Another week has passed on the shore of Lake Superior in my hometown. The weather was showery early in the week, but turned nice starting on Wednesday. My friend, Bill, has returned from Europe, so he's relieved me of my lawn-cutting duties. We still have not had a frost, so we're not getting the showy display of Fall colours that we love to enjoy. Wendy and I went golfing for nine holes on Wednesday, and I went for 18 holes on Friday. That was fun, but I've been suffering some gout in my left foot this week, so I'm back on Colchicine. And, it made it a challenging hike on Friday. I have continued to work on the mudding of the downstairs bathroom, and it's just about ready for the painter to take over. The markets have completed a typically dismal September, and I ended up red for the month, sigh! The Jays continue their September slide, but with tonight's win over Boston, at least they will make the playoffs! Let's go Blue Jays! The Riders had the bye this week, so that makes three straight weeks undefeated! Go Riders, Go! Canada completed their World Cup championship this week with a two-game sweep of Europe. Oh Canada! The Ryder Cup is on; it's my favourite golf event to follow.
The Bailey big news this week was a promotion—Erica was promoted to Manager at Deloitte! Congratulations! Ironically, she had just completed Assistant Manager training in Toronto, but surely that training will come in handy anyhow! Haaken continues studies at U of R. He seems to be enjoying it a great deal, because he doesn't even have time to reply to texts! Liam calls each night, and Eric/A are glad of the connection. He went for further blood work this week, and will follow up with the doctor next week. We hope the tests will show an improvement in his red cell level, as that would indicate that the gluten-free diet was having a beneficial effect. He made a few trips to town to resupply his stash of gluten-free snacks at the dorm. He was very hungry when he ran out last Saturday! Fortunately, old friends from high school (Paul & Crystal Quilliams) came to the rescue with some provisions. It's wonderful how friends help each other out! Eric is teaching a course on anger management to teens; he also presented the church budget as Stewardship Elder at the business meeting. He's not sure which task was more daunting!
Not much to report from Erin's place in Regina. Things seem to be going well for them, including their boarder, Haaken! Kristian has been learning lots of sign language at school as his class has determined to learn American Sign Language this year. Erin says he teaches her some new signing each day.
Trav & Joanna are very busy as hockey team photography is ramping up, and then Trav came down with a sore and stiff neck this week. He's not sure how it happened, but he was surely crippled up with it, and missed time from work. However, he seems to be getting better. This morning he helped me take out a section of their kitchen cupboards in anticipation of their new dishwasher. It's supposed to arrive on Wednesday, so I see another project on the horizon. Joanna has been taking Wendy swimming, and now she's added Gemma and Andrew to the swimming program. It makes me tired to just hear about it.
And that's about enough for this week.
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