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Watch it transform from hell hole to hovel.  It's amazing what a little paint n paper will do... ok and some tiles.

 

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Family in the news, find highlights over the years here. Photo:  Daily Press photo 2020 of Lawson winning the Rock's Hockey Tournament.

 

Day 147

Posted 8/5/2020

Day 147: Hockey - ok I will get to that later. Big town day again. Picked up SideKick for the usual run to town for doctors appointments and shopping. Lawson sat in the car all morning. During the first appointment we linked our phone and tablet together and played the daily co-op round of BloonsTD6 - pretty simple today, after killing the required level we just continued playing... Eventually SideKick came out and I had to give the boy my phone so he could finish the game and play both accounts at once. Too hard to play BTD6 and drive at the same time.  Canadian Tire, brake parts, shock, suspensions parts... the had most of the stuff in stock... took them for ever to find it... they had it in stock because someone else owns one of these pieces of crap and it was currently in the shop having those same parts put on it. Son, no parts for me... I finally ordered them from some place else at half the price. Never buy anything from CT that's not on sale... always a good rule of thumb. How else do you think they can afford to put things on sale for 75% off all the time? Yes the are marked up too high in the first place. Pick of the Crop for lunch. Masks and social distancing seems to be working, we haven't died yet today. Timmies drive through for boovrages... And the Bulk Barn... seems they are slipping from a store that was better to shop at after the changes to just another shop that can't count... they adopted the take a cart so we can keep count method of operation, I laughed at the employee when asked to take a cart but I complied... I pushed it about 8' to the fist bin by the cash register, fill a bag with stuff from the bin and placed it directly on the checkout counter and passed her the cart back. She then understood why I was laughing. Yarn... WTF? I get a message from the wife pick up enough yarn for a blanket while you are out... I might as well asked her to pick up enough stuff to rewire a house on the way home... I do colours... that's it for yarn, I know which colours go together well. So I requested more info... give me a length in feet of how much string you need and how thick should the string be and it that made from nylon or moose hair or frog nipples or what. She gave me a brand, a type and a weight. Close enough, that I can at least work with... no if Walmart only had that much of that kind of string. I finally hobbled together what looked to be the last of their stock of this type of string thing... it took a while to dig to the bottom of the bins and mixing and matching colours... but I did get string... while and blue and grey. Golf was canceled due to shitty rainy weather... which was convenient because we were running way late. We dropped off SideKick on the way home, hit the Mennonite shop up for a few other odds and ends and then limped the car back into the driveway... I pick up the parts to fix it on Monday. Heather made some buns when she got home, I got out the slicer and cut up some cold-cuts.. and Wednesday Night Samiches. No one has the energy to do too much in the kitchen on HumpDay. After diner I headed north into Iroquois Falls to the Jus Jordan Arena... Hockey is coming soon... we had the first board of directors meeting in almost 6 months. All went as well as can be expected... looks like we are going to be working on skills and playing some small team 3 on 3 games or 4 on 4 with Cochrane and Matheson... we might try to sneak South Porcupine in there. We will see what happens after registration night when we start to get some real numbers in. Gas on the way home... getting late, almost 9:30... I walk in and Heather is working on the new blanket with the wool (string) I just bought. Starting to look interesting already. She worked on that damn thing for hours... didn't bag off until almost midnight. Someone is going to be draggin' ass tomorrow... I mean other than me. LOL