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Home Improvements
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 148

Posted 8/6/2020
Day 148: More Hockey stuff today... I got up late... hell I stayed up late... I recall the wife's alarm going of while I was still up and hadn't slept yet. I got in a solid 2 hours before the phone started ringing and the boy started mulling about the house. I made him an Everything Egg this morning... a what you ask? His invention... you need 2 eggs... the yoke gets separated out of one of them, the other gets the white added to it and gets scrambled, the yoke get put back in the middle and folded into the scramble like an omelette... so when you are done you have a scrambled egg omelette with a runny yoke in the middle, fried, scrambled, omelette... an Everything Egg. Ya, he's a little weird. Sidekick came by for lunch and the eggs were still out, breakfast for lunch all around, everyone had something different... it was like I was working at a restaurant. We talked some shop and figured out the logistics on a new top secrete project. I walked through the kitchen a lot today... and you know what... the fridge, the fridge was looking a little cluttered... on the outside. I'm not sure how long ago that school work was from but it was a while ago. I took it on as a project this afternoon... I started pealing back the layers like an ogre that's spent too long in the swamp. Pictures from school, home made wrapping paper from mothers and fathers day gifts, crafts, stuff from cubs... I dug deeper... kindergarten work... dear lord did we ever take anything off the fridge? How are the hinges still functioning? OH LOOK!!!! A coupon, expires 2012... well I guess that dates last time I cleaned the fridge off. I feel like the kitchen is definitely missing something now... but what to do with the stuff that came off the fridge? LOL Lawson and I sat down in the after noon for a Zoom Meeting hosted by the Timmins Library.  Brianne Jenner was giving a talk on her experiences on the women's Canadian Olympic Hockey Team, Gold and Silver medal winners and her path to get to where she is now. It was interesting, amusing and had a lot of good information. Lawson got out his hockey cards at one point and was looking for players he knew and maybe one he's related to, we found a few in the presentation. I sent her an email thanking her for her time, the meeting was poorly attending, I feel bad about that but it was at 2-3pm mid week, some people have jobs. Heather and I made CrackSlaw for dinner and retired to the bedroom to binge watch a few more episodes of the Umbrella Academy, I think Lawson got tired of watching the series... not enough 'real' super hero action and humor a little beyond a 10 year old... he played with his friends until bed time. Got some sad news in the email tonight... the goalie coach that was coming up to work with the boys next week had a death in the family and isn't going to make it due to being quarantined for being out of the country. He was one of Lawson's favorite coaches so far... maybe next year. He did manage to get some one to fill in for him so the week long 'goalie camp' will still run... I use the quotes because after cutting the dry land training out and only leaving the on ice component we are only going to be at the rink for one quick session a day... unfortunate for him but maybe it will leave me with some time at home next week to get some more stuff done around the house... today the fridge! tomorrow the floor... I really need to fix the floor. LOL OK maybe next week... or the week after... I really don't want to work on the floor.