Today was a pretty good day, as days go where you don’t have to go to work and you can pretty much just hang out. Oh the luxuries that early retirement affords. I spent some of the afternoon pluckin’ and shuckin’, no was corn involved (shuckin’) but I did get in my share of pluckin’. …
Month: August 2012
Our time in Kelowna, this time around, is done. We hung out with the kids, I took a couple walks, we bonded with our grandson, and certainly the highlight (for my wife anyway) was the Cirque Quidam show on Saturday night. It was a great show but my back rebelled part of the way through …
I visited the house with “the gate” yesterday, you know….the “gate” house. A few weeks ago I wrote about the gate, an inviting front entrance to a home near my daughters, framed by vines and greenery and beckoning visitors with it’s intrigue. I first noticed it on an earlier walk with Madden. Seeing as I …
10 days have past since my last post. Where have the days gone? Where did the many hours slip to? In that period we have travelled, shopped, attended a car show, and drove some more. We had anticipated taking this most recent leg of our travels to Edmonton to help our niece and nephew move …
I often feel like the Hummingbird, my wings beating the air about 50 times a second and yet I’m not getting anywhere. I saw this little miracle of nature while on the 19th hole of our golf course. I was sitting on the deck with a friend, have a celebratory beer, and our miniature friend …
The days are still warm, the nights pleasantly cool by comparison. The sun, while beautiful in the dappled shadows it casts, is relentless in it’s mid-day attention. My plants and lawn are suffering. The heat, without any accompanying moisture, is causing not only my gardens to stress but their owner (me) as well. I do …
Another home project will be underway soon, that being our sundeck recover. The existing vinyl coating has been in place about 18 years now and it’s tired, old and tired like me. It’s not so bad though, I don’t have as many cuts as it does nor do I have so many people walking all …
“Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid for it.” -Octavia Butler You mean I’m supposed to get paid too?
We met with Dad yesterday, my wife and I. I had my girl call his girl and we did lunch. First we had to see his doctor. That was the result of a call I got from Colleen the other day. She is one of the care aides at his “village”. She relayed to me …
Maslow’s hierarchy of needs theorizes there are a number of steps or stages to a person’s development. Represented as a triangle you would start with the basics needs at the bottom and move to the more developed stages at the top. For more info you can check out here. Sometimes I believe I haven’t progressed …