SRS: they are too far and he has really let go of that part of his life but I shall be sure to get the kiln in service just in case they make the trip!

The studio did not get above 44F in 4 hours so I gave up and turned the heat back down to keep it above freezing only. Did FB, phoned Geri and met her at the restaurant for a nice visit. Then packed up and came back to the city in time for International Folk Dancing which went OK. I did not have to wear my mask as the man who wears stinky stuff was not there. I left about 9 and came to the house where R was sitting shivering!

The heater had gone off and he did not think to turn up the oven and sit in the K! So we went out to eat, ending up at Tim Horton's for soup, sandwich, hot choc. Across from a hospital, at 10 pm - it was very busy! Came back to the house and reconfigured the heaters re available electric, made sire the heating pad was warming the bed, watched the news and got into a mostly cold bed! SO thankful for the heating pad. Maybe I will bite the bullet and buy an electric blanket but it is almost spring??? It's up to 6F this morning! supposed to get up to 0 for the weekend!

BIG NEWS! Bruno is here this morning!!!! Well, he was until he and R went off to another building to get something. Goal for today is the hot water heaters installed in the cellar and, possibly, a better washer and dryer which R has elsewhere. This washer overflows if we do a large load and the dryer switch sticks - R once dried sheets for 8 hours! They did not overheat but they were warm!

B has also promised to finish the apt in Ville St. Pierre (VSP) so we can move into it while he does the major job of ripping out the old K - right back to bare walls, to get rid of powder mill beetles - and puts in a new one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am lobbying for a sun room to be done at the same time. Those windows we took off the trailer? R has about a hundred more in a building he has sold, and from which he is removing everything useful the new owners do not want.

I am not keen on living in VSP - partly because it is a whole new part of the city to me - down by the railroads and the highway. Mostly because moving is such a pain although we shan't move a great deal but it is second floor (not so great), but bright with big windows facing east, new everything. Hopefully it will only be a few months. Parking is dicey, too. Yet another adventure. Nice that R will have staff do the heavy work. Move is a four letter word.

Here, I shall have to move plants from vulnerable parts of the yard. May be a good idea to finally buy a garden shed for the back corner - to store stuff during construction - and after. I do NOT want tools in the K cabinets!!!! The trade school has them for $1600. I need to check the size re fitting through the space between this house and the one next door.

Something akin to gentile living would be refreshing. We had it at the cabin and I have grieved greatly over leaving that beautiful place.

Maybe I can get upstairs warm enough to work. The circuit already quit once today. ELECTRIC will be part of the building project; not much point at present. OR maybe I shall just go upstairs and wrap up to keep warm and bury myself in a good book.