bold as love’s Neighborhood

• 09:45 How is it almost 10am already? This morning is going by quickly. #
• 21:40 Finally decided on a library book to read - twitpic.com/plgwh #
• 21:59 @ycgonzalez me neither. #

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Some of Papa's photos mum found in an old album.

Diggers Ball, rural NSW - 1952.

 

 

 

 

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Today, while we were walking, I was thinking of a comment  Apolline had left on my Missing Strangers post about social movements and urbanization.  We turned a corner and here was exactly what I had been imagining loneliness all together to look like:

• 19:45 Getting in bed & watching a movie w/ @sacentrepreneur also finishing off L's Halloween candy. #
• 19:47 Well this is a little comforting: More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes. #omgfacts (via @OMGFacts) #
• 20:14 Was told by @sacentrepreneur that the candy I was eating smelled like cleaning supplies. They kind of tasted like it too. #

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I took time to make a cake this morning using one of the new kits we received yesterday.  This is one of the kits for Princess Tiana.  Our store is in a culturally diverse area, so it will be interesting to see how well these kits sell. 

 

I usually try to avoid doing cakes in whipped icing, especially chocolate whipped.  This order called for lots of flowers.  I didn't leave too much open space!

 

Here's a close-up of the border of flowers. 

I thought we had most of the Friday cakes done when I went home yesterday, but I spent most of the day today working on cakes for today.  I only had time to make two cakes for tomorrow.  We really needed a third person doing cakes today. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I left work an hour early today because I had already worked four days this week.  I got home before the sun went down for the first time in ages! 

I made homemade chicken noodle soup for dinner.  I hit hubby's with the blender.  Worked great.  Much healthier than the creamy soups I have been making.  This whole soft food diet is going to take some getting used to. 

I go to work late tomorrow and Sunday.  I'll have to try to get something else made before I leave in the morning.  I baked a custard pie tonight while the soup was cooking. 

We will have lots of deer hunters here tomorrow.  May not be able to get to the computer! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Well, Lizzie's school report came home today.

And before I start I just have to point out that she did lose her mojo this year. I dunno what happened. Friends, boyfriend, parties, turning 17. Shit happens.

But it came back, so she told me we have to ignore this report.

So the first subject I came to was Maths.

And I really didn't get past that because it was the funniest Teacher Comment I think I've ever read on a report.

 it said.

Lizzie is a student with the ability required to do the work but finds it very difficult to fully concentrate on a task and is always talking with peers and occasionally eating.

I said to her - what are you occasionally eating?

But he is a bit of a nutter. One day there was a girl in the class using one of those vicks inhalers. You know the white sticks you put up your nose and inhale to clear your nose when you have a cold?

Anyway he rang up the girls mother and told her that she was sticking tampons up her nose during class.

Now I must admit that Lizzie did tell him that it was a tampon. But she was joking. And you'd think he would check before he rang and told the girls mother.

 

 

 

• 09:38 @RenovationThrpy that happens to me sometimes too. What causes that? #
• 10:22 @rainnwilson that's really a very creepy looking poster. #

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I worked today, so no time for pictures.  I did make a unique cake this afternoon, but I had forgotten to take my camera with me today.  I'll have to make another one tomorrow.  We received three new kits in today for new Disney designs.  I'll have to try them out to see if I like them or not.  One of them is iCarly which we have gotten several requests for. 

No real news on the medical front, but it looks like my hubby is leaning toward keeping the quality of life that he has now and taking a chance on living for at least a few more years.  He read a lot of information today that our daughter had given him, and all of it regarding the operation was depressing.

Since I didn't take any photos today, I decided to go back to this time last year and see what I was doing.  In addition to making pot holders and table runners, I was still outside taking pictures.  This is an edited version of a spider's egg sack.  Last year I took lots of pictures of spiders and praying mantis, but I hardly saw any of them this year. 

It's in to work early again tomorrow morning, so I'd best get myself off to bed.  5:30 comes early for me.  There should be three of us, but I think someone is going to have to help the donut people, so that will slow us down.  We made most of the Friday cakes today, so we should be able to make a big dent in the Saturday orders tomorrow.  I'll still try to get a couple of pictures.  Toodles! 

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Do you ever wonder what might have happened to people who are essentially strangers to us?   

Next door to my office building is a retirement & assisted living place -  it used to have the word "Alzheimer's"  in the name and we joked about just trading one place for the other as our minds went; usually with the assumption that too much work was going to cause such a decline.

Anyway - over the last couple of months every morning, as I've walked past, an elderly man has been outside hiding behind a pillar enjoying a cigarette.  Every morning I would say "good morning how are you?" and he'd respond with a loud and cheery: "Good morning to you and I'm great"   

The last few mornings he was not there and I wondered if he had died or been caught.  It crossed my mind that I might never know -  I don't think I would've gone inside to enquire about the health of a man having a forbidden cigarette.   

I was so relived to see him back this morning that I almost said "oh thank God you are ok"....    I really had been quite concerned about someone whose name I don't even know.

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The bike below used to appear near the office during the day and then be gone by evening.  Then it arrived and stayed.  And stayed and stayed.   If this had been anywhere near I live, it would've been stripped within a few hours.  After more than a month the rear tyre is flat but no-one has stolen the helmet or attempted to steal spare parts from the bike.  

So,  where is the owner?   Did they die at their desk?  Did they walk to the shops at lunch time and get run-over crossing the road?   Or perhaps they developed Alzheimer's and forgot they owned a bike.

I hate not knowing.....  and unlike the missing elderly man, where I could've enquired if I'd wanted to, there is no-one to ask about the bike's owner.  

October 16th -  I had walked past it for a week before I started wondering about its missing owner.

November 6th