blog and you didn’t follow me over on the dark side. Hum doesn’t sound like an apology
at all LOL (or MDR for Ivy). If you can read French or you just want to check out the pictures,
here is a link to the French blog.
So here’s a quick recap of Summer
2016:
Busy, busy, busy.
For those who keep a Richard life
event’s journal, you might recall in the spring, I volunteered to pick up pines
needles. That was almost a full time job! Piles and piles of the stuff were
picked up every week and disposed of. If y0u haven’t noticed, pine trees don’t
only generously give needles, in June it spits something we call Rice-Krispies.
It looks like Rice-Krispies but they are the male pine cones (for more
explanation see birds and bees). I had to pick those up with a shovel. Now it’s
Fall and what we get freely are the Pine cones (the female ones, they need more
time than the male one to reach climax), tons of the shit, once more, I
picked them up with shovels. I know, I'm full of useless info!
OMG I LOST A NEEDLE IN THE PINE STACK
On weekend, I would pass by the
Pickelball court while players were hitting a small ball… I think I was
enjoying myself more. Please if you could recommend a good professional, I
might need help! I played just a few times and one of those time was for the tournament.
I knew going in that I didn’t play enough so I was playing without pressure
knowing I would get kicked out so fast… I won! My partner and I were like the
dream team of pickelball. Before starting I told him to play the game while I
distracted our adversaries… worked perfectly!
One more trophy to add to my collection... of one!
In our camping community, we are
about 360 families. I’m starting to know a lot of them. I started to write a
French blog for this community. It is really strange to walk the camping ground
and come across people who are reading me. I get so much great feedback. Strangely
blogging is not a big thing in Québec, most of the readers leave comments on my
Facebook account!
I’m also getting more involved. At
the end of summer, I decided we needed our own library. So I asked everyone for
books, DVDs, games. Boy the response was great. I built one bookshelf thinking
that it’s all we would need till next summer, WRONG, after a week, I had to
built another one. This week, I’m going to built a third one. People bring me
boxes of items; I always feel like it’s Christmas when opening those. Funny how
one lady (Ivy) is into de-clogging and I’m into clogging!
Humble beginning
I’m also getting involved in a committee
to define our association’s status and rules. Next spring, I’ll probably
volunteer to get elected on the board (please keep this between us, I’m playing
hard to get right now, but you’ll know).
On an unrelated issue… Netflix sucks!
Last week they added only one season of Walking Dead. That is ONLY 16, one hour,
episodes. Pacing myself, I got through that in 4 days, and now I have to wait
till real zombies walk the earth to get next season… I might be grumpy for a
while, scuse me! Meanwhile, who died at the end, WHO DIED?
Wow I almost need a nap after writing
this… If you thought that retirement = free time, think again LOL
Richard Still walking but living
