Passages 2

Another week has passed on the shore of Lake Wascana. The weather has been cool most of the week, but finally turned nice today. We are enjoying our week with Erin and Kristian. We were privileged to catch up with many family and friends as we attended Eloise's funeral on Thursday and Robert Peterson's today in Weyburn.

Now, we are in preparation to begin the trip home starting on Monday. We've been able to do a few things around here. Kristian and I replaced the failed pot lights in the family room. I cleaned up a few things on the patio and garden boxes. Wendy has done some sorting and cleaning inside. On Good Friday, we had a family gathering at Rich & Sues—that was great! Eric & Erica, Liam & Mercedes, Brian & Lorna, Logan & Kaitlyn, Erin & Kristian, Rich & Sue, Dave & Lynn, Howard & Diane, Bern & Alicia joined with us for a great afternoon and evening. Plenty of good grub, lots of conversation, a wonderful time of singing led by Brian, Erica and Mercedes, and finally a games night of Fast Track and card-based Golf. The markets ran well this week as his Orangeness is preoccupied with his legal problems. Even so his spending is running well above Biden's spending at the same time in his term, so it doesn't appear that there are cuts to spending despite all his promises, and that is causing some consternation among the MAGA members who hoped to reduce government spending. The Grand Slam of Curling ended poorly for the Canadian reps as Homan dropped the final to Swiss team Tirinzoni, and both Canadian playoff teams on the men's side lost out in the semi-finals, so they were just watching as the Scottish Mouat team won another Slam title. Blue Jays are playing well in the early days of the baseball season. Hockey has entered the playoff season and I've picked Jets, AVs, Knights, Oilers, Capitals, Panthers, Leafs and Canes to advance (just so you know how to bet)! I'm working the Federal Election and I need to be there for orientation on Wednesday.

Marigold & Kali

Kali is enjoying life with Trav & Joanna and the other three dogs back in Thunder Bay. Thanks for sending the many photographs and videos!

Anyhow, that's enough for this week!