May 31, 2005

May 31, 2005

West Hawk Lake day 14 of 113

DAY 348

 

Today was sunny and very warm. We spent the day in Winnipeg.

After getting ourselves ready this morning, we left for Winnipeg. It's an hour and a half drive. We stopped at PET VALU in Southdale to buy Teddy some hairball treats. He's been a little ill the last few days, suffering from a hairball blockage. We ran out of his hairball treats a few weeks ago, and haven't gotten around to buying more. I guess he really does need hairball medication on a regular basis. PET VALU didn't have what we wanted. We went to Carlson's to have lunch. We waited in the porch for Lorri to return from picking Madeleine up from Kindergarten. When Lorri and the girls arrived, Lorri and Joanne went to the kitchen to make lunch, I went online to retrieve e-mail and update my blog, and the girls played with Bo. He's really quite good with children. We had lunch, then we all walked Amelia to her pre-school afternoon. After getting Amelia into pre-school, we walked back to Carlson's, said goodbye to Lorri and Madeleine, and headed off for a day of shopping and errands.

First stop was Goodall Rubber in St. James where I bought some rubber material to rebuild the dually mud flap. Then over to Foam Solutions to begin comparison shopping for a new memory foam mattress for Harvey. Our inner spring mattress needs to be replaced soon, and I'm inclined to replace it with a high quality foam mattress. Next on to Staples for some office supplies, then a linen store called JYSK for some new cushions and cushion covers for the sofa in the trailer. They didn't have what we wanted. We stopped at a Best West Pet Foods looking for hairball treats for Teddy. They didn't have any either. Finally, Wal-Mart for supplies. We decided to stop looking for hairball treats for Teddy and just buy him the hairball medication at Wal-Mart. We drove back across the city during rush hour. We drove down Broadway to see the Bears On Broadway displays. This is a cancer fund raiser. Huge concrete bears all along Broadway, each painted differently by local artists. They were very interesting. We had seen a special section in the weekend newspaper about this Bears On Broadway project.

We continued driving through the city, and out to the east, to Lorette. We had supper with Sharon & Bud, then visited briefly in their back yard. We left there at 7:30 and were back at the trailer atWest Hawk at 9:00 P.M.. First thing we did was give Teddy some of the new hairball medication. He took it quite willingly. He's resisted hairball medications in the past, so that's why we've given him hairball treats instead. We unloaded and put away today's purchases, then I worked on today's accounting and journal entry.

Teddy seems to be feeling a bit better tonight.

DSK