Here's the Scoop

Now it's finally been revealed to me what is coming to the former Book Warehouse location on West 4th: a Reitman's clothing store, opening end of August. The news came to me via one of the workers inside busy tearing down what was left of Scoop, open just long enough to irritate, in between the Book's closing and this new retail wonder in our hood.

a weekend of garage sales

We finally took the chance and had our yard sale over the long Canada Day weekend. Weather this year has been too iffy and we'd already had to cancel the sale once last month. Funny to have a woman arrive at 10 am, wanting to make a 3 dollar purchase and offering to pay with a 100 dollar bill! What are people thinking? It's hard enough for a restaurant or shop to cough out change at the start of a day, let alone someone selling off bits and pieces of their closet with coins in their pockets as change! Anyway, it went off without a hitch and by 2, we were ready to donate the rest to our favourite local charity shop in town.

Even more fun was had the following day (Monday) when our neighbours at the end of the street had their sale. The same characters came through and lo and behold, that same lady trying to pay for purchases with that same 100 dollar bill! We have a café right on the corner; I can't imagine how hard it would have been for this lady to have gotten change ahead of time?

Has anyone else tried their hand at getting Chris Cornell tickets via the Molson Golden cell phone blitz? My phone's been ringing daily with the chance to arrive early at a (daily changing) Granville Street bar, in order to get the CHANCE to win a pair! I'm thinking it's a thinly-veiled attempt for the Molson folks to get the kids out the door to drink, in hopes of a win. These tickets can not be purchased. The text message system is the only way to get to the particular bar and claim your chance of winning. I'm wondering how badly I wanna see this guy!

Happy belated Canada Day to my Northern friends and readers : )