Do you think anyone would buy this?

Gadzooks! We have just participated in our first yard sale, and we sold lots of stuff!

Oddly though, it's the stuff we thought wouldn't sell that sold quickly! The kitchen cart, which we used to keep a microwave on, made someone extremely happy. Based on that quick sale, we brought down our old filing cabinet - and it sold too! And we made someone happy with lots of Dr. Who VCR tapes!

It was a day long effort, and we got lots of fresh air, and met lots of our neighbours because it was the annual yard sale for the building we just moved into. So it was a great thing all around.

And to top it all off we actually sold our CD stand! We've had it on Craigslist for months and no interest, but someone wanted it today!

We've never been to a yard sale, let alone sold stuff at one. But it was greatly successful. Who would have known! Go figure!

What is he doing with those handcuffs?

We are sitting in a restaurant on Denman Street having dinner, watching people go by when a cop on a motorcycle comes up and parks on the other side of the street.

The waiter - quite the flaming type - looks to see if it's his favourite cop. Oh, no it isn't, how sad, this one is not quite as well built. But he does have an interesting trait.

As the cop slowly gets himself set to walk about, he takes his helmet off... and handcuffs it to his motorcycle!

The waiter finds that quite exciting, and suggests positions that can be taken on a motorcycle with handcuffs... he's quite entertaining.

As the meal goes on, no less than 3 more motorcycle cops come up and park next to each other, in preparation for going on a walk about. They all handcuff their helmets to their bikes!

So if you ever see a motorcycle cop walking around in Vancouver's West End... pssst, they don't have their handcuffs on them!

Unless they have a spare set... I don't think I want to bring it up with any of them... that could be a bit more "exciting" than I really want it to be!

This is a fun place to live!

How many layers of black paper can you get on a roof?

Wow, what a nightmarish move that was... yes, we've up and moved house, so I haven't been blogging lately. And I don't really want to ponder questions that came up while moving... so on to brighter things.

Yesterday I was sitting in my new living room watching men mow the roof of the building next to me. Yes, I said mow, as in cut down the green mossy growth. There was a veritable meadow on top of that building, bit of a drainage problem maybe?

Today I am sitting and watching more men take layers and layers of black paper - with a lot of dust on them - off the roof. Every time they seem to be finished taking off the black paper and they grab brooms to brush the brown dust around, they find more paper! And then they stop and rip up more paper. And then they start dusting again. How many layers are there on a single flat roof?

Oh yay, it seems to be getting a bit cool out there, they've put their shirts back on! I may just be getting older, but there was nothing good about bare torsos on those guys, that looks much better now. Of course now they are removing something with a sander that is throwing up lots of smokey white dust, so we've closed all our windows.

And they've found more paper!

And I've found an interesting entry in Wickipedia explaining problems with flat roofs. Yes, that would be why the roof was so green, lack of drainage. That can be quite the extreme problem in Vancouver. Now I get to watch to see if they put down a single sheet coating like the article suggests... and level it so the water runs off... I guess time will tell on that last part!

So many new things to ponder in my new home! This could be fun!

Post Script: Nope, no leveling. Nope, no single sheet coating... and boy does the dip in the middle of the roof look more like it's going to be a water feature, and not a roof to keep the rain out. I guess we will be seeing much more green in the months to come!