Week ending May 3, 2012

On Wednesday evening, driving back to Cochrane from High River through Bragg Creek, we had to slow down for a deer that was starting to run across the highway. Wisely, it changed its mind on the edge of the road and headed back through the ditch to the woods. We saw several other groups of deer along the way, but they were all well off the road.

On Thursday, Joan had another doctor's appointment.

On Friday, we cooked a stew to take out to Mom and Dad's on Saturday. Went to Mom and Dads, had stew and 321 cake that Dad made in the microwave, did George's taxes. George had to head home for a retirement party.

On Sunday, we took it easy.

On Monday, we went into Calgary. John stopped at Shaw and chatted with a bunch of the IT people in the main office. We had dentist appointments in the afternoon. About a week ago, John had a chip come off a back molar under a crown, so has to go back on May 9 to see what can be done.

On Tuesday, we had light rain all day while we got everything inside, moved the 5^th wheel from Cochrane to High River, and got setup again in High River. The campground operator kindly lent us a 30 amp extension cord so we could plug the power from the back of the trailer into the receptacle at the very front of the site. Didn't spend much time trying to get a satellite signal in the rain. Hopefully it will stop raining soon (3:00pm) so I can try again, but it still looks pretty socked-in with no breaks in sight. No luck. Got a 25 signal but couldn't keep it trying to improve on it. Probably through a tree. Joan made chocolate waffle cookies, but the grandchildren didn't drop in because, we found out later, Anthony had a lacrosse game.

On Wednesday morning, we finished setting up by releveling the trailer (we hadn't done that too well on Tuesday), finding a satellite signal, setting up the stairs, removing the winter insulation from the water hose, and defrosting the freezer and fridge. The folks at George Lane Park were kind enough to turn on the freezer in the office so we could store our food for a few hours while defrosting.

On Thursday, we bought a couple of replacement light bulbs for the outside of the trailer, borrowed Trever's ladder, and installed the lights. One of them was a bit more work because the light cover had been slightly broken, so the top half of the cover had been caulked, or maybe glued down. In the evening, we attended Anthony's next lacrosse match. It was a very close game with the teams only a couple of goals apart. Late in the game, it was tied until the other team got a break-away to score.