Warm and sunny in Alberta

Today’s adventure took us south of Edmonton, back into rural Alberta again. This part of Alberta west of Red Deer is really beautiful. More trees, some lakes, many more trees and some great properties. We drove through Caroline- where Philip did some time in his training to be a paramedic and it appeared there was…

When technology was different

I was thinking today of my days as a kid, at the cottage. The cottage was set on Lake Cebebe on Green Bay. In the early days, there was no electricity, so we lived with a wood stove, a hand pump for water, a fireplace, and oil lamps. We also lived without internet or any…

News from The Villa

You can tell that the weather is bringing us outdoors again. Lots going on around the neighbourhood, including a visit from the arborists to tend to the trees in the Villa. I first hired arborists as a DYS to tend to some our trees at Camp Selkirk and found it to be very beneficial. So…