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On Friday the sixteenth we drove to Calgary.  On Saturday we stayed with Nathan's children while Nathan and Tara were busy being in charge of a Ward Party.  Bob, Orson and Liam went to the latest James Bond movie with Jeremy and family and Austen.

Sunday we went to the Cranston Ward where Lincoln, having turned 12 the day before, was ordained a Deacon.  After dinner at Edwards we returned to Lethbridge.  The weather was not bad that week  and was forcast to be warm for the following week.

We spoke about our Nova Scotia Mission at our Family Home Evening on Monday evening.

Tuesday morning it was 7 degrees C above at 7 in the morning, but by the time we got to Calgary at lunch time it was well below zero and very dreary looking.  The trees were covered with frost.

Good Weather for Puzzles

Nathan and Tara left for Las Vegas in the evening and after Bob dropped them at the airport he drove back across the city to take Liam and Orson to their pipe band practice which was across the city again..

The weather got colder as the week went by and we had some snow.

It finally warmed up on Friday afternoon and Nathan and Tara got home that night.

We arrived back in Lethbridge before noon today and the skies are blue.  It has been warmer here than in Calgary.

Storm 2

During the three weeks we have been home there have been two snow storms.  The second one started Thursday evening and it snowed all night and half the next day. 

View from the Bedroom Window

My age is starting to show.  The first Sunday I was back I signed up for some Relief Society classes and then completely forgot about it and missed them.  Last Sunday I signed up to work at the Soup Kitchen on Wednesday and when I went on Wednesday it was the wrong week.  It is coming up this week.

Nathan and family were planning to be here this week-end, but Lochlan and Matthi had strep throat and so they all stayed home in Calgary.

This morning we attended the funeral of Gerry Jensen who was a counselor in the Bishopric with Bob some years ago.

Later this afternoon Sue-anne, Darryl, Langley and Carter came and visited us.  It is so good to be back near family.

Friday in Hanna

Thursday Bob took my car for an oil change and to get the leaky tire fixed. They found that the battery was dying (and it is only eleven years old) and that one headlight wasn't working.

That evening Kennedy came over and we went to help her buy a printer for her computer.  The three of us went out to O'Sho for supper.  It was the first time we had been  there since the night before we left on our mission.

Friday we traveled to Hanna and my brothers and sister and their spouses met us there and we went to the dinner theatre and production of Grease.  It is amazing what a small community can do.  The orchestra was great and the actors did extremely well.
We stayed overnight with my brother and sister-in-law, Ross and Paulette.

Saturday we returned home.  There was fog and frozen rain all the way to Brooks where we stopped in for a short visit with my aunt.  The roads were fine the rest of the way to Lethbridge.

Edward, Jacqueline and three of their children stopped in on there way home from the Temple in Cardston.  Miranda wanted to go to O'Sho, so we went there for supper before they went back to Calgary.

Sunday we were released from our Mission.  In the afternoon we went to Taber and had supper and a visit with Sue-anne and family.

Halloween

It was very cold last night.  With the wind chill it was -8 degrees.  More "trick or treaters" than we have had for some time rang our doorbell.  They came later and the majority were teenagers.  The  last one came at 10:10.  Altogether we had 25. 

Calgary Week-end

Last week we continued unpacking etc. The plumber came and fixed the toilet.  There were several conversations with Telus in regard to our phone (the last one assuring us that the phone would be hooked up Friday.  The internet got upgraded and is working really well.  We attended an RBC lecture about fixed income investments on Tuesday at the newly renovated Sportsplex (now called the Enmax Center)  and I went to Club on Thursday and had a visit with old friends.  Friday morning we got up to get ready to head off to Calgary and found that our hot water tank had burst and the water was running on the basement floor.  After the plumber came with a new tank and got it installed we made a late start for Calgary.  Our phone was not yet hooked up.  Although the roads in town were a mess the highway was clear.

We went out for supper at Mucho Burrito with Edward, Jeremy and Nathan and their families.

Saturday evening we attended the Youth Cultural Celebration connected with the dedication of the Calgary Temple.  Six of our grandchildren performed, although it was hard to pick them out among the large number of participants.  We ran into our niece, April,   who was ushering and met one of Bob's university room-mates.

Sunday morning we watched a broadcast of the Temple Dedication at the Willow Park Stake Center.  Miranda stayed with us in the afternoon while Edward and family went to attend the last session of the Temple Dedication.

Monday morning we returned home - still no phone.

Tuesday my sister, Joan, came by for a very welcome visit.

Today there was one more conversation with Telus and our phone with our previous number was hooked up within minutes - yea!  I think they sent out a memo to all the phone solicitors.  Within the hour we got a call from Mastercard and one from Sears and they knew my name!  Did we really want a phone?

Nova Scotia Sounds Good

I think I'll go out to Alberta; weathers good there in the fall?

We arrived home on Friday evening.  Darryl, Langley & Carter visited us on Saturday after lunch and later our neighbours, the Hergets brought a treat over and in the evening Sue-anne and Taylor stopped in on their way back from a track meet in Red Deer.

At church on Sunday one of the speakers didn't show so guess who got called up?  Yes, it was Bob and I.  There are a few members of the ward we know, but a lot has changed.  

We went out to Taber to Sue-anne's for Sunday dinner.  One of our granddaughters who is going to college in Lethbridge was also there.  It was certainly good to see them all.

Yesterday we cleaned up the leaves that had drifted into our driveway.  It was cold out.  The snow began at supper time and went on into the night.  The school buses in Lethbridge are not running and our grandchildren in Taber get a snow day.  We hear it was 17 degrees C in Dartmouth yesterday.

We have been busy unpacking and finding out what we left behind (many things that we didn't remember that we had) and trying to decide where we will put things. Bob hauled 70 kilograms of old computer and photocopying equipment out to the recycling place.

Our phone was supposed to be hooked up by now (we are getting our old number back we hope) but it is not yet working.  We have no TV as yet.  Our daughter discovered that the downstairs toilet started leaking the week before we came home and the plumber who was supposed to arrive the beginning of the week hasn't made it yet.  So it is good to be home!

Home in Lethbridge

We arrived home this afternoon about 2:30 p.m.