Right Back Where I Began

My first job as a kid was as a paper carrier for the Sudbury Shopper. Wouldn't you know it, here I am almost 30 years later and I'm walking around handing out post cards door-to-door. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose!

As you may recall, I'm fairly new to all this. For now, I've decided to break my canvassing into two three-hour chunks. I'm going to go from 9AM-noon and 1PM-4PM every day until I've hit every home in Dundas. That leaves me enough time to check on e-mail and social media in the morning, again at lunch and once more before I go pick up the boy from pre-school.

I emerged this morning all bright-eyed and bushy-tailed.

Good morning Dundas!

Did I mention the heat... and oh, the humidity? I was a sweaty mess before even 10AM but here's where all that endurance training I did as a cyclist pays off. I persevered!

I spent the morning around the old quarry neighbourhood and the afternoon around Parkside and the heritage district. I met some really nice people and was really impressed how engaged most were in current events, even three months out from the election!

I'm hoping my "reader response cards" generate a good amount of feedback but I can tell you from the conversations I had today that there are definitely some things that are getting on people's nerves.

Top 3 Things Making Dundas Angry

1. Taxes

2. Parkside

3. Condos

Does this make you angry? It probably should.

When I got home this afternoon around 4PM, I was absolutely beat. I haven't felt quite this trashed in some time. Thankfully, the boy succumbed to our goading and we got to spend a great couple of hours at the splash pad in the Driving Park after dinner. I really needed that.

Tomorrow, we tackle the west end of the heritage district. I'm hoping to cover from here to the Dundas District Lofts.

For now, I'm going to tune into the CHCH evening news and then collapse into bed!