Cinco de Mayo today. A Mexican day hi-jacked by Americans and Canadians to celebrate Mexican heritage. It isn’t even much of a big deal in Mexico but here it is used primarily as an excuse to drink Margharitas and Cervesa. It is also usually the first nice day to hang out outside with friends drinking and eating Mexican food. This year like many other things the celebration would prove to be rather subdued. I have been thinking about a dear Read more…
Warm breezes caress her face like a feather floating slowly to the earth. She arises with the changing weather greeting the dawn with a tender embrace. The sun rising earlier and with each moment the earth begins to grow. The ground warming, snow melting, to the valley, her precious water begins to Read more…
My wonderful daughter went home to her mother’s today. I am sad to see her go. I hugged her tight and gave her a goodbye kiss as I left into the beautiful sunny morning. I felt very lucky to get a day of work today, yet I found it hard to get myself out the door. My drive across the bridge was busier than I have seen in sometime and I felt as though people are very much starting to Read more…
Sunday morning again. We awoke with heavy heads from our social distance fire the night before. It felt like a small price to pay to have had some social connections with our friends. It was nice to see our neighbours around a fire. Sitting far apart was better than not seeing each other at all. I am an extrovert so the last six weeks have been difficult. Many provinces in Canada have decided to start to open things up this Read more…
Today was a beautiful day to arise from the deep slumber that had taken hold of me. Saturday I think. We started our day looking to see if fuzzy face was on TV. Apparently he had taken the day off. Slapshot was on TV. I was so desperate for hockey that I decided to record it. Slap shot staring Paul Newman as a young man, a classic hockey film from the seventies. The Hansen brothers were anti-hero’s in the classic Read more…
Family. Family, the longest one word sentence I know. I have been blessed by my good fortune when it comes to family. I was not born into wealth; I was born into turmoil that was calmed in a storm of emotions that I cannot fully comprehend. I will never really know the feelings that went through my birth parents when they let me go Fifty years ago. Fifty years ago the world was a very different place. Adoption was a Read more…
Road trip! A small semi-road trip, but a road trip day none-the-less. Big White was our destination. It was time to check on our place at the mountain. My first problem I faced was getting my darling daughter out of bed and in the truck with me for the trip. We managed to roll out the door at 9:00 am. I was looking forward to some one on one time with my wonderful kid. Sunshine brightly lit our way as Read more…
Wow! We are at the end of April! The strangest April of my life. The strangest April of all our lives. It has been a good month to stay at home and de-clutter our lives. Yard work, gardening, everyone seems to be outside and getting things done. Luckily the weather has been very mild and rain has been very scarce. Captain Rob showed up today and we started to get our boat ready. If they let us, Luxury Lake Tours Read more…
I have written an entry a day for thirty-six days. Thirty-six days of my observations, my adventures, such as they have been, in the coronaverse. Things have really settled down and we can sense that people have adapted; a new normal is being created. I turned the TV on; our fuzzy faced PM is there again this morning. I am tired of this TV show, another episode of hand out the Canadian dollar. We are in a routine and I Read more…
Our world is adapting and connecting in this time of pandemic. Pandemic does sound like panic. The panic stage has ended and we all are ready for things to go back to a more normal situation. Dr Tam says full normal is still a long ways off. Opening things up does seem like an option that is much closer than it has been for a while. Quebec has announced elementary school and daycare will open in May. Saskatchewan and Ontario Read more…