East of Edmonton

Remember the song, “back in the saddle again….”. No, eh. Yeah, that’s an old song and Roy Rogers sang it when I was a kid. But it did ring through my head this past week as we were “back in the trailer again”. Thank you Philip for all the work you have done to the…

Happy birthday

Today is Wendy’s birthday. We met when we were 20 and were both trying to get started in the world, working jobs that didn’t pay all that much. Wendy still lived at home and I was boarding with friends. To say we were living on a shoestring is not an exaggeration. We dated for 6…

47 years

In a couple of weeks it will be 47 years since I proposed to Wendy and asked her if she would spend the rest of her life with me. I will be 69 towards the end of this year, my Dad died just short of his 72 birthday as that “line in the sand” has…