June 22, 2012
7:40 AM
Blue sky! Sunshine! Woo
Hoo!
Oh, wait. I have to
drive to Winnipeg. I hope it keeps until I get back.
10:00 PM
Heather and Jenny have
gone to their rave thing at the Pyramid. I am up-loading blogs.
I drove into Kenora
this morning to get the ATV ramps from Canadian Tire. Then I went to
the KMTS store to return the phone that didn't work out here and see
if the other was was available. I explained once again that I had
the loaner phone to see if it could pick up signal at my cabin
because my phone gets no signal out there at all. The woman checked
to see if the Northern Tel phone was in. It was not. “Ok,” she
said, “we'll just give you a call when it's in and you can come and
pick it up.”
Um. No. That will not
be possible. You can get cell service on the Amazon River. You can
get cell service on Mount Everest. But you cannot get cell service at
my cabin. And it is just so alien to everyone, that they can't
assimilate it into their world view. I have to drive at 80kms/h for
nearly an hour to get cell reception.
Anyway, made it into
Winnipeg, eventually got the quad onto the truck and made it back to
Heather's via the River and Osborne Safeway and liquor store. The
quad on the back of the Tundra is a guy magnet. It was so funny.
When we came out of the liquor store there were two groups of young
guys hanging about admiring it. They looked like they were waiting
for the owner to come back so they could be all like, “Dude...
nice.” and get into a conversation about it. But then they saw two
women in flowery dresses come along and get into the truck and they
looked totally disappointed and dispersed.
Tomorrow is a day of
shopping – electrical supplies, lighting fixtures, tools, groceries
and booze.
No, not me, I was not topless. Just speculating....
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