Anniversary Continues...

Another week has passed, and we have progressed from Lake Superior to the Rivière Rouge, to the Moose Mountains! We cleaned up and left Thunder Bay on Thursday. We drove up to Winnipeg that day; it was slow progress as we worked through many construction sites, most featuring one-way traffic and long delays. We rolled into Winnipeg after 6pm, and enjoyed a physically distanced greeting from Tom & Mariette. They put us up for Thursday and Friday nights, and celebrated our anniversary with us through a special supper on Friday night—thank you so much!

with a delicious Saskatoon crisp!

Despite the restrictions, it was a great time. This morning, we loaded up once again and drove by way of Fairlight, and the old farmstead, up to Kennedy where we are visiting Dave & Heather. Tonight's gathering included James, Natasha and their three children, along with Ray, Ellen and Harmony, so it was a great gathering. The markets have remained troubled all week as the news of the terrible virus toll in the USA gives investors many second thoughts. Combined with our travel plans, I have remained mostly on the sidelines, but did score another nice dividend to keep the green going even though it was short of quota. Golf remains the only sport in somewhat active mode. Hockey and baseball have made announcements of their plan to return to play. We're looking forward to watching how all that comes together. 

Erica writes, "Eric gave us a surprise trip to the hospital this week with severe stomach pain (close enough to his heart to scare us). Turns out it was a gall bladder infection and likely passing a small gallstone. Eric resumed work on Thursday and is doing fine. This did slow down our renovation projects. Liam made a video to demonstrate our process aptly titled 10 year reno. We are almost finished refinishing the floor in Liam’s room. He hopes to move back in later this weekend so that we will have space for our visitors who arrive Monday. Haaken is still working at Costco and is looking for animation work."

Erin and Kristian are watching through the thunderstorms in Regina, and preparing for our visit which is scheduled to begin tomorrow. Truthfully, we only plan a physically distanced greeting, and then, we're going to take Kristian along to Prince Albert and put him to work on renovations! 

Travis and Joanna continue to wait out the coronavirus in Thunder Bay. Joanna gets a couple of days of work most weeks. Travis has some summer maintenance to do on his equipment, but otherwise has little in the way of contracts. We hope there will eventually be hockey leagues as those represent a large part of his work each year. We enjoyed our first restaurant meal in months on Wednesday night with them to celebrate their anniversary. The open-air patio option at Montana's served the purpose. Then, we retired to our place for Grasshopper Pie. Happy Anniversary! 

And that's about enough for this week.