We are both  enjoying Apartment life!

We had a fairly busy fall and winter.  We participated in 2 person stick curling after Christmas.    I’m saying I participated, as I really couldn’t figure out how to throw my rocks using the stick to have them end up where the skip wanted them. Needless to say, there weren’t many W’s beside our name!  We had a relatively mild winter here—here’s a picture from our balcony on my birthday in February—it was raining, first time that ever happened in Winnipeg.

I remained very involved with the social committee in our building, as well as the crotchet and knitting group.  I learned to knit on circular needles and made this. 

Our group is now making poppies for a remembrance day display later in the year.  And who says all poppies need to be red— I made the outlier  which represents animal victims of war. 

It is estimated that 8 million horses were killed during WW1.  We also participate, in the Wednesday games night, and rarely miss the Thursday happy hour.  Over the winter there was also Movies on Friday—so lots to do here, and we’ve met quite a few of the 60 apartment dwellers.

I am also a director on the St. Vital Agricultural society, and since I will rarely be around for the annual August fair, I took on the role of  producing the fair book handout.   I was guided through this process by Val Johnson, a former member of the board, who had done it for many years.  I needed to contact and solicit advertisers, as well as update and replace information. Here’s what the finished product looks like.

I also became more involved with my Eastern Star group, and did  a number of tasks at our Grand Session  this week.  Here’s a picture of my 2010-2012 grand rep  counterpart from Missouri who came to Winnipeg for our session.

Also here our some of the Grand officers from 2015-2016 at one of the luncheons this week. 

Glad the session is over for another year, so I can start packing.

Andy has been keeping busy as well, he has been designated the baker of our monthly birthday cakes for the building and  has been busy as well.  Here’s the cake he made for the April birthday people- which turned out to only be him.

His first priority was to keep his numerous doctor’s appointments.  He also did some enhancements to the  airflow issues in our apartment, by ordering deflectors—it took  us 3 tries from Amazon, before the appropriate ones were found.  Since  setting up his Amazon account—you never know what might appear outside our door- a drone came last week. He also makes frequent trips to Princess Auto, to pick up his on-line orders from there.

 He also toiled in our very small storage room, making this signage for the boat. Since our boat was never finished in the factory, 39 years ago, we wanted to indicate the marine architect that designed it along with our model.  Thus  Norek  PT-35.  The first sign, took almost 2  months, however he was able to re-fine his techniques, and the second one was produced in a couple weeks.

We didn’t make it up to Swan River over the winter, however my two sisters, did come to Winnipeg in early May for a visit, and it turned out to be the day of Maxine’s birthday.

So now that it is almost summer, and my commitments in Winnipeg are done– we are going to start the 22 hour trip to the boat, on Saturday June 1^st – so that we can relax! 

Our plan is to go as far as Marathon in the first night, and then to Midland on the second.  We should arrive at the boat mid-afternoon on June 3^rd.  The boat should be in the water, and hopefully we can leave Buckhorn on Wednesday headed for Orillia.  We’re booked into the Port of Orillia  for a couple days, so David, from Hamilton, can come and do some electrical upgrades, including running wires for our new Starlink “Roam” internet service.  Following our visit to Orillia, we will be headed out to Georgian Bay,  and the North Channel with the our goal to be into Lake Superior by July 3^rd.  It is finally going to happen—we are going to take the Lake Superior Circle Tour on the water!

To prepare for this we did enroll in a 5 week webinar course put on by the Great Lakes Cruising club school, showing us what there is to see and do in Superior. We have been looking forward to returning, since our 2019, as we only saw a fraction of the Canadian side. So only 2 more sleeps until our 2024 summer adventures begin!