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I was in Winnipeg/Kenora at July 11 to 16th and I had so much fun … just to talk to my sister and gaze out on the river/the lake, depending on where I was … and now I am back in Toronto and everything returns to normal!

Of course, I am spending time with the cats, I am taking care of them for a week while “the parents” are on vacation. It’s easy for me to take care of the kittens. I have a room upstairs and they can go upstairs and downstairs – there’s no dog! When I’m in the dining room using my computer, they’re quite close – one is on the cat mattress on the dining room table and one is sleeping on a chair.

When I’m watching tv, they move to the television in the living room … their quite happy, both of them!

It’s been summer since the end of May – only a couple of days it’s been raining and miserable but it hasn’t been below 26 degrees in the day … a little below that at night.

I was on the corner of Bremnar Blvd and Lower Simcoe Street at the Delta Hotel’s Soco Kitchen and Bar on Friday afternoon, with all the umbrellas outside. With such a lot of people here, a third of them are going to the Blue Jay’s baseball game at the Roger’s Centre and a third are just tourists. The last third of the people are Torontonians working in the Rogers Centre to Scotiabank Centre.

I went out with Stv to the Little Italy thing on College Street between Bathurst Str and Shaw. Walking all the way and eating a sausage at the other end of Shaw Street. Had a wine at a little cafe a long the way and watched all the people going by!

The powwow was going on the Fort York. Stv bought a teeshirt and then we walked to Roncessvalles Avenue. The Loons pub where the golf game was on and continuing south on Roncessvalles, we had a nice dinner at Cafe Polonez. It makes really good snack for later!

The flowers are out! Its cold but its April and the flowers – daffodils, tulips, crocuses, tulip trees (Hellebrorus orientalist), forsythias, Shasta daisies, primrose and magnolia … a few more but I can’t think of them … come out! It reminds me of spring, summer and fall … all nice weather. And I want to get out in it!

I have got the “Ontario Living Wage” on the internet. It was 22.08 in 2021 and 23.15 in 2022 … that is a difference of 4.8% but in small town Ontario they’re only between $16.00 and $19.00 … they’re nowhere near $22 or $23! Its just a bit below the margin for living for me …

It’s sunny outside. The wind is blowing … such is life … LifeFocus.ca to be precise!

and – oh – is it cold. I put on my shirt, my sweatshirt, my jeans, my SCARF and my hood was up … and it was still cold! The wind was rushing along so much that I couldn’t get to the subway and I turning and walked to the other subway with the wind behind me.

The shoemaker was there; he had just mended my sneakers – the heel on the left one was warn out but the right one was gone! So now they were perfect!

How much energy is going to read, respond to emails and doing the social media thing? Is it right before work? Are you spending a lot of time doing “digital overload”?

How much time do you spend on activities with “high value” work? According to Jill Klein, a professor of marketing who teaches managerial judgement for Melbourne Business School, you eliminate these distractions and concentrate on the mental reserves aspect to maintaining focus.

LifeFocus.ca, if you will … is my theme. You can come back to the LifeFocus.ca any time. It will restore focus and give you the push to go on …

I start here! I don’t know what I will put here but I know I will. Each week I will document my life as I goes by.

I got a picture of my sister and me, at the ages of 4 and 7 beside the pumpkin, made for us by my dad. We are smiling, expecting to go out to the neighbours for trick or treat. We haven’t got the costumes on but we’re going to set ready soon!

I go out every day. Mostly just walking … I stop for coffee but there isn’t anywhere that I can in … “takeout or delivery” is the rule. It’s be like this for 28 days. COVID-19 is happening.

Thursday I went for a walk down the Woodbine Beaches, walking on the broadwalk along to the end. It was cloudy all afternoon. It just hadn’t rained which I know is the 6:00pm thing according to the weather report. There were people on the broadwalk, in twos and threes, with a dog and without. I was walking towards wind and it was blowing my hair. It was chilly …