Week ending May 4, 2017 Gibbons, Edmonton

Friday,  we went visited with Mom.  Then John fixed a problem that Dad was having with his MS Office tools.  He had found a MS tool called OffCAT (Office Configuration Analyis Tool?).  It identified a problem with a product called FinePrint, which was so old its add-ins were causing Outlook and Word to crash.     Following its procedures on disabling the add-ins,  Outlook and Word started fine.   Excel still didn't work, but it did work in 'safe mode'.   Then we did a grocery run.   After returning to the campground, we walked around it.  There is a sign mentioning the Athabasca Landing Trail, but the roads in the direction indicated were both marked as no trespassing, as they go into town facilities.    

On Saturday, we visited with Mom in the morning,  did Dad and Mom's taxes.  Dad took us, Ann, Daniel and Rosina to Uncle Ed's for lunch.

Sunday, Ann did her and Daniel's taxes on our computer since it was the end of April and they wanted to Netfile them.   We printed everybody's taxes except ours, since we were having problems  printing.

We visited with Mom on Monday.   In the evening, Dad got in contact with someone renting a suite in the condo complex connected to Mom's care home, and arranged to move in the next day.

Tuesday, we drove in early and took a load of boxes from Ann's to Dad's.  Joan unpacked and organized the kitchen while Dad, George and John picked up some of Dad's furniture from storage.

On Wednesday, Dad and John went to Shaw at 76 Ave and 50 St to order cable for the phone.  Dad decided he didn't need internet as there is wi-fi in the condo complex.  Then we met George at the storage site and picked up another load of furniture.  After unloading, and lunch we visited with Mom for a while.

Thursday morning we checked with one of the fellows in the park to see where the Athabasca Landing Trail went from here. He told us we could go through the gate in the pasture east of the trailers, and head toward the river.  If we went for about 2 hours we would get to a really old bridge.  We didn't think we would do a 4 hour hike, but started off in the direction indicated, following along the top of river valley.  We looked down one trail into the valley, but it was quite swampy still.   A while later,  after gradually going down a bit, we came to a spot on the trail that was quite wet with no way around.   We retraced our route back to the pasture, and walked around the circumference of the pasture, past a dugout with some ducks in it.   We saw a bunny, a deer and a hawk as well.  Our walk only took us about an hour, but it was good to have a chance to walk again.