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Dear Friends,
My youngest sister has had me checking out apartments here in Saskatoon, and she decided on one in the same building where our brother Tom lived for many years. He was on the main floor (because he was in a wheelchair). Erma will be on the second floor.
She is busy now selling off some of her larger and not so- absolutely necessary items so that she won't have to pack up too much to ship here. She plans to send it all by train, and may arrive by train herself, although more likely a passenger train.
I've told her of several second-hand places where she can get furnishings that she will need, but that are rather expensive to ship.
Yes, I think I'll be her chauffeur for a while.
My little 160 sq. ft house is too small to add a bed or a mattress on the floor. If she will need a bed before she can buy one and have it delivered, I may let her sleep in my bed, while I snooze in my recliner.
I've been used to living alone since after I cleaned up Dad's house in Hague, and it sold, in 2007. That is 18 years already.
Erma has a small white poodle named Lizzy, and she is a yappy little dog. Very excitable. I'm not sure how I will cope with that. But we do make allowances for family members, don't we all?
Meantime, I'm trying to catch up with my online work, and my garden and yard-work.
I also have some parts of my desk from my Hague days in the basement. I hesitate to try to bring them up myself, as I'm likely to have another spinal crack I'm waiting for strong, sturdy friends to show up and offer to help. I think they could be done in 15 minutes. I've already brought up the empty drawers.
I have plans to create another desk under the front window - right beside the front door. I want two lateral filing cabinets with a spare white door that is in the way in the basement for the desktop. Hopefully then I can empty my bins full of files that have been waiting for a home base. My printer in the bedroom should come back to sit on that desk.
I also like to go out after supper as the hot sun has moved west behind the trees on the yards to the west of me, So I can work in my garden and flowerbeds, and the huge raspberry hedge between my tent garage and the neighbour's wooden garage. There is hardly any space to move around there, but there are many white raspberries itching to turn red and quite ripe!
If you drop by on the right evening, I'll let you do some picking too!
Blessings & Prayers, Ruth Friesen!
