I awoke in a strange bed this morning. I looked to my right and my wife lay there sleeping peacefully. I was thankful that my dreams were only echos of my imagination. I extracted myself from her embrace and went in search of coffee. We stayed at our other place at Big White last night after a nice bonfire with friends. It was the first time we had ever stayed in this condo and I felt slightly unnerved waking up Read more…
It was a beautiful day today, the warmest day of the year so far. It was a great day to go to Big White. We needed to go to Big White to check out my place and get it ready to rent or sell. We needed to figure out what to do, It had been rented out seasonally for the past three years. Too bad covid came along and messed up real estate. Everything seemed alright because the sunshine was Read more…
Days are getting longer as spring is now in full bloom. The weather forecast for this weekend is for warm temps and sunshine. Yesterday they had snow at Big White.. We decided to delay our journey up for some nicer weather. We had hoped to have a campfire with some friends and snow is definitely not conducive to sitting by a fire. Things are getting busier on the roads. Traffic is still light but we can tell everyone is out Read more…
Dreams flowed through my brain. I hovered on the edge of sleep, trying to stay in my dreams. Sleep escaped me and I awoke to my current reality. I climbed out of my dream and out of bed. I walked down the stairs and wiped the sleep from my brain to see the rain bouncing off the glass table on our patio. It was time to grind my coffee beans and start my day. I was supposed to work outside Read more…
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…