My BLOG SUMMARY
Okay I totally apologize for not coming to my blog or diary
for almost three months. I had a few
crises, and a few memories and lots of stories to tell about what has gone on
in my life. I will summarize what has
happened and let’s just say it has been an eye opener.
My house was all prepared for my daughters visit to my home from Regina Saskatchewan to Hamilton Ontario, the weekend
of the 17th of February 2012.
We had a party the first day she was here. I invited Sandra and her three kids. I had Peter, Ed and I. I invited Jackie and Jaiden and the whole
family was there for the visit. I and
Candice took a bus. She thought that was
so cool. We did some walkabouts around
Fortinos and Denninger’s. We bought some
coffee and took pictures of some funny signs.
She was only home for 2 ½ days and then on to Scugog she went. My sister Sophie and her husband Dave came to
get her and we all went out the Mandarin for lunch. It was family day in Ontario, so we had a
good family lunch. Ed didn’t attend as
he was not feeling well and was still asleep.
I took a few pictures and shared a lot of laughs with family and
friends.
From February 22, 2012 until May 1, 2012 that’s almost three
months, we moved, we packed, scrapped, cleaned up the yards, hired workers, loaded
a tractor trailer with our personal belongings to be hauled away to storage,
packed and loaded another 26 foot truck and hauled away to
storage and we were left with cleaning up our final storage facility to find
personal items and stuff for a home we did not have.
I can understand the
realization now of poverty, homelessness and lack of food. I did not attend a soup kitchen or line up
for food. Call it pride but no one wants
to go in there either.
I searched daily and was at my wit’s end searching for an
apartment. We had looked at a lot of dumps /apartments. There was nothing that was reasonable or
favorable for a wheelchair or scooter with Ed’s disabilities. As I was leaving
the library one day on free wifi I glanced at the Hamilton Spectator and an
advertisement hit me. I called the
number and Ed and I went to go see the 2 bedroom apartment, still occupied
until May 1, 2012. We took an
application, filled it out and dropped it back off with a $150 dollar
deposit. The property owner was a nice
old lady with her husband, the apartment a block away from downtown. It was perfect.
We were saved. We
wanted the apartment, we needed a home.
We paid last month’s rent and then continued on with our daily routine
of clean up, scrap and removing stuff from Elgin Street. We paid the first month’s rent on the 30th
of April. We borrowed a van from a
friend on the mountain at the end of the month and on April 30, 2012 we moved
into our new home. All we had there on
the first day was a blow up bed and a few personal items. The landlord maintenance crew gave us a used
couch, which was black and cool. We
finally had a home.
From May 1, 2012 until now we have been moving into our
home. Ed got me a television for
Mother’s Day. With all our personal
belongings in storage we have to start all over again. I need pots and pans and a toaster. I need food which is still a struggle on a
daily basis. We have gone to the scrap
yard a few times, to pay bills, pay for the rental of the van. We got satellite television and I am home now
with Internet and cable television with a roof over my head.
