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This cold weather that we are experiencing these days is not all that helpful for what I like to do. 

As you know, dear reader, I like to go out several times a day for a nice stroll to make myself feel better. Or, at least that is what I have done so many times over so many months recently. Unfortunately, that is not what I have been doing for the past little while. In fact, I have not even gone outside at all to go for walk. It is just too cold for me to do so. 

I do exercising now inside the house on our elliptical trainer.  I will usually do it once or twice a day. Obviously, I do this much more in the winter months than I have done in the spring, summer and early autumn. During that time of the year, my walking outside, sometimes for a long period of time, is the exercising that I do. It is because the temperature is so cold now that I do the exercising inside.  I really have no other choice. 

It is quite interesting for me to go to the basement and to go on our exercise machine to do the exercise work now. In all honesty, the amount of time I spend on the trainer is a lot less than the time I spend walking outside. I just get so much more tired doing the tough work inside.  To be honest, while I have to do it, it is just not as much fun as walking outside. 

On the machine that I have, there are all kinds of different exercise programs that I could possibly undertake. Unfortunately, I don't do any of them. All I do right now is the basic program that I assume everyone does when they first start out on the machine. I just find I get so tired so quickly on this basic model that I have no idea how well I would do on the other ones if I had the courage to try them out. 

No problem though. It does help me out quite a bit. It helps keep my weight down and burn off any excess weight that I have. That is the purpose of buying this piece of electrical equipment and then using it to exercise in this terrible cold weather in winter. 

Here's something else that I do rather than going outside. Publishing some stories about interesting events that I saw recently in our media. Here are some of them. 

FLOODING IN TECUMSEH 

As you may recall, dear reader, and as I know quite well because I live here, the Town of Tecumseh suffered rather badly with terrible rainstorms this year and last year that gave rise to widespread flooding that impacted many homes in our area. 

Last year, as an example, for the first time that I have ever experienced in my life, my condo house had flooding in the basement that resulted in my insurance company sending in people to fix up the mess that was caused.  Fortunately for me, most of the loss was paid for. This year, we again had some flooding after the rainstorms with only a bit of water in the basement. We again called the Insurer. A representative came to our condo but fortunately not much damage was done so there was no insurance claim that we had to file. 

I saw this in the Windsor Star in an article by Julie Kotsis on November 22, 2017 

"Capital projects include road rehabilitation work, bridge repair and other infrastructure improvements. 

“One of the big ones is we continue to upgrade our storm sewer and sanitary sewer project,” McNamara said. “We’ll be spending some capital dollars but also grants from the provincial and federal governments." 

It would be interesting for me to know exactly how much money was spent before, what was achieved and what the results would be if this new sum was spent because I am quite worried that we might see some more horrible storms next summer. It really doesn't seem that a lot of money is being spent on ensuring that we never have another flood again.  

But who knows. The last thing that I want is more damage especially after the problems we had for 2 years now in our condo. I think I might do a bit of research on this subject and do another note on it shortly if I find out anything interesting. 

IMPROVING DOWNTOWN WINDSOR 

I just read the Anne Jarvis story in the Windsor Star and appreciated it. (Anne Jarvis,Windsor Star, November 22, 2017) 

I just remember how exciting downtown Windsor was for so many years, especially after moving to this City for my new job so many years ago. However, unfortunately, the City experienced several times terrible economic problems that resulted in the last few years with many businesses closing down and the sites not reopening. 

Anne's column was quite exciting about what may be starting out in Windsor downtown finally soon. There is a three-story apartment building that is supposed to be built, a new building might be set up with up to 5 floors of commercial and residential units and then another building is supposed to be upgraded by spending “multimillions” restoring it for commercial or office space, high-end lofts and student apartments." 

Perhaps Windsor finally has the money that it can spend to improve itself. I am sure that you recall, dear reader, how many millions have been spent by the City of Windsor on so many huge projects in the past.  If taxpayer money is finally available for other purposes, then perhaps we can see some of it being used to help Windsor Downtown revitalize. Perhaps also, many others will see the Windsor downtown growing and decide to invest there as well.

Just to give you my point of view from an ex-resident of the City, I do hope that Windsorites will be serious about the need for improvements in the City to help it grow. After all, the automotive industry hopefully will be active for a number of years now and we can see other businesses growing. That means that the City can be economic again and encourage people to move and then work here.   

What all this means to me though is that the City needs new politicians to assume the political power to help achieve this goal. I truly cannot believe that the members on this Local Government can do much to help the City prosper again. I am hoping that the election in 2018 will result in good people being successful by being elected and that they will be able to make Windsor prosperous again. 

Moreover, I am hopeful that these people also will be prepared to work with politicians in the County because I believe we will see an "Amalgamated" City of Windsor and the Local towns arise as a "Metropolitan unit" with that process starting immediately after the next municipal election.