Where The Sidewalk Ends.

Here is our new sidewalk all covered up in its "raincoat" to protect it from rain and footprints as it dried and they left it like that for over 24 HRS (I guess it takes that long to dry and to set?) and just early this morning they took the plastic off. I don't think they'll be putting a sidewalk across the street though; just on the one side( our side) because there's not enough room; the road goes all the way over to the other side. Yesterday I was also sitting out on the front veranda smoking weed( that's where the sun was) and the kid came up delivering the weekly flyers and luckily our garbage and recycling was picked up ok yesterday as well despite the sidewalk blocking but we were the only ones on our street that even put it out this week! Now we finally have a sidewalk I can go back to taking Buddy back for his walks again now there's somewhere he can walk on( he had just been going out in the backyard on the grass) as he couldn't walk on the hard gravel(or the holes!) before!Things are also so out of price now the average cost of a one bedroom apartment in Toronto is now 2500$ a month and a 2 bedroom is 3300$ Just for a lousy apartment! I'd hate to think what it would cost to rent a house now,and the foodbank said now 1.5 million people visited in just a MONTH as well; the highest recorded ever! So many people are struggling!

I remember when the kids were younger they had the Shel Silverstein book Where The Sidewalk Ends (as well as the 3 or 4 book in his series) of whimsical poems and cute illustrations and my fave, is My Beard which is shown here. I always preferred him to Dr. Seuss and I can even remember having them as a kid back in the 70's,too, and what "gets" me as well is that the oldest had the best 'version" of me when he was growing up and I didn't get the worst of the traumas until he was 14 and then again more later (that had finished me off for good)until  after he had  already moved out, and yet he still needed therapy, and I love having Buddy sleeping with me in my bed and feeling his warm little body beside me and I can't sleep peacefully unless I can feel part of him touching me(he is my only comfort and solace in life), and I wanted to shop all this week as I have to get a few things but my hubby refused to go "just for me"; only if he was already going himself anyway(even though he would go if my mother or the boys needed something) so I finally get to go today, and my mother baked brownies to 'suck-up" to the pharmacist for being so demanding( and the first box in the cupboard had a hole chewed thru it by the damn mice and they ate ALL OF IT;there was nothing left, the little f*ckers!) and I told her if she gave him my 'special" brownies then she'd end up being his favourite customer! 😜

Sitting in yesterday, watching it slip away today Isolation Fading like photographs, reminding us nothing ever lasts Desolation I look up to the sky but the sun never shines I'm waiting.-Ozzy Osbourne