Lunar Eclipse!

Another week has passed on the shore of Lake Superior in my hometown. The weather has been great, especially during the days, although we've had two nights of heavy rain in thunderstorms. Anyway, the comfortable weather has allowed me to get back to my deck project. It's moving forward well, despite a few change orders! There is a lunar eclipse tomorrow night, about midnight Eastern time, and we're hoping for clear skies to watch that. I have kept at my preseason golf preparations, swinging the club every day;  today, I even got over to the driving range—yep, I can still hit a hook! Sigh! We completed Mother's Day flower deliveries on Sunday—that will pay for a few rounds of golf later! Wendy keeps trying her keto sponge cakes; she had another success this week with a lemon-flavoured one. The ones that crashed were also very edible! She also made another batch of keto ice cream—very tasty! Travis brought pizza and we celebrated Wendy and Joanna with pizza, cake and ice cream on Tuesday evening. Wendy has chorus practice each week, and still seems to have a lot of chorus related business in her role as treasurer. The markets have remained frenetic and I am all sold out of my trading stocks. Still, my dividend payers came through with a bit of money this week. Positive market movement toward the end of the week is encouraging. The pandemic infection rate appears to be easing although we're suffering from a lack of data collection, so we don't really know. Gushue beat Koe (again) in the Grand Slam final in curling. This is also the last event of this curling season, and many of the teams are changing personnel as they get set for the next Olympic Quadrennial. The NHL playoffs are completing the first round this weekend. Five of the series are requiring a seventh game, two of those games remain to be settled tomorrow. Of my three teams, Leafs are out, Oilers win and advance, and Pens play tomorrow. 

Erica writes, "This week we got some exciting news: Greg is engaged! We are very happy for him and are glad we got to meet Kiersten when they visited us a few weeks ago. It’s been a very busy, late night kind of week at work for me. Eric got both bikes out and running. He has been enjoying his all week. I hope to join him soon!" 

Erin continues to struggle along with the lingering effects of her covid infection. At least she's well enough to manage work and homemaker duties so long as she takes it easy. Kristian continues with his regular routines of school, home and UV treatments. He's had a bit of a setback on the eczema front as he missed a few UV treatments while Erin was in isolation.

Travis & Joanna continue to be very busy. They should soon be getting to the off-season, and a lower level of activity. One thing for sure, those new pups will keep them busy around the house. They've now begun training them for walks on the leash. 

They went to Florida, I got...

And that's about enough for this week.