Surging/Not!

Another week has passed on the shore of Lake Superior in my hometown. The weather has remained mild, and we are still enjoying green grass and daily highs above freezing. I credit it all to my purchase of a snowblower, but even that can only hold off winter for so long! I have continued my work on the game project, and am now at the top-coating stage (as if I know what I'm doing!).

But I call my game Quatro!

Travis found the actual game on sale in Minneapolis, so at my current rate of progress, I'm calculating a net wage of about $1 per hour. Wendy enjoys singing each week with Sounds of Superior. They recorded one song without masks as a photo-op!

Do you see Wendy?

Otherwise, she is doing lots of catch up on the treasurer work for the chorus; she enjoys getting back into the bookkeeping business. The markets whipsawed us this week with M-W-F as red days. That action left me well short of quota this week—better luck next week! The covid situation is taking an ominous turn as many locations are reporting increased rates of infection. The world increased 9% this week, and USA increased 15%, sigh! We've had some improvement here (-3%), and only Manitoba is out-of-control at present. However, there are rumblings from various provinces about success, and covid seems to take any such relaxation as an opportunity! The football season ends this weekend; Riders played Hamilton this afternoon, and lost. The game had no impact on the playoff standings, and Riders played a lot of backup players. Riders now prepare to host Calgary in the West semi-final. Go Riders, Go! College hoops continued with the non-conference games. Jayhawks won easily and maintained their #3 ranking. College football is also ending the season and moving toward conference playoffs. This week #13-Sooners beat Iowa State and #9-Cowboys shut out Texas Tech, but the Longhorns lost to West Virginia. Hockey continues to develop some interesting stories. Oilers and Leafs having good success. Pens are getting their players back from injury and covid, and are doing better; they beat the Leafs 2-0 tonight. One of the biggest curling events began today with nine teams competing on each of the men's and women's sides to be the Canadian rep to the Olympics. I'll be cheering for my long time favourite Kevin Koe on the men's side, and Kerri Einarson on the women's side. 

Erica writes, "We got more snow this week and it’s starting to look a lot like Christmas! Eric has been teaching an anger management class and that ended this week. Liam got another infusion of his medication on Friday. He has started his new regimen of every 4 weeks and we hope and pray this has a positive impact. I enjoyed a personal day on Friday. Our new firm gives us one per quarter and we have to use them—so that’s nice. It forces us to take at least one day to relax! Haaken and Greg are doing well." They have continued the demolition of the dining area ceiling below the upstairs bathroom. As is often the case, there was a surprise. When a previous owner was installing heating ducts, he just cut right through the floor joists for the upstairs bathroom! 

Not sure how those joists survived!

Erin and Kristian suffered through a full-scale blizzard in Regina, so they also have lots of snow. The back deck accumulations prompted Sadie to say, "No thanks," to offers of an outdoor excursion!

Brrrrr!

Travis and Joanna returned from Minneapolis on Monday. They got covid tests in Minnie, filled out the ArriveCAN App, and sailed easily through the border. They picked up the dog and budgie from us, and settled back in at home. Now, they're back to isolating and taking care of the pets. 

And that's enough for this week!