News Update

Another week has passed and we continue our stay in Qualicum Beach on the shore of the Pacific Ocean. The weather has been very nice, although it turned wet toward the weekend and I missed my planned golf game on Friday. I did enjoy two games, but my play continues to be discouragingly poor. Wendy says I need to go more often!! My handicap is rising, and I see that my next two games will cause the last two of my games in the seventies to drop off the bottom—sigh! The markets have continued to be volatile, but the Bank of Canada finally relented to reality and added some stimulus mid-week so the TSX and my holdings took off! As a result, I'm nearly back to quota on the month; that's a relief. Wendy is very busy with support of Haaken's schedule, and we added to that this week when his computer went down. Trying to get that fixed has taken us up to Courtenay a couple of times and then down to Nanaimo, and we're still waiting for the completion of this story! Brad Jacobs and Rachel Homan won their respective skins games in curling; that was fun to watch. Golf season is starting up again, and I always take an interest in that. Today we've picked up work for all three of us doing inventory at one of the local stores. That got to be old quite quickly! So, that's why I stayed in school!!

All Growed Up!

Eric/A have enjoyed a quiet week in Prince Albert. Eric has been driving the Corolla around town, while Erica drives the CRV back and forth to Saskatoon. They'll exchange next week and then make a determination of which is the better way to go. Liam is into his second semester at Caronport. He has a fundraiser involving the cleanup of Moose Jaw in support of a camping trip later in the Spring. Apparently the main effort on that cleanup will be the weekend of Feb 20th. Haaken is working to complete his semester and prepare for his English exam. Uncle Travis has Haaken's website ready to go, and Erica is taking a tutorial on adding pictures to it. Haaken also got his hair cut today; he's donating the shorn locks to cancer patients, and is now ready for his grad pictures and his performance in Grease.

Erin & Kristian are doing well. We enjoy some FaceTime chatting with them each week, but it's never enough.

Travis & Joanna continue to be very busy with the business—that's a good thing! Trav has a new co-op student who is proving to be very helpful. He has had some trouble with the snow blower, so we tried to problem-solve from afar. Hope he gets it performing again; it was very helpful for pumping the snow up onto the lawn after the drive way has been cleared.

And that's about enough for this week.