This is People Care.
This is the porch.
Aaaaaaaah.
And these are the flowers
outside my aunt's room.
Tuesday, 31 July 2007
Monday, 30 July 2007
Sunday, 22 July 2007
for flora
Flora asked for some context.
The little red brick house is where I live.
Pretty nice, eh?
The empty space behind the pear tree is where the south crew is working. You could probably see it better if I took a picture from the south but I cannot get into that yard.
That white brick structure behind the white wood garage is where the north crew are working.
Saturday, 21 July 2007
all work and no play
the work ethic
ta dah
This is what had happened by about 10:30.
I am almost mad from lack of sleep,
relentless noise, constant dust and noxious fumes,
but my neighbour
~ and I use the term in its geographical sense only ~
has a three foot wall!
The city bylaws state that "the hours for noise permission in residential-low rise areas, 7 am to 7 pm Monday through Friday and 9 am to 7 pm on Saturdays" but nobody seems to pay a blind bit of attention to that. I am having a hard time getting to sleep early enough and was really hoping for the extra 2 hours this morning. I knew that it was probably wishful thinking but the south neighbour had promised that they would observe the bylaw hours when I asked him about it earlier this week. I know, I know.
Anyway ... friends are dropping by at about 7 and if I am not going to fall over upon their arrival I must figure out how to get a nap. Currently I can barely see across the yard because of all the dust and the sawing of bricks is creating an ear-shattering, head-splitting din.
Friday, 20 July 2007
north and south
Thursday, 19 July 2007
new day
This morning I awoke at 7:30ish to the sound of rain beating down on the plastic covering the pallets of blocks ~ a much more pleasant dawn chorus than the past 3 mornings and you can see how much the gardens were enjoying this big soak.
But ... oh my...Somebody put up this little dam to divert the water from the drainpipe but the trenches filled up pretty quickly.
And then this happened.
As you can probably tell,
I am not really a fan of this project.
I find it philosophically,
environmentally and aesthetically distasteful.
But I really did feel for this guy this morning.
All that work...!
I could hear a lot of phone calls.
I don't speak Portuguese but
he sounded pretty bummed out.
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