the cabinet-maker came and put on the finishing touches. We had a bottle of champagne to celebrate the completion, and chatted awhile in the sparkling new kitchen. I thanked him for teaching us a lesson in the virtue of patience (he was several weeks late in completing the job).
curmudgey's Life List
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1. Visit Paris
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2. Invent something useful
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3. Ride the rails
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4. Find out the significance of having 43 items on one's list
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5. Pursue wabi-sabi
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6. Live in solitude for a while
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7. Write a song
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8. Learn to be more aware of and appreciate mono no aware in daily life
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9. Climb the CN Tower stairs in under 20 minutes
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10. Paddle the Don River
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11. Save a person's life
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12. Draw cartoons
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13. Go vagabonding
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14. Go rambling
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15. See Britten's Midsummer Night's Dream
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16. Make a coffin for my dad
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17. Improve my Spanish
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18. Learn to tango
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19. Paint some more portraits
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20. Finally get started with the series of paintings that's been in my mind for about 12 years
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21. Finish the kitchen reno
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22. Clean up the shed
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23. Get the Suzuki running
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24. Finish and sell the Obama speech booklets I printed
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25. Print an abstract poster on the Vandercook SP15
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26. Go on an overnight sail
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27. Get a truckload of peaches from the Niagara region to distribute to my suburban friends, to help sweeten their 100-mile diet while helping Ontario fruit farmers
1 entry1 person
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