Friday, July 19, 2024

Friday Favourites

Happy Friday!

We had a bit of a crazy week here in Toronto, more on that in a minute.  Monday started out normally enough.  We did get a lot of rain on Monday but by the time I needed to bike home from work and go to Q’s soccer, it was a nice evening.  
After soccer we sat and watched the baseball.


It was dark when we were biking home but we all have lights so it was fine. 

Then on Tuesday it rained and rained.  My lobby was even flooding, this is the elevator bank, you can see the water creeping in.  


Shortly after that, our building lost power and there was even more water in the lobby so we needed to evacuate. Union Station was also flooded and a portion of the subway was closed down, and the streets were crazy since everyone was trying to leave the downtown core at the same time.  And the power was still out.  A colleague and I figured out how to get home, and we ended up walking north on University until we got to Queen’s Park Station and then the subway was back up so we were able to head home.  

The power was still out at our house when I got home. E had friends over (since both of his golf games were cancelled due to rain and flooding) and they were playing board games. 


Fortunately Bloor Street had power so we walked up there to get supper and then an ice cream cone (and Q was at a birthday party in the neighborhood). And our power was back on by the time we got home.



On Wednesday we had one of my favourite meals - jerk chicken, rice, coleslaw, and patty. 


A not so favourite is that my bike broke on Thursday.  Fortunately I was almost at the ball field where I was meeting Dave and the kids so I only had to walk it a short distance and then I took the subway home from there.  You can’t really tell but the back chain thingy just sheared off while I was changing gears.  I am taking it into the bike shop today to see if they can do anything about it. 


We have a fun weekend coming up - Q had a t-ball tournament in Mississauga.  

Linking up with Andrea and Erika.





5 comments:

  1. Sorry to hear about your bike! I'm glad that power outage didn't last terribly long!

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  2. Yikes crazy with all the flooding and power outages. I hope they can fix your bike for you.

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  3. Oh my, glad y'all are safe and have power now! Enjoy the weekend!

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  4. I wondered how the rain had affected you. I'm glad to hear you came out (mostly) unscathed. We drove the 407 today and we saw a lot of evidence of the "rubber snakes"! Sounds like a crazy few days.

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  5. Wow! That is a lot of rain!! Sorry to hear about your bike, I hope the bike shop can fix it. The jerk chicken looks delicious!

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