CITY LIVING

Dec13/09

Another week has gone by for us in the condo and we are learning many things about city living.  We go out 2 or 3 times a day and see very few people in the elevator, the lobby or the fitness room.  Perhaps it’s because this condo is part of a resort that is very busy in the late spring, summer and early fall, but not so much in the winter.  The building is only about 50% occupied and the people who do live here full time must go about their business on a daily basis, but we don’t see them.

It was very different in the RV park where most people were around during the day and we had all sorts of conversations with new people every few days.  I guess we had the common element of living in the park and camaraderie with folks who like to travel with, and live in RV’s.

We do lots of walking in the Waterfront Park and all through the streets of downtown.  Pedestrians can be “fair game” for motorists even with well marked crosswalks and traffic light controlled intersections.  We’ve been very vigilant in watching the vehicles even when we have the right-of-way, but that doesn’t always work.  Yesterday, two pedestrians were crossing the main street downtown in accordance with the WALK signal and a person making a left hand turn almost hit the first pedestrian and then hit the second one, killing her immediately.  It was shocking to see that on the news as we’ve crossed at that location many times.

The weather has been cold this week and we had about 1 cm of snow one day.  The snow was so dry and light that wind blew it all away overnight.  

We can see snow across the lake in Westbank but it’s running shoe weather here again.

I have my treatment planning session scheduled for Dec 18 and will start the daily treatments on Jan 4.  That will work out well and there won’t be any extended breaks due to the Christmas holidays.

We were in Orchard Park mall on Friday morning and got a taste of commercial Christmas.  It was nice to see all the decorations and the people who were shopping seemed to be enjoying themselves rather than being frantic.  We weren’t buying much and didn’t have to stand in any long line-ups.

We’ll be putting up our Christmas decorations in the next few days.  We packed a small Christmas tree that has fibre optic lights, a red bead garland and a string of red LED lights that we’ll put out on the balcony railing.  We envisioned putting the lights on the RV awning in Arizona but this will look just fine.