Happy Golden Anniversary!

The end of this week brings us to a significant milestone in our lives together—the 50th Anniversary of our Marriage! Wendy continues to be the great blessing of my life, and I am very thankful to continue this trip with her.

Ready to Go Away!

We celebrated today with several on-line meetings. One with Wendy's family, another with our wedding party, and one with our children this evening. All members of the wedding party are still with us, and continue to form a meaningful part of our lives, so we're very appreciative of that. We could not have imagined having them all together again at any physical location, so it was fantastic to get to meet with them all at once!

A lovely bouquet for our 50th—thanks!

It has been another very hot week here in Thunder Bay, on the shore of Lake Superior. Sometimes we get a nice onshore breeze and the temperature moderates considerably. Usually, we swelter in the yard work, and escape to the air-conditioned comfort of our house. The hot, dry weather means the lawns have slowed down considerably which suits me just fine. I am loathe to water them, so they can just rest! We have begun preparations for our trip to Saskatchewan, hoping to make that sometime next week. We are still trying to manage our way through the protocols established in the provinces en route. It appears that Manitoba will allow we northern-Ontario-people a stop, sans quarantine, but we're not allowed at Erin's in Regina! The markets have been thin and directionless this week, and I have remained on the sideline except for collecting a dividend—so, I gained a little, but not up to quota. Sports leagues continue to mutter about opening scenarios, but so far only golf is actually playing. Meanwhile, CV-19 continues to ravage the countries who have failed to deal with it sensibly. USA is setting new records over 50,000 new infections per day, and they're just across an alarmingly porous border! Mexico has supplied the ultimate insult of closing their border to USA! 

It's been a quiet week at the Bailey house. Erica is on summer vacation and has been catching up on sleep and doing a few errands, but nothing too ambitious. Liam and Eric got a bit more demolition done on the old deck. They have stripped the old coating off the floor in the back room. It requires another sanding, and then it can be refinished. Haaken has been working this week. He also went out and purchased the family birthday gift for Gramma Bailey. 

Erin and Kristian have been managing their charges through the thunderstorms in Regina. Sadie becomes very alarmed and panicky, while Lucy takes it all in stride. Erin has been investigating the protocols for CV-19, and hoping we'll be able to stop in at her place next week. At the very least, our plan is to pick up Kristian and take him north with us to Prince Albert. Then, we can complete our isolation up there, and return to Regina later. 

Travis and Joanna have been managing their family and pets through the heat here. Well, except for Gemma; she's enjoying air-conditioned comfort in our basement! They supplied supper for an anniversary celebration here this evening—thank guys! Then, they joined us in a family zoom with the Saskatchewan crew and the grandson from BC. 

And that's about enough for this week!