#Master Home Plumber in Toronto

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Gill Brother Plumbing stands as Brampton’s leading plumbing service provider, recognized for exceptional expertise throughout Peel, York, Toronto, Halton, Hamilton, and Waterloo. Our team of master-certified and licensed professionals offers top-tier residential and commercial plumbing services. For dependable support, contact us at +1-647-895-8107.

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"SEES LIVES MENACED IN HOSPITAL AND JAIL," Toronto Star. March 27, 1934. Page 1. ---- Improper Installations, Organizer for Steamfitters Declares ---- There was a sharp clash between W. A. Baird (High Park) and John Bruce, organizer for the Steamfitters' Union, before the labor committee of the legislature to-day when a bill sponsored by Hon. J. M. Robb, minister of health and labor, came before the committee. There was a sharp clash between W. A. Baird (High Park) and John Bruce, organizer for the Steamfitters' Union, before the labor committee of the legislature to-day when a bill sponsored by Hon. J. M. Robb, minister of health and labor, came before the committee.

The bill is aimed to license and regulate master and journeymen steamfitters and plumbers in the installation of heating systems.

Mr. Bruce stated that a man at the Home for Incurables, who is an electrician, was installing a system with the aid of a fireman. "The whole thing is criminal and anything is liable to happen in that place," he declared.

"That is a slanderous statement," said Mr. Baird. "The man is a first-class engineer besides being an electrician. I can prove it. I am vice-chairman on the board of the Home for Incurables. This is just a fight between the stationary engineers and steamfitters."

Mr. Bruce said he could prove his charge. Mr. Baird challenged him to do so.

Mr. Bruce also stated that at present at the Toronto jail a system of heating under a 50-pound pressure is being improperly installed. "Anything is liable to happen there. The situation has added danger with the prisoners cooped up in their cells at night," he said.

"Isn't it true that in each case you speak of, Mr. Bruce, there isn't a qualified stationary engineer in charge of the work?" the chairman asked. Mr. Bruce did not answer and the chairman stated the committee was only interested in the principle of the bill and not in a private feud.

It was decided to meet again tomorrow at 10 a.m. to discuss the bill.

[socaprince]

SOCA THERAPY - MAY 19, 2024

Soca Therapy Playlist

Sunday May 19th 2024

Making You Wine From 6-9pm on Flow 98.7fm Toronto

D Call (Dr. Jay Plate) - Kemmy

Mad Government (Dr. Jay Plate) - Mirror Dan

Danger - Skinny Fabulous x Problem Child

Do What You Want - Skinny Fabulous x Asa Banton x Mr. Killa

Energy - DJ Cheem x Tallpree

Carnival - Ghaza

WDS - Aidol

Jab Jab Festival - Pumpa x Travis World

Hotspot - Lyrikal x Travis World

Not From Here - Lavaman x Travis World

Chopping The Line - Jab King

Toot Toot - Temptress

Outside Again (Riddim Master Edit) - Rucas H.E x Dejour

Come Home - Nailah Blackman x Skinny Fabulous

Restless - Jaxx

Simple Things - KI

Long Time - Miguel Maestre

Inventor (Izaman) - Olatunji

Mental Day - Kes

Umbrella - Bunji Garlin

Behavior Nothin -Skinny Fabulous

The Spirit - Machel Montano

Angel - Imani Ray

Outside Jam - GBM Nutron x DJ Spider

Stink Behaviour (TW Edit) - Teddy Rhymez x Machel Montano

Need Ah Fete - Boyzie

Finally (Riddim Master Edit) - V'ghn

DNA (DJ Kevin Festival Intro Edit) - Mical Teja

DNA (Madness Muv & D Ninja Roadmix) - Mical Teja

Carnival Contract - Bunji Garlin

In The Water - Suhrawh x Chow Minister

Wet Me Down - Lil Vghn

Ref (Blow D Whistle) - Shatta

De Last Time - Miss Cali

TOP 7 COUNTDOWN - Powered By The Soca Source

Top Soca from iTunes (World) in Canada from April 2024

7. Work It - Tian Winter

6. How ah Livin - Farmer Nappy

5. Rum Bucket 'Party Mashup' - Preddy x King Bubba x Lavaman

4. Human Nature - Voice x Jada Kingdom

3. Pump Me Up - Krosfyah

2. Eating Preference - Tallpree

1. The Plumber - Starbrite

Trust Issues - Rupee

BYE x2 - Saddis x Jus Jay King

Life After Fete - Kerwin Du Bois

Everytime - Nadia Batson

When Last (Remix) - GBM Nutron x Jus Jay King featt Grateful Co

Best Jam Ever - Patrice Roberts 

Sample - Problem Child 

Bare Good Vibes - Shal Marshall

Bad Gyal - Erphaan Alves

Tack Back - Kes x Tano

Junction - Coutain x Tano

Soca Party - Jimmy October x Tano

Sweet Love - Jimmy October (WORLD PREMIERE)

