Well so much for a mundane life. I went to the Kiwanis meeting today as per usual on a Tuesday. It was actually a kind of fun meeting today. It is such an awesome bunch of people and we seem to be heading into our busy time...lots of projects on the go over the next few months.
Right in the middle of the meeting my phone flashed. Upon checking it was from Graeme...Monte's friend. Monte and he had driven up to Sun Peaks as Graeme had an interview at one of the hotels. I was worried enough to wonder why Graeme would be calling. So I slipped out of the meeting and answered the phone and I almost wished I hadn't.
Poor Graeme. Things just happen to Monte, catastrophic things, and poor Graeme just seems to be there to help save the day. Monte had fallen. And they didn't know if his leg was broken, or his knee displaced or just what. He was laying in the snow incapacitated, and they were waiting for the ski patrol dudes to show up. They loaded him onto a sleigh and pulled him by snowmobile, sirens and lights going, to the clinic. Eventually he was ambulanced down to the hospital in Kamloops.
After xrays etc....the long and the short of it is he has wratched his knee, torn ligaments blah blah blah. At least no breaks but this looks like at least a month long ordeal. Its all bound up and they have his leg splinted. They had to get him extra tall crutches. Hahaha...the crutches are taller than me! AND THEY CUT HIS JEANS OFF!!! Clearly they have no idea how hard it is to find 46 by 46 jeans!
So now he has taken over my kitchen recliner. I am in my purple room and Graeme and Peter are out there with him. Monte has a circle of truly amazing friends. I could adopt any one of those boys in a New York second (I think I just heard Spod rattle the lid on the bent box!) I could start up a cheap housing place for three University students here but unfortunately we don't have a reasonable transit system...in fact for TRU students its awful. It just wouldn't work.
I wrote that last night. This morning I was up super early and off to a school for an assembly. Kiwanis supports a reader program in this school and two of the Kiwanis members and myself (as the photographer) were in attendance to hand out awards to kids who read for fifteen minutes, one hundred times. The kids were also receiving merit awards. The whole thing was one giant feel good episode...all in French so I didn't understand much but the feeling was awesome. A great way to start the day!
And now Monte has been fed and watered and tripped to the john and is busy laying in bed working on his whatever on his laptop. I need to clean this house. Alice will be here at eight thirty tomorrow morning and expects a clean house. She is a really amazing housekeeper. She always shows up and she is incredibly thorough...but a wee bit expensive. Oh well.
The next couple of weeks are going to be busy ones. Seminars, dances, dinners, film fest, etc...I am having to drop my hermit persona for a while! TTYL
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