Lockdown
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Today I went for some exercise round a local reservoir, half way around you have to cross a bridge that spans a creek. As I approached the bridge I could see a couple with a small child, the couple, both of them independently, where let’s say FaceTiming with, I can only assume, family. Sure, nice
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Welcome to the world of uncertainty. As we head into the middle of 4 weeks of now school, we are all starting to get a little up tight as to when all this will end, we all want to start to do normal things again, even something as small and as simple as wandering around
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So we missed a couple of days of posts, sometime being locked up for days just zips your energy, as it has the past few days. Our furnace is on the fritz and we had call someone into have a look, seems it needs a new circuit board, glad we have insurance for that, in
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Sorry there was no post yesterday, we had a good family evening watching Tianic, not sure if that relates to what is currently going on, but I am sure it does in some shape or form. I have been my iPad Pro to do all these posts, although the keyboard on the Smart Cover is
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Wow, keep seeing posts about doing a reset of 2020, could not agree more, not going out is crazy and this is just the start, another month before there will any chance of change from this. On a positive note, the weather has been great today, cold, but sunny and with lots of sun we
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As I sit down to write today the Alberta Chief Medical Officers just announced the number for today, 117 new cases for Alberta, now that is due to an increase in testing due to a backlog, but I think it shows there are a lot of people out there with the virus. Time to hunker
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Well here we are in Day 9, the snow stopped falling today and the weather says better weather for the next week, so it will be shovelling for a few days and try to get the outside of the house looking mess like it in the Arctic. Hopeful Numbers Looking at the numbers on various
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Well we are now into week 2 and things are well, boring. Why do you crave what we cannot have? The facts that we should only be going out when we need to go out is interesting, not being able to just makes one feel like you have to and that you are missing out
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Well today was quiet, we had breakfast 3 times today, crazy, but was awesome We watched lots of TV, drank lots of tea and was shocked that the current UCP government stooped so low as to cut funding so boards have to lay off Education Assistants and Custodial staff, just as the Prime Minister was
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It is now Friday we are still here, I have had one trip out to Home Depot yesterday to pick up some moving boxes, but aside from that have not been anywhere. I used the curb side pick-up at Home Depot. You order online and then when you arrive you park in a spot, call
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The New Car As we enter Day 4 I was thinking back about how long we have our new car, mainly as it is not getting driven much these days, and thought, ah, a blog post on how I bought a brand new car through a chat window on a dealer website. First off I
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Well as we enter Day 3 the sun in Grande Prairie is shining with a little snow melt going on. School is Out Schools where closed in Alberta just over a week ago and we now have a teenager wandering around the house thinking that this is just a time to play more video games…
The Retired Dude 