Still spreading!

Another week has passed on the shore of Lake Wascana in the middle of the prairies. We've had a break in weather in the early part of the week and even had a nice shower of 12mm (1/2") which really brightened up the lawns. We may even have to cut them again... I took advantage of the comfortable weather to get out for two rounds of golf. The first went quite well, but then something changed/reverted and I started hitting inconsistently once again, sigh! We're into another hot spell, 35° or so, and I'm keeping within air conditioned locales. They're predicting a break in that by the middle of next week. I have begun work on Erin's flooring. I joined on to Kristian's floor and completed the upstairs landing. I managed the transition through Erin's doorway and have installed a few rows in her room, but then I laid the carpet back, so Wendy can proceed with painting that room. Erin also bought three new light fixtures, so I've begun installing those—two down, one to go! She's still shopping for a glamorous pendant set for her stairwell; that will be quite an effort to install due to the height involved. Wendy keeps busy with care of Dad, shopping, and meal preparation, and now she has begun painting. The pandemic is raging back to life with the delta variant becoming dominant. USA has retaken the lead world-wide in infections as so many states have relaxed health restrictions. All states are now above the threshold for a managed situation (100 cases per million per day). Alberta has regained the ignominy as our worst province, but at least it remains below the threshold (94.8). The markets have been choppy, but overall have achieved new record highs, and I had another good week and have reached my quota for the month. The Blue Jays are stumbling a bit, but remain within reach of a playoff spot. They had an excellent home stand, but are on the road now, and finding it tougher going. The Riders began the season with a win last week, and beat Hamilton tonight to improve to 2-0! Go Riders, Go! 

Eric and Erica have completed their preparations in readiness for their trip to Germany. We pray all goes well for their trip and the surgery. She writes, "This week has been a week of making lists of things we need to do, planning time to do the things, and then ignoring the plan and procrastinating until the last minute. So, Saturday was full of packing, last minute mending and deciding what is critical and what doesn’t matter! We leave on Monday at 7:24 AM or whenever Air Canada actually takes off. We are reassured many times over that we have the appropriate proof of vaccination and that it should be sufficient. We will see when we get to German immigration. We discovered an interesting phenomena with our medication. Since we are away for more than a month we wanted to get a 2-month prescription. That took several phone calls to the pharmacy, the doctor's office and more than one trip to Shoppers. Apparently it is highly unusual to get more than one month at a time. But after some persistence we got our way. Haaken stared a new job this week as a customer service call centre person for a transportation company. He’s been training all week and so far he says it is 'fine'. He can do the work from home and it’s full time so that should give him more income. I imagine he will rely on the advice his Grandpa gave him and treat this like an acting role, and if he does, he should do okay. Liam is in Caronport and Greg in Kenora and both are doing well."

Erin had the week off work and enjoyed the relaxing, the renovations and the golf. She and Kristian joined us for supper several evenings, so that was a treat for us. Today, they took off for their first golfing venture without grandpa—somehow, they still managed to have fun! They celebrated both managing to get their tee shots over the river! Kristian continues with his UV treatments, and his medicated lotion for his eczema. Obvious improvements are noted when he keeps up with the directed treatment program. 

Joanna scored a new keto bread recipe, it looks great, so I will look forward to trying it out as well. 

Joanna's Keto Buns

This week, they have been working on setting up their office in their lower level. Gemma is taking care of our place, although this week she had an issue with an LED bulb that wouldn't light up when the dimmer was turned right down!! The old wizard is always available to help! 

And that's about it for this week!