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new summer tires

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I finally have new summer tires for the T&C.

I decided to go with Kirks for new rubber.  They corrected an error by K1z Auto and Gary Moe Chrysler (the annoying rattle in the rear end), new brakes all around, new winter tires, and other stuff.  They seem to know their stuff.

My last tires were pretty badly worn.  Floyd got some service done on his vehicle.  They said he needed new tires.  I compared his to mine, and he had three times the tread that I did.  Oh my.

Bird electric scooter

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It seems we have a new rental electric scooter company in town.  Anybody hear of Bird?

The last company, Neuron, had bright orange scooters – rattly things that were like a tank version of a scooter.  (I’ve never actually rented one, but I heard others talk about them.)

Now we have Birds.

hawk

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While whizzing along on my scooter, something caught my eye.  It was a bird on a light standard.  It was hard to make out detail way up there, looking against the sky, but Floyd later identified it from pictures as a hawk.

This was right on the edge of the coulee, so (s)he was most likely waiting for lunch.

target practise with Glenn’s pellet rifle

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Long ago, when Glenn was alive, I offered to buy his pellet rifle from him.  It was used, but I made him a pretty good offer.  He said ‘no’.

Fast forward many years.  Glenn has been gone for many years now.  I have inherited his pellet rifle.  …  Maybe this is why he said ‘no’ – he knew it was a piece of crap.

I printed out a bullseye target and shot at it inside the garage.  I followed various instructions found online.

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arrived at Moose Jaw

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I had to help a student (unscheduled, without pay, I might add!), create homework for another, post tutoring session records online, and pay bills (online) before I could leave.  I finally left Lethbridge about 12:30pm.

Moose Jaw seems like a nice place.  It’s a small city of just under 34,000 (4th largest in SK).  After putting my bags in the hotel, I wandered the streets looking for a) some food and b) a beer.

Here are some pics.

 5/10/2024  8:22 PM       823430 AB, SK 20240508_191434 streets and buildings, Moose Jaw, SK.jpg
 5/10/2024  8:23 PM       692768 AB, SK 20240508_192112 streets and buildings, Moose Jaw, SK.jpg
 5/10/2024  8:23 PM      1002959 AB, SK 20240508_192114 liquor store, Moose Jaw, SK.jpg
 5/10/2024  8:23 PM       776188 AB, SK 20240508_192122 streets and buildings, Moose Jaw, SK.jpg
  5/8/2024  7:21 PM      4496314 AB, SK 20240508_192153 Victory Church (no perfect people), Moose Jaw, SK.jpg
 5/10/2024  8:24 PM      1642716 AB, SK 20240508_192406 streets and buildings, Moose Jaw, SK.jpg
  5/8/2024  7:26 PM      3357405 AB, SK 20240508_192656 Temple Garden Hotel & Spa.jpg
  5/8/2024  7:30 PM      2911284 AB, SK 20240508_193046 Pile O' Bones Space Cadet IPA.jpg

I went to the hot spring pool area sometime after 8pm with a few hours to spare (closed at 11pm).  I wish I had my camera then.  The sky was cloudy, and the weather cool (maybe 10°C), but it had stopped raining.  There were mostly seniors and Natives there.  The water and scenery was really nice.  A woman there was reading a book.  I decided to go get mine in my room, providing a cool-down break from the hot water.

drivin’ back to Sask (not Saskatoon)

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I’m on my way back to Saskatchewan again.  This trip, I’ll stay at a hot springs hotel & spa called Temple Garden in … you’ll never guess … Moose Jaw, SK!  Sound fun?  Dang rights!  Floyd suggested that, when I go back again to pick him up after seeing his family members and visiting with his sister, I should stop off for one night at Temple Garden.  It’s a hot spring of some kind.  So that’s where I’m headed.

On the way there, when the rain storm clouds began to dissipate, I could see an eerie orange building on the horizon, way out there.  As I drew closer,

…it turned out to be a large elevator, not alien construction of a space / time portal hidden in plain sight, as one would naturally presumed.  (Unless aliens are running the wheat industry now…)  It in fact is just painted, presumably, their corporate colours.

I also found a nice house to buy, central to everything, near a restaurant (at which I have eaten once several years ago).

A fixer-upper.  I’m good at that.

They also have a casino – the hotel, not the wooden house  above – but I likely won’t darken their doors.  Not my thing.  I prefer expected, predicable value for my money.

More when I get there.

(BTW – for those of you not from Western Canada, Runnin’ Back to Saskatoon by The Guess Who)