Notes from my walk through our neighbourhood today, September 20, 2015

1.  Usually by this time there would be Conservative signs sprinkled throughout the Rockland area where we live. This time they’re almost non-existent, although our across-the-street neighbour finally got his up this week, after our NDP sign had been up for nearly a month. As a rule, he beats us to it.
2.  Many of the places I associate with Conservative signs now sport Liberal signs. But not enough to be a trend.
3.  The Liberal signs are red. Except the bag signs, which started to appear this week. They’re quite distinctly orange, and from a distance I kept mistaking them for orange Blaney NDP signs. The Liberal candidate’s name is Schwarzhoff, hence takes up a lot of room on a small sign, hence is rendered in a small typeface, so you can be quite close before you notice the difference.
4.  I cannot see how the Liberal campaign would profit from this colour synergy, so maybe what we have here is the first clear indication of cooperation to come, as it surely must: there’s simply not enough separating the NDP and Liberal platforms to allow the Conservatives to carry on. And it’s pretty obvious by now that no party is en route for a majority.
5.  Judging only by the sign campaign, North Island-Powell River will return an NDP member. (Fortunately, there are other reasons to believe this as well!)
 6.  Canada Post sent us a letter three weeks ago:
"You will start picking up your mail and parcels at your new community mailbox on Monday, September 21.
We have started to install community mailboxes in your neighbourhood and to deliver keys to customers. If you haven’t received your keys or your mailbox has not yet been installed, don’t worry; you will have everything you need to start using your community mailbox by September 21...
Canada Post is proud to serve you and we are committed to making this mail delivery change as smooth and convenient as possible."                                                                       
Today there are no new community mailboxes in our immediate neighbourhood. Although most of the pads appear to have been prepared, some locations are still just holes in the ground.
Bet we don't get any mail tomorrow.
Just on the other side of the hill, en route to the Beaver Lodge Lands, I spotted a couple of the new ones, and of course all the ones I expected, the ones that have been there since that subdivision started to fill up, some 30 years ago.