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…

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…