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Day 126

Posted 7/15/2020

Day 126: We will start with the good hockey related news before I go off half cocked... I got an email today from Nick and it seems because we are entering phase 3 of this COVID19 thing we may be able to do that goalie camp next month from the 10th-14th. I haven't told Lawson yet just to make sure it's not canceled again. So anyway... this morning we got up, got ready, had breakfast and were out of the house by 7:45, picked up sidekick and headed into town... town is starting to get busier. And then it was announced that the Heath Unit was going to mandate wearing masks in public, no shoes no shirt no mask no service. Personally, me... I think I'm going to go with a Darth Vader Mask... if everyone else's home made masks are find I should be able to make one too... So I don't get this... shouldn't masks if they do any good be part of phase 1 or 2? Can't wait until everyone forgets how to cough into their arm to keep from spewing germs everywhere... should be about the same time they lift the mask order... hey would that be a gag order? LOL - Yup then people will just be coughing all over everything but their own sleeve, we are all going to die just from the spread of the common cold. First Doctor's appointment, Lawson and I stay in the car and play some BloonsTD and wait. After that we had some time to kill. Off to pick up a brush cutting blade for SideKicks weed eating thing... once again Lawson and I continued with our game. OK Canadian Tire, gave up on finding the Dremel, they are on sale for 70% off, just easier to buy a new one, the old one was in pretty bad shape anyway. Also got some leather cleaning stuff for the new old pads. Gas, then Timmies... off to Dr.'s Apt #2, and we wait in the car again... I messaged the golf people... Piss Pouring Rain in Iroquois Falls... Golf was canceled... I think it's at the point where the boy is so use to having things canceled on him he doesn't even get excited about things until the event is half over. What was going to be a mad dash for I.F. when SideKick got out now turned into a 'well what do you want to do now?' kind of day. Off to get groceries. I did need anything but I figured I would stroll though just to see if there were any good deals on anything. I got ground beef at a reasonable price... sure there was a line up of people waiting for the butcher to bring more out but I'm patient... wings... hey look at the price of boneless skinless chicken breasts... $8/kg... and they sit beside the bone in covered with skin stuff that is selling for $11/kg... because it's worth more if you have to throw 1/3 of it out... boggles my mind who prices this shit. We stop for a bite to eat at A&W feeling like I've spent too much already today I cheap out, me and the boy order buddy burgers. Now on the way home in no real hurry we stop at SideKicks friends place again... now last time we were there Lawson was riding the bike around and showing the kids there how it worked... they wanted him to ride it again... once he left last time the one boy actually figured out how to peddle it around after seeing Lawson do it... it was no longer a push bike, it was now a ride bike... hey you learn something new every day. Back to SideKicks to check the Serial Number on the OutBoard Motor... the one he gave me had an extra digit... wait that was a phone number he gave me... the SN and the phone numbers here have the same first 5 digits and I knew approximately what the number on the motor should be so I never thought about the number I had being a phone number. I messaged the info to Heather who drives by the marina on the way home, please pick up water pump parts for this motor... she messages me back, Um, I'm already home... sure the one night they don't keep her late... ok tomorrow then. We headed home for dinner. Heather is stuffing a head of cauliflower into the instapot... apparently soup... with cheese and bacon on deck... a little sour cream. It was good... I might of had a few bowls. After dinner Heather worked on the tartan blanket some more, Lawson hid in the basement and I worked on cleaning up a small part of the leather pads to see the difference... the night came to an end, Heather went up and tucked the boy in, talked to her mom on the phone a bit and then went to sleep. Likely had nightmares, I know talking to her mom gives me nightmares.