Linking up with Marg at The Intrepid Reader
Weekend Coffee Share
Sunday Salon
Major accident closed down the westbound 401.
Sunday Salon
July 2024 - Toronto ON
Ste. Anne de Bellevue QC
Drove to Montreal Saturday morning, it was a quiet drive with moments of construction.
Maiden voyage for the new car.
Bienvenue à Quebec.
Once we checked into the Hilton Garden Inn, we went to John's son's house for dinner and had lots of laughs with the grandkids.
After our complimentary breakfast, I had the yogurt bowl and John had the three egg omelet.
We lounged around until John went to hit golf balls with his son and grandson. Then it was dinner with his daughter's family in Ste. Anne de Bellevue. It was a lovely Spanish tapas restaurant with plenty of gluten free options (three people), the chef even came out to explain how he cooked the food.
Patatas bravas, salted cod croquettes, shrimps, octopus and so many other plates!
Monday we drove back, it was still very hot and we started out in sunshine but then hit rain outside Toronto. BTW it is about a 5 hour drive plus and hour for lunch, gas and bio breaks.
A sight for sore eyes - ONTARIO!
Tuesday was a lazy day with no plans which turned out to be a good thing!
We had just finished lunch when the power went out so we both read for a couple of hours when it came back on. We were lucky lots of people had to wait a lot longer.
This was our exit, the traffic lights were out and there was some flooding where the road dips under the expressway.
RAIN!! POWER OUTAGE!!FLOODING!!
Some images I found online.
Wednesday John bottled his wine, we went for burgers at The Burger's Priest.
Then we picked up some fruits and vegetables at Lanzarotta. We used to enjoy their produce and prices but nothing was impressive today. Nothing looked very fresh and prices were eye-watering.
Thursday John walked to an appointment. We waited for the balcony inspection. This was new to us, but it seems they do it every ten years or so, looking for any problems.
Please consider this communication adequate Notice of Entry for the Corporation’s contractors to inspect the exclusive use common element balcony of your suite, stated below, on Thursday July 18th, 2024, from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.: A member of our staff will be present while the Corporation’s contractors are in your suite.
Our Amazon Prime day purchases arrived.
We hardly ever use an iron, so we got a steamer.
And some hooks to get the mops and brooms out of the way in the pantry.
I worked on my house plants this week, I cut back the hibiscus and put it outside. I planted the Christmas cactus I was rooting. Some were also reassigned locations to see if it made them happier.
Friday was another lazy day, we haven't done much this week! But this was exciting news!
John has been watching the British Open Thursday and Friday so he is a happy camper as it continues into the weekend!
I mentioned last week that our mayor, Olivia Chow had dropped by to check out Summerlicious in our restaurant. It seems she expeditated a concern the building had.
COOKING
Saturday dinner with family MTL
Sunday dinner out with family MTL
Monday bacon and eggs (Jackie) homemade pizza (John)
Tuesday chicken curry - had the last base sauce mix in freezer with coconut milk. Makes enough for a lunch.
Wednesday ham, salad, hard boiled eggs, beets
Thursday chicken alfredo
Friday steak salad with garlic buttered wourdough
WATCHING
Red Eye 2005 was such fun to see Cillian Murphy in such an early role!! The story follows a hotel manager ensnared in an assassination plot by a terrorist while aboard a red-eye flight to Miami.
The System Terry Savage is a former Marine whose daughter is in need of money for surgery. Desperate and unemployed, he robs drugs from a local gang but is apprehended. Terry, an investigator, made a deal with Terry to infiltrate a prison to investigate corrupted prison warden, Terry, of illegal activities in exchange for release. To add in his investigation, Terry sneaks in an encrypted smart phone for Terry for communication.
It is revealed that Terry runs a pay-per-view prison fighting tournament called the Dungeon with prisoners named Terry as gladiators.
READING
Day by Michael Cunningham, as always I loved his writing, but I felt a lack of energy while reading it which I blame on the lacklustre characters.
I Will Find You was a quick fun book to read in the car. I didn't see the end coming!
I finished Salt Lane. The story echoes many current social and political issues in Britain and elsewhere today, the anti-immigrant fervour, the lack of rights and inability to work faced asylum seekers, and the precarious and exploitative world of gangmasters and vulnerable migrant workers desperately needed to pick fruit and vegetables on farms.
I started Look Closer, which is very fast paced and tense as politics and organized crime are way over the character's head as he tries to follow the clues left behind for him. An exciting read by a new to me author.
I flipped through the cookbook, Indian-ish
Oh-oh another traffic jam. Why do we do this to ourselves? We were trapped in a traffic jam for two hours driving through Portland goind one way and two hours returning. What a drag.
ReplyDeleteThat flooding! All those people in those underpasses! I hope no one was hurt. Our biggest worries with hurricanes are usually flooding, but this time it was the wind.
ReplyDeleteQuebec is a place I'd love to visit. It looks like you had a lovely time there.
We had flooding in our area last week, too. Some spots got 5" of rain in an hour. Since the ground was already saturated from the remnants of Beryl the week before, it caused problems, The most dramatic scene I saw online was a group of people rescuing dogs from a shelter by helping them swim out to dry land.
ReplyDeleteI feel like I had the most lovely armchair travel while reading your post! The pictures give such a good portrait of what you wrote about. A comment which means very little in the scope of your post is on the yogurt bowl; while it looks delicious, I always have to fight myself to pick something healthy!
ReplyDeleteLove seeing everyone's Prime Day purchases. Hooks are definitely something I need to add to my ongoing list.
ReplyDeleteThat sporty red car is amazing!
I want to go to Quebec and see whatever famous Celine Dion sites there are. LOL