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May 12th: If I've had the last word, the discussion wasn't really over yet. May 17th: If we are honest, most of us know very little about most things. When ego doesn't get in the way, we turn to experts, or sometimes to people we trust might be better qualified to identify true experts. The fundamental question for most of our decisions, therefore, should never be "What's the right answer?" It should be "Who do I trust, and why?" |
Mother's Day, May 13th, 2012:
The sailboat is in the water, the mast is up but I still have to put the boom and sails on and tune the shrouds. The taxes are done and paid. I completed and sent out the spring newsletter for the yacht club, the Halyard, and my tennis house league program is up and running - I'm running round robins until after the long weekend, and by then I'll have schedules made up for matches for the balance of the summer. We've reconnected with some friends, and let the rest know that we're back in town so that they can call us when they're able to. The Angola Memorial Scholarship Fund will have it's AGM in six weeks.
Yesterday Rob and Cyn made it into "the big smoke" to see The Hockey Sweater with Elisabeth. Afterward they came over to my house to see the garden Deb and I put in the day before, (plus the front flowerbeds I began last fall which are now turning out well), eat burgers and drink beer. Earlier in the day we saw Jenn briefly, and met Aiden for the first time - a lovely young lady just graduating from grade 8 and already being called upon to participate in high school musicals.
Deborah has driven the truck to Montreal this afternoon with her brother, niece and nephew in it, to visit her Mom and two sisters. I'm a bachelor until Thursday, but I have lots to keep me busy, as always - tennis, the market, jazz choir, darts, the garden, the boat(s), all of that. I'm going on Thursday morning to get "trained" as a cancer driver volunteer, and Thursday evening when Deb is back we'll go to the annual dinner of the Canadian Power and Sail Squadron, which is always a lovely dinner overlooking the marina just down the hill from us, and is free with the annual membership we pay - which isn't any more than the cost that the dinner would be on its own.
I'll add some garden photos with the next entry.