The Green Continues!

Another week has passed on the shore of Lake Superior in my hometown! The weather has been beautiful, touching 15° several times, but they are threatening seasonal weather in the coming week and also snow, so this could be our last hurrah for this year! We've had a fairly standard schedule with Wendy's Sweet Adelines practice on Monday evening, and our community choir practice on Thursday morning. The community choir is on target for two carol festivals in December, and then we'll reassess our participation there. It is quite enjoyable, and I would like it if Wendy would drop out of the major time consumption that Sweet Adelines requires and just do the community choir. A family Zoom was held on Tuesday so we could gather with the Regina family members on the anniversary of Ellis' passing—thanks, Bern. I am in the planning stages of some more woodwork, and we are both ramping up some renovation work in our house. The markets had another great, green week due to another win for Bidenomics. I'm beginning to think that Sleepy Joe is in fact, brilliant in his understanding of what makes the economy tick. Job creation at unprecedented levels, unemployment at levels not seen in 50 years, salaries rising, and inflation easing—all unexpected. Even the GOP in congress knuckled under and agreed to fund the government at least until the new year. Maybe the beating they took in the recent elections got their attention! In any case, the market has responded with big gains, and I am enjoying that. The Grand Slam event concluded on Sunday with Gim (Korea) winning the women's title and Retornaz (Italy) triumphing on the men's side. The Oilers replaced their head coach, and reeled off three wins, but dropped their game today. Leafs are in Sweden, and won their first game over there. Pens are doing better, but they lost their game tonight. In college football, my #14-Sooners won a tough battle over BYU today, after losing their QB for the second half. #7-Texas survived Iowa State. #1-Jayhawks trailed for much of the game vs #17-Kentucky, but pulled it out in the end to remain undefeated in Basketball. Tomorrow is the Grey Cup game, and I'm picking Bombers to beat Montreal for the championship. 

Nicely set up! 

Erica enjoyed a big weekend in Edmonton, visiting her cousin Margaret, taking in a Shania Twain concert, and having a ladies' road trip. She even tried to take home the giant Easter egg from Vegreville! Eric and Erica are busily planning their 30th Anniversary trip to New Zealand. "This weekend we had fun with our friends at the YWCA fundraiser music bingo. If you are like us and had no idea what a music bingo is, let me explain. You get a bingo card with songs from a specific era. Then they play part of a song. If you can figure out what the song is, and you have it on your card, you mark it off. We did 3 rounds: 80s, 90s and 2000s. We had a much easier time with the 80’s then 2000’s. We all got close, but none of us won. However, Eric and I did an air band and won a prize for that! Eric picked up a machine for sleep apnea on Friday. He seemed to do well for the first part of the night, but then he woke up and had trouble with it. So, he’ll have to figure it out."

Kristian has completed curling pre-season games, is enjoying the play, and looks forward to the regular season that begins next week. Youth Group was Thursday night; they enjoyed a newly decorated room for that. Today, he was back to school to help setting up for the school play. He is looking forward to his first Machining class next Friday. Erin bemoaned her Jaguars dismal performance last Sunday, but had a good week of work training her replacement. 

Arizona State - Sun Devils

Travis and Joanna managed to work through some issues in the ordering system and the PuckShot orders are now working properly. BucketDecals got an order from the Arizona State Sun Devils to highlight this week. They photographed another 11 teams today—wowsers! 

And that's enough for this week!