Day 189: 5am... Got up to take the car into the shop and teach Heather how to shift gears in the Mazda with the screw driver, don't ask. Got gas and sent her off to work. The boy woke up and got an shower before school... Hind sight being 20/20 he smells like hockey now so it should have been a tonight thing not a this morning thing. Breakfast... Then lunch packed and out the door off to school. Ok, first thing on the agenda, take a break. Check. Sat down on the bed and an hour and a half magically disappeared. The phone rang... Dentist office called to remind Heather of her up coming appointment and cut short my much needed beauty sleep. Heather sent an email from work... I mulled over her proposal over lunch... Did a little research after lunch and pondered the feasibility of the proposal... I've done crazier things before, like project x. Lawson got home. He had hockey tonight so I made him a little dinner he could eat early enough to give it some time to settle. Who doesn't like bacon cheeseburgers? When Heather got home we went and picked up the Subaru... Brake job was finished. We then fed ourselves a little something Heather made while I was in the shower... After eating we got in the car and head north with a crap load of hockey gear piled in the back. New sign it procedure at the door... Sign this, answer the weekly question, sign that waver, review the rules... It was pretty quick. The boy geared up and was on the ice in a little over 5 minutes after entering the building... 4 whole minutes to spare. Heather and I bailed... Timmies for a coffee. As we chatted and drank coffee I filled in forms for hockey. I'm getting better with the phone... I was able to put the form on the phone, fill it out, add a photo of him to his player record and add a copy of his health card to the form and mail it back to the hockey association. Then the coffee was gone, we needed to pick him up for the arena. After acquiring the package from the arena and helping him pack his bag we stopped back at Timmies to get him refueled. As we approached Matheson I got a chance to test the new brakes. Yesterday had this happened there would be 1 less fox in the area and a lot more zip ties holding the front end of the car together... But the brakes we good now... Antilock brakes worked for us... Steering and braking all at the same time... I think it's what you call cool beans. Unloaded the car and packed it in for the day... Heather put the final touches on the new red mittens and then proceeded to make a list of things she didn't like about them... Maybe a she should take it up with the manufacturer. COVID19 report over and out for the night.

Heather's Red Mittens