Our Location today is McGregor, Ontario,
Canada.
Even though we were in bed
shortly after the 11 o’clock Local News
last night we managed to sleep late this morning. Probably as a result of all
the Errands, Appointments and the Stress over
our upcoming Trailer Repairs. We both
woke once through the night but neither of us heard the rain that covered
everything outside this morning.
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| Slightly cloudy skies this morning. |
The advantage of today’s
appointment was it was after lunch so with our sleeping later it didn’t really
matter. We had our breakfast at the table and drank our Coffees at the Computers but
we had to head out the door minutes after 11:00 so our reading was limited.
With the near summer like temperatures expected for today we had no problem dressing
for the warmth.
Heading in the direction of
Tecumseh
the first thing we needed to do was to stop at the Pioneer gas station to gas up
the car. Even though the prices had gone up due to the Hurricanes temporarily shutting down the Oil Refineries the price was under a $1.20 a liter.
Continuing up Manning Road the construction at the intersection of the Expressway
is continuing but with the paving taking place today only One-Way traffic was allowed. It was nearly noon when we stopped at Dairy Queen to
have our lunch. Where else can you buy a Grilled
Chicken Wrap with Fries, a Soda and an Ice Cream Sundae dessert all for $6.00. We took our time eating and freshened up before leaving.
Kathy’s appointment was for
1:00 at the Family
Footcare in Tecumseh but we made certain to
get there before to deal with the customary paperwork. Terry the Pediatrist took Kathy in at 1:00 and
was able to take care of the problem that Mary from Healthy Heals had not been able to do. She also issued a Prescription that will hopefully help
prevent any Bacterial Growth which
is something more common with people suffering from Diabetes. When we walked out twenty minutes later Kathy’s feet were
feeling much better.
Having a few more errands
to run our next stop was the Zehrs grocery store on Manning Road. We were able to
get more things we had forgotten to add to our previous shopping lists.
We stopped to check out the
Terry Fox
Run Used Book Store that we had
never seen before. Canadian readers will recognize the name of a young Canadian Athlete
that was diagnosed with Cancer and
the only thing the doctors could do to save his life was to Amputate his leg. After recovering from
surgery Terry Fox was fitted with a Prostatic
Leg. Grateful for being given a second chance at life Terry thought he
could bring Cancer Awareness to the
forefront in everyone’s lives. The way he set out to do this was he planned to
run from the West Coast of Canada to
the East Coast raising money for Cancer Research along the way. Terry
was over halfway across the country when he became severely ill. Rushed to a
hospital they found the Cancer had
come back with a vengeance and soon claimed Terry’s life but not his spirit. Canadians were so inspired that every year since the Terry Fox Run is celebrated in
September and all monies raised goes to Cancer
Research here in Canada.
While we were there we saw Dave,
who used to work in the same plant that I did until it was closed. He
volunteers at the Bookstore that is only open for business three
days per year. The Building and Utilities are all donated as are all
the volunteers time. All monies raised from this are also donated to the Terry Fox Run
Cancer Research.
The store wasn’t open today
but we had a good talk. Dave and his wife are Snowbirding RVers and have been heading to Arizona for the last few years
so there’s a good chance he’ll be knocking on our door somewhere around Quartzsite this
winter.
We made a stop at the Tecumseh
Dollarama looking for some special
way of wrapping those Birthday Gifts
we purchased the other day. We were surprised that they had relocated into a
much larger and more convenient location. That gave us a chance to do a bit
more walking which was something we both needed.
Heading back to McGregor
we had to detour around the Shopping Plaza
in order to go around the Construction
on Manning
Road. We didn’t spend much time at the trailer except to put the few
groceries we had away.
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| Our little visitor. |
As we were heading back out
we enjoyed watching a rabbit eating the Clover
from our grass. They are starting to get so used to us they don’t even run
off.
Our first stop in Amherstburg was
Pharma Care to fill the Prescription
issued today. While waiting we noticed some chocolate bars with different
names. Like what Coke-a-Cola did by
putting people’s names on their containers this had things like GRUMPY, IRRITABLE and five others as a joke. We bought a couple to give as
gifts.
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| Clouds thickening over the Detroit River. |
Still dodging Amherstburg construction we stopped at Walmart where we got a couple of
cases of Bottled Water, a gallon of Distilled Water for our CPAP Machines, some Febreze Antibacterial Spray and a small
Fruit Tray for an evening snack.
It was now past 5:00 so we
headed to the local McDonalds where we each had one of their Sweet Chili Signature Wraps for
supper.
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| These are supposed to be the last of Hurricane Irma. |
It was after 5:30 when we
arrived at our son Kevin and daughter-in-law Melissa’s for our weekly visit.
Melissa had some sliced Banana Cake
set out as a snack so combined with the Fruit
Tray we’d brought it was like a small feast. They also had a big laugh at
the names on the Chocolate Bars we
gave them. We had our usual enjoyable visit and we found out that our kids are
now RV Owners. Kathy was happy to
volunteer my services whenever Kevin needs to do any repairs or modifications
to their Travel Trailer.
With the Sun setting so early we drove back Home
in the dark. With Rain forecasted in
the morning we’ll get some phone calls made. With the next Five days looking beautiful I’ll be getting a bunch of things
accomplished outside. Thanks for following along and feel free to leave a comment. Be Safe
and Enjoy!
It’s about time.
Krackers
You Might Be a Redneck If
You don't speak to your brother because he drives a
Toyota.
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