So how many household moves have you made in your lifetime? It’s been 11 for Gary and me since we married in 1968. Each one has been a major challenge with all the details and changes to look after. This week we brought my sister and her husband down from Thornbury, west of Collingwood, to live in their lovely new seniors’ residence unit about five minutes from our...

“That’s going to be so cute when it is finished!” I exclaimed to Gary. We have been watching the restoration of our neighbour’s little historical run-down cottage across the street from us in Churchville over the past few months. When it is completed, another smaller cottage nearby will be restored as well. There are numerous details that have had to be attended to...

A fox came to church a couple of weeks ago. That is, we spied a cute, reddish-brown fox jogging along the side of a nearby building headed in our direction. We had just arrived in the Swiss Chalet parking lot for our Sunday service and were ready to take our gear out of our car into the restaurant’s back room where we meet. Foxes are known to be sly because of their...

“She’s incredible!” I declared to Gary.  We were looking in awe through our front living-room window at Mother Robin who was working extremely hard at building a nest.  She had decided to put it on the top of one of our porch posts just underneath the ceiling.  Father Robin, of course, stood on guard in the sumac trees along our driveway.  She...

“Oh, aren’t they cute!”  I exclaimed to our neighbour across the street.  She was showing off the pair of ducks, probably Mallard, that decided to set up house-keeping under a couple of trees at the front corner of her house that is undergoing renovations.  The female laid eight eggs (the same size of the eggs we purchase at the grocery store) a...