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About a week ago, someone left a chaise longue, upholstered in brown in the style of a sofa section, in the middle of one of the narrow pavements/sidewalks in the neighbourhood. Where I used to run into lots of older people, some with walkers, on my walks. It lost its cushion over the weekend, but it was still there this afternoon, and a lady pushing a pram had to cross the street on her way to the park because of it. So I flagged down the relatively strong lad who was walking behind her, and he and I moved it onto the strip of earth where a grass verge would be. It fit in a gap between the few plants the homeowner at that point has, and the dining room chair with busted cane seat that had appeared next to it fit nicely in another space. The guy wanted to hump the chaise into the road, but I thought that would be mega-illegal. And there's now enough space for people to get by.

Walking past the park this afternoon, I was passed by 5 Waymos. The first 2, I noticed a couple standing on the corner staring, so perhaps they weren't the first. I could see through the park that at least one of the two that use that street as their base was parked there. How many are there and why are they convoying on that street? It creeps me out.

I think more folks went away for Thanksgiving this year than in years past. The neighbourhood isn't stuffed with visiting cars as it has been in the past. Maybe everybody now goes to Tahoe.

At least one family did have an illegal barbecue though (Spare the Air day). I could see the smoke for 2 blocks and crossed the street to check it wasn't a house fire.

Definitely what passes for winter here. Leaving for a morning walk in cloudy, chilly weather, I noticed a red camellia lying on the ground. And at noontime we got a Spare the Air alert for tomorrow and Thursday.

One house has already sprouted candycanes in a flowerbed, and another has a (minimally) decorated tree on the porch. Today seems to have been the day for putting up the outside lights: I walked past one house where the front gable was getting bedecked and another where a light string was being threaded around the points of the white picket fence. Maybe it was too sunny yesterday.

Sunny enough today to put my laundry out, and for the dog to not only spend time in the back garden but to lead me on a long, meandering walkies through the park. And I swept the still dank driveway, and the pavement.

The housemate did early spring cleaning. And found the tail for the Kit-Cat clock somewhere in the papers and stuff.