Another week has passed, and we are far from our hometown on the shore of Lake Superior. We struggled to get a few final errands out of the way at Bern & Alicia's place. We headed south early Monday morning. We spent that night at Norfolk NE. On Tuesday, we continued to Stillwater OK where we enjoyed a reunion with Jack & Joanne Bayles, and watched the US election results with a measure of horror! We completed the trip to Rowlett TX on Wednesday and are enjoying the fellowship of family and friends here since then. The weather has been great, and I've got out golfing a couple of times. I played better than usual the first time (85), and about my usual (90) today. I even managed to work in a curling game one evening; it was an amazing experience: the hockey game ended; they flooded the ice; they installed hacks; a splash of pebble, et voilà, we are ready! The rocks are kept in a cooler, but it's not cool enough, so they leave melt-marks on the ice. The ice was terrible, but the enthusiasm for the game was heartening. It's been great to spend these days with family at my brother Viggo & Nancy's house. As usual, we've had too much to eat, along with many laughs and a few tears. The markets have been in turmoil, and I've had big winning days and big losing days, however, in the end, I had a good week and cleared more than a week's quota. Not too much happening on the part of the sports scene that I follow. NHL hockey continues in the early stages of its long, long season. College basketball dribbles toward the regular season—Rock Chalk, Jayhawks! CFL playoffs begin tomorrow with conference semi-finals in Hamilton and Vancouver—I'm picking Edmonton to prevail over Hamilton and BC to defeat Winnipeg.
Eric, Erica and Liam also travelled down here for the reunion, but their trip was in no way straight-forward. They gathered in Regina to get a jump start on the trip only to discover that a passport was back in Prince Albert, so, it fell to Eric to round-trip PA before they could even start. They drove straight through, arriving here on Friday evening very tired. They seem quite a bit revived tonight as we gathered for an evening of feasting, visiting and singing.
Erin & Kristian did not make this reunion as they took care of business and schooling. Haaken, also, remained in Regina to attend to his university coursework. We miss them!
Travis, Joanna, Gemma and Andrew have likewise attended to their lives in Thunder Bay; we miss them, too. Joanna made a trip to Toronto to care for her mother through surgery. That seems to have gone well. We're relieved. Trav has posted another hockey game write-up!
And that's about all I could handle this week!
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