Fall cleaning

"Odd that you never knew, in all these years, that the train was there every afternoon, puffing up steam in the city station, and that you might have boarded it any day and gone home.  No, not 'home'--of course you couldn't call it home now; 'home' means that big red sandstone house of yours in the costlier part of the city. 'Home' means, in a way, this Mausoleum Club where you sometimes talk with me of the times that you had as a boy in Mariposa"--Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town

We were cleaning house last week--why do it in the spring when you can do it in the autumn?  On Tuesday I got a new bed. (The first I heard of it was on waking up that morning!) My old bed got thrown out and I'm now sleeping on a futon bed from the attic.  John had to dismantle it to take it down here and put it back together.  I rather like futons!

On Thursday we aired out the house.  That meant opening the windows all afternoon in rather cool weather, and my room got so cold that I had to wear a sweater!  We also removed the wall-to-wall carpeting in the attic.

Thursday night my book club discussed Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town.  It had a certain appeal for me because I come from a small town myself.  In December we'll be discussing a book of children's stories by Oscar Wilde, including "The Happy Prince" and "The Selfish Giant."

Friday night my historical movie watch party showed John Huston's 1966 epic The Bible... In the Beginning.  I had trouble staying awake!  They should have skipped the first half and gone straight into Abraham's story.

Finished How the Scots Invented the Modern World.  It was so fascinating that I've been doing something I never usually do and writing notes, listing all these important people and what they achieved in different categories...

This evening our MPP Jill Andrew was at her constituency office around the corner from my house handing out Hallowe'en candy!

Just now I have an unusually big headache!