News Update

Another week has passed on the shore of Lake Superior in my hometown. The weather has been comfortable, but with too many showers! I managed to get the front lawn cut, and it seems to be drying this weekend, so I'll try to get the back lawn done. I finally managed to play some golf today, and that went better than expected. It sometimes seems that I play my best in the early going before I start swinging too hard! Renovations are proceeding well. The drywall is finally done, and Wendy is increasing the pace on painting. This week she got a final coat on the family room and priming of the castle room. Everything is looking good. Markets went badly this week, so while I started the week with quota for the month, I will now need a good day on Monday to close at that level. School ended this week, so I'm off bus driving for the summer. We'll see how things set up in the Fall. The Jays continue to flounder, although they did take a series from the Yankees and remain in first place. Football season has begun this weekend, but the Riders don't play until tomorrow. Go Riders, Go!

Liam celebrated the end of grade 8, and moving on to the big time, high school.

For the occasion he wore a suit and looked quite striking! They had a dinner and dance. On Wednesday he joined Eric on a trip to Saskatchewan to checkout a job offer out in PA as well as tour Briercrest. They both return this evening. Haaken worked on movie stuff on his computer and went for a lot of walks around town. He also enjoyed his mother's lack of desire to cook at the end of each busy day, so they ate out a lot this week. Erica ended the week batching and entering invoices. With the teachers' strike still on, support staff have also been absent, but the bills have to be paid. The whole group is heading to Victoria this weekend to celebrate Sheena Bailey's 80th Birthday.

Erin provides an update on her week in Regina: It rained. Again. Every day! Kristian graduated grade 3. He's staying in the 3/4 split classroom for grade 4. His best friend, Owen, will be in grade 3 in the same classroom so they're both pretty excited. Erin went out for lunch to an outdoor cafe and ended up being stuck there for an extra half hour as the film crew for the Corner Gas movie needed "continuity" for the scene they were shooting right across the street! So that was a neat surprise. She won't be in the movie though. They pulled up a vehicle to hide the patio. They spent today with Liam and Eric at Grandpa's, the Rider store, Burger Baron, Transformers movie, and Walmart. Kristian picked out a special gift for finishing grade 3. They're closing the week at home putting together their new fan and Kristian's kree-o transformers set. It was a good week.

Trav, Joanna and crew had a busy week with school closing and Gemma's grade 8 grad. She won several awards and was also Valedictorian. She plans to enter the International Baccalaureate program at Churchill High School in the Fall. For some reason, I'm very short of grand-daughters, but I'm proud to be connected with this one!

And that's about enough for this week.