Live from Parry Sound, it’s the South Channel Blog. We finally arrived and unpacked, and it’s good to be here. The temperature right now is a comfortable 17.5°C (64°F) under mostly clear skies. We didn’t finally get out of Rochester until after noon and everyone is bushed from a longer than normal trip (7 hours including stops), and then shopping for groceries, getting water, and hauling our gear up into the cottages. Most of the troops have gone to bed, as I will soon. As we drove our stuff up the hill, we saw a small brown rabbit race up the road in front of us, being lighted by Baby Huey’s headlights. Of course, Courage the dog took off in hot pursuit. Later, we saw the rabbit again up near our smaller cottage. Once again, Courage was on top of things, but we quickly discouraged his interest. We regularly see a lot of other wildlife here on the island, but I don’t really remember seeing a lot of rabbits around. I wonder if it has something to do with the place being “dog-free” for a while.

Johanna called earlier and said that Dad’s condition is most the same. He still has a rash that the doctors can’t identify, but Dr. Shelley, the infectious disease physician, is taking a special interest in figuring it out. Tomorrow, the ICU staff will be trying to lower the PEEP setting on Pop’s ventilator to 14 to continue the process of weaning him off needing artificial respiration. Go Pop! Have a good night.