He is Risen!

Wendy's Easter Project

 

He is Risen, Indeed!

Another week has passed on the shore of Lake Superior in my hometown, The weather has turned nice, and we're enjoying that. Today was 17°, the high for the week, I'm thinking. Wendy's shoulder continues to heal and we're grateful for that. She finished her accounting project, and got that delivered. She completed doing some alterations on Mariana's wedding dress as well. Mariana is off to home, and to visit her fiancé for the next six weeks, so we're on our own for a bit. I had another phone appointment concerning my DVTs, and I have another scheduled with my clot doctor for next week. The markets were positive again, although fears of the latest wave of Covid infections is raising fears. Anyway, I completed the month and quarter on budget, so I'm grateful. I haven't got back over to the golf course, but I have working on swing exercises in the yard and while out on our walks. A high note for us is that we got our vaccination appointments; the first jab is April 14th! Curling has taken over again this weekend as the Men's World championships are on. Canada has made a good start at 3-0. Hockey continues although the Canadian division was rocked by another team with Covid infections—Vancouver this time. However, the hapless victim in both cases has been my Oilers and they now have a lot of games to make up. The Pens and Leafs are thriving; after their recent weeks of fine play, we find the Pens challenging for the overall league leadership. March Madness lost some lustre when my Jayhawks fell, and it must be admitted few games have been very magical or mad, but tonight's semi-final game between Gonzaga and UCLA was fantastic! Baseball season has started: Okay, Blue Jays, Let's Play Ball!

Erica writes, "I’ve been getting into the new office this week. I enjoy working from home, but I think seeing people again has been good. Liam has an iron infusion at the end of the coming week and we will celebrate Easter with him a week late.

Guido's Easter Creation

Mom and Dad arranged for an Easter cake for us from our friendly German baker, Guido. He took several recipes and his own knowledge to make a moist and not crumbly gluten-free cake—an amazing feat. It proves my long held contention that baking requires a high degree of both science and art. Eric has been unsuccessful so far in getting added to the priority list for vaccination. Given his asthma and history of pneumonia, he should be, but his doctor does not know how such a thing is done so he’s been calling various health agencies to find out. We had our own Easter egg hunt today. We wanted to get some Cadbury mini eggs for Liam because he can eat those, but not too early or we will. So we went out today looking for the eggs: Shoppers, nope. Save-on-Foods, nope. Superstore, nope. Safeway, nope. The other Shoppers, nope... the movie theatre, nope. Nutters bulk foods, nope... finally found them at Bulk Barn, yay! We also found gluten free Oreos along the way!"

Erin and Kristian remain hunkered down in the Covid Hotspot of Regina. We sent them a Turtle Cheesecake for Easter.

Turtle Cheesecake!

 

Kristian finds it too chocolatey, but Erin loves it, and I'm betting they'll manage to eat it all! Kristian is doing a music project on Beethoven. Shawn is feeling some better, and tried getting into work for a meeting on Thursday. He's still ill, tired most of the time, when he's not exhausted! Sadie joined Kristian in the fresh haircut department; she was so energetic afterwards and drove Lucy crazy!

Sadie's Fresh Cut

Joanna got back home from Toronto, and is now isolating and recovering from those exertions. Once she's had her test and is cleared, we'll look forward to celebrating Easter with them. She did pick out a commuter bike to ride around on now that the weather is nice. 

And that's about enough for this week!