Oh sweet glorious bliss

Posted on | September 25, 2009 | 3 Comments

I am a very contented cat this morning. If you have been a diligent reader of this blog, you will know the area I live is a frequent victim of construction – road construction, condo construction, subway repair construction, garage repair construction. It has been endless. Well for about 3 years now there has been work done, on and off, across the road as the city and land owner feebly repair part of the subway line that runs under the property. Initially we were told it would take 6 months. HA! Anything this city has a hand in seems to take a lot longer. As I said we are now in our 3rd year, roaring up into a 4th year soon of erratic digging and jackhammering. One month they are going at it great guns, the next men in little bobcats spin around the lawn carving it up and then disappearing for weeks at a time. The endless, erratic nature of the work is wearing on m. And while the rest of the city worried about standing pools of water (ie their bird baths and kiddie pools) and diligently emptied them, the city allowed the huge trenches, carved into the land to fill with water and become mosquito breeding ponds. Even after complaints were made about the amount of standing water over there (I saw a pair of ducks paddling about once) nothing was done. Oh, wait, water was pumped out once. We were eaten alive by mosquitoes last year. As usual I digress….

Last year some of the work had to be done between 2am and 4am for safety reasons – not a good idea to have heavy duty jackhammers going while a subway car is trundling underneath. No notice of the work was given, and we found out about it when the neigbourhood was jarred out of bed. Those responsible for the lack of notice were scorched by the neigbourhood so badly that this time we were given plenty of notice of the work which started this week… or was it last week… lack of sleep tends to do things to your memory.

All week we’ve endured, construction during the day and then the 2am wakeup call. It’s not just loud, it’s rattle you out of bed loud. It’s actually quite funny in a sad, perverse way. Neigbours now greet each other with “did you get any sleep?” “I wonder how long this will go on for” and my favourite “at least the (insert favourite invective) gave us notice this time”. Ah but last night there was NO construction. No trucks, no jack hammers, no little bobcats roaring around tearing up the lawn. Oh sweet bliss. I woke up around 3am and thought “what’s going on”. It took a few minutes to realise it was silent. I snuggled back under the covers and thought oh how wonderful! I know they are just lulling us into a false sense of relaxation. They will be back. But in the meantime, I’ll enjoy the quiet.

Sigh…

Because I got such a wonderful nights sleep, I’m going to reward you… with a claw:


From Catpaw’s Art work – birds

I looked and didn’t see this in a previous post. I’ve been paying pretty close attention to claws … or are they feet?… so I can bring more realism to my birds. It’s paying off. It’s hard to see the feet in most photos, so if you see someone in a cafe peering very, very closely at some bird legs, that’s me. Gotta go…time to work so I can buy more art supplies… and lattes…and bird photos….and dark chocolate m&ms ….

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3 Responses to “Oh sweet glorious bliss”

  1. Roufa Tav Gosou & Mimi Lass
    September 29th, 2009 @ 7:22 am

    Catpaw, your birds are beautiful! (And so is your squirrel.)

  2. Bimmy the Bookish
    October 2nd, 2009 @ 8:19 pm

    Dark chocolate M and M’s???? Worth ging to work for – even after a broken nights sleep….

  3. Bimmy the Bookish
    October 2nd, 2009 @ 8:22 pm

    “Going” I meant “Going to work for”
    Tsk.
    How sloppy.
    Roufa and Mimi, cant BELIEVE it;’s a year since you went off in search for fresh fruit….