Champion - Coutain x Dwala

PAN MOMENTS

Bob Marley Pan Medley - Michael The Pannist

TANTY TUNE

(1980) Dat Soca Boat - The Mighty Shadow

Soca In Meh Vein - Alison Hinds

Good Vibes Only - Alison Hinds

Soca Therapy - Patrice Roberts

Plan B (D Ninja Edit) - Orlando Octave

Give Away The Wine - M1

Darlin - Aaron Duncan

Darlin' - Johnny King

Party With You - H2O Phlo

Coal Pot - Traffik

Anxiety - Patrice Roberts

Hard Fete (DJ Shy "Hands Up" Edit) - Bunji Garlin

Miracle/Beat Rum Bad (Muv Tone Play) - Kes, Wadicks

Bruk Time - Grabba

Bend - Nessa Preppy

The A List - Pumpa

Pretty Gyal - Adam O

Out Ah Order - Lyrikal

Whatever Yuh Want - Nadia Baston 

Slip In - Geo

Party In The Road - Skinny Fabulous

Ah Love It Here - Ricardo Drue

Instructions Pt. 2 - Deejay Asap

Kedek Kedek - Mighty

NORTHERN PRESCRIPTION

Leggo Mi Man - Taste Of Madness feat Shayne Bailey

I Dare You - Destra 

Soca Global - Erphaan Alves

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[therefinedplumber]

Mastering Toronto's Plumbing Challenges: Revealing Refined Home Services' Expert Plumbers Solutions

Explore the intricate world of plumbing solutions in Toronto with Refined Home Services. Dive into our latest article on Medium, where we unveil the expertise and personalized services offered by our plumbers. Discover how we navigate through diverse challenges, ensuring your plumbing is in top-notch condition. Read the full article here: https://medium.com/@refinedhomeservicesca/navigating-plumbing-solutions-in-toronto-unveiling-expert-plumbers-services-refined-home-6d8a8fc90266

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Sewer Backup & Snaking Services

Many folks maintain procrastinating and find yourself ordering a lot costlier drain pipe repairs from sewer and drain cleaning contractors. Moreover, clogged drain pipes cause flooding in their houses, spoiling carpets and flooring and causing repairs that are more like renovation initiatives. And if sewer line backup occurs, they find yourself cleaning sewage from their basements. If you wish to defend your property against sewage backups and water injury, look no further than Black Forest Plumbing for sewer line cleansing companies and digicam inspections. We’re also a go-to source for various other residential and industrial plumbing providers in Aurora, Markham, Richmond Hill and elsewhere in the Greater Toronto Area. For extra information, or to book a service call, contact us right now.

Our expert team takes on these urgent sewage cleanup tasks with velocity and safety, returning your environment to regular. If you could have a basement flooding with sewage and wastewater, you need our sewer backup services. A sewer backup is often attributable to a clogged sewer line, nevertheless generally sewer backups are caused from an issue with the basic public sewer system.

The bubbles are coming from the air bubbles which are trapped when water trying to get past a clog. The best way to determine if this may be a one-off event is to collect several sewer repair gallons of water and flush it down the drain. Our lines are open and we’ll be glad to schedule a session with you at your earliest availability. That’s an enormous health hazard seeping through your drains and into your basement or loos.

Building traps serve no purpose in modern homes not only as a result of right now sewer gasoline protection is out there at each fixture, however because it is very typically the trigger of most basement backups. Any plumbing backup or suspected sewage ought to be handled with nice care – and we extremely recommend calling in the trained professionals to scrub up, sanitize and restore any affected areas. Sewers can clog as a result of particles fallen in to the sewer line over time. A regular sewer cleanup is beneficial for optimal performance of every residential and industrial sewage system. Sewerman is an industry main sewer repair team with over 50 years of experience.

If you notice that you've got got a clogged drain or rest room, unusual gargling sounds that counsel plumbing issues, or the water won't drain from the sink or tub, then you could have a drain clog. The invention of the backwater valve is kind of fascinating and is a chunk sewer backup toronto of Canadian plumbing history. First Response @ GTA Restoration is a good property restoration business with shoppers everywhere in the nation. With locations from coast to coast, we assist property homeowners in getting their buildings back to how they have been whereas restoring what matters—health and safety.

You will need a professional in as rapidly as possible to clean and decontaminate the world. The longer sewage is in your home the greater the risk toronto sewage is for severe illness amongst those in your household. The cost of the repairs and restoration will also mound up rapidly.

As is the case with most sewer repair issues – time is of the essence. We recommend you contact considered one of our master and licensed Toronto plumbers earlier than your sewer issue gets worse and causes extra injury that might have been prevented. Depending on how flood-prone your home is you might know already whether or not or not you require a backwater valve. When required, a backwater valve would be the difference between a flooded basement crammed with sewage and a clear and dry basement. One of the worst plumbing problems you can have is a problem along with your sewer line.

[pecaplumbing-blog]

Peca Plumbing servicing Toronto & GTA

I'm a licenced plumber specializing in residential and commercial plumbing services since 2003.

Toilets

Kitchen Sinks/ bathroom sinks

Laundry tubs

Bathtubs and shower controls

Dishwasher installation

Basement/washroom rough in and finishing

Water Piping systems

Check Valve installations

Service calls/ clogged drains

Hot water tanks

Sump pit/ pumps

Oil and Grease Interceptors

Commercial restaurants/ building units etc.

