Monthly Archives: August 2006

Thursday and Friday passed away, sliding into oblivion while filling every minute.

Thursday afternoon and evening my sister and her family were here.  Their arrival was heralded by a great lunch – pizza buns.  Perfect for the four kids who love good food.  Afternoon entertainment included parking the tent trailer in the back yard, watching “The god’s must be crazy”, and putting out camping gear to dry.

The evening had a full blown Rook game.  Rook is  card game that brings competitiveness to a new height.  Your bid for supremacy must be accompanied by a hand of cards  that trump all others.

Friday the family left for Rosetown at 9:00, as did we — but we went past Rosetown to Saskatoon.  There Jill had an Echo Cardio Gram, part of her regular routine to monitor her heart’s health.  We ate lunch, shopped, and spent an amount of money on some recording gear for my new computer (which amount will remain anonymous for the moment!).  Our arrival home was a half day later than when we left.

What a week for Jill.  Canning, family visitation and medical appointments.  Today was a rest day for her — now that it is evening she’s up and running once again.  Not to say that life stopped!  A friend from Red Deer came all the way over to get a signature from me.  1 1/2 hours of lunch, talk and sharing pictures together. 

God is good — all the time.  And all the time, God is good.

Jill just talked to a farmer friend just west of town.

Hail ran through their fields.  You can’t even tell what the field was, the stalks are only a few inches high, tree leaves are stripped completely.  Plywood bins and siding on the house damaged, broken windows.

All this in just a few minutes. 

The corn will be down, the potatoes are still in the ground but no plants above.

A comment from someone in the family — “I didn’t know God was so strong!”

The fruit of the earth is plentiful this time of year.  Our friends have been very gracious.  Boxes of produce have appeared at our door.  Corn, strawberries, zucchini, beans, cucumbers and much more.

What to do?

Learn to can!

And so Jill has been off to pick up tips on canning (this is not an activity she has participated in previously).  One site she found gave visual directions on the steps of canning.  Now we have jars of pickles and relish.  Yesterday was tomato day.

Our internet access has been slow the last few days.

I remember the first time someone moved to high speed.  He was a computer technician.  He knew about clock speeds, modems and ISP’s.

His firsts comment the next day — “I’d never go back to dial up!”

In my stubbornness, I figured I would stick with dial up.  And even if I moved to high speed, I wouldn’t be caught up in trying to keep up!!

Guess again! 

This last week our “express light” high speed has been slower than usual.  You put up with, rationalize around, and generally try to be nice.  Today I phoned the ISP (internet service provider) and mentioned, in  a nice way, that I was getting half the speed of another ISP.

The supervisor was informed.  The reply was that someone in Kindersley was using a lot of the broadband.  The problem should be fixed tomorrow.