Category Archives: Day to Day

This has been a busy week and it’s not over yet.  Tomorrow am – to the OR.  Three cases.  Three off the list – unfortunately they seem to get added on at the other end of the list as fast or faster than we can get the cases done.  But no one hears much about the waiting list for dental work that needs to be done in the OR.  They have relegated us to the bottom of the heap.  Two kids and a physically/mentally challenged adult tomorrow. 

As soon as I am done there, I pick up Sara and her friend and we take off for Saskatoon.  The girls will shop I guess and I will sit in a lecture – on pediatric dentistry given by the only pediatric dentist this province has left.  And he is good.  I also appreciate the fact that when I need to consult, he will give me advice over the phone. 

Also since it is the Dental Convention I should see some of my collegues from around the province.  I hope to meat up with my counterpart in the school based dental programme in Saskatoon.  We haven’t met but we will hunt each other out tomorrow.  She is also a pediatrician.  Should be good to meet her.

Then we drive on down to Regina for the provincial finals in under 16 girls soccer.  I haven’t been to many of the games with Sara this year.  This is one I need to go to.  We are taking her best friend who is an emergency standby goalie if disaster should strike the teams regular goalie.  Lauren is very good but is just coming back from a serious knee injury and surgery last winter.  Lauren and Sara have been best friends from way back.  I sure don’t mind having to put up with the two girls. 

So I doubt that I will be blogging at all over the weekend – unless Regina has an internet cafe that I can find.   

It was a darn cold day to have a garage sale.  I wore three layers of clothes and got the mits out for the first time of the season.  No s— but drizzle and a cold wind. 

But people came.  One guy told us he had prior plans to be on the golf course but figured that garage saling was a better way to spend his Saturday morning.  Imagine that – a guy that would rather go to garage sales with his wife than freeze his buns out on the golf course! 

I don’t know how my aunnt got all the stuff we had in that garage into her one bedroom apartment.  We have about twelve baskets (oops -boxes) left over still. 

I am thinking back over my day in the solitude of the cabin at the farm.  Looking for some profound things that I can tell you.  But it was just good quiet time.  

What I enjoy most is the time to pray – no interruptions, any posture I wish before my God, knowing that for awhile it will just be him and me. He was very present but nothing enormous happened.  No visions, no spectacular revelations.  Sometimes I wish I would experience God in those ways but he seems to just be there with me.  And as to the clarity I needed on a couple of issues – well, the time was good to work through those.  Some things became more clear, others more complicated by an e-mail message when I got back home. 

So I prayed and read – mostly am reading in Matthew and Joshua right now.  And I am reading a little book I borrowed I Believe in the Holy Spirit by Michael Green. 

And I always take some music along. This time I had CD’s along but was short a few batteries to use the CD player, so spent time making my own music on the recorder.

Took the camera too.  The weather wasnt great but I got out to take a few shots.  There are lots of mushrooms around this year, thanks to all the moisture.  The camera stimulates me to study things around me more closely – to really look.   I think it makes me see things from a different perspective, to tune my eyes more to details, colour and to the beauty of shape and form.

The need to spend some time alone with God is calling me back out to the cabin at what used to be my dad’s farm.  So that is where I will be for a day.  The fall schedule is going to be full.  There are lots of concerns for me and I need some space to sort things out with God.  I expect it will be good.

What a party!  It was really cool being able to talk with other hobbas in real time.  Sometimes the fingers don’t keep up very well, so the conversation gets a bit weird. 

The first time I tried to get into the lounge, I kept getting bumped right out onto the street!  Thought they didn’t like me or something.  There were a lot of people then so maybe there was a bouncer at the door that just ejected us latecomers.  But then after doing my motherly duty and driving my daughter to exchange her too large jeans for a pair one size smaller, I decided to try and get in the lounge again – and voila. 

In the last few days two people have suggested I withhold something starting with S from a certain grumpy old man who lives in this house.

The first one to suggest it – well that will remain a secret!

Today I came home from worship practice to find this grumpy person having a strong disagreement with my youngest daughter.  You see, my grump is a TVaholic.  When he came home she was watching a movie on “his” TV — with some friends.  She couldn’t get her DVD player to run the disc.  He seemed to think she was deliberately sabotaging his evening. 

