Another week has passed on the shore of Lake Superior in my hometown. The weather has continued to be mild and the snow continues to disappear. This is way too early for such a situation, but we're enjoying getting out for comfortable walks. Wendy keeps busy with Sweet Adelines, but we had a week off from our Silver Sound choir since our director is holidaying in Cuba. Wendy has completed her annual accounting assignment for a business here. He keeps paying her more than she asks, so clearly he is pleased with her work. I continue to do not much of anything while healing my back. I start physio on Monday, so I am hoping I'll be freed to be more active soon. This afternoon we took a safety training course to allow our volunteer work at church. The markets have continued to show volatility, but also keep putting up record values, and returning big gains to shareholders. Anyway, I've been occupied all week with the Scotties. My gal, Einarson, made it to the playoffs, but has now been knocked out. The teams left are Homan, Jones and Cameron. The popular choice from the outset was Homan, but it's a slippery game, and we'll have to wait to see how it plays out tomorrow. In hockey my three teams are all improving their situation a little. Pens and Leafs won their recent games, in fact Leafs are on a seven-game winning streak. The Oilers have fallen off the torrid pace they were on earlier, and dropped another to their provincial rival tonight, sigh! #9-Jayhawks dropped again in the rankings after last week. They only had one game this week and performed very well for an easy win over Texas.
Erica writes, "This week Eric and I have joined our friends, Guido and Tina on some pre-retirement research in Arizona. Specifically, we are checking for places where we can avoid the cold winters when we get to retirement age, whenever that may be! We arrived on Wednesday only to find that I had booked an electric car—one that doesn’t work at the Tesla stations that are scattered around the state. Since we plan to do some exploring, we decided to pay the extra fee for a gas engine. Then, we headed to our accommodations at Camp Verde. So far we have seen Montezuma’s Castle and Well, which have no actual connection to Montezuma or the Aztecs. The castle is built into the limestone and the well is an underground spring that continues to flow wet and dry season. We explored historic downtown Camp Verde. The town was a fort “back in the day”. Today we explored the Desert Botanical Gardens and the Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix where we saw the guitar used by Paul of Peter, Paul and Mary. There is much more planned on the agenda for the next few days. We are hoping for a bit of relaxation in there as well. The weather is a pleasant 20ish degrees and cools down at night."
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| Paul's Guitar |
Erin and Kristian are doing well in Regina. Kristian enjoyed the weeklong break from school. He reports that he was able to sleep in most mornings. Erin has been informed of further delays in her transfer over to VW. Her boss at Toyota will be away for a couple of weeks, so she'll be running the show at the mother ship for a while longer.
Travis continues to have hockey team shoots, and Bucket Decals is surprisingly busy for this time of year. Joanna left on Friday to spend some time with her mom and the rest of the family in Toronto. We're expecting her return on Tuesday. Travis is batching with Max and the dogs this weekend!
And that's about enough for this week.
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