Catching Up!

Another week has passed on the shore of Lake Superior in my hometown. The weather has been great with temperatures above freezing, and the driveway and walks have cleared off nicely. We have quite a number of issues to clear up here before we will be ready to head west. The Celebration of Life for Dad is set for December 9th, 1:30pm at Glen Elm Church of Christ in Regina. We expect to see many of you there—you are all invited and welcome. We've both been attending to medical issues. Wendy had an ultrasound followup to her recent surgery. She's reporting good results, now we are waiting to see if the doctor agrees! I had a followup meeting with my doctor over my back/leg issues. She remains concerned, and ordered X-rays even though she doesn't expect it to reveal the problem. It didn't, but it's a required precursor to an MRI which she has now ordered. I'm still waiting on an MRI of my head to check what may be causing my hearing loss, but it seems MRIs are subject to delay! With the comfortable weather, I managed to make some progress on shop projects—seems there is no end of projects there! We got our roof reshingled on Monday—looks good. We've put off the soffit, fascia and eavestrough until the Spring; we're not expecting any rain for a while anyhow!

Nicely done! 

Wendy has been extra busy catching up on Sweet Adelines business that piled up while we were away. The bank continues to frustrate her efforts to conduct business on line. Market action was quite sparse this week with the USA holidays, but investors seem to be more optimistic and I had a good week. The Grey Cup had a surprise winner as the Argos shot down the heavily favoured Bombers. In college basketball, Kansas was upgraded to #3, but they lost their game yesterday, so they'll be dropped down the list a bit. #1-North Carolina also lost, and I was hoping KU might move up, sigh! The Leafs suffered a major loss as their top defenceman was injured and will be out for several weeks. Oilers are just not playing very well right now, but came back from three goals down to win their game today. Pens played the Leafs today, so somebody had to lose! The Leafs won this time. College football saw the 'Horns getting the week off, while my Sooners lost to Texas Tech in overtime. 

Erica writes, "At MNP, there were several events with the release of CFE marks. There were pre-parties and post-parties and lots of commiserating over the difficulty of the exam and waiting to hear if you passed. In addition, the office spent Saturday morning serving hot chocolate at the PA Christmas Parade. Last week was spent in Saskatoon so this weekend is here in PA. Eric and I are on for worship team on Sunday. We also cleaned up our recycling and cleared away several deck boards to make our natural gas meter accessible. As I suspected, this isn’t going to be as easy as the tech from SaskEnergy said. There is a beam within 3 feet of the meter, so, if we need a 3x3 clearance it is going to have to wait until summer. But for now the boards are gone and we hope they will accept this as a temporary solution. Liam has started a patreon account to raise money to support his art. He would be very happy to receive support. Haaken and Greg are fine."

Erin and Kristian are enjoying a brief respite in the winter weather, but are threatened with a cold snap coming their way! Kristian has completed one drama project, but continues with that early morning course. Curling has started, his team won last week, and tied this week. Erin is heading into a busy time at work as they're de-merging the Lexus part of the business from the Toyota business, so they will operate as individual companies. Fortunately her boss is getting back to work, so that should spread the load around a bit. 

Travis has recovered from his bout with Covid, and they're back to full-time photoshoots once again. We have set up Trav's birthday celebration for tomorrow afternoon. Tomorrow is Trav's birthday, and we're planning a pizza and cake celebration here. 

Another Wendy Masterpiece

And that's about it for this week.