Chores and Cleaning 8-31-15

Today was chores and cleaning day, I had a list of several things I needed to do while Deb was in hyperdrive mode to clean the apartment.  So it was out the door for me.
I have a pair of shoes that are delaminating between the sole and the uppers, both shoes!  They have some sole wear but not massive amounts and it doesn't seem right that they should be coming apart. So chore number one was to take them to a shoe repair so I walked over to a repair shop and the guy there said he couldn't repair them.   I thought humpf, I'll take them to another shop where I know he only does shoes and nothing else, but it was downtown so I had to grab the metro.  When I got to the shop he was closed for lunch and not back for three hours, so it was on to the next chores.
I was headed for BHV,(Bazar de Hotel de Ville)  our department store of choice and not too far away. Since I was in the Marais, I walked along looking at shops and taking pics of interesting doorways and courtyards. I also spotted a couple of fountains that delivered drinking water to Paris beginning in the 1600's and still flowing today.
BHV has a hardware department where one can get light bulbs and a epicerie where one can pick up tea, food, chocolate, biscuits, jam and the like, so I can get several chores take care of at once.  In the last bout of rain we irreparably damaged one umbrella and another developed holes where the frame rubs on the cloth plus I damaged one of the ribs, so it's not long for this world.  I bought new umbrellas, tea, and light bulbs because, hey it's a department store.

After this I walked back towards the shoe repair, but with more time to wait I stopped for lunch and a lounge in the shade at the Place des Vosges.  It's fun to watch the children playing in the fountain and sandbox while their parents lounge on the grass, kids playing football (soccer), and people enjoying themselves.



After sitting for awhile I walked back to the shoe repair, his store window is pretty definitive that he only repairs shoes so I figured this is the Man.  He looked at the shoes and pronounced them unrepairable by him and suggested I get some adhesive and glue them back together.  I told him that they were pretty expensive and he said too bad, chinese shoe makers made poor products, not like French shoes.  He's right, to my chagrin, so I'll get some shoo goo or something and try to glue them together.  They only have to last for a few more months.
I caught the bus back to the apartment and had a nice dinner salad with Deb and a quiet evening.

BTW - I switched to Windows 10 and am in the midst of a learning curve.  It installed very nicely but I can't find things I used in the past.   I'm also having trouble with loading pics, so stay tuned.