Markets back to green!

Another week has passed on the shore of Lake Superior in my hometown. The weather has continued to be great; we're enjoying yard work, and I've managed regular excursions to the golf course. The local course allows you to pay/play by the hole, so I even played three holes on Thursday evening. That went okay, and my back did not complain afterwards. I keep doing my exercises, and continue to make some small progress. I definitely think I could walk nine holes. Wendy has completed her dental repairs. She cut my hair on Wednesday, and liked that so much, she got her own hair cut this weekend. She is not delighted with her results—should have used my cutter! With the yard in pretty good shape, but kind of hate to leave it behind, but we're leaving it in good hands, so it should be fine when we get back. The markets were buoyed by big improvements in inflation and consumer confidence numbers in the USA—thanks, Uncle Joe. As a result, we made some good gains this week, and recovered from the interest rate hike mania of last week. Baseball was off most of the week for the annual All-Star game. Blue Jay Vladdy Jr joined his father as Home Run King—nice! The Jays have returned from the break with two wins to open the second half, and are currently sitting in a playoff position. Riders played Calgary this week. It was tough sledding as usual, and this time the Stamps got a last second field goal for the win. And, to add injury to insult, our QB was injured and knocked out of the game! 

Erica writes, "We made a quick trip to Regina last weekend to visit with Travis and Erin. Liam joined us and we had a small family reunion. Travis extended an invitation for the Wednesday night AEW event and I drove down to Saskatoon to enjoy that. What a crazy, fun spectacle that is! On Friday night, our friends Guido and Tina, invited us for a drive; we did some drive by shooting of cottages. Unfortunately, none of us are independently wealthy, yet! Liam seems to be doing a lot better on his new eye drops. We are looking forward to a visit with Haaken in a few weeks. Greg and Kirsten are coming for Thanksgiving."

Erin and Kristian hosted Travis most of the week and took in AEW events in Regina and Saskatoon. Seems like they had fun! Otherwise, work and summer holidays are proceeding as expected. We're looking forward to checking out their garden next week. Erin has been putting in extra time and effort at work as some others are taking a holiday. 

AEW Saskatoon

Gemma and Jonas were here most of the week, but have now flown back to Vancouver. Jonas is now in a PhD program at UBC, while Gemma is working a couple of jobs and getting ready to start classes in September towards a Bachelors of Midwifery (seems that shouldn't be called a Bachelors). Trav was out in Saskatchewan most of the week having family time with his sisters and nephew. They took in two AEW events in Regina and Saskatoon, respectively, and had a good time. He got back yesterday. We'll just have time for a brief catch up before we head west ourselves. 

And that's about it for this week.