Residential homes

Anything related to plumbing feel free to call me anytime. My prices are very reasonable compared to other companies. My work is done professionally with the right attitude not leaving anything behind. If you want the best, text or call me anytime day or night. Feel free to leave an e-mail as well if you wish to do so.

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-Servicing GTA, Toronto, and surrounding areas

Please call me anytime at,

647.884.9778

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[plumberstoronto01]

Master Plumber In Toronto - Toronto Plumbers Group

Becoming a Master plumber in Toronto isn’t an easy job. A great plumber ought to be a certified professional with good knowledge of the job. Selecting an excellent plumber is just one of the most essential decisions a home operator can make. 

If there’s a certain plumber they can recommend, one needs to go right ahead and request their contacts. Professional certified plumbers in Toronto normally provide a number of inspection packages.

The jobs are performed in client homes or business buildings, though some outdoor work could possibly be necessary. It will be done in the shortest possible time to avoid any unnecessary inconveniences. Let somebody who knows the way to do the job.

for more details call us (416) 857-3930, or visit our website

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Hugh Watt

http://nhsm.ca/media/DRAFT-TheMastersPapers.pdf

The Niagara Historical Society Museum | THE MASTERS PAPERS 226-227

WALKING THROUGH THE STREETS | SECTION 7

LESLIE - BURBACK - DOYLE - THOMPSON - WATT PROPERTIES

The house next door was the home, for a time, of a Mr. Leslie, who later moved to Toronto. The owner now is Miss Burback. Her father was for years, Manager of the Jackson Farm on the River Road. The other house was the home of J.J. Doyle. Jay is the elder son of Jimmy Doyle of Doyle's Hotel, one of the best known hotelmen of his day. Jay later moved to St. Catharines, selling the house to Mrs. E. J. Thompson. This good lady came here from Bowmanville and was very much interested in historical matters and was Curator of the Museum after Miss Carnochan's death. After Mrs. Thompson passed on, Hugh Watt bought the place and lived in it until he moved to Toronto. Hugh had quite a varied career while here. He was the younger son of Dr. Watt who lived in the house now occupied by the Ansley sisters. He farmed for a time on this father's farm and then on a farm of his own. After leaving the farm, he railroaded as a Brakeman on the M.C.R. between Niagara and Buffalo and later he was a Fireman on the locomotive on the same run. Then he put in a time as Chief Constable of the Town. After that, he was a Plumber and Tinsmith, finally moving to Toronto. His house is now owned and occupied by John Tiffin a retired soldier.

[gillbrother]

Gill Brother stands as a top-tier plumbing service provider in Brampton, catering to Peel, York, Toronto, Halton, Hamilton, and Waterloo with unparalleled expertise. Our master plumbers and licensed professionals are committed to delivering outstanding Residential and Commercial Plumbing Services. For dependable support, contact us at +1-647-895-8107.

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Wipes labeled as ‘flushable’ wreak havoc on household plumbing and municipal sewers

Thinking twice about what you flush away may help you save money, and the environment. Today, Ryerson University released a new report on the first ever test of single-use wipes against rigorous criteria for flushability. The report, entitled Defining "Flushability" for Sewer Use, comes out of Ryerson's Flushability Lab at Ryerson Urban Water, and includes the testing of 101 single-use products, of which 23 being labeled as "flushable" by the manufacturer. Results showed that not one single wipe was able to fall apart or disperse safely through the sewer system test, which can negatively impact household plumbing, municipal sewage infrastructure, and consequently, the environment.

"This research confirms conclusively what those of us in the industry already knew?that single-use wipes, including cleansing and diaper wipes, cannot be safely flushed, even those labelled as 'flushable,'" said report lead Barry Orr, masters student in Environmental Applied Science and Management, and a 25-year veteran Sewer Outreach and Control Inspector with the City of London in Ontario, Canada. "Manufacturers need to be regulated to properly label products, so that residents can make informed decisions that can save money, protect infrastructure and the environment by properly disposing of wipes in the garbage."

To test the flushability of the samples, the researchers created a working model of the average home's lavatory system from toilet to sewer, including the bends and slope, plus average water pressure typical of urban infrastructure. Each wipe was then tested to the wastewater industries specifications for toilet and drainline clearance plus disintegration. The report findings showed that none of the wipe samples fell apart or dispersed enough to safely pass through the sewer system without a risk of clogging or causing damage to infrastructure.

Improper disposal of these single-use products has huge impacts not only on individual residences, but also on municipalities. From 2010 to 2018 the City of Toronto logged nearly 10,000 calls per year from residences due to "sewer service line-blocks" relating to factors such as disposal of non-flushable materials down household toilets. In addition, the Municipal Enforcement Sewer Use Group has estimated that $250 million is spent annually across Canada for operations and maintenance related to the removal of blockages from equipment, due to the flushing of wipes and other non-flushable materials. Many of these wipes also contain synthetic fibres, including plastics, which can make their way into waterways, harming water systems and wildlife. This occurs most often when clogged municipal infrastructure leads to overflows and spillage into local waterways.

