Musings from Yesterday

I like two things about commenting with my tablet. One: I can be pretty comfortable in my Lazy Boy. Two: spellcheck can be convenient and usually works better than on the computer. But there are two things that I wish it did better. One: for me, it doesn’t insert apostrophes when I would just like to go on typing the letters. Two: it will not change an i to a capital I in the middle of a sentence when I would prefer to just keep typing letters rather than taking the time to find the shift key.

When it comes to composing a post rather than just commenting, I would rather use the computer, which is an odd thing to write because here I am composing this on my iPad since I am just sitting here letting my mind wander. I will likely finish the post on the computer later.

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Along with other games, I play two sudokus on my tablet almost every morning. One is the daily challenge and, for the other round, I ask the app to generate a random Extreme difficulty puzzle. Today (Monday), I set a new personal record on the  Extreme puzzle. I beat my previous high score from March 10 by 300 points. I may never top that because the stars have to align. It needs to be a very difficult puzzle that I, somehow, do well and manage to complete in a good time with no mistakes. 

Will I ever top this score from April 21st?
(trying to remember the date)

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This week begins the town’s two-week spring window for leaf and yard waste curbside pickup. I wish that they would wait for at least another week because outdoors is still barely workable, and we are not even close to planting season. It's only 5C/41F outside as I write this. Nevertheless, we will make an effort to do a little cleanup this morning, If we do, I will add a pic later. 

When we got out there, I decided to try a phone timelapse as an experiment. I actually did three and then spliced together a few bits into one short clip. I can do more directed timelapses with my Canon, but the phone is easy to use. I could probably do a soundtrack if I uploaded to YT first, but I'll just do it the easy way.

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After that bit of work, Sue thought we should get a coffee at Tims and follow our usual routine of taking it to the park. We weakened in the drivethru and also ordered breakfast sandwiches and hashbrowns. We've shown many coffee-in-the-car photos, so we didn't take another. We were also too far away to capture the male mallard duck in what remains of the diminishing flooded pond, the one you saw in the sunset photo the other day. At even a greater distance, we could see a redwing blackbird flitting busily about in the bushes right by the river.

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The federal election is just a week away, but the advance pools opened for 4 days on Good Friday. We went by in late morning, but they were lined up around the corner. There was less of a line outside when we returned that afternoon, but the inside line still took a half hour.

They were around the corner just a little earlier,
And there were more lines inside. 

I have never seen an advance poll so busy. In fact, I don’t think I’ve ever seen any regular poll as busy as this. We owe it all to Trump for getting out the vote. The thinking is that Mr Carney and the Liberals will stand up for Canada against Trump, but that the Cons with Poilievre are really Trumpers at heart and might sell us out. Still, the Cons had a big lead at one time, so we are worried and quite determined to fight for our country.

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I was  worried about our tulips. Nothing emerged for a long time, but suddenly on Sunday, they were several inches high. Something has dug up part of the garden, so I think we have lost some bulbs, but it is good to see some old friends making their return. The emergence of the spring bulbs is a wondrous thing to see.