News Update

Another week has passed and we have returned to the shore of Lake Superior and my hometown. We began the week in Regina enjoying spending time with Dad.

Bye, bye for now!

Bern, Alicia and Logan returned from Mexico early Tuesday morning, so after helping them settle back in, we headed east on Wednesday. We stopped overnight with Tom & Mariette in Winnipeg—thanks folks! We enjoyed catching up with them, a good sleep, and fine meals! We continued to Thunder Bay on Thursday. The roads were good all the way; we rolled into the driveway at 6pm, just as it was getting dark. We were greeted by piles of snow, and more coming down! This is clearly the most snow we've had here in some years. The next morning, I found Trav's car was in our driveway!

The latest snowfall covered Trav's car

It's taken a few days, but I've managed to clear the driveway, access the garage and cut a path to the back gate. I measured the pile of snow where it lay undisturbed on top of the hot tub—27 inches! We've caught up with business here. I picked up my text for the Spanish class which starts on Monday. I got a prescription from my clot doctor, and Wendy has refilled the larder. The craziness continues south of the border. That continues to rile the markets, but we've been rebounding pretty well, and I've had another good week. The feature in sports this week is the Canadian Open in curling. My guy, Kevin Koe has qualified once again, and thanks to my PVR, I've been able to enjoy watching that until he lost this evening. The Pens continue to win, Leafs had mixed results, and my Oilers scored an OT win, but they're only 3-7 in their last ten games, sigh! #7-Kansas won a couple of games this week, including a road win today. It was my first look at the new Jayhawks now that Doke has undergone surgery and is lost for the season. 

Eric and Erica made a road trip to Kenora and back this week. A former colleague of Erica's was being feted on her retirement, so they enjoyed celebrating with her. They also got to visit Greg and family in Kenora. Erica's medical situation continues to improve, and she was relieved of one of her vacuum pumps this week; she has received the go ahead to go back to work on Monday! Liam has returned to Moose Jaw where he is resuming RU practice and looking for work. 

We got to watch Kristian's bowling practice session Monday evening. We had picked him up after school, and gone to find him some new skates, then we took him to bowling. He has good coaching; it was good to watch the interaction and see him putting corrections in place. We stopped over at their place on Tuesday to complete some project work.

Installed chin-up bar for Kristian!

We returned home to find that Trav & Joanna had escaped! Their car was hidden beneath the snow in our driveway, while they were enjoying the salubrious climes of Punta Cana!

Not seeing any snow in Punta Cana! 

Captain of the Punta Cana Fan Club!

Gemma and Andrew were over here for supper tonight; it was good to catch up with them. They did not bring Minnie or Beaker—also good!

And that's about it for this week!