September 15 to 19, More bad news

SEPT. 15, Monday

It rained most of the day. Very warm too. Picked up my new laptop and worked on it most of the day. The girls did their thing


SEPT. 16, Tuesday

Sunny and warm. We went cycling to Chambly from the house. We were gone for about 3 hours. Spent the rest of the day transferring files and installing programs on the laptop. I bought a new version of QUICKEN


SEPT. 17, Wednesday

Clouds and warm. It was cool this morning so I turned the furnace on only to discover that there was no propane in the tanks.
After showering, we went to COSTCO and got both tanks filled ($28) then we drove to St-Hilaire to visit a chocolate factory. Unfortunately, it was closed but we did buy some chocolate. From here we went to a local park owned by McGill University and walked around for about an hour. We had lunch then headed back to the house. Rain in the evening


SEPT. 18, Thursday, St-Joseph Oratory

We drove to Cote-des Neige in Montreal and visited the St-Joseph Oratory. It was a project started by Brother Andre who died in 1937. It was canonized as a Saint by the Pope in 2006 when he was here. Anyway, it is a huge place and quite simple but beautiful inside. It has a church that can hold over 2200 people sitting and over 5000 standing. We also visited Brother Andre’s tomb and where they keep his heart. He was known as a people person and was known to heal. At the entrance of the church, there are hundreds of cane form people who allegedly were healed by him. Took a few pictures that can be seen on our Picasa Site (see link on left)
Came home in time to beat the 3 o’clock rush hour .


Sept. 19, Friday, MORE BAD NEWS

A cold night. It got down to -1*C, BRRRRRRRRRR!
Heard from St-Cyr...... Fleetwood did it again….they sent the wrong leg. It is shorter than the one needed. They’ve installed it anyway so we can use the rig temporarily. I called Fran at Fleetwood to let her have it in NO pleasant way. This is so ridiculous that it borders on incompetence. I was VERY, VERY angry {GRRRRRRRRR!} with her and she was very apologetic but it didn’t resolve the problem. She promised to look into it right away and she did call later in the day to inform us that the right leg was on its way and should be here Monday. (heard that one before too) She gave me the tracking number for UPS.
We decided to stay at Therese and Michel rather than take “Q” (Quantum trailer new name) back to Drummond’Ville for just a couple days.