Another week has passed on the shore of Lake Superior in my home town. The weather has been mild, albeit with too much wind some days, and we're seeing melting temperatures. It does make things more comfortable and we've enjoyed our second BBQ of the year already. We've seen some electrical issues here as the carriage lights I've installed on the house and garage are failing. My activity has been constrained by the Brier where the expected teams have risen to the top, and my guy was unable to reach the playoffs. Now we're down to the final three: #1-Dunstone, #2-Jacobs, #4-Gushue. They will complete the tournament tomorrow. Hockey just went through the trading deadline as contending teams attempted to add that missing piece that will push them to a Stanley Cup championship! In league play, my Oilers are floundering, but still in playoff position. They put up a solid effort to beat the Stars tonight. The Pens have given up and were selling off assets leading up to the trade deadline in hopes of building a better team for next season. The Leafs continue to achieve well and are near the top of the league standings. Here at home, life continues much as usual. Wendy's accounting work has progressed to October, so just a few more months to work through. Our choir work continues to engage us through each week. The unranked Jayhawks finished off the regular season in style, beating the ranked Arizona team. Now, it's on to March Madness—Rock Chalk Jayhawks! My business remains problematic as His Orangeness continues his chaotic ways. Tariffs on, tariffs off, partial tariffs, tariffs paused... the markets hate the instability of the man. We've now seen a steady decline since he took office with February completely red, and March red so far. The economy is still doing okay, but not so well as it was under the steady hand of Uncle Joe. The FED is now predicting that the USA will drop into recession next quarter—sigh! And he keeps on with his phoney border security complaints—surely he realizes that who and what enters the USA is entirely the responsibility of the USA.
Erica writes, "This week I added a CPAP machine to my old woman routine. It’s pretty funny—every night Eric wraps up my arms, and then I put on my face mask and try to sleep. Liam has been having trouble with the Jetta. The main problem is how busy and short staffed the VW dealer is. You’d think that being the nephew of one of the big wigs would mean expedited service, but you’d be wrong. We are hoping to find out next week what the problem is. Eric has been watching the hockey trades with the NHL trade deadline. It’s almost as crazy as watching the on again off again trade war. We ended the week with a hockey game. Our local team, the PA Raiders, is in the playoffs. The game was standing room only. Fortunately, I got some tickets through work so we had seats."
Erin, Kristian and I worked through another electrical problem in their downstairs. It seems their LED pot lights are failing. I replaced one last summer, and they have now disconnected two more that were failing and flickering annoyingly. Things did not pan out at Erin's work as the lady selected for the job refused since she wanted more pay! So, Erin keeps doing both jobs and is getting tired of that!
Travis and Joanna had busyness as usual this week, but today they flew off to Toronto for a family weekend. Andrew and Rosie are going to school there. Gemma and Jonas flew out from Vancouver to join the fun. We have Marigold here—Kali is glad of that. The boys are out at a boarding kennel they have used before. We're expecting Trav and Joanna back Monday evening.
And that's enough for this week.
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