Canada moves on

Well the first months of the Trump administration have seen the big lie, told over and over and over. that Canada is a threat. In fact the threat has come out of the White House – that Canada bend to economic power and become the 51st state or else. Several officials, mostly ex-Fox News broadcasters,…

Update from The Villa

July has been wet and cool and yesterday was a repeat. One day it is 29 C and hot and sunny while today it struggled to get to 18 and it was cloudy, rainy and windy (YECK). But that’s this year’s weather. So to my first note on The Villa, it is a hard summer…

Quilt hunter

Over the past twenty years Wendy and I have viisted many quilt shops. Pennsylvania, New York, Ontario, Georgia, Florida, Arizona, California, BC, Alberta….well you get the idea. Lots of places. But close to home, we’re trying to find a few more. Some of the Alberta shops disappeared during the pandemic. Last week we visited two…