French Friday Finale

Today is the last day of the Quebec leg of my adventure. It started with the same breakfast that I forgot to photograph. Brack departed and I did some emails to start the day. That went on longer than it should have but my responses had been delayed long enough, I wanted to keep up, or at least answer in the same week. I also knew that if I delayed a bit the rains might let up some. My first stop of the day was yesterday’s last stop. I returned to the site to walk the soybean trials, having been advised that there was good differentiation. It rained on and off and was quite muddy. I learned a lot about the plots and that my left rubber boot is no longer water tight. I had been wearing them without the insulated liners and without socks so I wiped off my dirty foot and continued on my way.

I had a bit of a drive to make before I got to the next location. I had to get from the southeast side of Montreal to the southeast side of Ottawa. There was a short stop on the side of the highway to send some emails to someone needing something and a quick lunch. I also didn’t check that toll routes were off on Google Maps and ended up taking the toll bridge. It cost me a couple bucks of my own money. I was really mad at myself for that. Settings have been updated. The site was in the Nation but back into my home province, it felt good to be back. I walked the corn and soybean trials and finished my note taking for the week. I still had another hour and a quarter or so of driving before my destination for the night.

Last stop before heading home was a short visit with Admiral Bonesaw, Dutchie and their girls. I rolled up around dinner time and offered to buy them dinner from any local spot. They opted for takeout from a new place, Iron Forge, and we called it in before enjoying a beer. The Admiral knows I like it lighter and had selected this for me. It was solid.

It was the blink of an eye before we had to go pick up the food. I’d ordered an order of Give’r Stix to start and an order of farmer wrap with fries to fill me up. The appetizer was good warm, maple syrup made it. It was a heavy feed after a long day. After the girls were sent to bed we watched a Norm MacDonald special on the Netflix. I think we all drifted off at one point or another. It ended at half nine and we shut it down. I played some MSF before powering down for the night. We didn’t get to visit that much but it was really nice to spend some time with them.