Friday

It was a nice day and I started with a bike ride with the guys.  There were 6 of us this morning and as we approached the place where the donkey is and she saw Gary, the braying started.  That animal is louder than you can imagine and was in the bush already at the fence watching for him.  He didn't have carrots today, rather had a couple of apples.  It was funny because the donkey would only eat a bit at a time, so Gary cut it into slices and it went better that way.  It's pretty smart because we pass by on the way back and it doesn't expect anything or make any noise on our return trip.  Larry keeps saying Gary has made a friend for life and I think that may be the way it is.
  Marg did some vacuuming on the outside rugs as they get lots of fuzz and stuff on them.  She uses my shop vac for this stuff as it will pick up the leaves and weeds that blow in here.  While she was doing this I took my compressor and brad nailer over to Stan's place.  He had a piece of trim that kept coming loose and wanted to try fastening it with brads.  He had it all marked out and ready to nail down, so we will see how that works out. 
  Then Marg went to water aerobics and they had a bit smaller group today.  She actually likes that better because it gives them more room to thrash around in the various routines.  The best part is, before she went down to the pool, she made me a sandwich for lunch and left it on the counter here. Now that was pretty thoughtful.
  I ate and then went off to Encanto to play golf with Gerry.  He had a tee time just after 1 PM and it was just starting to get hot when we went out.  Fortunately there was a breeze blowing, so it didn't really feel like 87 degrees in the sun today.  We were paired with a couple of guys from the west end and the game went pretty well, with 2 birds and a par on the front 9 for me and that was still only 46, so the bad holes were quite bad.  The back nine was not quite that good and it was a bit backed up so the other 2 guys went for beer instead.   Traffic home was lighter than normal, but there were a couple of wrecks that caused some delays.

   In the afternoon Marg viewed the video of Haylee's speech [it was quite moving] and then had a walk around the park. She made the classic error of walking inside the fence and in this case that meant 2 hours to walk the park, with all the visits she had enroute.  When she got back she my supper, pork chops, vegetables and potatoes in the slow cooker.  My supper was great, very thoughtful of her to do that for me.  Then she went with a bunch from the park here for supper.  It started out as a few folks going for fish and chips and ended up being 29.  He had it all set up with a reservation, even though they don't take reservations there, the smooth talker got it all set up.  They had the all-you-can-eat cod and it was good as usual.  They were in the back where there is a singer and as luck would have it this was at happy hour, so they had bargain priced drinks.  Sounds like they had a lot of fun with the girls making a fuss over Kenny and got some funny pics.  It made for lots of laughs and he enjoyed the attention.   Lots of folks stopped by to tell me about the fun they had and a few of them stopped in and had a beer with us. 
  We heard from Proulx's and will be getting together with Evelyn & Richard for a couple of days next week.  They are in Sun City West right now after driving down with Richards sister and her husband.  It was unfortunate that Doug's mother died just after they left, so they flew back to Edm for the funeral, but Richard & Evelyn are pretty resourceful and will make out just fine.