FOG

 Without any warning we were hit with thick fog. There is a highway that goes around the city and it was closed most of the night and this morning. Lots of accidents. One had 28 vehicles involved. There are numerous overpasses and bridges so slick as all get out. Daughter and oldest grandson went to the hockey game last night. She lives about 45 minutes northeast of me. She drove grandson home, then headed home. She said it was slick but okay. Then she hit about 15 miles away from home and it was so bad she couldn’t see the white lines let alone the yellow ones. She couldn’t breathe either. She found out that in addition to the fog a peat fire had started causing even more chaos. The peat will burn until it burns itself out. The firefighters will be there watching. The fog has just lifted but it is still slippery out. 

While they were at the hockey game, they found out youngest grandson was also at the game and seated in the same row but a couple of sections over. Too cool.

J

No Littles

 We had no kids come for Halloween. I am not a fan of Halloween. I did not go out as a child. My older brother did. When our own kids got to the age, it was a tough decision. My husband did not go out either, but we did feel pressured to participate. It all worked out in the end. Either the kids would go to just a few houses or decided not to go. My grandkids though, are a different matter. They all went till they aged out. I do see a change in Halloween though. The stores are making the decorations to be more Thanksgivingish or more fallish. The houses that do the scary stuff are getting to be farther apart. It would seem that it is changing to be more of another fall celebration. Still not sure it is needed though. Someone did do fireworks though. I always thought that was a UK thing. So no pictures.

I have new neighbours upstairs. Today was move in day. Hoping they are quiet. I haven’t seen the boys today. Maybe someone is looking after them. 

They painted our apartment doors a couple of years ago with what we used to call apartment paint. It is flat and when washed the paint comes off. The original doors had good shiny paint. Guess it was a more expensive fix. Anyhoo, I found out that rubbing alcohol works really well getting scuff marks, crayon, packaging colour off. It took me about 15 minutes. I may just do the hallway door too. The powers that be say that plain toothpaste also works. I haven’t tried that yet. I also used WD40 on the hinges. No more squeaks. WD40 is product made from fish oil and some other ingredients. It works well on a lot of things.

We have a chance of snow coming on Wednesday. In Alberta the ski slopes start opening this weekend. I hope the season brings a lot of snow as it is still rather dry. 

J