Gord here and hands up if you’re done with snow. Just about everyone it looks like. Even as I type this it’s snowing like crazy outside. I do have a few tidbits I thought I’d share with you.
My Snow Blower
I thought I was confident with the fact that the snow was done when I bought my snow blower, but no! I have used it a lot and it works well. I know right now there isn’t one to be found, but if shoveling has wrecked your back, it is a sound investment.
Pack Up The Barber Pole
On Friday, I had a list of stuff to get done before I came home from CHFI. I renewed my sticker for the license plate on my car, I bought a tax return software package to get my taxes finished.
Then I went to my Barber that I have gone to since my first haircut 34 years ago. To my horror, as I pull up in front of the shop in a strip mall on Lawrence and Brimley…it’s gone! Replaced by a video store. I have had only one trained professional cut my hair and his name was Charlie. I was stunned, his barber shop was the few remaining “old guard” men’s barber shops. I shall miss the chats we had, looking at the faded poster of the 1982 Italy World Cup of Soccer Champions poster. I shall miss listening to his budgie chirp in the background as he sang along to CHFI playing on the radio.
I am at a loss, I can’t go to a modern place, they don’t know my “style” of cut and I’m sure I won’t be charged $15 like I got from Charlie. I know his job cutting my hair got easier as I got older and my brother was miffed that he paid the same as me and I have twice the hair he does, but that’s all in the past now. I am on the Barber rebound… a shaggy head of hair looking for a pair of scissors to dance with. I could go back to shaving my head…
