Yesterday was one of those days when a lot of memorable things happened. We experience the very strong winds which blew down the big dead cedar tree in our yard (yesterday’s blog). We had noticed the downed tree as we went outside to drive to McBride to cancel our house insurance because they would not except our wood stove.
On our way to town we were surprised to see a pair of wild swans swimming around in Bircher’s field. While swans visit the Robson Valley during their migration, we don’t usually get to see them. I was really happy to get the “Bottoms up” shot shown below.
Once in town I went into the insurance office to cancel our house insurance, because of restrictions on wood stoves that the insurance company had made. At the office they told me I was the third person to come in that morning, to cancel because of the wood stoves. They ask me to just hold on because they were seeking other insurance companies whose policies might help me, so I am waiting.
The next memorable thing of the day happened when I went into the hardware store to buy a tape measure. I used to have five measuring tapes, but anymore, I can only find one. I went to the measuring tape section and looked at what was available. I didn’t like any that were displayed. They were all so big and bulky, and only showed inches, instead of both inches and centimeters, like all of my other tapes. Also all of the measuring tapes were really expensive, $32.
As I was walking out of the store empty handed, Scott asked if I found everything, and I told him that, no, there weren’t any measuring tapes that showed both Imperial and Metric units. He was surprised and walked me back to the measuring tapes to find me one. When he saw that I was right, he said, “Let be go into the back, to see if we have any there.”
He came back with one and sure enough it had both inches and centimeters, so he rang it up at the counter. The tape was big and bulky and looked just like the others hanging on the display, so I was very surprised when he said, “That will be $13.”
“Are you sure?” I asked, figuring he had made a mistake, but then Scott replied that “They are on sale.”
Looking back I realize that it had been a pretty good day. Yes, my beloved cedar tree blew down, but it blew down without damaging any of a number of important things. I saw some wild swans. For now, we still have house insurance, because they are checking on other policies that might enable us to use our wood stove which is pretty much a necessity for us in the winter. And of course, I unexpectedly got the measuring tape I wanted on sale. Overall, things went well yesterday.
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