I lost a few hours midday yesterday because my younger brother invited me along with him on a visit to have a look at our older maternal half-sister Phyllis's new home in Langley where she had just moved.
Her daughter Sherry was to be moving in with her.
My brother had made a loan to Phyllis to help her with a downpayment on the house, and she was repaying him ─ the major reason for my brother's planned visit.
Well, her new home is a fairly small structure located in a very widespread complex of similar abodes for which tenants have to pay a monthly pad rental fee. The location of this rather nicely wooded area is near to 200th Street & 24th Avenue (Google map).
Apparently Friday night was the first that Phyllis had spent there, but Sherry had yet to do similar ─ she would not officially move in until month's end.
However, my brother and I were not to see inside the small home ─ Phyllis and Sherry were not there, even though my brother said that he had let her know on Friday that he would be around for the visit midday on Saturday.
Phyllis in that regard is best described as "scatterbrained". She had probably entirely forgotten.
After a few attempts to phone her, my brother finally got a response. She and Sherry were in downtown Langley and just about to drive out to Chilliwack to Phyllis's previous residence where she still had a lot of smaller items to move ─ professional movers had transported the major amount of her possessions on Friday.
Rather than have Phyllis and Sherry drive all the way back to where we were, my brother offered to meet them in downtown Langley since we would have to pass through it on our way home anyway.
And so a rendezvous was arranged for the parking lot of a shopping complex by 200th Street & 64th Avenue (Google map), and more specifically right beside a Prospera Credit Union.
The day was very breezy, with a mix of bright sunshine and lots of heavy cloud.
The four of us stood for some while by Phyllis's car, just chatting. Perhaps a half hour was so spent. And then the two pairs of us parted, and each vehicle went its own way.
Not only did the outing cost me time to post in this blog yesterday, but I also was not to have the time for my scheduled exercising. I had eaten naught, and had only had one cup of my caffeinated beverage before leaving home.
After finally having a substantial meal here at home, I needed a nap. My brother, however, headed out for the afternoon.
I wanted to finish setting up a new post at one of my six hosted websites, and not have any of that preliminary work held over until the a.m. of today when I expected correctly that I would be rising early for a few hours.
My brother was back home by the earliest evening, during which time I was at work on a lengthy post in my private blog. I knew that he would be expecting me to join him around 8:00 p.m. to put our T9 Android 8.1 TV Box into operation, so I felt myself with no other option at that time.
Had he remained away, I would have at least squeezed in some exercising.
But it was nice seeing Phyllis and Sherry. I had intended taking some photos if we had actually gotten to visit them at their new home.
While my brother and I were earlier scoping out the exterior of that structure, I was impressed by the soft soughing of the wind in the tall evergreens that are surprisingly abundant in that residential complex. It reminded me of a forested campsite.
I could very much enjoy sitting outside on a sunny and warm day, listening to the wind in the trees, and having a few beers while doing so.
As my brother and I were wending our way out of that wooded complex ─ which seemed to be targetting retirees ─ an elderly lady on a walk actually waved to us as if we were all part of a tiny community or small town somewhere.
I liked that.
I sat up with my brother last evening until at least 11:10 p.m., but that was it. At that point, we had watched the finale episode of season two of Animal Kingdom, and the premier episode of season three. I declined his invitation to tune in and watch yet one more episode, even though I love this incredibly arresting series.
As I said to my brother, I am in no rush to get through it.
We both knew that the character "Baz" was killed quite early in the Australian movie that the series is based upon, and that police had pretty much executed him in the daytime in his vehicle in the parking lot of a shopping centre or plaza.
The T.V. series developed Baz into one of its major characters, so we were surprised when he got killed as summarily as he did by a lurking hooded assassin who ran away in the night.
But just as in the movie, the Baz character was the first of the family to die.
In the movie, Craig is next to die (and at the hands of murderous police), and then awhile after that Pope kills young Nikki. Pope himself is killed at the movie's conclusion.
So we're hoping that the T.V. series entirely breaks from that sequence, even though it did have Baz be the first to die. We like all of the Cody family members ─ they all have their very decent sides ─ except for maybe the conniving matriarch who seems to delight in pitting her sons against one another.
My brother thinks that there are only the four seasons. I have not let on to him that there is to be a season five.
As I type these words at 11:00 a.m., the day seems solidly overcast, so any afternoon sunning does appear unlikely.
I shall now take a break from this post.
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I had a reasonably productive 'at home' day, but I could have done just a wee bit more, I know.
Early in the evening I had a bath, hoping that I would manage to be getting to bed early this evening. However, not two minutes after I exited the bathroom, I heard my younger brother come into the house, so the T.V. is now on.
He might as well be living in the 1950s, for all the good a computer is to his understanding. All he can do is watch T.V. to entertain himself at home ─ and drink.
Okay, bitch over. I might as well get this post published.
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