I had to agree with her assessment.  He was just being a grouch.  So two rights make a right – right?

So then she pronounces, “You should just withhold “S” from him for a month.”  This is the teenaged girl that freaks out and tells us to get a room if we exchange a kiss in the kitchen. 

I am beginning to wonder what on earth people are thinking about me! 

Good nite.  I’m off to visit the grump.

The last couple of days have been busy.  On Friday there were goodbyes said to Patrick as he left us for four months to visit his family in the Congo.  I took him and the four cases he is taking to the airport in Saskatoon and we got there a bit overwhelmed by the crowd.  They weren’t there to see us though, just Theresa, the Canadain idol wanna be.  She had lots of fans. 

All the hullabaloo down at the arrivals area left the rest of the waiting area pretty quiet.  Gave me time to send him off with prayer.  Also gave him time to visit with a friend – Omira -a very tall and slender girl from Nigeria. She is also a francophone so that is how they met and struck up a friendship. 

Then off to see the new house my son and his wife are moving into this weekend.  Cute place – neighborhood is a bit seedy but they have a good tall fence.  It will be nice for them and their animals.  Beautiful hardwood floors.  And affordable.  Housing costs are higher in Saskatoon than here.

Somewhere along the way I picked up a screw in my back tire.  Someone honked at me and pointed this out and I was able to let my son do the manly thing and change it for me.  Honestly don’t think I’ve had to change a tire since he was about 5.  For some things a man is indispensable.  Well OK I could do it if I had to!

Then lunch with my daughter.  We went to one of our favorite places – The Pacific Gallery – for a quick lunch before she had to get to work and I had to hit the road for PA.  Got back just in time to have coffee with Randall.  Back to our Friday coffee chats.  I needed that.  Fall routines are starting up again and some routines are good.  

Busy day at work.  The day goes fast when all the patients come and there is no time to sit around and think about the time. 

Patrick came by and borrowed the car to do some last minute things.  He leaves tomorrow and I am driving down to Saskatoon to send him off.  He will of course be leaving with several additional bags.  The one I am sending is packed with repair parts for the dental units, replacement bulbs, etc.  The guys out in the Congo need more stuff but my pocketbook only goes so far.  I hope the really necessary things are here in the case I’m sending. 

The month since I returned from the Congo seems to have gone so fast.  There is still much to tell about the trip and I don’t seem to have time to just sit down and write it out.  I haven’t even gotten all the pictures I wanted to up in the galleries. 

Maybe it is a good thing Christian will not be leaving for a while yet – another opportunity to send things out with him for the dental office and send some stuff out to my friends there too.  IU was hoping to get some pictures ready to send and that just hasn’t happened.  I need more hours in my days.

I wandered around a bit on the web tonight, linking to some people who are linked to people whose blogs I read fairly regularly.  I usually end up enjoying these connections.  Tonight I ran across one that I will visit and revisit:  The Main Point by Michael Main. 

He says he is an inconsequential sage.  I disagree.  I think he has a lot to say that is quite consequential.  If you feel like reading some wise words, I would suggest a visit.

I think we are all getting a little stressed out over the move of my aunt coming up soon.  We have to move her on Sept 1.  My son and wife are also moving that week.  Then there is the fact that all of us seem to be extra busy at work right now.  The week of the move, I will be on call.  And school starts and my brother is a teacher. 

Anyways, I guess we are all tired and need to move to be done.  Then there will be the garage sale a couple of weeks later.  And all the pricing and stuff that goes with that. 

Anyone want to buy some really lovely teacups?  Figurines or other trinkets?  Or how about the piano – yeah especailly the piano – then we wouldn’t have to find a place to store it till it is sold.  Or move it. 

More big news – Resonate has launched.  Should be interesting.  So I read over at Randall’s blog that everyone is getting together at 7 pm on Sept. 1 at the Resonate Lounge to watch a duck ?? and to maybe see Jordon do a little dance???  And what will I be doing?  Moving boxes probably.  Feeling sorry that I can’t be there.  Am I jealous?  Maybe just a little teeny weeny bit!