"Defining 'Flushability' for Sewer Use clearly highlights the need for a legislated standard definition around the term 'flushable,' that ensures a product is safe to be disposed of down the toilet," said Orr. "This will in turn lead to imposing stricter regulations for the labelling of products. The current practice is misleading consumers and creating harm on so many levels. This study is an important step towards regulating manufacturers to change their packaging."

Barry Orr's research was supervised by Darko Joksimovic, Associate Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering. The Ryerson Flushability Lab forms part of Ryerson Urban Water, housed at the Centre for Urban Innovation. Ryerson Urban Water is a multi-disciplinary collective of experts whose research provides cost-effective solutions that support a healthy urban water cycle while promoting innovation in water education across societal boundaries.

"This important new research out of Ryerson Urban Water exemplifies the unintended consequences that can result from everyday actions taken by individuals and organizations," added Nick Reid, Executive Director of Ryerson Urban Water. "Healthy cities depend on healthy urban water strategies, and we all play a vital role in this very delicate ecosystem."

Source - First Appeared on https://phys.org/news/2019-04-flushable-wreak-havoc-household-plumbing.html

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How to Pass an Electrical Safety Inspection

The most important thing in a house or an office is the electrical system. Fire is something that everyone dreads and cannot even think about, and old electrical systems can lead to a fire. For this reason, all houses and offices need to have regular electrical safety checks, for peace of mind but also because it is required by law. In Toronto, where winters are harsh and the use of electricity is exceptionally high, it is super important to have regular electrical safety inspections. Dynamic Electric in Toronto has been doing safety checks for years, for both residential homes and commercial properties.

Commercial property owners in particular, by law, must have regular inspections. In a commercial office, it is not just your safety that is at risk, but also your staff. In a home, it is also not just you and your family whose safety you care about, but also your visitors, nannies, and any staff members.  Either way, you do not want to have a problematic electrical circuit and you definitely do not want to have an electrical fire.

So, how do you decide which licensed electrician Toronto you should work with?  There are a lot of electricians in Toronto.  But to be honest, you want to work with one who will do the right inspections and will only give you a certificate if your electrics are in order. You do not want to work with a charlatan who does an electrical safety inspection and issues a certificate even if your electrics are in bad condition.

You also want to make sure that the job is well done and in the most professional and highly effective manner.  Electricians should be highly trained, licensed and keep their certificates up to date with regular training and by attending regular courses and workshops.

Here are a few tips to use when choosing a commercial or residential electrician Toronto. 

•        Get reviews and references.  More than one!

•        Ask to see their electricians’ electrical licenses and certificates.

•        Ask what an electrical safety inspection consists of.

•        Check how long they have been in business for.

•        Find out what other corporate companies they work for.

•        Check if they have all the right equipment.

•        Will they come out in an emergency?

In addition to the above, you must feel comfortable with your electrician of choice.  If they are a one man band and arrive and ask to borrow your ladder, you are likely to have a problem.  If they don’t have equipment or tools, stay away.  And if they take ages to answer your calls, or reply to your calls, they are probably not overly reliable or efficient either.

If you live in Toronto, then you know that you have a regular doctor, a regular plumber, and a regular locksmith.  If you don’t, you should have.  In the same way, you should have a regular electrician, one you have a relationship with and one you can call at any time for an emergency.  We have electrical emergencies in Toronto. It’s a good idea to use the same electrician so they get to understand your home, office or place of work, and it is a good idea to know you are working with a licensed electrician.

When you sell your home, you need to have an electrical safety inspection. The new owners must get the inspection certificate. Again, use the best electrician Toronto you can find, one who will check all your electrics whether they are in perfect working order or not. You cannot contemplate anything else.  An electrical inspection must be conducted by a master electrician, not an apprentice, and this electrician MUST have an up to date license.

You will always pass an electrical inspection if you keep your electrics in good working order. If your system is old, ask your residential electrician to come out and assess them. Dynamic Electric Toronto will always assess first, tell you what you should do or change, and quote you. Old electrical systems can be upgraded fairly easily, and while this may be a bit of a cost in the beginning, but you will save money in the long run.  New systems, new and energy-saving light bulbs and new and more environmentally friendly appliances can all save money as well as ensuring safety. And remember, it is a good idea to have a regular safety inspection, at least once a year, to keep everything in perfect working order.

So what does an electrical inspection entail?  Well, if you ask your Aurora electrician in Toronto, who does regular inspections, he will tell you:-

•        Looking at the stability of the wiring.

•        Looking at the depths of the wiring.

•        Grounding and the condition of the grounding.

•        Standard of workmanship and standard of installation

•        The potential for corrosion.

•        Overall safety.

•        Fire hazards.

•        Conduit bends

The team of commercial electricians of Dynamic Electric will come and check the condition of your electrics. Remember, even if your system is relatively newly installed, it still requires checks and services. Especially in Toronto where power can be an issue and power surges do occur and can result in damage. It is a good idea to give your electrician a call, make an appointment and ask for an assessment. Once your home or office has been assessed, you can make decisions about what to do.

Remember, if you are selling a home or buying a new home, you need to have an electrical safety compliance certificate. Ensure your home sale is quick and easy by having this certificate in advance and at the ready. Call your residential electrician Toronto and set up an appointment today.

