Check ups and Toe Painting

Every June I have to go to the heart clinic in Winnipeg to have my Implanted Cardiac Defibulator checked.  It takes us all day to get there and back, with a generous helping of shopping in the middle, for about a 10 minute appointment.  It is the neatest thing to experience because they check my ICD with a computer.  No wires or anything.  They say ok now I'm going to speed your heart up, and sure enough you feel it speed up and you get a quick rush.  Then they slow it down really low and you relax again.  I keep reminding the tech, not to press the delete button by mistake.  LOL  The normal life of the battery in this ICD is about 8 years so I will have to have surgery to replace it in a couple more years.

A Celebrity Comes to Town

Its been a long cold winter for some of our friends.  It looks like they have been here for a while waiting on us.  I'm not sure if our food and ice cream will save them.  Actually these campers are regulars and they draw a lot of attention with their display out front.

We are Back!!!!

Well it has been a long time since the publishing of our last blog.  It has been an extremely busy summer with the ice cream business almost doubling in sales this year and me doing some outside work as well.  Lets give you a little recap of our summer over the next few days before we fire up the engine on the Ponderosa and head south for the winter.

Renovation of CJ's

After a few days of planning and gathering materials, the renovation of CJ's began in a flurry of activity.  Because we are doing the floors and painting, all of the stuff in the shack had to be moved out front.  We watched the forecast carefully and knew the week was going to be dry so we were able to just pile everything outside and tarp it at night.

Stuff everywhere

Back to Manitoba

All good things have to come to an end and so it is with visiting family.  We always look forward to seeing them, but I think they are a little happy to see us go home.  It doesn't matter how much parents try to fit into the daily routine of our kids, we are not a part of their family unit.  They are a unit of their own now, and have their routine and schedule and we tend to disrupt that.  Things like "here let me buy them candy", and "oh it's ok if they stay up a little later on a school night, Midnight is not that bad", and "here let me feed them a sugar filled cup cake",  just tends to go against all that a parent strives not to over do with their kids.  Oh well!!!  I love being a grandparent!!!