After Friday night in Buffalo and a trip to wegmans in the am, we crossed the border, picking up our day 1 and day 8 test kits on the way through. The Red Cross wasn't able to do our tests due to some technical difficulties.
The CBSA fellow was quite chatty, not at all interested in all our worldly goods, more dealing with the covid related entry process. He asked how long we were staying and I said September or October. He said that we can stay as long as we want but he has to record something :).
Later that afternoon at the cottage we did our zoom covid tests and packaged them up. Pickup is something else. I've spent as much time on the phone trying to get these darn test kits picked up than the drive from Buffalo. Switch Health / Purolater uses a third party to do the pickup right here. I volunteered a neighbor to take them to town but no, special covid procedures.
However … that's done and then we'll do it again for day 8.
Since then, Sandy has been gardening and I've been doing minor projects outside. Brush cleanup, water pump install, fallen-over small tree removed, birch brush removed from water out front, some weed whacking, etc etc.
Inside I've had rusa work and work with a frame builder re new frame. Measuring measuring measuring. I still have no idea re timing. I'm looking at stainless steel. In the meantime, I'm sourcing parts to build the new one from scratch. Some parts I already have but need another brake, stem, bars, seatpost, shifters (just ordered those). I've got a headset but would rather keep that as spare. I'd have to either do assembly here or send him the headset. It seems that the Chris King headsets are another thing out of stock. I might have to do some cheap compromises.
I had some parts in hand because I was going to replace worn parts but not things like seatpost.
True north is looking more and more doubtful. I've exchanged a few emails with Hugh and he's not in good shape. Brain fuzz, headaches, lost employees, I don't know for sure that he's going to be back in the saddle, so to speak, anytime soon.
Kim just left in our car to pickup some milk. She has both dogs with her. Polly has 1%. Buchanan's only has what they term "regular" milk, and of course I had to ask … that would be 2%. I guess that we are irregular people.
While I was typing this the government of Canada called but the lady couldn't pull up our information and said that someone would call back. With the pause on the line, I thought that it was a junk call.
Onward. I guess that this is day 5.
From my iwdt
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