Grieving For Smaller Things and Fed Up About a Big Thing

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I've lost the Roma Barber Shop on Elgin Street, a place I've gotten haircuts at since moving to Ottawa in 1985. I found that out yesterday when I went over from Perfect Books to reassure the Costanza brothers that I hadn't forgotten them. The shop windows were already papered over.

I'm about to lose the Nutrition Company at Gloucester Centre unless the Husseinis can find a buyer before end of March. Bateson House, the furniture shop at Place d'Orléans Mall, is having their closing sale.

One of my nieces and nephews survived COVID-19, with help from the vaccines. Other friendly acquaintances have died of COVID before any vaccine could be delivered to them. Still others have died of the side effects of the Pandemic combining with other medical issues that they were either already dealing with or unaware that they had to deal with.

I'm not about to give up democracy to the fascists.

Comments

[thewayne]

My fave barbershop in Phoenix closed up a few years before the pandemic. Wonderful neighborhood place. The owner left it to two guys who rented chairs from him to go up to Prescott to take care of his elderly mother, and they ran it into the ground and that was it.

Apparently barbershops are tenuous establishments!

The place I use locally here you have to book an appointment about two months in advance. It's pretty solid, I expect it'll last. There's another local that does a good job if something happens to the first.

[moonblossom]

That's sad. I'm sorry. :(