A weekend gone already. It feels as if it was six hours shorter than usual, not one hour.

Went to Max's funeral yesterday in Calgary. It was a good one. There were sure lots of people there. Again I was amazed at all the parts of a person's life that come together at their funeral. Her family said she had been at a funeral last Saturday and on the way tripped and hit her head. Carried on in for the funeral but had a headache that night and died. They also said she had been doing really well lately, had had her bridge club at her place and had got her son to take her to the casino. So it was all a shock for them. It was good to see Heather and Maxine, Barb's daughter, and Tara, one of Barb's granddaughters who is going to school in Calgary. And of course all the Larsons.

The roads were good on Saturday and it was nice and warm in Calgary but is sure cold here now. The wind started howling last night and has been blowing all day. But no new snow.

Looks like Barb will be coming up here sometime next week for a visit. It works out well that Geoff is available to go get her when she's done her visiting in Calgary. We haven't seen her since May.

Geoff had an appointment in Red Deer on Friday afternoon so I took the time off and went with him, then we went looking at bathroom fixtures. We are going to get some dual flush toilets, the town will give you a quite healthy rebate if you replace your old ones. Geoff has been doing the research and we saw some nice plumbing stuff. There seems to be no limit to what you could spend. On Saturday after the funeral we went to Ikea to look at kitchens. We are thinking of putting in kitchen cupboards in Jack's and Ikea's prices are reasonable. Plus you can see them all installed. So we did all that shopping on the weekend and we didn't buy a thing. So much for kick-starting the economy.