I can’t say that house-cleaning is my favourite activity.  How can so much dust accumulate in a month with only two people living in our home?  However, my philosophy all through my life has been if you are facing an overwhelming task conquer it by working on it a little bit at a time.  Our guest room needed some paint touch-up on its ceiling and wall cracking fix...

Well, we did it!  Our children and I were actually able to surprise Gary for his 80th birthday he is celebrating today.  Our daughter Sara created an app – 4score.glide.page – on which we all contributed our birthday wishes for him plus added some interesting photos of both long ago and current times.  We have over 50 family members and friends who have participated...

Do you ever feel as if your prayers are not being answered?  When they are answered how does that make you feel?  Recently out of the blue, God definitely sent some great answers for the Lockhart family.  Thanks for your help.  A month ago, Chrissy started her new job as Executive Director for a crisis pregnancy centre (aidtowomen.ca) in Toronto...

“Yup! It’s leaking!” I declared.  I had discovered the small mat on the floor beside our upstairs bathroom toilet was wet.  The following Saturday Gary put on his plumbing hat.  He pulled out the toilet and replaced the old ring with a new one.  That water problem was quite easily solved; however, we did find minimal water damage on the ceiling...

Recently, our neighbour came knocking at our back door.  When I answered it, she pointed to the end of our backyard.  It looked like a green wall had been built across the back of it as another portion of the Manitoba Maple tree had fallen down.  This straggly, softwood tree has been disintegrating over the years and now our yard had opened up quite a bit taking...

Gary and I were suddenly woken up at 3:30 a.m. the first Friday in August with the blaring sound of a fire engine siren.  The engine roared down our nearby hill followed by a parade of about 12 other emergency vehicles.  They came to a stop along the block in front of our house.  That was rather intimidating!  Gary quickly grabbed his housecoat and hightailed it out...