Sunday morning, we woke to the news that the snowstorm was coming. Round two of Snowmageddon – Ottawa Style. There was an advisory not to drive if you didn’t have to. So that meant that Bethany, Issac, and Ada were not coming today. Neither were Pat and Alex. Which meant that we didn’t have to…
Saturday morning we got up and had our morning coffees. Caileigh and Chris are serious coffee folks. They weigh the coffee grounds instead of using measured spoonfuls. The result was an excellent pot of brew! Tara and Dan arrived a little later and the core group was complete. Yay!! The plan was to hang out…
Keaton and Kate couldn’t come home for Christmas. They postponed their visit until February. This would be our first chance to see the newly married couple. The first leg of their trip was with us. And it was a whirlwind. First, their flight got delayed. They got in just after midnight on Friday morning. When…
Memory is funny. I think about memory a fair amount. One of the scariest diseases around is dementia. Dementia erases the person you were. Who are we, but the sum of our memories? One of the reasons I perform in plays is so that I can exercise my memory. Use it or lose it. Usually,…
We took down the Christmas tree last week. The ornaments came off. The lights were untangled. Everything went back into their boxes. The boxes went back on the shelves in the basement. The tree was bare. And then it went outside for pickup. It is just Deb and me, again. There are still some remnants…
I just read a post about dealing with last year’s emails. Chris Guillebeau suggests archiving the emails from last year. You don’t have to delete them. Just create a folder called “2024” (or whatever the year is) and move last year’s emails to it. The emails are still there if you need them. But they…
I love Teen Burgers from A&W. Not only are they delicious, but they give me jolt of nostalgia. When I was little, my mother would give us some money and we’d go to A&W for lunch. Or dinner. Me and my siblings. Five of us. Sometimes my cousins Mark and Paul would be there, too.…
New Year’s Eve was like Christmas Eve. It was just Deb and me, this year. We briefly entertained the idea of going out for New Year’s Eve at the beginning of the month. Our friend Shari was going to be performing at a New Year’s Eve bash. Unfortunately, people like us didn’t sign up soon…
Can we do it all? All the things we want to do? All the things we want to try? No. Obviously. There’s not enough time in the day. But… We can do more than we settle for. This December has not been productive for me. I’ve been slacking off with my blog posting. I’ve got…
When I told Deb that I only wanted about an inch or so left for my next hair cut, she laughed. You only have an inch or so right now, she told me. I guess I’m not a good judge of hair length. So, she cut my hair down to half an inch. Or so.…
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