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’. …
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 …
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 …
Now I know the title sounds like one of my previous posts “Wake up and Smell the Roses” but it’s not just a replay, really. Todays title is the actual saying, albeit punctuated differently, and it really has some merit. It is also one of the credos I will try to follow over the next number …