[nettlestonenell]

Never forget, this is for @jammeke.

I have begun posting this to FictionPress. (It’s not caught up with all my postings here, yet)

Find the earlier bits here on my tumblr.

Part XIII - The Day Of

Toronto – some weeks later - Ada Covington pressed the accelerator down in her elder brother Roger’s pickup, trying to lose the cars, and several motorcycles’ worth of paparazzi, now in swift pursuit of her on the QEW.

Her eyes stung with tears she was doing her best to hold back, and prevent them from impeding her ability to drive, leaving her eyesight clear enough to show her that she hadn’t enough gas in the pickup’s dual tanks to evade them for long—certainly not enough to get back to the relative privacy of the farm without stopping to fill-up.

She could not stand the idea of pulling into a gas station only for them further mob her there.

She needed, and quickly, to find a restricted, non-public space they couldn’t follow her into, a friends’ house—not the law offices—she couldn’t stand being trapped in them for even ten minutes longer. But she knew no one in the city.

She sped past a billboard advertising the University, and had to correct herself. Yes, she winced, she did know someone.

Conrad Bierkut was not usually home at his townhouse this time of day, but circumstances had conspired for him to need a plumber, and so here he was, waiting.

When his bell rang, he had expected it to be said plumber. Not at all a very upset Ada Covington, her jacket pulled up over her head like a murder suspect trying to avoid the press.

“Ada!” he exclaimed, upon opening his front door. It had been some weeks since he had silently excused himself from her farm following the explosive (and seemingly intimate, or post-intimate) pictures of them running in the Sun tabloid. He had no false illusions that she had any wish to ever encounter him again, though their day in court was soon to arrive.

“Please,” she said, “please—I beg you—have me in, quick as you can—“

“Yes. Yes!” he agreed, moving to the side so she could dive into his short front hall.

“Are you—is everything alright?” he asked as he shut the door.

“Yes. No. I mean—of course not. Why else would I come here, without even trying to contact you for an invitation?"

Conrad restrained himself (not without feeling the unintentional humor in her question) from reminding her of him being in that self-same situation arriving at her farm one rainy night not so long ago.

"They’ve been at chasing me for almost an hour. I could think of nowhere else to go, and Roger’s truck needed gas. I—it’s outside. Probably not parked very well.”

Conrad looked out through his front door's Judas window to the street beyond. She was right. Roger's truck was not parked very well, but it was so large with its doubled rear tires and wide bed it was at least partially shielding his townhouse’s front from the photogs camped-out in the small neighborhood park located on the street’s opposite side.

Conrad shepherded Ada Covington through his short entry hall and into his front room. She noticed the wood blinds in the street-facing windows were all but closed. No one—no drone, even, could see in.

She collapsed into the nearest chair, still in her jacket.

“Can I get you something?” Conrad asked, not quite sure what to do next.

“Don’t let me keep you—from whatever you were at doing,” Ada said, looking like she was still teetering on miserable. “You needn’t treat me as company.”

“Oh, well…I was just,” he pointed up, “in my office.”

“Go on, then. I’ll be fine alone,” she told him, asking, “Do you have anything to read? Perhaps something to watch?” She looked about the room for such things.

“Well, I’ve—“ he pointed out several scholarly journals artistically strewn about here and there on end tables. “But no, no proper television. Why don’t you let me show you around for a moment, help you get your bearings before I leave you to…” he didn’t know what to call it, he lightly shrugged, “your solitude.” He was not so unobservant to think that she had come here actually looking to spend time with him.

Ada followed Conrad Bierkut through a tour of his modest townhouse. The majority of rooms of the 1920s-era now-renovated home looked like they belonged in a glossy mag that sang the praises of open floor plans and modern design.

Except the last room, which she had expected to be a bedroom--his bedroom, as the only other bedroom he had shown her housed but a just-shy-of-monastic-looking twin-sized bed, and she had taken that space for a guest bedroom.

But this last room was, in fact, his office, and it shared almost nothing in common with the house it sat within. Books were everywhere: stacked high upon any flat surface. Windowsill, fireplace mantel, floor, desktop, chair seat, bookshelf, sidetable, rolling box heater.

A very old-looking divan, its upholstery as dark as its wood frame, was relatively free of books, but draped in several older-looking quilts. Four hardcover books stacked under its left front leg (broken and missing) helped attempt to keep it level. A bed pillow at one end added to her impression that this was quite possibly where the master of the house did most of his sleeping.

The wood floors in here were not refinished, the wood trim unpainted, the furniture old and some pieces, like the divan, in rough repair. In the introducing of it, Professor Bierkut didn’t show any self-consciousness.

“You’ve no computer?” she asked, noticing its lack.

“Not here, no. Sometimes I bring home my laptop.”

“Sometimes?”

“It’s only good here for typing, anyway. I’m not wired for internet access.”

“Not wired?”

“No. I don’t pay for access.”

Ada stared. The entire farm had gone wireless (with only occasional outtages) three years ago.

“I’ve got my phone, if I really find I need it," Conrad tried to explain, himself as mystified at her flummoxed response to his confession, as she was to his confession. "I’ve got it at my university offices.” He struggled on to make sense of it to her, “My field—it’s a book-based field, really. That, and journals,” he shrugged. “I handwrite a lot of things.

