The 124th adventure

Carlyle needed a ride one evening this week and I got to take her. I was thrilled. Yup – thrilled!! I love this girl and she’s so smart, so kind, so terrific to be around I was thrilled. Did I mention I was thrilled. I had to drop her off at 5:30 and return for…

Fred Eastland

Blue coal. A great product, once upon a time, for heating your home. And sold in that once-upon-a-time by my grandfather, Fred Eastland. Fred was an entrepreneur and a good businessman. He was a generous man and a godly man, and he knew something about marketing, it appears. Over the weekend, my cousin Belinda, sent…

The blue chair

When Philip won the Alberta Skills Competition for Carpenters, this is the chair that he built, in record time. And it isn’t just a chair, it’s a folding chair. We got it, I’ve painted it now twice, and we’ve cherished it. It’s been a bit beat up after all these years now, and it was…