September 26, 2004

September 26, 2004

DAY 101

 

 

A nice, warm, sunny day again. How grand !

Slept very, very late. Must have drank too much wine yesterday. Did my new regular daily task of preventative maintenance. Fixed a potential problem that I found before it became a problem. Maybe this idea of preventative maintenance will prove to have merit. I sure hope so. That trip from Winnipeg to Goshen was so discouraging and demoralizing. And ... we can't afford a new truck. Did some laundry.

This afternoon Brian and Joyce Malley came over to pick us up to visit and go out for dinner. Brian and I were able to have a little chuckle over the effect his phone call to us the other day had on the Ronnie Prophet show. We walked around this campground a bit, as Brian and Joyce had never seen Rideau Acres ( and Toby wanted to go out for a walk ). They drove us to the nearby locks on the Rideau Canal, at Kingston Mills, just to walk around the pretty grounds, and chat. Then it was off to dinner at Mino's. The same restaurant we went to yesterday, but their second location, more out in the suburbs than the downtown location we went to with the Liang's. We had another very fine dinner. We talked about our new lifestyle. We talked about PET VALU store ownership. We talked about selling PET VALU stores. We talked about retirement. Brian and Joyce have one of the most successful PET VALU stores in the chain, and an adult son, Jason, running it on a day to day basis, for the most part. Time for retirement soon, perhaps.

When we returned to the trailer, Joanne and I worked out the final kinks in a marketing letter we need to deliver to the PIJAC office in Ottawa tomorrow or the next day.  Finished reading the suspense novel I started a few days ago.  Think I need to do more reading.  And fishing.  Hey ... I'm unemployed !  There's a lot of roses waiting to be smelled.

DSK