News Update

We have had a good week as we have travelled from the shore of Lake Superior in my hometown, and are currently in Dauphin. We left home on Wednesday morning, driving up to Winnipeg and enjoying a visit and overnight stay with Mike & Peggy & Talitha. On Thursday, we completed the trip up to Dauphin where we are staying with Mabel, a friend from Dauphin days, and a connection to Zambia. Tomorrow, we plan to continue the journey to Regina. It has been a good week, although the weather has been wild and changeable. There have been days of extreme heat (high thirties, not including humidex), violent storms (one tore the roof off the Thunder Bay airport transported it across into the parking lot where it damaged many cars) and has ended today with a cool, rainy day. The last two days I've been golfing with a crew of 18 assembled from across the prairies and from Bismark ND. That was a lot of fun—good fellowship, variable golf! The most disappointing aspect of my play is that the short game did not bail me out as well as it usually does. The markets have continued variable while Europe contends with the Greek debt issues, and the whole world is kept waiting over the US debt ceiling negotiations. We hope that gets settled soon. I have managed to gain more than my quota for the week, so that much is good.

Wendy is enjoying lots of visiting along the trip. She worked until late Tuesday, so preparation time for the trip was rushed. Now she's looking forward to settling into the old home in Regina for an extended visit.

Kristian is travelling with us, and is doing very well. He video chats back home with his mom on Facetime whenever we can get an internet connection. Otherwise he enjoys the adventure of new places and people and accommodates the changes quite well. Erin is taking care of things back home and continuing with work.

Trav is helping take care of things at home, carrying on with his work, and awaiting final word on his application for a development grant to set up his own business even more extensively. Joanna keeps up with work, and the kids summer schedules.

And that's about it for this week.