Somebody To Love

This weekend has to be one of the first that I’ve really enjoyed in London. Funny, since I wasn’t even in town for half of it. Saturday me and Dean walked from my place to downtown, and spent some time in Victoria park watching the squirrels dig up the nuts they planted last year.

On the way there we got to walk under a train, and Dean managed to get some really good pictures of it.

We also saw another chair in the river.

Later on I dreaded my hair. Sectioning it was a pain, since I’d never done that before. Not to mention I couldn’t see what I was doing on the back of my head at all. I got Dean to help with that part, so if any of the back looks weird you guys can blame him. I’m going to.

(Please excuse the pile of crap). The finished product:

Today was another fun adventure. We went to Oil Springs to visit Brier Run Alpacas since it’s shearing weekend and they were having an open house. One of the alpacas kept yawning.

I gave one of the puppies a good ear scratching and he begged for more attention when I tried to leave.

I also bought some brown fibre to spin. It’s got small amounts of blue silk streaked in it, and is going to be very pretty once it’s spun up. I’m not sure what I’m going to do with it yet, but I plan on taking pictures of the process when I do decide.

While waiting for the bus last week I saw a Mack truck go by with Big Mouth Billy Bass attached to the grille. It’s too bad the batteries were dead. Can’t you just picture the thing going off every time it detects oncoming traffic?

Today me and Dean went for a 3-hour walk up through school, around on Richmond, and all the way back again. It was nice, but it really made me wish my orthotics would come in so I wouldn’t end up limping by the time we got home. I feel old.

I was proud that I went over multiple bridges without freaking out and freezing up. The last time we walked in those particular places was a couple of summers ago when we stayed at Western for a weekend so I could get my bearings. Those things freaked me out pretty good the first time. I still have trouble with the one on Oxford though, since I walked back from downtown once last term and had to stare at my feet and force myself to keep moving.

This time around we didn’t see any furniture in the river, but we did see a construction sign sitting there for all the world like it belonged. See?

We also saw a helicopter coming in for a landing on the pad in front of University Hospital. If we’d have walked slower we might still have been on the other side of the river and got a close-up.

Today was a good day. We need more nice days like this so I can wander around more.