Remodeling

And now, the home improvement part of the summer has REALLY begun, what with us redoing our patio and roof. It was in session earlier, what with my dad painting and installing various bathroom and light fixtures downstairs in my domain, as well as religiously caulking and painting the baseboards down there (which now look FABULOUS) - but now we're getting serious! The game plan for our patio changes, oh, on an average of about every fifteen minutes, rotating between 1) building a ground-level deck, 2) laying gravel, sand and paving stones, 3) using our current boring concrete blocks in a more creative way. Number three is popular because of its low financial aspect, though it is perhaps the least attractive.
But moving on. Interesting things about today (hopefully I can come up with at least one every day!) were: I got a high stack of library books, two-thirds of which will likely be half-read and discarded for lack of literary quality; there was a blurb on CTV News about the Conservative candidate renominations (which are EVIL! EVIL, I tell you!) in which they oddly skewed a few facts but did mention my MP, Mike Lake (he's a rookie, and one of the best guys you could ever meet); and, just now, I discovered that parentheses are a very important form of punctuation. Think of the comma and hyphen troubles we would have without them!

~Sil