Welcome Joan!

Joan has now joined the family bloggers. Welcome Joan. Now that you have started, this is what I would like from you: details of what fills your days - and not only when you feel "not so good", but everything you did and things you saw outside your home. Remember, we don't get to see those things every day. Have you and Michael decided on the baby's name yet? Have you seen any exciting things you want your baby to have? What are your hopes and dreams for the new little person?
Now here is what we did in the last few days. Yesterday we travelled to Kenora, a small town in Ontario about 200 km from Winnipeg. We went with another couple (we met them on our cruise to the Panama Canal) to bottle our&their wine. Kenora has a u-brew place that we have been using since I came to Winnipeg. For some reason Manitoba doesn't allow u-brews, however it is ok to go out of province and bring the wine back. We each bottled 90 bottles, their poor Toyota Rav RV was almost dragging. It was cool and dark from clouds when we left at 8AM but by noon it was hot and muggy again, the way it has been for the last 2 weeks. We were back in Winnipeg before 4PM and invited out friends to stay for a BBQ supper of steak, large bourbon shrimp, and potato salad and coleslaw which I made the day before. It was a fun evening for all of us.
Today we were invited to a farewell luncheon for a girl that worked with Andy for CISIP. Even though he has been retired for more that 2 years, he is still included in some of their "does". They worked for a frustratingly mini-managed organization located in Ottawa, but the office here in Winnipeg had great cameraderie, maybe because the job was so frustrating. After the luncheon we ran some errants before coming home to our nice cool home. It was really hot again, but very windy today. We spent part of the afternoon putting shrink caps on our newly bottled wine and now it is nicely "filed" away in the basement. Supper consisted of left-overs: potato salad, coleslaw and cold barbequed chicken from a couple of days ago. Now Andy is watching a football game - Toronto/Montreal - on TV. I usually just watch the last half hour. That's enough for me. I need to get back to my sewing - Barb sent me a pattern for a baby bunting bag that I want to attempt.
This weekend is a "long" weekend. Karin's kids are coming on Monday to spend a week with us. Also on Monday Andra has invited us to a BBQ in honour of Andy's 65th birthday. It is on Aug. 4th. On that day just Andy and I are going to a special restaurant for dinner. We don't do presents but we do celebrate by going out.
All of the above may not sound very exciting to you, but you wanted to know about what we do, so there it is.