A Chilly Start, a Hospital Visit & a Beautiful Evening

4 degrees upon waking — brrr! Fall is definitely in the air currently, although next week looks like it will be better. I made us coffees, including one for Shaina, as I got Thursday's family history blog published.

She and I went out to the garage, where she painted a knife block I did years ago, choosing a shade of green for its new look. She was then off to the city to meet Kaylin and attend a warehouse clothing sale.

Matt went back home for a few days so Shaina has had Lexi for company, here are a few photos she sent of their time together. She also had more photos and videos from last night so you might want to pop back and check them out.

Lexi walks a little slower these days but she still gets out there

Jarrod had come to the city yesterday to Foothills to see his cardiologist, who decided to keep him overnight and do further testing and repairs. After chatting with him today, S wanted to go for a visit.

We jumped in the car and headed to town, stopping to grab Opa for lunch and eating it at Britt’s while I fed and scratched Gulliver. Then it was off to Calgary to visit Jarrod at Foothills. He is waiting to have a couple of new stents put in, hopefully today yet.

After saying goodbye, we stopped to visit the Boysis family. As always, there was lots of entertainment from Princess Rennie and her imagination.

She greeted us at the door with a "perprise"

The sun was starting to peek through in spots, so we attempted to stop and fill the car with gas at Costco. It was $1.479 there compared to $1.699 elsewhere in the city, and diesel was $2.349! But the line was sooooo long that it was a hard pass.

I was dropped at the doors and got in the return line while S parked and joined me, holding our place as I ran and got us our favourite sundaes, did the returns and headed east.

Shaina and Shannon were just catching the horses to head out for a ride. S filled the car from our tank while I painted Shaina’s knife block with a second coat. Pizza was in the oven, and by now the sun was out in full force, making for a beautiful evening after a high of 12 today.

The girls had a round ponying Mac, then tied her to the other hitching post and took off for a wind-in-our-hair round. We ate pizza as S watched the Alberta rematch football game and I worked on today’s blog.

I fed Hank his supper while Mac was tied up. Once the girls were back from their speedy ride, they unpacked and took Mac inside to give her day two of her dewormer. They were then in for a visit and some pizza before Shannon set off for her parents after 8:30, and Shaina loaded Lexi up and headed home before 9.

S and I then watched Solo Mio, which was cute. We started a documentary called Before The Sun- about a Siksika girl competing in Indian relay races, but S fell asleep, waking occasionally to watch a few minutes before drifting off again.

I enjoyed it, especially seeing all our local scenery. It was a chilly start to the day, but thankfully the sun came out and gave us a beautiful evening to finish it off.