News Update

After the long weekend of rain, we've had a nice week of weather on the shore of Lake Superior, in my hometown. Now, we're into another rainy weekend—how does it manage this?! The mornings have been cool, sometimes even frosty, so I haven't been moved to advance the gardening. I've managed to water my dandelions, but with golden fields blossoming around us, I fear it won't be the last battle of the season. I've also continued the annual fight against my allergies; each morning I take my Reactine (Cetirizine HCl), and often supplement it with an expectorant in the evenings to help clear the breathing passages, however, I'm not feeling very relieved! If anyone out there has advice of other products or remedies—I'm listening! I've used a variety of products over the years (Allegra, Seldane, Chlor-Tripolon, Claritin) and only Claritin has shown no beneficial effect, but new products continue to develop, so I look forward to your suggestions. One avenue currently under consideration is that I should spend two weeks of this miserable time of year at the Colonial and the Byron Nelson golf tournaments! Other than that consideration, I haven't felt up to getting out to the golf course—maybe next week. The markets have continued to struggle through a difficult month, but I've managed a small gain this week in an otherwise down month. Bus driving has gone well. Cycling back and forth has been good, and I even managed three straight rides where I made all seven lights successfully!

Wendy has worked frequent shifts at Walmart. She's also getting into the bedding-plants mode; we'll probably be installing those in the coming week. That always provides a quick pick-me-up for the yard.

Erin and Kristian continue with their lives as usual. Kristian is doing lots of reading and speech development lately, and we celebrate his success. He got his Kindergarten grad picture this week—I hope you enjoy it.

Trav has managed to get the Canucks into the Stanley Cup finals. They'll be playing against Boston starting next Wednesday—no one knows why they should be waiting so long to start the series! Joanna is recovering well.

And that's about it for this week.