Postby Kathryn-in-Canada » Wed Jan 23, 2019 9:32 am
Wow! The weather outside is frightful. School buses are finally cancelled in the city (up where MF lives, this is the third day in a row they've cancelled the buses.) Roads are treacherous, the plows didn't keep up.
The radio hosts are reading the script from Environment Canada which says "light snow" but it isn't light. I can't see more than few blocks away. I can see there are very few cars on the road compared to a normal rush hour.
In theory, I have nowhere to go today except across the street this evening. Which is good because after the snow stops, the freezing rain starts!
Wow! Ds is in a pickle. He uses online banking so transferred the money into is account for the down payment of the house. The down payment must be handed over today in the form of a certified cheque or bank draft. Online banks take 8 business days to issue and mail you the draft.
He phoned to see if he could write me a cheque and have me do the bank draft for him (I have both brick and mortar bank accounts as well as online) but I don't have the 20% down just lying around and the bank will put a hold on his cheque. Between the company accounts and my B&M bank, I can raise just under 3/4 of it. I'm not sure how much I have available from my trading account so have put in a request for a phone call from my investment guy. I won't sell anything but if there's cash on hand, we could manage it.
Ironically, I do have enough if I add in my online banking accounts but they are as useless to me as they are to ds.
He's scrambling now but since I can't easily help, he's taken this back onto himself to solve. The online bank said something about an emergency transfer so we'll see if he can arrange that.
Wow! I'm not yet dressed but I woke up early and got out of bed just after 6 so have done tea and chocolate and light, the ironing (from the past 3 months, mostly handkerchiefs but also napkins from Christmas dinner), tried to improve my ironing board (if I can't buy something perfect, I'll just work with what I have) and dealt with ds's phone call.
I'm also bringing my computer back up since I shut down last night and that means I have to sign back into everything.