“Of course you do,” he heard her say, and it raised something of a hackle within him he had not felt rise in a long time. Not since Julie.

“Why are you come here, Ada?” he asked, baldly and abruptly. Surely not just to devil me? he thought, to himself.

At his unusual-for-him biting response, Ada stopped short from where she had been walking away from him, ready to leave the room and return downstairs. “I made a bad decision,” she said.

“In coming here? I don’t think you did,” he said, the edge of his earlier annoyance only slightly receding in response to her honest answer. “Did you have anywhere else in the city to go?”

“No,” she confessed. “I needed somewhere I could be invited into a private home where they couldn’t follow me.”

“Then you made a good decision—the right decision.”

“No,” she again disagreed, and sat down (her action like one plunking down an over-heavy suitcase one has been carrying too long) on his top stair, without his inviting her to do so, her back now to the railing.

“I didn’t tell Roger, you know," she said, without contextualizing the remark to Conrad, "in the way you don’t tell people you love when you’re about to do something they won’t approve of. In the way you know you might not do it if you have to confront their disapproval. And I wanted to do it. I’ve wanted to do it forever, I think.”

“Do what?” Conrad asked, thoroughly confused, seating himself on the stair nearby her, their knees now almost touching, concerned that his continued standing might track as a position of judgment, a feeling he did not care for, no matter his momentary sniping.

Ada sighed. “I’ve been searching for my—for our--birth mother. This week the agency I'd hired told me they’d found her, and she was willing to meet me. So, I came to the city today to meet her for the first time. But I wasn’t at the agreed upon spot fifteen minutes, waiting, when they showed up. So many of them, snapping shots, yelling at me.”

She had not been looking at him as she said--as she confessed--any of this. She stared at the wall ahead of her, and occasionally to the ceiling. “And she didn’t come,” she concluded.

“They scared her off?” he asked, his own eyes never off what he could see of her face, now only in profile.

“I don’t know," she shook her head. "Maybe she was never coming. Maybe she lost her nerve before she saw them. I only know, if I’d have seen them, I’d have lost my nerve.” The final words of her sentence came out half-hushed, in the way coming-on tears can often bring about.

“I’m sorry.”

“I don’t mean to be so upset,” she said, tears starting as she spoke about the experience and she finally turned toward his face, so close beside her, but a step and riser below. “It’s just, you know, it’s your worst fear, that after all this time you’ll find them—the one who gave you up--and still-still they’ll turn away from you.”

Her tears were silent, and without sobs. She was very still. He thought maybe he would have preferred sobs.

“I’m sure she just got spooked, that’s all.”

“And then I think about—“ she stalled, and looked away from him. “I think about the baby,” she had never been one to speak so, “is this what’s in store for her? Dogged by photographers at every turn? Constantly reminded no one in her family wants her? Finding our two faces in newspaper archives—seeing all we wanted was to be well shot of the legal case, of her future? Believing she isn’t worth anything because the court system had to be called in to decide who, of the many people trying to avoid taking her on, is obligated to?”

Her eyes were again upon him. Their now-familiar blue swam in tears. Why did she do that? Turn toward him like he had the answer--a good answer--any answer?

He squinted. “Don’t talk like that. That’s not gonna happen," he felt worthless in this interaction, clumsily guiding someone through heartbreak, all platitudes and reassurances, and no wisdom. "Let’s get you downstairs, let’s call your family, let them know where you are, that you’ll be along home later. I can drive the truck and get it filled up.”

Her eyes were now straight on him, her confessional for the moment done. “It’s a stick.”

“O-ookay," he made the adjustment. "I can find someone to take the truck for a fill-up, and get you on your way.” He pulled out his phone.

She did nothing to conceal her worry. “Who are you calling?”

“Plumber,” he said.

“What?” a half-hysterical edge threatened to come into her tone.

“I’ve got a plumber coming," he said it like a throw-away line in a play, Ada thought. Like it was the most normal and routine thing in the world.

"Did you want some lunch?” he went on to ask, “I haven’t got much here—I’ll have him pick something up.”

“You can't seriously have invited someone into the house—while I’m here?” Hers was not a pleasant tone.

“No worries. He’s a friend. I’ve used him forever. He’s not gonna photograph us together for a quick buck. I trust him, one-hundred percent. He’ll gas up your truck for us, too. Promise,” Conrad said, and the smile he gave her she could hardly naysay.

The plumber came, and with him dinner for two, and ten gallons of fuel for Roger's truck. The paparazzi expended several hundred pictures each before assuring themselves he was no one important come to call on the couple dubbed The BabyMakers.

While the plumber fixed the pipes in question, Conrad fell to eating in his study, as was usually his way, hunkered over whatever text he was at presently dissecting. Ada avoided the second floor, the plumber worked. Hours passed.

When Conrad came down to the kitchen to settle up with the plumber, he found Ada taking something out of his rarely-used oven. "What's this?" he asked, curiously bemused.

"I thought, you know, as a sort of thank you, for the lunch and all," Ada said, taking what looked like fresh-baked bread out of a loaf pan Conrad, honestly, did not even know he owned. "One for you, one for your plumber."

