Welcome to Our Web Page
When this web page began more than twenty years ago, it described most of the activities of our whole family. Now that most of our children have flown the coop, it is mostly about what Ann and I (Dave) have been up to. I update it most weekends. We save all the messages over the past year in an Archive along with links to what we were doing ten and twenty years ago.
You can click on the pictures above to get a bit more information about each of us.
Sunday March 2
Winter aconites
Good news! The winter aconites, our reliable harbingers of spring, have returned. A couple of days ago, and for at least six weeks before that, they were buried under a foot of snow and subject to sub-zero temperatures. Nevertheless, they have decided that it is time to sprout so spring is just around the corner.
We have been busy preparing for the summer. I had both my bikes tuned up at our local bike shop this week and last Saturday we took Ann's down to Mahone Bay to be tuned up by the bike shop where we bought it. While we were waiting we had a pleasant lunch at The Barn. Ann has also bought a new helmet and we have arranged accommodations for the multi-day bike tours that will take place in June, July and August. We have also bought weekend passes for the Lunenburg Folk Festival.
We have also been shopping for some significant items. Ann has got a new laptop to replace her 20 year-old Mac and we have both got new skis to replace the second hand skis that we bought about 25 years ago. We are going to try them out tomorrow. We have also been shopping around for a new front door since the one we have has been falling apart for some time now.
We have also been skating and/or skiing at least three times a week to get a bit of exercise.
Social activities have not taken a back seat, especially for Ann. A week ago Thursday we went to Mike's 80th birthday party at Royal Artillery Park, an officers mess in downtown Halifax that can rented for social occasions. This Thursday we went to dinner at a new restaurant called Water Polo with Ingrid, Mike, Kim and Glen before going to Neptune to see The New Canadian Curling Club which we all enjoyed. Ann has also been to the ABC Book Club, volunteered at the food bank, been to a concert of pop songs from the past 60 years by the Camerata Singers, played Mahjong — where she won one game without any jokers, apparently a rare occurrence — and attended the Early Risers Breakfast at the church. I have stayed at home for the most part, trying to clear up the backlog of Guardian Weeklies that accumulated during the postal strike and getting the Ramblers ride schedule ready to go.