Strollers are not always six-feet apart

A visit to Costco during the early morning pre-opening for seniors, it was noticed that everyone was wearing a mask. There was not even one unmasked face to be seen. Seniors take the covid-19 pandemic seriously. Senior die.

A visit to Springbank Park later in the day showed lots of young people enjoying the park and enjoying it with others and maskless. Yes, they are outside and this does diminish the possibility of transmitting the virus. Yet, it is hard to believe that a group of seniors would be walking this close together and with no protection.

Thanking Front Line Workers

The local chapter of the Lions Clubs International is raising money for the London Food Bank by going door to door selling signs for $20. The signs prominently display the Canadian flag and give a big thank you to our front line workers during this ongoing pandemic crisis. "You are loved and appreciated," the sign says.

With Canada Day just around the corner and the London Food Bank hook, the signs are going fast.

ActiveFit equipment sits idle thanks to covid-19

The equipment is made by ActiveFit. Click the link and it will take you to the company's web page. Designed and made in Canada, there is a rather complete installation in London's largest park—Springbank Park. 

What does the equipment do? In a sense, very little. It just sits there. Yet, it offers a host of exercise possibilities to everyone except the very young. Each different installation encourages a different exercise and works a different set of muscles. I'm almost 73 but I can see even me working out successfully with some of these pieces of equipment.

Sadly the installation sits idle at the moment thanks to covid-19 and our over-protective parks department. According to MIT, stuff like this equipment does not support the covid-19 virus. Using it is safe. One does not risk picking up the coronavirus. I believe the folk at MIT over the bureaucrats at city hall. I hope the yellow caution tape comes down soon and my granddaughters and I can give the ActiveFit equipment a try.

Garden centres are open

The province is slowly coming out of the covid-19 deep freeze. Restaurants are now open and the patios are doing  very good business. And our local garden centres are again selling plants. My wife calls the plants she buys "flowers for the garden." I call them flowers for the rabbits—expensive rabbit food. So far this spring, I'm right.

Some new homes are truly spectacular.

I took a spin through the new neighbourhood just to the southeast of where I live. Wow!

I talked with the builder and he told me every home he builds for the next six months or so is already sold. Huh? What about the covid-19 slowdown. Isn't there supposed to be almost a recession at the moment?

My fence and gate are failing and when I stopped by the shop of the fellow who built both the fence and gate I learned it would not be until mid August when the repairs could be done and the new gate installed. He told me business was booming.

Strange days.

1st clue announcing a new subdivision: Poles

A new subdivision is going in south of the area in which I live. I've known it would eventually appear. The question was always when and not where.

Today I noticed the long line of new street lamps. Between the tall, brushed-aluminum poles catching the light and the shear number of the new addition to the country lane way, the clue to the arrival of a new subdivision was hard to miss.

Just the other day I had wondered about the cost of lighting a city. What does a city spend on street lights alone? How long do these monsters last?

I imagine operating them is less today than in the past. Those small lamps extending over the roadway are awfully shallow. I'll bet they are LEDs.

Social Distancing Allows Bubbles

 

Visiting the grandparents has strange limits today thanks to the coronavirus. No hugging. No kisses. Social distancing is the rule and it must be followed. Oh well, grandma figured out that bubbles are a covid-19 friendly activity.