Another week has passed on the shore of Lake Superior in my hometown. The weather has been frosty, as befits the time of year. Daytime highs are rarely struggling above zero these days, and we’ve even received our first skiff of snow. I’ve done a bit more efforts covering the camper for the winter, but now Wendy has determined that we should buy a special cover for it, so that’s on the way. I’ve also ordered the replacement material for the awning. I’ve done a bit more work on the FastTrack boards, and Wendy is back to painting in the side entry. She has also bought a new bed for the extra bedroom downstairs as we prepare to host the family for Christmas this year—looking forward to that! It has been a busy week on the musical front as both Wendy’s chorus and ours are in final preparations for Christmas concerts. Our concert is tomorrow afternoon, while hers is Monday night. She will have a few more concerts, but our Silver Sound is now done for the season. In January, we’ll start preparing for a Spring concert. The USA markets have been bad all month as their economy struggles under the weight of Trump Tariffs. He seems to be relenting a bit under pressure from the populace, so we’ll hope for better times to come. Our PM, focused on building world-wide trade, has our economy doing better than expected. The Olympic curling trials have been running all week and I’ve been enjoying the coverage. #1-Homan came through as expected, and will represent us well. My gal, #9-Einarson made the playoffs, but surprisingly fell to #27-Black. Homan made quick work of her in the finals. On the men’s side, by guy, #31-Koe, performed very well, but in the end it was the usual suspects in the playoffs, with #2-Dunstone facing #3-Jacobs in the final, although Koe beat both of them! Jacobs won in two games and will represent us well. Hockey is disappointing so far as my Oilers and the Leafs play around .500, although both won today. The Pens are doing a bit better. In college football only the top twelve teams make the playoffs. The #16-Longhorns had a big win over the previously undefeated #3-Aggies, and may sneak into the playoffs yet. My #8-Sooners struggled against LSU, but eventually won it, so their playoff positioning should be secure. In Basketball, the Jayhawks have fallen from the top 25 rankings, but they had a great week with three wins including over #17-Tennessee, so they should bounce back up the rankings once again.
Eric wrote, “It’s been a week of getting back into the swing of things. We had work all week, Erica went out of town for work one day. Eric had a few meetings around work and planning for the next year. We had a Christmas party Tuesday night that had fun things like a Jeopardy game between the tables. On Friday, Erica’s band played a gig. They had fun. Saturday, we went to the Raider’s game but they lost. We are doing music in church tomorrow."
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| A cover charge? They must be good! |
Erin is not enjoying the impending winter, although they don’t have much snow in Regina yet. Kristian has accepted the nomination to the forklift training program, and now we wait to see if that comes to fruition.
Travis and Joanna keep busy, and added a PuckShots assignment to their work this week. But the big event was Trav’s birthday on Thursday! We enjoyed the evening out with them to Wacky’s. Very loud, but good grub! Wendy and I provided some of the entertainment by taking in a Virtual Reality experience. It made Wendy nauseous, and provided laughs for the rest of the crew which included Andrew and Rosie.
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| Who’s having a good time! |
And that’s about it for this week.
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