Day 112: Well that didn’t go as planned, I set the alarm on Heather’s cell phone because she hijacked my charging cable. She wakes up at stupid o’clock, unplugs her phone and puts it in her purse a puts that on the other side of the house… only one that had a chance of hearing that go off was the dogs next door, the ones with the bionic hearing. I made due with the time I had available when I got up. Shower, breakfast, pack the cameras, scavenge the batteries from the chargers… double check the food/snacks everything was in order. We got on the road and headed south. Uneventful trip. Arrived in Niagara around 5pm stopped to see my dad, wish him a happy Canada Day and pick up a few odds and ends I had delivered there… after about 20 minutes of chatting in the yard we continued on to Heather’s mother’s house to see if’s she was in, we made arrangements to stay there, I was still pulling for a hotel north of Toronto. The hotel didn’t pan out, Heather cheapped out and took the free room at her mom’s. We went by the hospital to see my grandmother, she has been cooped up in a single room this whole time. She hasn’t been able to get out and do her daily walks, I believe she was doing about a km every day, she can’t see her friends, family isn’t allowed in, we waved at her through the window. A lot of those friends are no longer with us. Her drinking partner which was also her neighbour from sometime back in the middle of the last century fell and passed away just as this lock down started… the whole thing really sucks ass. She didn’t seem to be doing as well as normally when we go down to visit… has to be worse than no hockey… although that’s another thing I’m sure she is missing, that the Blue Jays, Curling… I never could get her talked into using a computer so not even YouTube to watch GoaliePow… and I started trying to get her using a computer almost 30 years ago so…. We returned to the mother-in-law’s (oh joy). I messaged Heather cousin… looks like limited contact with 3 people was fairly safe, took our own food so we didn’t need to shop or go out for meals (we can’t eat food from our relatives’ homes… very scary stuff in the fridges there)… Heather and Lawson went for a swim (not the usual Canada Day Canoe Trip but time in the water none the less. Joyce came over for a while and we chatted while the boy got some much needed sleep. As it was going to be an early morning (needed to get back to the north side of Toronto by 10am)… had to deal with some mild commuter traffic so we had to factor in an extra hour or so just in case the shit hit the fan… we packed it in before midnight.

Lawson going for a swim on Canada Day