TJ North

I did make it out to the bay with my snowshoes and was rewarded with the sight of four big deer racing across the ice. Last week I followed deer tracks through the bush trails but didn’t see anything (me, great white tracker, had no idea how old the tracks were, I was just playing). I wonder if this is a family grouping that is wandering around the area? Do deer keep family groupings? I am embarrassed that I don’t know that.

Anyway, today was fun. It was a little colder than I like it, but not painful. I did have to pee in a snowbank, always tricky in snowshoes, big snowpants and a very complicated ski jacket…lol. Pierre Berton said that a true Canadian can make love in a canoe….I think peeing in a snowbank is a better test!

I bought another nike ipod thingy and yay! this one works. I will return the old one whence it came the next time I am in Toronto. I have already complained mightily to the manager there.

Loverboy is feeling lonesome and so far away. He has the flu and has no one there to listen to his symptoms, so he called me to describe them to make sure I agree with him it is the flu. I am not being unsympathetic, he does sound ill and needs to pull the blankets up over his head and stay there for a while.

I should feel very tired and I am but not in a sleepy kind of way. More in a peaceful, quiet way. Son #1 now has a job at the local doughnut shop so he is already in bed. He is mildly insulted at the level of training he has to undergo but hey, he has decided to not finish his degree (yet) and he has few marketable skills so his chocies are limited.