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...

So, this past month Gary got hit with it and nicely passed it along to me – that being COVID!  Grr, not pleasant.  We have been able to evade this nasty virus ever since it arrived on the scene, but maybe we contracted it this time via our weekly trip to the grocery store and handling the grocery cart.  Who knows! Any way, we were able to get Pax Lovid, the...

“Did you see that?” Gary exclaimed to me as we were standing near our kitchen window.  He has been restoring a pair of heritage doors through which we enter our two-story outside building over the past few weeks. One door was longer than the other which left a 3-inch gap under the left one.  It’s still a work in progress.  All of a sudden, he spied a...

So, what is a traditional, life-changing event that frequently happens at this time of the year particularly for our children and grandchildren, nieces and nephews?  That would be graduations.  Out of our eleven grandchildren this year Gary and I have five graduating from university, high school or elementary school.  We are very proud of all their accomplishments. ...

“So how did I get so many?” I sked our horticulturist neighbour.  I was referring to about 20 pretty violets scattered throughout the lawn in our backyard.  Previous years there had been only three or four.  She responded that when we had our flood two years ago with our backyard being full of water, seeds were probably spread here and there.  I do like these...