4 February 2026

We got the screen put up on our back patio by five nice Mexican men. They brought a boombox and played Mexican music while they worked. It took them two afternoons. And Barb wanted to be home when they were working to see how they did it. But they finished the work before Barb got home from pickleball, and they did such a good job. We went out to the patio and checked it out, and I couldn't even tell there was a screen there because I wasn't wearing my glasses. It just looked blurry like usual.

There was something strange about their work. They had to follow the engineer’s design, which required installing a brace against the house's wall. But it wasn’t connected to the screen at all. The screen was on the other side of the patio. When we see something like this, we always say the engineer who designed it must have been smoking something strong and failed his exam.

3 February 2026

It was a very windy day when the cat was eating the rabbit outside my office window. The neighbour's barbecue blew over to the side of the patio, and the neighbour’s garbage can blew onto the grass. Our backyard neighbour, who is taking care of my neighbour’s house while they are away, came over in a winter coat and scared the cat away. He pushed the barbecue back onto the patio and picked up the garbage can. But he left the dead rabbit.

Later, the cat picked up the dead rabbit and started carrying it away, crossing the front of our house and the front lawn. Barb watched him go by and was very worried he would leave the rabbit on the side lawn beside her car. But he walked right past our house, and we didn’t see him again.

2 January 2026

I was attending a virtual Workshop and sitting in my office watching Zoom meetings but I found the cat outside eating a rabbit more interesting. It was gross, but I couldn't stop looking at it. It was like watching the Discovery Channel.

31 January 2026

Barb slept in until 11:45 for the first time in her life, and when she stepped on the scale, she found she was five pounds lighter. She said that that is the real reason I am so thin.

1 February 2026

It was the coldest day of the year, and Barb came home from the grocery store after playing indoor pickleball. I was in a meeting, so she couldn’t tell me all about her day. She immediately took a shower and then started watching television. After my meeting, we sat down to dinner. Barb started telling me about her day. As she was talking, she realized that she had left her groceries in the car. Then, after dinner, we sat down in the living room. Barb started watching television while I worked on my computer. She sat there for a few more hours before she remembered that she had left the groceries in the car. I was worried the bananas would freeze.

29 January 2026

I met my Neighbourhood Watch friend again tonight, and he had another joke. He said, “This old lady called the police, saying someone had broken into her car and stolen her stereo, her steering wheel and even her accelerator and brake pedals. Later, the policeman phoned in his report saying, “Nevermind, we found that she got into the back seat.”

28 January 2026

 My friendly Neighbourhood Watch man stopped me on my evening walk to tell me a joke. He said, “I had to call the police the other day. An old man broke into his house. He didn’t see him until he went into the bathroom.”