Capt. Mondo's World o' Mondo-ness

A Busy Day...
Here I am, writing my Blog entry while listening to a CBC production of Waiting for Godot. Good production, very humourous (there's a difference between a deadpan comic delivery and a "dead" delivery of the play, which I've heard previously). A somehow fitting end to the day...

In the morning we headed off to our debut swim together at the Birchmount Community Centre. Erika had been there before, but not for swimming, and we were all impressed by the expansive facility. We got there early, and despite the summer heat (as high as 33C today) there were only about a dozen or so families there, which sounds like a lot until you realize how large the space is: it contains a toddler pool, a bubbling pool, a two-story water-slide, plus large areas for doing lengths and a separate area for youngsters (like Vanessa) too old/tall for the toddler pool. There was a small water slide in the kiddie section in the shape of a giant frog, and after some coaxing, Vanessa got up the courage to go down it. Spent just over an hour there, and had a blast.

Thence to Licks in The Beaches for lunch. When that was over, we headed over to Jean's with the intent of moving her sandbox over to our place. After emptying the sand, I manhandled the sandbox to the car and somehow managed to get it in, and then hauled over several heavy garbage-cans half-filled with sand and got them in as well. Hot, sweat, sun, blech!

We got home, and I managed to get everything out before the storm came.

Napped.

Got up, and set to work getting the paving stones set up in front of the door for the shed. Erika and I tried to level the ground as much as we could, and I managed to sever a crummy old little stump from its tenacious roots that has always been "in the way". Felt good tossing the damned thing into bin. ;-) Managed to lay down about a dozen of the large stones, all the while trying to keep Vanessa entertained doing something else, out of the way for her own safety (these stones were heavy, at a guess at least 60lbs of dead, cumbersome weight apiece. Moving a dozen of them added up to aching arms, and rivulets of sweat pouring from my brow.

A relaxing dinner out on the deck. Then downstaris to finish of my monthly Web Weaving article for The Computer Paper while Erika put Vanessa down for the night. Now my blogger entry, and Waiting for Godot. Tired, but a good day.