Tuesday

  Happy birthday Daniel, 14 already, wow.  Hope you had a good day even with all that is going on. 
  Started the day off with a bike ride.  There were 4 of us today and we rode up Foothills and could hear the donkey when we were within a block of him.  I'm not sure if he was calling us or could sense Patrick and his carrots.  He sure is loud when he gets going.  It was a nice day to ride, but I cut off after about 3 1/2 miles today.  Not sure whether I have a head cold or my sinuses are reacting badly to whatever is in the air here.  Anyway it can't pass soon enough for me.
  Marg did some laundry steaming this morning. While we were out in the breezeway a couple of different times people came by to tell her about a baby born to the son of a good friend.  In fact back in November, Marg had said she would put together a shower for the new baby as it is their son's first child and their first grandchild together.  It was the source of most of the conversation this morning.
  After lunch I went for a haircut.  The barbershop is on Power road, so Marg came along and I dropped her at Burlington Coat / Ross's for some retail therapy.  The shop wasn't too busy so the wait wasn't bad.  The topic of the day was still the big Super Bowl game and how the Patriots came back from the big deficit and the collapse of the Falcons defense.  Well that pretty much exhausts my talking points on it.  On the way back I had to stop in at Walmart to get an airtime card for Marg's cell phone.  It had lots of minutes, but only 3 service days left.  We generally let it expire and then just get a new SIM card and add minutes when we get here.  The only negative is the phone number changes from year to year.
  Supper tonight was a bbq steak and some shrimp.  For a change we had potato pancakes for with our vegetable and meal.  It was actually pretty darn good and something we will likely do again in the future.  As luck would have it there was still enough of the pistachio dessert to round out the meal.
  After Marg went to bingo.  This is probably the first time I have missed, but just didn't feel up to it tonight.  I guess they had a good crowd tonight, but that didn't work out in her favour and her winning streak came to an end.  After she got back we had a facetime with Daniel.  What a thoughtful boy, they took subs up to the hospital to share with his mother, as it is one of her favourite things.