Happy 153rd birthday to our great country. I am proud to call myself Canadian; today more than ever. We have succeeded in controlling the pandemic within our borders, of ‘flattening the curve’. I don’t always agree with our fuzzy-faced Prime Minister, I am proud of the people of this country for coming together apart and keeping our viral enemy at bay. So a happy birthday to Canada is in order on the grandest scale. Unfortunately, there would be no grand-scale Read more
Traffic is back, busy, constant moving, traffic. Phase three has opened the floodgates and we now have heavy traffic on our roads again. Red plates from Alberta have started to fill our highways, it is another sign of normal again. I envy my wife who can stay home and work. I had to go to work across town and the traffic has built back to pre-covid levels. In Canada, we did what the health officials suggested and now things are Read more
Our cat followed us on our walk today; she is getting lonely. We have traveled a bit in the last three weeks. I can’t imagine how she would have felt if we went away for twenty-six days to Europe like we planned on. Snowbee cried as we walked back up our hill from the mailbox. She can get very demanding for a cat. Snowbee and Gabby are our two feline family members. Snowbee was named Snowball when she wandered into Read more
Strange random dreams teased my sleep. I awoke in the darkness, in a strange room, an uneasy feeling seeped inside. Time was an illusion; we had no clock and no light. Awareness dawned on my consciousness. We had no coffee. I lay there in a state of awakening nerves and body. I wanted to return to sleep and hope for my dreams to return. In my dream, I didn’t need coffee. In reality, I don’t need coffee, but like a Read more
We awoke to sunshine and clear skies. The wind had died in the night and it looked like it was going to be a beautiful day in paradise. I fired up the computer and saw the storm warnings. Thunderstorms were forecast for the Okanagan Valley. I knew that I needed to put the boat on the lift. Today we were heading up to Big White. Jon Bos was playing at the Globe Patio! Excitement filled us, we looked forward to Read more
We cut across the waves, the swells were deep and the bow broke heavily through the troughs. Water crashed over the helm and soaked my shirt. Adrenaline rushed through my veins as we headed for shelter from the wind. I trusted my boat and my skill, yet fear was there on the edges of awareness. I turned toward the boat slip but knew that was not an option this evening. We would need to seek temporary shelter from the onrushing Read more
Morning came early today; again. I would like to be a morning person, I am just not very good at it. I picked up the engineer and we grabbed a coffee. Today we went to work in Ktown, we needed to get a good start; the engineer had a plane to catch. We stepped out onto the roof and were greeted with a wall of heat. The roof was basking in Okanagan sunshine and the heat of the summer sun Read more
Morning came calmly into my mind as I emerged from the depths of a dream. Covid was a dream and in the real world, we were in Europe on our way driving up the Rhine River from Holland to Switzerland. We were in the midst of an amazing trip of a lifetime to celebrate 50 spins around the sun. Unfortunately, I woke up to the cold reality of the coronaverse. We were not going to Europe and our trip was Read more
We awoke to a modern tragedy today. The internet was down! My wife would have a hard time working and I would have a hard time going to my Tuesday Zoom meeting. First world problems abounded and we felt out of sorts, lost. I had just experienced life without internet and I felt ok, it was still strange losing the connection we all have come to rely upon. Good things come from tragedy, I know losing the internet is by Read more
Home and back to work again today. Traffic was surprisingly light crossing the bridge as I cruised to my destination on my bike. Life felt normal after my escape to the Kootenays. I yearned for that simplicity yet I fear the disconnection it brought. I was on another roof overlooking Okanagan Lake. I felt thrilled with the fortune of living in such an amazing place. After a few days off the grid, I felt recharged. I felt like life is Read more