Close to Home (apartment)

We currently work from our apartment, again.  Daily walks around the complex are a must to help maintain sanity.  I count my blessings that quarantine is not required, just wisdom and social distancing.  I’m snapping a few photos to help me remember, in the future,  my current everyday life.  Taxis await anyone leaving the main lobby of our four wing complex.  Section A – the hotel – requires more taxi service than we commoners who opt for the bus.

We live on the 8^th floor of Wing E.  Half the apartments enjoy a harbor view.  However, senior missionaries daily see the back side of the complex.  Our windows display other apartment buildings and the freeway.

Nepalese guards protect every entrance to the complex.  Currently, they carry thermometers to check temps of all who wish to enter.  They seem to be especially kind to missionaries.  We offer a friendly greeting whenever we pass.  Rumor has it we should not take photos of them.  

This unusual fountain feature flows every day of the year.

We stare at the beautiful pool from outside the fence, thanks to Covid’s 3^rd wave.  It is a lovely facility and we hate missing these precious months of use.

The free shuttle service is well utilized by senior couples.  It passes every 15 minutes and makes routine stops at the metro/bus station and downtown Tsim Sha Tsui (near the harbor ferry).  We enjoy this portion of “downtown” with shops, restaurants, museums, etc.   Catching the shuttle home saves us a two mile walk.

These men transport stacks of bamboo used for scaffolding.

I watched them successfully load the poles.  Most buildings have some areas supported by the bamboo as “improvements” are made.

We enjoy the unusual vegetation.  These tree roots are amazing.  What an illustration for the phrase, “Bloom where you are planted”.

 We discovered the California Pizza Kitchen.  One pizza is topped with mushrooms and tastes delicious.  The other is Jamaican Jerked Chicken which has become a favorite.  One Elder asked how we can possibly know if a chicken is a jerk.