A lovely surprise

My Mom is one of five girls – she’s the middle child (a topic unto its own to be discussed at another time) and the youngest of the girls is Joyce. Ethel is her first name but yes I would likely go be Joyce too (though I’m not a girl so why would my mother…

Home Sweet Home

Just behind our deck, and providing some wonderful shade and privacy is a large apple tree – type to be determined – and it is filled with green apples, at this point about the size of an apricot. It will be interesting to see what the variety of apple is. However, with the recent heat…

We’re home

Four days of driving, from Toronto to Edmonton, but we’re home. Here we are in our first ever owned by us house! Hard to believe that time has come and we’re now where we have chosen to spend the foreseeable future as we approach and eventually enter retirement. I could write quite a bit about…