Monthly Archives: July 2017

Today is our 48th anniversary. It is not the anniversary of our wedding, it’s the anniversary of our wedding. Let me explain. We had a legal, recognized by the state, wedding a couple years ago somewhere in the beginning of June. We don’t commemorate that day, it’s simply the day that the law got involved […]

My father, right now, is receiving fairly significant care in a hospital in British Columbia. I went there to visit him and see how he was doing. For a 93 year old man he shows a strength of will that goes well with his strength of character. He is a kind, soft spoken man. People […]

Waiting is never fun. We left Vancouver well over an hour late because the plane had a slight mechanical problem which needed fixing before take off. So it was dark when we landed, Joe needed to wait for a shuttle to take him to the car, the shuttle wasn’t accessible so I had to wait […]

Joe and I did something that we never thought we’d do yesterday. We went shopping for a basketball. There are hoops outside the front of our house that are there for community use and we thought that maybe the girls would like to use them, therefore, the ball. We went into a store that sold […]

Image description: a graphic design of a fist with the fingers being different colours of the rainbow. (I don’t know who owns this art, if it’s use here is unacceptable, please let me know and I will take it down.)   I met a man at a dinner party.Who got very quiet when I answered […]

We boarded the plane, got in our seats, and watched take off time come and go. Every 10 or 15 minutes there would be an announcement that the flight would take off in 10 or 15 minutes. About an hour and 20 minutes later, they announced that the “small mechanical problem” was fixed and the […]