A beautiful day in the neighbourhood

Before the heavens decided to pour it's condensationy goodness down upon all that is green and growing today, M and I went for a walk on Roncesvalles and discovered that a lot of what we need is mere blocks from home.

I used to be able to get all my dry cleaning done through a service at work, but recently that became unavailable. I'm not from Toronto, so I don't know where all the good and/or bad places are. We set out to the centre of our hood today so see if this cleaner, so conveniently located by the streetcar stop I often use, was all that. Turns out, it is. Score!

Next I took M into a natural foods store I thought he would like because it was brimming with all that freaky Asian food he so enjoys making. M takes a lot more time than I do looking at things. I usually do a quick first pass, determine if there's anything good for me and move on. He carefully sifts and sorts all the information he gets. Normally this makes me a little crazy, but today it worked wonderfully as, thanks to his taking the time to look, we found that we can get a lot of the stuff we drive to buy in this store... for less. (and we can get more of M's crazy Asian food). Score again.

The discovery train continued at a store called "Dressers" where M found a great looking coat (affordable too!) and I found my new favourite brand of soaps. It's called Queen (select bath and then select Queen) and I love it to bits. I also love this store. Full of cute clothes, cute tea towels and many many fun soaps. Hatrick!

The finally discovery, and this was the pay dirt, was a butcher. There are lots and lots of butchers on Roncesvalles and if you're looking for anything done Polish style, then you're sorted. If you're looking for a good steak and a store that doesn't make you want to fall over because of the smell, well that's more challenging. We found one today. Great guy, great cuts of meat, no frightening sausages. We win!

And it only took us over a year to figure out that we have all this nearby.

Today's sing-a-long song: "The search is over" by Survivor

HRH