"You--you're--baking down here? With what?"

"Oh, I found some things in your pantry."

"I can't imagine what," he said.

"The only truly fresh thing was yeast," she said.

"Yes, well, I had been mulling over trying out a thirteenth century brewing recipe for honey mead," he said, smiling with the recollection of yet another of his one-time plans eternally unfulfilled. "I had almost forgotten about that."

The aroma of the bread and whatever ingredients she had put it in was pungently alluring, almost heady. It was not a feeling he generally associated with this kitchen. He may have just eaten, but it worked to awaken what he had thought was his appeased appetite immediately. "Do you bake a lot?"

"What?" she asked, poking around for something to cool the loaves on. "No, I, I mean I do lots of things when I'm, when I'm--"

"Distressed?" he offered, not having forgotten the disastrous non-meeting with her birth mother.

"I usually play my viol, or knit. Sometimes I knit. But baking, you know, baking works, too."

"I clean," he confessed. "Lots of chemicals, scrubbing. Once, for a week I thought I tore my rotator cuff working on a stubborn tub ring. That was the week of my doctoral thesis presentation, which went only slightly better than the Battle of Monmouth."

"You'll have to tell me about that some time," she said, smiling, as though they might schedule another visit later in the week, or meet-up somewhere for drinks. Neither of which, of course, would they do. She did not specify if she meant the thesis presentation or the historical battle.

"I called home," she said. "Roger's rung some of his army buddies that live in the city. They're going to come by and, well, they won't come in. But they'll make sure the photographers keep their distance."

"Roger was in the Army?"

"Special forces."

"Right. Gina, too. It's where they met."

"Gina?"

"Of course! Have you see her arms?"

This question now had him smiling. "You'll be leaving, then?" he heard himself ask, "Since Tim brought you gas for your truck."

"It wouldn't start for him, though,” she told Conrad. “He tried it for me, you know, get it running and then I could run out of the house and be on my way. We both of us, Tim," she used the plumber's first name, "and I, have our suspicions."

"You think the guys camped out did something to keep it from running?"

She gave a light shrug. "Who wouldn't consider a little theft, a little vandalism when a million-dollar picture is almost in your grasp, just across the street?"

Conrad nodded. "You may well be right. Perhaps Roger's friends might ask them about it."

"I have every expectation that they will."

"You don't seem as upset as I would expect you to be," he hazarded saying, noting her lack of fury at the newest roadblock she had encountered into leaving him, and his home, and returning to the safety of her farm.

"To be honest, with you and with myself, I'm tired. To the bone. Could I stay? Please? I just--I don't feel ready to walk out that door into--everything."

"Of course," he said, "of course you can stay. I insist on it as a doctor," his small joke was rewarded by the slightest beginning of a snicker. "I've know just the thing for supper later. You've made the bread, I've got the cheese."

"Can we maybe, I mean, I'd just like to watch something. Take my mind off it all for a bit. But you don't--you don't have any way to do that, do you? I could bake more," she cast her eyes around his kitchen, knowing at this point she'd made use of just about anything that might be used. "I have to confess, your--magazines--"she referenced the academic journals lying about here and there, "well, I think I've gotten just about everything from them I could--without writing a term paper."

He nodded. "Give me a minute," he said, and disappeared back upstairs.

Shortly she heard furniture creaking and a stack of books falling over, before he came down the steps. He was holding a thirteen-inch CRT television that something told her was also going to be black-and-white. It had a built-in VCR.

She now recalled having seen it squirreled away in one of the corners of his office.

"Fooled ya," he said brightly, "I do own a TV!"

"I stand corrected," she replied, watching on, slightly amused, slightly horrified as he got down on the elegant, reclaimed hardwood floor of his modern, stylish front room and searched for a wall plug to plug it into.

He popped up, "there!" he said, claiming triumph as the elderly screen sizzled and fuzzed to life. "We'll have to...drag some pillows down here," he did the job himself, taking the couch apart into its pillows and strewing them on the floor in front of the tiny screen. "No, no," he told Ada, sounding as cheery as someone organizing an Easter Egg hunt, "wait right there. I'll be right back."

She waited. He returned, bounding down the stairs this time, and into the kitchen, where he came out with her bread and a sizeable cheese.

"What is it?" she asked, looking at the unfamiliar-to-her golden rind.

"It's a Boerenkaas," he said, no small amount of pride in his tone. "Helped make it myself."

"You're now a cheesemonger? As well as an aspiring brewer?"

There was no overlooking the pride in his voice as he spoke, nor the nostalgia. "Writing my last book, I was in the Netherlands," he said, "excellent country, fascinating agriculturally. I stayed for about a year on and off--I also traveled and lectured--with a family on their farm. They had about half a hundred red Friesians. They let me sit in on their cheesemaking--their farm is four centuries old--it literally sits on a dike--"

Ada didn't mean to be, but now she was smiling, too.

"--they were utterly committed to sustainable production, they make cheese every day."

"So, you speak Dutch?" she asked, already mostly knowing the answer.

"Not as well as I'd like," he said. "I'm better at reading Old Saxon texts than, say, being conversational."

