#Things to come!
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Don't sound so frustrated Barbara! You know that half the joy is in the
expectation and yearnings!
So…. you're up in the frozen wastes of Canada. My eldest daughter attended
the Royal College of Art in Toronto – then finished out her education (?) at
the University of Guelph – just North of Toronto.
We used to spend a lot of time in Canada. Last trip was a voyage thru' the
rivers and canals around the town of Peterborough. We found things VERY
expensive on that last trip – with all the new taxes etc.
Here – near Pittsburgh (PA.) we have just had our first blizzard. My back aches
in digging out of 24 inches of snow…. and more is forecast.
Hope for your continuing delightful anticipation of the Toaster to come. If…
and when it does arrive – and you have any problems…. just give me a yell!
All the best…. HILARY.
Good heavens, you know this area well. I live in Mississauga, just next
door to Toronto. (Less hectic to live in and we've pinched all the big
companies, so the city is growing and actually has a balanced budget –
thanks to a feisty, female mayor.)
I know many people who went to RCA and ditto the U of Guelph. My husband
used to work in Guelph and we've spent many happy times there. What
brought your daughter to school in Canada?
Sad to hear that repeat tourists such as yourself find things too
expensive. We need your travel dollars to help our balance of payments! If
you found it expensive to travel here, just think what's it's like living
here! Our various layers of government have all gone quite mad. Still, I'm
content and wouldn't really want to live anywhere else.
We must be having the same storm. Don't think we've had 24 inches, but
driveway shovelling has been a constant activity around here for the past
three days. My kids have been having fun building forts and my husband has
gone quite misty-eyed telling them of the (much larger) storms and forts
he experienced as a child.
Still have forlorn hope I'll see a Toaster soon…..
Barbara
Quote: … "What brought your daughter to Canada?"
We wanted her to have an education outside the confines of the USA. Also, the
educational standards – in general here – are very low. Not only education,
but we wanted her to understand "other people" – how they live and think. To
that end we also sent her to live in Belgium for one whole summer.
As she is now married to a TV Producer – the background (she tells us) has been
of considerable help to her as a grown up.
My dratted Amiga is presently giving me trouble. The poor little mouse thing
will not move the arrow on the screen…..
Hope you are now in the fiddle stage with your long awaited Toaster…
All the best, HILARY.
I'm a maid still waiting in the Toaster department. As has become the norm
in this whole experience, all parties involved are pointing fingers at
each other. Customs is the culprit now, apparently. (Honestly, after all
the fuss about the relative merits of free trade — any time I try to move
a product over the Canada/U.S. border, in either direction, it has caused
me no end of headache.)
I have hopes of getting it by week's end. But then, I've said that before.
(This Friday marks the 8th week since I ordered it.)
Re your reluctant mouse: when mine does that I take it apart and blow out
the accumulated pet fur and other unspeakable items that accumulate within
this high-precision piece of electronic equipment. But I also find that
mice have a lifespan roughly equivalent to their real-life namesakes and
frequently curl up their figurative toes and refuse to function. I've gone
through more of them than I care to remember over the years.
Hope you get it sorted out.
Cheers,
Barbara
Hilary,
when referring to Canadian purchases as expensive, always keep in mind your
dollar goes 35% further up here, and that more than offsets any
taxes-upon-taxes. The 35% difference between our currencies is definitely
non-trivial. I know I got a serious shock when I got the Visa bill from my last
San Francisco jaunt, a 2-week stay replete with restaurant meals. Suffice to
say, I'm more frugal when I go down to the States now.
Blaq!