Brunch at Smitty's

Neil Bailey and Darcy Folk flew in from Toronto (via Abottsford BC) on Friday and we met them at Smitty's for brunch on Saturday. It was good to visit with them and we look forward to seeing them again June 1 coming up.

U of Saskatchewan Spectrum show

Ruth and I went with Jennifer, Imogen and Yoyo to Spectrum and enjoyed many displays. Yoyo was able to suspend a metal disk in the air using an electrically charged wand. We went into the most expensive room at the U of S which was a specially suspended room that helps virtually eliminates echos with wedge-shaped baffles. Jennifer got to stand inside a soap bubble and Imogen and I got to pretend to drive some pretty hot racing cars. And Jennifer and Yoyo got to experiment with some green-coloured corn starch mixed with water. A fun time was had by all.

Mild January weather.

Glory and Yoyo learn how to play dominoes a favorite game in Jamaica. Ruth took Yoyo to Kiwanas Park and met two of the women from the hockey team with their gold medals when they were there as part of the Olympic Torch Relay.


Imogen really enjoys her new outfit from Yoyo, a student from Taiwan who is staying at Jennifer's.
And Imogen loves to be reminded of her trip to Europe where she got to ride on Grandpa's shoulders on many sightseeing trips.

Grandpa still has it!

Imogen can walk on Grandpa's feet just like her mom used to at that age. In fact she is wearing the same dress that her mom wore about 30 years ago. In the next picture she is showing how cute she looks in Grandpa's glasses.

Holidays

The new double-pained window is installed on Dec. 22 and the inside frame is put in place.












Imogen likes to imitate anything that adults do. Here she is helping to clean off her mom's car Dec. 23.









Here John is finishing up the insulation which is R12 doubled. The next step is to put on the 6 mil poly and then plaster board.












We had 13 people at out Christmas turkey dinner and it was great. Samuel, Comfort, and their four girls Dekontee, Maria, Marsayn, JanJay Brewer plus Glory Itaketo and Jenn and John and Imogen Wallace.














We only had 10 at our Sunday dinner as Ohygen Roberts and Stacey and Isabella came over as well as Ruby Marshall and Jenn and John and Imogen. Andrew was not feeling well but at least was able to eat a bit of lunch.

Reno job at Jenn and John's basement

John and I tore out the old wall of 2 X 3 construction with inadequate insulation and a covering of wallboard. We are going to be installing a larger window, 2 X 4 wall with R 24 insulation and 6mil poly. Then we'll put up Gyproc and paint it.
Next we used a masonry blade on a circular saw and cut out the size of opening that we needed for the new window.

Of course we tried to keep the dust contained but as you can see on the couch, we weren't too successful.

We used an impact hammer, a hammer drill, a circular saw with masonry blades and with a diamond blade, and a sledge hammer. What I thought would be a one day job turned into three days.



Finally, I knocked out the last chunk Today about 4:00 pm. The hardest part is done!

Imogen's first sleepover at Grandma and Grandpa's

Imogen came over Saturday about 5:00 pm and stayed overnight. She went back to her mom partway through Sunday morning worship service. She finally thought her mom had suffered enough and held out her arms to her to take her back after about the third song! After service we had lunch together at Bonanza Restaurant.

Hunting Trip November 2009

Archie, Peter, Everett, Andrew, and Ian MacLeod just before going out hunting on Friday Morning. Archie and Peter are retired. Everett, Andrew and Ian took time off from work to go hunting. A red fox keeps showing up at Archie's cabin at Turtle Lake and it likes to play with the cats that also hang around the place.

International Pot Luck on Sunday

We had an international pot luck dinner after our our mission emphasis Sunday and a few people dressed for the occasion.