News Update

Another week has passed on the shore of Lake Wascana in the middle of the prairies! The weather has been improving all week, and is currently sitting at zero. There have been no storms, and we're enjoying that. We certainly could use some snow for the fields of Saskatchewan. Wendy was able to spend some time in the shop with dad helping with woodworking projects. Then, she had her appointment to get her finger joint broken free. The doctor agreed to do two of them, and the pain is significant! She's getting by with T3's, and pushing the therapy as much as she can stand. We hope it will afford her significantly better strength and grip. I have continued with my usual market work, and added in further work in the garage to get the new sensors activated. That required new wiring, with some of it in hard to reach places. The markets have continued to be highly volatile with two days seriously red, and three days seriously green! The main issue continues to be the chaos and changes in the US administration—this week, the new FED chair released his first minutes and dropped the market 450 points that afternoon. It's tough going on the tummy to be in these markets, but I had a good week all the same. Still needing a lot of catch up to make money this month. The Olympics wrap up this weekend; the Canadian team has done very well. My main interest—curling has not gone according to my expectations or wishes. I felt Koe had a reasonable chance to be in the final game where he might be in tough against Edin (Sweden), but he lost the semi-final to Shuster (USA) and the bronze medal game to Switzerland. Then Shuster went on to an historic, albeit surprising, win over Edin. I'm pretty happy for the American guys. On the women's side, I expected Homan to win the gold. Last year she went through the World Championships undefeated, but she did not have it this week and didn't even make the playoffs. Tonight, it was Hasselborg (Sweden) over Kim (Korea) for the gold. The Korean team was a joy to watch, and Hasselborg is one of the top ranked teams in the world. Our hockey women lost the gold medal in a shoot out; our men won the bronze over the Czechs. The NHL has been high profile this week as the trade deadline looms. Some moves have been made, more are expected before Monday. On the ice, the Pens are challenging for first place, and the Leafs have moved up as well. The Jayhawks were elevated to #8 in the rankings last weekend. They played great in an easy win over OU, and then faced #6Texas Tech in the biggest conference game of the season this afternoon. It was a great effort, and a great win—marking 14 straight conference championships, an NCAA record! I'm expecting another elevation this weekend.

The Baileys enjoyed having Liam at home this week. Unfortunately, he was sick with a cold most of the week, but he got some sleep. They enjoyed hanging out together, but for some reason the parents didn’t get to bed on time much this week—wonder why?! Liam also took on the chimney in his room. He knocked off the plaster. Now they have a mostly bare chimney and a pile of plaster on the floor. Fun! Haaken continues to enjoy school and living in Victoria.

Liam, the Chimney Man! 

Erin enjoyed a week of work without the morning and evening trips to school. Kristian had the week off, and enjoyed working on a project with Grandma. He also built a solar-powered robot with Grandpa. His bowling today was not quite as good as it has been recently, but he did beat his average again. That keeps getting harder! He's doing well.

Trav & Joanna conferenced with us via FaceTime during the week. They've had snow in TBay, so 'enjoyed' clearing the driveway! At least they got some extra help; thanks Max! Looks like we have three workers, and one camera operator!

TBay Cleanup!

And that's about it for this week.