In very local news, the balcony we've been banished from
since May for the city's Façade Inspection and Safety Program, having been patched, resurfaced and repainted, is finally being restored to us. Today was the happy day when the twenty panes of the window enclosures (which were parked in our dining area for these five months) were put back in place. A final inspection next week will allow us officially to start using it again. Soon!