"I suppose they were sorry to see you go?" Ada asked, imagining a dock-full of mournful Dutch girls weeping at the handsome American professor taking his leave.

"Maybe a little. Mostly I think the old couple were relived at not having to share my name with their neighbors."

"What?"

"Oh, I'll just let you Google that when you're back online," he said, half in throwaway line. "I found this. It's all I've got to watch."

He sat down the cheese, knife, and bread on the floor near the pillows and produced an old VHS clamshell case. "Bye Bye Birdie" proclaimed the movie poster facsimile on the cover.

"My mom, you know, I said. Musicals. I found this in her things after she passed. It's the only sort of movie I've got." He gave a shrug. Would she accept it as entertainment? Or tell him he had to be kidding?

"When was the last time you watched it?" she asked, gingerly taking the case from him.

"Oh, I dunno. Year or two, probably. Does it matter?"

"I'm just wondering," her eyebrows raised, and one of her eyes threatened a twinkle, "if the tape itself hasn't turned to dust."

"Only one way to find out," he answered with a smile. Taking the tape out, and feeding it to the machine.

Conrad found himself so engrossed with the film, and his personal nostalgia surrounding it (and one did have to watch very closely to follow it on the tiny monochrome screen), he was surprised to turn at one point fairly deep into the narrative and find that Ada had nodded off.

He had to force himself to turn back to the screen, his attention no longer fully with the film. He reminded himself that the woman that had shown up without fanfare on his step that day had little enough privacy, without him invading it when she had let her guard down.

Yet it was no easy thing to look away.

Ada was in and out. Perhaps it was the pillows so casually on the floor, perhaps the teeny black and white screen she found it so hard to see. Perhaps, simply, for the first time in a very long time she was in a spot where her exhaustion overwhelmed her, and she let it.

Half-dream, half-memory, she relived Garrett’s recent farewell. He’d been offered a job in the Pacific Northwest, head arborist. A job that before all of this the two of them had jointly dreamed of for him. His face showed her how happy, how hopeful it made him.

But she hadn’t managed to match his pleasure. She was suddenly far less certain she was ready or willing to leave the farm and travel west with him.

He mentioned Conrad Bierkut’s name.

She told him not to be ridiculous.

He looked sad.

“It’s not that I think you’re with him—“ he said, referring to the phony story the tabloids tried so hard to keep alive; that she and Conrad were now a couple. “It’s only, Ada, you’ve never seemed upset enough.”

There had been no argument. She wasn’t sure how, even, to argue such a point: not upset enough? She felt terribly upset all the time. All her anger, she thought it was apparent, wore the handsome face of Conrad Bierkut. That didn’t mean that she wasn’t pleasant to Professor Bierkut when he’d showed up at the farm. That she couldn’t share a laugh, or a conversation with him. Who else, after all, might understand even a fraction of this absurd and taking-over-everything situation she’d been unfairly thrust into?

If you don’t want to go with him, Mum had said, and he doesn’t want to stay here with you—there’s your answer, isn’t it? As to whether you two still love each other?

Garrett had left two days ago. He’d extended Ada an offer to join him. But he’d also said he didn’t honestly expect to see her, said that if she couldn’t decide to come within the next two weeks, she never would.

He was right, she thought. Two weeks was long enough for anyone to make up their mind about just about anything. But she didn’t need that long. A few years ago, yes, Garrett and that job in the PacNor had been among her dreams. But her dreams now were of the farm, her land, her business. She didn’t want to leave, and it appeared that this was a two-for-one decision: that she also, no longer wanted Garrett, who very much still did want to leave.

She awoke occasionally to volume fluctuations on the small screen. Several times she sneaked the opportunity to watch Conrad as he watched the screen. How his expressions tracked with the film the way a child’s might. Perhaps, as a child with his mother, his had also done.

A few moments at that, and she would nod off again.

Finally, she awoke to find Conrad Bierkut also asleep, the film still playing near the beginning, as the tape must have rewound and re-started.

She must have fallen over in her sleep, and him as well, for they both lay now face to face (though some distance apart, their feet at opposite ends of the room). She let herself examine his upside-down features as he slept (and thankfully did not snore. Oh! Had she snored?) ‘Never seemed upset enough’, she thought.

He was a nice person, Conrad Bierkut. The papers pairing her with him was annoying, the attention unwanted, inconvenient, but it wasn’t improbable, was it? That she, Ada, might to the mind of a reasonable person, be involved with an accomplished, kindly man such as Professor Conrad Bierkut?

I mean, the too-poor pantry would have to improve, she thought. The teensy monk-sized rack bed would have to be banished, and perhaps over time his backward attitude toward technology would get up to speed—or she would (in this wholly fictional future) come to find it endearing. But really, was it such an impossible thing to believe? To root for, even? He brought his tiny TV/VCR downstairs for her, didn’t he? And his mum’s film to watch? A person could be phenomenal on paper—book title in Dutch and all—and still be decent company, couldn’t they?

Before she had a chance to answer her half-asleep self, she fell fully asleep, without even the chance to contemplate what price such a photo of her and Conrad now, asleep together among pillows on his living room floor, might bring on the national tabloid market.

(next Part is the FINALE!)

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